HWC Day 51 - East Asia Wrap-Up

*Quarter 2 PDP, PDC, & SJS assignments have been completed.  Please check the spreadsheet for your assignments.

Objective:  Compare politics, society, and culture in North Korea and South Korea.  Introduce and explain the research project.

Task:  When you arrive to class, we'll finish our discussion on North Korea and review East Asia.  Then, I'll introduce and explain the research project.  You'll select topics for research and spend the remainder of class examining select topics in contemporary East Asia.

Homework:

• TODAY - Research essay topic selection
• Wednesday, November 18 - Unit 5 Test
• Wednessday, November 18 - Unit 5 SJSs due on class blog
• Thursday, November 19 - Last day to complete G&D chapter 11 reading quiz
• Thursday, November 19 - Research question posted to class blog by 3:00 pm
• Friday, November 20 - Comments to assigned research questions posted to class blog by 11:59 pm
• Tuesday, November 24 - Source set #1 (News) due on NoodleTools by 3:00 pm
• Tuesday, December 1 - Source set #2 (Background) due on NoodleTools by 3:00 pm
• Thursday, December 3 - Thesis statement due on class blog by 3:00 pm
• Friday, December 4 - Comments to assigned thesis statements due on class blog by 11:59 pm
• Monday, December 7 - Note cards due  in class
• Thursday, December 10 - Outline with final thesis due in GoogleDocs by 3:00 pm
• Friday, December 11 - Peer reviewer comments to outline due by 11:59 pm 
• Tuesday, December 15 - First draft (in GoogleDocs) due in class
• Thursday, December 17 - Peer reviewer comments to draft due by 3:00 pm
• Tuesday, December 22 - Final draft (in PDF) due in Schoology by 3:00 pm
• Thursday, January 7 - Research presentation due in class

Extending class discussion:

• "Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten" (NYT, 11/16/2015)
• "The Other France" (New Yorker, 8/31/2015)