Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Position Papers
Position Paper
After you create a country profile and research your issue, you and your other group members will meet and create a position paper.
- A position paper is your countries' response to the topic.
- A position paper is a paper that is 3 TO 4 PAGES LONG that...
- gives some background information on the problem (1/2 page).
- How has the problem developed?
- Why is it important that the UN fixes the problem?
- talks about past United Nations Involvement (1/2 page).
- How, When and Why did the UN become involved with this problem?
- What did the UN and other NGO's do when they became involved?
- How successful was their solution?
- How did the world respond to the solution?
- Avoid making a statement such as "The UN did ___________ and this led to ____________."
- explains your countries' policy and past actions in regards to the issue (1 - 1/2 page).
- Explain your policy on the topic.
- Explain why your country is involved with the topic?
- What actions has your country done in the past to solve the problem?
- proposes at least two to three solutions (1 - 1/2 page).
- Before you propose your ideas, ask yourselves these questions.
- Is the solution feasible? Will it cost too much money?
- Has the UN tried this solution before?
- What will NGO's do to carry out your solution?
- What will happen if we implement your solution?
- Will there be any unexpected problems because of this solution? If so, how will we fix them?
- Is this solution in you countries' best interest?
- Is this solution in the world's best interest?
- Do not pick a solution that your country will not like.
- Do not pick a solution that the world will not like.
- Most importantly, BE SPECIFIC! Exactly what will happen with your solution.
An excellent position paper will be...
- 3-4 pages, double spaced
- It's sources will be cited MLA style and it will have a bibliography.
- It will follow the correct format
- See Sample Position Paper (example B).
- It will have background on the problem, UN involvement on the problem and two or three solutions.
- There can not be NO PLAGARISM.
PLAGARISM WILL GET YOUR TEAM DISQUALIFIED!
After writing a position paper, you are now ready for the actual conference. Your position papers will be used to frame your countries position. In the conference you will make SPEECHES and have DEBATES based upon you position paper.
Your Position Papers are due Tuesday, October 10th, at the end of class.
Jia you!
Mr. Gibson
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Your Works Cited Page Should Look LIke This...
Follow the link...
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
It shows you what a Works Cited Page should look like.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
It shows you what a Works Cited Page should look like.
In Text Citation Should Look Like This...
Follow the link...
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/2/
It also comes from the OWL at Purdue.
*** Go to Electronic Sources to learn how to cite on-line articles.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/2/
It also comes from the OWL at Purdue.
*** Go to Electronic Sources to learn how to cite on-line articles.
MLA Research Paper's should look like this...
Follow the link...
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
It was pulled from the OWL at Purdue University on 21 Sep 2010.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
It was pulled from the OWL at Purdue University on 21 Sep 2010.
Monday, September 20, 2010
September 21st Homework - Country Profiles
Ni hao,
You know the drill for Country Profiles. I want you to cite your sources. Your two best sources, as always, will be worldatlas.com and The CIA World Factbook. Make sure that you underline and make bold any information that is especially pertinent to our conference, which will deal with NDM-1.
Here are your assignments!
India - Murielle
Pakistan - Christine
New Zealand - Peggy
Suriname - Eve
Finland - Junior
Tunisia - Sabrina
Kenya - Darren
Chile - Catherine
Mexico - Sarah
Germany - Chris
Japan - Sabina
Your Country Profiles are due to me by 10:00 p.m. on Sunday evening.
Email me if you have any questions.
Mr. Gibson
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
MUN Homework - Week 2
Ni hao again,
OK. Our homework for this week is for everyone to do research on NDM-1. From here on out, our class is a small research team. Each person is responsible for doing a small portion of the research. Therefore, if one person fails to get their homework finished, we will all suffer.
Your task is to do research on the following topic/ question…
Catherine: How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already? How is it spreading (by boat, by mail, etc.)?
Chris: What kind of symptoms might we find after getting the virus? What do doctors recommend to do if we have those symptoms?
Christine: How can we stop the spread of NDM-1? What medicines are available to stop the spread of the virus? How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already?
Darren: What is an enzyme? NDM-1 is an enzyme. Why is it so dangerous? Why doesn’t it work like a normal enzyme?
Eve: How much do we estimate it will cost to stop the spread of NDM-1? What might we spend the money on to stop the problem?
Junior: How many people have died because of the virus? How many people could die because of the virus? Who made that that estimate? What are they basing their estimate on?
Murielle: How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already?
Peggy: How does NDM-1 spread? How does it attack an individual person’s immune system? How does it travel from person to person?
