Brandon received feedback on his prohibition paper and subsequently decided to move on to a different topic. He chose to write about homophobia, and we spent the first 20 minutes of our session brainstorming an argument about this fear and its components. Once we had an idea of where we wanted to go, I had Brandon write a tentative introduction and thesis statement, using Matthew Sheppard as a lead-in and homophobia as the end statement. Afterwards, Brandon emailed this thesis to his teacher to see if she approved and get her feedback on the paper's ideas.
Brandon has to re-write his cause and effect paper and has chosen homophobia as topic. We started researching the topic and working on the introduction.
WEEK 8: Cover Chapter 3 material and begin homework. Topics: Functions: Domain and Range, Evaluation, Operations on, Difference Quotient, Interpreting Graphs
After reviewing the comments on his Prohibition pre-writing assignment, I gave Brandon several options for proceeding with this paper: 1) Re-vamp what we have to meet the teacher's specific comments, 2) Focus more on the causes of Prohibition than its effects, 3) Begin a new paper on a new topic. As the executive decision maker, Brandon decided to work on a new paper with a new topic. After some brainstorming, Brandon chose to write about the causes of Homophobia. He began a tentative introduction and finished by the end of our class together.
Brandon worked on the answer for the history question due tonight. He did a solid job with the writing and I think he came up with a pretty good idea. We then shifted focus to the Prohibition paper and Brandon was still wasting a lot of time on research. I found him a couple of solid articles with citations and he should be in good shape to finish the paper tomorrow.
Due to pressing time, Brandon and I had to skim the first of his History chapters in order to prepare for an assignment that is due tonight, midnight. Brandon seemed very tired and resistant to reading, but we were able to compile a list of the most pertinent information from each chapter for his 200-300 word post. In essence, Brandon was asked to give his thoughts on how well the author of his History text challenges the idea that the Enlightenment is a European phenomenon. Brandon answered that the author did nothing but place this era within a European frame, but with good reason.
