Archive for October, 2008

Week of October 20–Creative Election Thinking

Posted on October 24, 2008.

This week the students finished their campaign buttons.

Click on each thumbnail to see all of the designs. The completed buttons should be ready next week.
Also, one of the classes was able to create and record podcasts to encourage people to vote. The students used persuasive techniques we observed in the second debate. The groups wrote [...]

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Week of October 12–Back from Fall Break

Posted on October 14, 2008.

The APEX classes are working hard on their election scrapbooks. The students are finishing up research on each presidential and vice presidential candidate. They have discussed and printed pages on each of the debate (we were interested in watching the candidates’ body language in the debates.)  Each student brainstormed and prioritized the issues being discussed [...]

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