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Reading List for Week 5 
 An Age of Revolution
U.S. Declaration of Independence: July 4, 1776     18-20
Mary Wollstoncraft (1759-1797), 133-136
Vindication of the Rights of Women, 213-218

 In place of your initial post for this final unit, create a PowerPoint presentation of 10-15 slides that provides an overview of your research project for other students in the class to read. Provide a brief paragraph introduction in your thread and attach the presentation. Look through and respond in a meaningful and positive manner to the presentations from two other students for your response posts. 

 Wilson, R. (2015). Mastering risk and procurement in project management.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson FT Press. 
Chapter 1: Risk Strategy and Planning
Articles, Websites, and Videos:This video outlines the importance of risk management in general by asking six simple questions. Answering these questions can help anyone create a robust risk management plan. 
 This week’s reading introduces several elements of risk management plan.  First list all of those components and then tell us which one is the most and the least significant element in your view?  Why?  

 
Overview
The major project in this class is your persuasive research ppr. Your research ppr must be a 10-12 page (approximately 2500-3000 word) that takes a clearly definable stance regarding an issue, supports it with credible research, and defends it effectively in an appropriate academic writing style.  The ppr should demonstrate the standards of good argumentation.
Research Requirements
For your final ppr you will be required to utilize information from the following areas:
Internet— 1 – 4 sources
Academic Journals, Articles, and/or Periodicals— 4 – 7 sources
Academic Book— 1 – 7 sources
Biblical— 1 source
Original Research— 1 source
Notes: 
Source selections for a., b., and c. must meet the standards of credibility established in this class.  Students must evaluate each source for accuracy and authority.
Your biblical reference requires substantial support for your thesis from whatever translation of the Bible you choose.  Link your research meaningfully with scripture as best you can.
Original research examples include interviews, polls, questionnaires, observations, experiments, case studies, and other methods of collecting information beneficial to your thesis.  For example, a university is a wonderful place to seek interviews with knowledgeable sources (faculty experts in diverse disciplines).
However you decide on the numbers for each kind of source, the total number of sources must be 14 minimum.
Format
Your ppr should be composed in proper MLA format, including headers, page-numbering, font, paragraphing, line spacing, documentation, and the Work Cited page.

Choose only ONE of the following options and write a post that agrees OR disagrees with the assertion. Cite specific scenes and/or use specific quotes from the novel to support your position. Your answer should be written in no fewer than 200 words.
When you are done posting your response, reply to at least one classmate in no fewer than 75 words.
Although the novel is titled Sula, the real protagonist is Nel because she is the one who is transformed by the end.
OR
While the community ostracizes Sula, it is subconsciously grateful for her presence.
Your discussion board will be graded according to the following criteria:
80% – Thoughtful original post that includes specific scenes from the novel to support your position (at least 200 words)
20% – Thoughtful response to a classmate’s post that elaborates on what s/he has said (at least 75 words)
NOTE: Please comply with all Netiquette Guidelines listed in the “Start Here!” document (Left-menu under the “Course Information” heading).

 
In this lesson, you will finish your note-taking.
First, finish any last-minute notes and submit them.
Next, review the information and choose several ideas you want to present in your informative work
Then, you will write a thesis statement and topic sentences for the body paragraphs that will present the main ideas in your informative work
If you have trouble choosing three main ideas or developing a thesis statement, reach out to your instructor or to a tutor at the OCCC Writing Center.
Read
What You Need to Know about Thesis Statements
In The Writer’s Mindset: H2G – “Writing Good Paragraphs” on p. 652-653. (Focus on section 2G1: Topic Sentences)
You can also go back to Week 2, Unit 1 to review the lesson on paragraph writing, or return to your SmartBook exercise, Introduction to Paragraph Writing. Even though you are finished with that assignment, you can review the ideas by clicking on “Recharge.”
Informative workThesis Statements and Topic Sentences Worksheet – you will not submit this worksheet, but it will help you prepare to outline the information. 
Informative Thesis Sentence Examples
Complete
Forum: Writing Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences for Informative work.
read the instructions above to answer the questions below in MLA format with the Work cited page separately properly done with no mistakes 200-300 words. With this topic “SELF-LOVE”
 
