Working Notebook

The working notebook is the daily notebook taken to class. It holds all the papers and information needed each day. Any three-ring binder can serve as a working notebook; the nylon zippered type tends to last longer. Your working notebook should contain:

• A portable three-hole punch

• A zippered pouch with three holes to hold highlighters, pencils, pens, clips, "sticky notes", and other small supplies

• A monthly calender

• A ruler

• Section dividers for each subject labeled homework, notes, handouts, and quizzes/tests

• An assignment book   

These items are available at most office supply stores in a three-hole punched format so they can be easily inserted into the notebook. This is important, because if the items are not attached to the notebook, they will get lost in backpacks or left at home or school.

One working notebook for all of your child's classes might be too large for some students especially if they are in high school.  Two medium-size notebooks with two or three subjects in each is an alternative to one large notebook. Morning classes might be placed in one, and afternoon classes might be placed in another.

Whichever alternative noted above that you choose, the important thing is that on a daily basis, you should date, three-hole punch and file any of his school papers under the appropriate divider for each subjects. You should also note assignments in detail in his assignment book/

HPIAM: ADVISORY PROJECT

Next Tuesday, November 5, bring all your work from all classes in order to show the organization required from each class. You will have time in Advisory to hole-punch and organize your binders, folders, notebooks, etc. so you need to come prepared.

Prompt 4:

Thanks to the Internet, people have more access to more information than at any other time in history. People can instantly find information on almost any topic in the time it takes to type a couple of words and click a mouse. But we often know so little about the source of this information, including its reliability and the qualifications of the person who wrote it. If we don't know its source, information is not much good to us.

1. Do people need to know the source of any information before they use it? Yes, it's better because you know if it's RELIABLE OR NOT

2. Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experiences and observations. 

Reliable Sources:

The Internet allows you so many opportunities to make your life easier. At the drop of a hat you can get information. Information is so easy to access it allows you to become an amazing writer, or whatever you want to be. But how can you know if it's reliable or not.

When you know it's reliable you are allowed to use it, at least for essays and such. A teacher wants you to use reliable information not just information you make up, what teacher would? When you have essays to write you can just use things you made up.

A reliable source will give you valid information to use and you know it's true. You can't go around and claim something without sufficient facts and everything. You can't be a reliable person without reliable evidence. You need information on things to know what your doing.

In any given instant you also need information to know what to talk about, you can just be completely biased and everything. You need some information to know what to talk about. Don't go willy nillying around giving your two cents about nothing you know about.

You just need sufficient evidence in everything you do. That means a reliable source of someone who knows what they're talking about. Don't go around just talking about things you don't know anything about. Get a reliable resource!

Pop Culture.

Many colleges now offer courses in which students study television programs, comic books, magazines and advertising, and other aspects of pop culture. Critics complain that schools should not replace serious literature and history courses with such fluff. They claim that courses in popular culture present material that is trivial and inconsequential. But the study of pop culture can be just as important, demanding, and instructive as the study of traditional subjects.

Can the study of popular culture be as valued as the study of traditional literary and historical subjects?

No it cannot be because of the way it is viewed, pop culture is not to be as valued as history. 

Can something be valued as priceless as traditional literature? How about history? What really is history. History as well as traditional literature can be valued as priceless. Can something be valued the same?

Well pop culture is how we see like celebrities and fashion and what not, but how can that be valued the same as something revolutionary such as a war perhaps? Yes popular culture is important to be seen throughout the human era but I don't believe it should be the same as literature. Literature can depict fantasy or anything but how can that be the same. Pop culture is important but not in the sense that is is valued greater or equal it is probably valued the same because it is pop culture. 

History can depict anything for anything important in time, how can that be equal to pop culture? Yes someday pop culture will be viewed as equal because it may or may not be recorded in our history. It is amazing how it works out actually. It is not important until it's gone.

Now as for literature it is old books or stories. It makes for either a great real or fiction book, a possible recount of history maybe. Our society will probably make people think we had bad taste like us to old things. But in any sense we appreciate it is there. 

In conclusion literature and history cannot be the same value as pop culture until it is gone. People make things seem important because of how it is but we need to say hey we're not there yet.  

GPA

1) What does GPA stand for?
Grade Point Average
2) What does a GPA show?
It shows how well you're doing in school.
3) Why is a GPA important?
-It shows your grades
-It shows if you need to work harder
-It allows you to make better choices
-It will give you a better chance of going to a good school
-It will help you get into a better school
-It will help with getting a better job
-It will allow you to become someone you want to be
Does Your GPA really matter?

Education Goals

The importance of reaching your goals is up to you. The rewards and benefits of having educational goals is vast while the disappointment is upsetting. You have to make sure you do all necessary to achieve your goals to better yourself. It allows you to get a better life and better your family, community etc.

Student Success Statement: B.C. Forbes

Student Success Statement

“Honest is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both actions and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.”

B.C. Forbes

Reflection: Well I believe that yes honesty is important but there are many other things more important. You can’t always be honest because it’s sometimes very rude. You have to tell a lie here and there and it’s okay because well we are all human. We lie, we cheat, and it’s in our nature. Leave it to be. Don’t base everything on doing what someone tells you to do. You need your own backbone and to be someone you want to be.

Honesty 9-10

Honesty

9-10

Honesty is always the best policy. Employers need to know that they can trust you with everything from company credit cards to trade secrets. How can you work at honesty? You demonstrate integrity every day that you do your own homework and resist the temptation to cheat on exams.

http://www.k12.hi.us/~mkuninit/honesty.htm

What is honesty?

·    Honesty is telling the truth

·    Honesty is straightforward conduct.

·    Honesty is being sincere, truthful, trustworthy, honorable, fair, genuine, and loyal with integrity.

You are being honest when you…

·    Do your own homework

·    Tell a friend the truth

·    Explain the real reason you didn’t turn in your homework

·    Keep your eyes on your own paper

·    Clean up your own room after making a promise

·    Give the cashier the extra money she gave you by mistake

·    Write a report in your own words instead of coping

·    Admit you made the mistake

·    Keep a friend’s secret

·    Turn in a wallet full of money that you found

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!