Sabina: How and when did people find out about the virus? Who found out about it first? Where did they find about it?
Sabrina: What is the origin of NDM-1? How many countries now have confirmed cases of NDM-1? How many people have NDM- in each of those countries?
Sarah: How can we prevent ourselves from getting the NDM-1 virus? Can we stop the spread of NDM-1 by making the bacteria dormant?
How can we stop the spread of NDM-1? What medicines are available to stop the spread of the virus? How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already?
*** As an added bonus, we need to find at least three different sources of information from three different continents who speak three different languages. All of them must confirm your information.
As we mentioned in class, you need to cite your sources of information. As we research, we need to ask ourselves the following questions…
- “Where am I getting my information?”
- “How old is my information?”
- “Is my information reliable?”
Every time you find a new source of information (ex: book, newspaper article, website, scholarly journal, youtube video, etc.), you need to cite the source in the text (the writing) of your paper. We call this in-text citation. For an example and explanation, follow the link to The Purdue University OWL.
1.) The Purdue University OWL http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/01/
The OWL also helps explain how to cite sources, how to write a research paper, and gives sample research papers.
At the end of the paper, you should include a Works Cited. The Works Cited should be put on a separate piece of paper. Each source of information that you use should be included in the Works Cited. The OWL has a sample Works Cited page here…
2.) OWL Works Cited Sample Page (Your Works Cited should look like this!)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
If you are confused as to how to cite sources correctly. Check out link #3. It is from easybib.com, which helps us cite our sources properly for our Works Cited.
3.) easybib.com
http://www.easybib.com/
Last, but certainly not least, we need to discuss plagiarizing. Plagiarizing is when we take research, speeches, news articles, music, or any writing that was done by another person and use it as if it were our own. If you copy and paste from the internet, this is plagiarizing. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT PLAGIARIZING, YOU WILL RECEIVE A 0% AND HAVE TO DO YOUR WORK AGAIN!!!
You wouldn’t like it if someone stole your wallet. Researchers, musicians, artists, journalists, professors, and authors consider their work just as important as most people consider their money. Please remember this!
Jia you,
Mr. Gibson
OK. Our homework for this week is for everyone to do research on NDM-1. From here on out, our class is a small research team. Each person is responsible for doing a small portion of the research. Therefore, if one person fails to get their homework finished, we will all suffer.
Your task is to do research on the following topic/ question…
Catherine: How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already? How is it spreading (by boat, by mail, etc.)?
Chris: What kind of symptoms might we find after getting the virus? What do doctors recommend to do if we have those symptoms?
Christine: How can we stop the spread of NDM-1? What medicines are available to stop the spread of the virus? How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already?
Darren: What is an enzyme? NDM-1 is an enzyme. Why is it so dangerous? Why doesn’t it work like a normal enzyme?
Eve: How much do we estimate it will cost to stop the spread of NDM-1? What might we spend the money on to stop the problem?
Junior: How many people have died because of the virus? How many people could die because of the virus? Who made that that estimate? What are they basing their estimate on?
Murielle: How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already?
Peggy: How does NDM-1 spread? How does it attack an individual person’s immune system? How does it travel from person to person?
Sabina: How and when did people find out about the virus? Who found out about it first? Where did they find about it?
Sabrina: What is the origin of NDM-1? How many countries now have confirmed cases of NDM-1? How many people have NDM- in each of those countries?
Sarah: How can we prevent ourselves from getting the NDM-1 virus? Can we stop the spread of NDM-1 by making the bacteria dormant?
How can we stop the spread of NDM-1? What medicines are available to stop the spread of the virus? How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already?
*** As an added bonus, we need to find at least three different sources of information from three different continents who speak three different languages. All of them must confirm your information.
As we mentioned in class, you need to cite your sources of information. As we research, we need to ask ourselves the following questions…
- “Where am I getting my information?”
- “How old is my information?”
- “Is my information reliable?”
Every time you find a new source of information (ex: book, newspaper article, website, scholarly journal, youtube video, etc.), you need to cite the source in the text (the writing) of your paper. We call this in-text citation. For an example and explanation, follow the link to The Purdue University OWL.
1.) The Purdue University OWL http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/01/
The OWL also helps explain how to cite sources, how to write a research paper, and gives sample research papers.
At the end of the paper, you should include a Works Cited. The Works Cited should be put on a separate piece of paper. Each source of information that you use should be included in the Works Cited. The OWL has a sample Works Cited page here…
2.) OWL Works Cited Sample Page (Your Works Cited should look like this!)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
If you are confused as to how to cite sources correctly. Check out link #3. It is from easybib.com, which helps us cite our sources properly for our Works Cited.
