Mr. Kuykendall's online classroom
Students writing the IRR often struggle with making the excellent evidence that they cite in their essays EXPLICITLY relevant to a claim. This learning experience is designed to help you refine that skill. CONNECTING EVIDENCE TO CLAIMS
Use this learning helper to refine your EOC A skills in regard to extracting line of reasoning and explaining relationships between claims and evidence.
The key to writing is understanding structure. Once you know the structure of a given style/type of writing, you can in essence “FILL IN THE BLANKS” with content. This is a massively important thing for young (all) writers to be aware of. This experience is …
Forrest took us on a tour of US History from the 1950s to the end of the Cold War. Your task is to identify an event, scene, movement or moment in time from the film and investigate it more deeply! The inquiry description sheet is …
Read the short story entitled, “To Shoot an Elephant” By George Orwell and consider the questions at the end of the PDF, as well as the overarching questions, “How does emotion shape behaviour?” and “TWE does culture affect belief/behaviour?”
Ethics is an element of the knowledge framework and in order to explore this element more deeply within the context of knowledge and technology, we will engage in a debate on the value of internet censorship. The claim we will debate is, “Social media companies …
Our journey through this text will be led by you via literature discussions! But it is likely you have rarely, if ever, led a lit discussion before! Thus use the guide linked below in order to ensure that you and your classmates extract as much …
After you’ve read Hiedegger’s Question Concerning Technology, http://simondon.ocular-witness.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/question_concerning_technology.pdf think carefully and react to the questions/quotes below: 1. Why talk about the silver chalice? What does that have to do with technology? 2. Heidegger states, “what has the essence of technology to do with revealing? The …
For our oppression unit, we are going to each read a novel related to the experience of living in Europe during the Second World War or a novel focused on the Holocaust. Use the activity link HERE for more details as well as a link …
The use of nuclear weapons in battle has occurred only once in human history; when the United States used two atomic bombs against Japan. The motivation for this use was to end WW2 in the Pacific. Was this an appropriate use of these weapons? Was …