Part 1
Open a new Word document and set it up in MLA document format (See the Week 2, Lesson 2 Instructions page for MLA format how-to videos).
Title this page: Thesis Statement and Topic Sentences for Informative Work.
Write your thesis statement. 
 Write four to five topic sentences (See example 1 below):
one for a paragraph in which you will define key terms
two to three for each main idea you want to discuss
one that provides an overview of one or more debatable issues related to your topic. 
Add a Works Cited page. Use the Insert, Page Break function to move your cursor to the next page. At the top of that page, type Works Cited as the title for the page. Center it, but do not bold or underline it.
Copy the full citations from your Annotated Bibliography onto this page.  See pages 271-273 in The Writer’s Mindset for examples of what correct citations look like.
Put your three citations in alphabetical order. Double-space the entries. Do not leave blank lines between them. The first line of each entry should be flush to the left margin with the second + lines indented 5 spaces. See example 2 below. 
When you are finished, the Works Cited page will look like your annotated bibliography without the annotation paragraphs. 
Post the document to this discussion forum.
Example 1:
Thesis: According to current research, physical activity helps people physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Topic Sentence 1:  Physical activity is a part of everyday life (define important terms)
Topic Sentence 2: One benefit of physical activity is that it targets physical health (main idea #1)
Topic Sentence 3: Another benefit of physical activity is that it positively affects mental health. (main idea #2)
Topic Sentence 4: Physical activity can help people live longer and protect them from diseases. (main idea #3)
Topic Sentence 5: There is some debate about how much and what kinds of physical activity are needed to get full health benefits.
Part 2:
Respond to one of your classmates:
Consider their thesis statement. In your own words, what do you think the coming work for this thesis statement will be about?
Read their topic sentences. Without copying the sentences, write a quick (1-3 sentence) summary of what information the author is planning to share in their work.
If the topic sentences are confusing or incomplete, kindly let your classmate know that you found this question difficult to answer.
Look at their Works Cited page. Does the page look like it is correctly formatted? Do the citations look complete? Are the citations in alphabetical order? Let your classmate know if their Works Cited page looks great or if you see anything that needs some work.
Come back to this forum after the due date has passed to read your feedback. If your classmate did not understand your thesis statement or your topic sentences, or if your Works Cited page has errors, make necessary improvements. Ask your instructor or a Writing Center tutor if you need help. Making changes following feedback is a normal part of the recursive writing process.

After reading on the Literacy Instruction for Diverse Learners Chap 14  and Students with Special Needs and chap 15, in a PowerPoint presentation, provide a summary of poignant  points for chapter 14 and 15 on diverse populations  and  students with special needs such as important  building blocks of reading and writing that should be provided to students from all cultures and  problems faced by adolescents with reading problems.
Review the  instructional materials designed for teaching diverse learners ELL and also children  with severe reading (For example, direct instruction). Describe the materials and methods you can use with students with severe reading problems.

 
This unit involves learning how to research and write an informative Work
Although informative writing does not share personal stories or opinions, most writers enjoy researching and writing about topics that interest them. If you look back at your narrative work you will see that several potential Informative topics are related to the story you told in that work. The worksheet below will help you review your narrative work so that you can identify some potential topics for your informative work
What is Informative Writing?
Informative writing explains, informs, and describes. 
Informative writing does not share personal stories or personal opinions. 
It shares information objectively. 
Your job as a writer is to educate yourself with accurate and reliable information and then share that information in your work
You are probably already familiar with informative writing. It is all around us every day.
Think of:
instruction sheets or how-to guides, like this one on lawn management in Oklahoma City,
articles that explain concepts like Sustainable Agriculture,
information about programs like conversation efforts at the Oklahoma City Zoo, or
informative news articles like this one: 76-days Under Water, Florida Professor Breaks World Record for Science.
INSTRUCTION 2
 
Step One: Complete the “Informative work Topic Planning Worksheet.” You do not have to submit the worksheet but you will need to complete it to prepare for this activity. 
Step Two: Follow the prompt below to complete this activity. Numbering the items in your post will help your classmates and your instructor. You can also copy and paste the writing prompt into your initial post.
List your thesis statement from your narrative work
List two or three of the research questions from your worksheet.  
For example: 
What are the main causes of air pollution?
How does music therapy help people?
How does the Electoral College work?
Select one of the questions from #2 that you think you would like to learn the answer to and copy that question here. (The answer to the question will be the information you research and write about in your informative work)
Remember, this question must be something that you can find articles on in the OCCC library databases (Refer to Lesson 3). 
Use the instructions above and write informative work on the topic “FAITH AND HOPE”.
 

make sure you site the website and or article you’ve researched . 
1. For 1 credit, write a paragraph on each woman in history (if you only need 0.5 credits or less, you can research 5 women). Please remember to use your own words. You can research on google or Al but write it in your own words. It doesn’t have to be perfect. I’m not grading you on your English writing skills, I’m grading you on what you learn about each
woman.
Include:
What years she lived.
What she did that made her famous? Find one other event, song, movie, president that was popular at the same time
What surprised you about her?
Describe any hardship she faced and had to overcome.
What did you learn? Please type out your paragraphs in Microsoft word with size 12 font. Have a title (woman’s name) with each
paragraph and a space between each paragraph.
1. Dolores Huerta
2. Joy Harjo
3. Nina Simone
4. Amelia Earhart
5. Mae Carol Jemison
6. Maya Angelou
7. Rita Moreno
8. Abby Wambach
9. Wendy Red Star
were happening in the world the year

When I was young, there were ____________ around our house, with very tall trees, but now there are just more houses.
a)fields
b)forests
c)islands mountains
d) rivers