1. Senior Project 2011
Awesome

3. Being Smart Being Scholarly
Memorizing Thinking
Academic Best Personal Best
Follow Curriculum Follow Interests
Hints at What Your Grade Hints at What Your Future
Will Be Will Be
Involves Playing it Safe Involves Risk Taking
Relies on Knowing Answers Relies on Asking Right Question

4. Finding the right question
Topic:
Beauty
Question:
Do magazines promote unhealthy images of beauty?
Question:
Would you be willing to become extremely ugly
physically if it meant you would live for 1,000 years at
any physical age you chose?

7. Revolving Research

8. They Say
It’s neither
It’s both
I disagree
I agree

9. Group Activity
For each magazine article, identify:
•The topic
•The focus question

10. So What? Who Cares?
“The problem is not necessarily that the speakers lack
a clear, well-focused thesis or that the thesis is
inadequately supported with evidence. Instead, the
problem is that the speakers don’t address the crucial
question of why their arguments matter.”
Graff and Birkenstein, They Say, I Say

11. Group Activity
Prioritize the 6 questions from
most relevant to least relevant

12. What explains teenage behavior?
Is exorcism an outdated remedy best left to history? Or can it be
effective alongside modern medical and psychological treatment?
If the end of white America is a cultural and demographic
inevitability, what will the new mainstream look like and how will
white Americans fit into it?
Will technology be a form of tyranny or will it free us from tyranny?
Will it upend democracy or strengthen it?
Can parents harm their children by doing too much?
How on earth does anyone propose to assign a number to something
as complex as a college or university?

13. Would you be willing to become extremely ugly
physically if it meant you would live for 1,000
years at any physical age you chose?