8B - Violence in school

Violence in school - A writing assignment

Read the following questions and use them as a starting point for your essay on violence in school. Make sure that your personal thoughts and opinions are visible in the text.

What are the reasons behind a school massacre? Are there simple answers, like; Public opinion and laws about weapon? Computer games? Drugs? General frustration among teenagers? Or is it more complicated?

Why haven’t we experienced these events in Sweden? Why have they in Finland?

How is the mental health of teenagers in general today? In Umea, in Sweden, globally?

Is it possible to prevent these school massacres from ever happening again?

What kind of violence DO we have here? Physical? Mental? Why is that, do you think?

Excerpt from Bowling for Columbine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIXjOLKhVkw

Use this lesson and the lesson next week to complete the essay and remember:

You HAVE TO run the text through SpellRight! (Copy the text, paste it in a Word document and click the tab Oribi. And don’t forget to copy+paste it back in the Google doc when edited.)

National exams

You can check out examples from old national exams here.

9B - Tutorials

I don't have to explain to you what a tutorial is, do I? Most people have seen loads of them in all kinds of situations; you can learn to change the chain on your bike, to draw the perfect eyeliner line, to master quests in computer games, to solve difficult math problems, to tie a fancy knot, you name it!


But making a tutorial is a different matter... You need to have total understanding of the subject you want to share with others, you have to be very thorough in your explanations and you must create an instruction that is clear and obvious and possible to follow for the viewer.

But no challenge is too big for you guys, right? Right!

So; I want you to make a video tutorial, teaching other people something you are really good at. You need to figure out what you're good at first ;), then make a clear script to follow and lastly record it and publish it and link it on your blog.

We'll go through MoveNote - which is a very simple video program, but if you choose another program or platform to work in, that is fine by me!

You will work with this on Monday week 13 and Monday 14. On Monday week 15 we will spend the lesson watching the tutorials, so make sure you have checked the technique before that. (Connect your computer to the Smartboard and make sure you get both image and sound working!)

8B - Thursday March 12

We will continue the reading comprehension at ReadTheory.org from the previous post. I sincerely hope you remember your password - since I told you to write it up in a Google document on your Drive... ;)

Your teacher will have all passwords if you by chance lost yours.