3.) easybib.com
http://www.easybib.com/
Last, but certainly not least, we need to discuss plagiarizing. Plagiarizing is when we take research, speeches, news articles, music, or any writing that was done by another person and use it as if it were our own. If you copy and paste from the internet, this is plagiarizing. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT PLAGIARIZING, YOU WILL RECEIVE A 0% AND HAVE TO DO YOUR WORK AGAIN!!!
You wouldn’t like it if someone stole your wallet. Researchers, musicians, artists, journalists, professors, and authors consider their work just as important as most people consider their money. Please remember this!
Jia you,
Mr. Gibson
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
MUN Homework - Week 1
Ni hao all,
Your first homework is to find something interesting that you would like to read about, research, and have an MUN Conference over. You need to do three things...
1.) find something interesting!
2.) Write a proposal. Your proposal only needs to be about one paragraph long, but it should answer the following questions...
- What is the issue?
- Which countries are involved in the issue?
- Why does it interest you?
- Why would it be important for us to study it in MUN Class?
3.) Think of something that we can do as a class for Tina.
*.) Your homework is due as a comment to this post by Sunday night at 10:00 p.m.
Zai jian,
Mr. Gibson
Your first homework is to find something interesting that you would like to read about, research, and have an MUN Conference over. You need to do three things...
1.) find something interesting!
2.) Write a proposal. Your proposal only needs to be about one paragraph long, but it should answer the following questions...
- What is the issue?
- Which countries are involved in the issue?
- Why does it interest you?
- Why would it be important for us to study it in MUN Class?
3.) Think of something that we can do as a class for Tina.
*.) Your homework is due as a comment to this post by Sunday night at 10:00 p.m.
Zai jian,
Mr. Gibson
Monday, September 6, 2010
WELCOME TO MUN CLASS!
Yo,
You are all already familiar with our blog. This will serve as our virtual homework board, communication board, and the place where we can collaborate when we do our research. First thing's first...before we tackle some interesting, and important global issue, we need to actually find an interesting/important global issue. So, why don't we play around with the following websites...
1.) The Economist (U.K.)
http://www.economist.com/
2.) Time Magazine (U.S.A.)
http://www.time.com/
3.) Newsweek Magazine (U.S.A.)
http://www.newsweek.com/
4.) Der Spiegel Nachrichten (Germany)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/
5.) Le Monde Diplomatique (France)
http://mondediplo.com/
6.) Xinhua News (State News Agency of P.R. of China)
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english2010/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/
* The top link is in English and the bottom is in Chinese. Notice any differences? :)
7.) China Post (Taiwan)
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/
8.) Taipei Times (Taiwan)
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/
9.) Japan Today (Japan)
http://www.japantoday.com/
10.) Pravda (State News Agency of Russia)
http://english.pravda.ru/
11.) Al-Jazeera News Organization (#1 Arabic News Organization)
http://english.aljazeera.net/
12.) O Globo (Brazillian Newspaper)
http://oglobo.globo.com/
13.) The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/
14.) The Wall Street Journal (Business News - U.S.A.)
http://asia.wsj.com/home-page
MOST IMPORTANT
1.) Charts Bin - THE place to find interesting graphs and maps.
http://chartsbin.com/
2.) TED Talks - You already know from Teacher Rony
http://www.ted.com/
3.) Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
Enjoy,
Mr. Gibson
You are all already familiar with our blog. This will serve as our virtual homework board, communication board, and the place where we can collaborate when we do our research. First thing's first...before we tackle some interesting, and important global issue, we need to actually find an interesting/important global issue. So, why don't we play around with the following websites...
1.) The Economist (U.K.)
http://www.economist.com/
2.) Time Magazine (U.S.A.)
http://www.time.com/
3.) Newsweek Magazine (U.S.A.)
http://www.newsweek.com/
4.) Der Spiegel Nachrichten (Germany)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/
5.) Le Monde Diplomatique (France)
http://mondediplo.com/
6.) Xinhua News (State News Agency of P.R. of China)
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english2010/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/
* The top link is in English and the bottom is in Chinese. Notice any differences? :)
7.) China Post (Taiwan)
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/
8.) Taipei Times (Taiwan)
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/
9.) Japan Today (Japan)
http://www.japantoday.com/
10.) Pravda (State News Agency of Russia)
http://english.pravda.ru/
11.) Al-Jazeera News Organization (#1 Arabic News Organization)
http://english.aljazeera.net/
12.) O Globo (Brazillian Newspaper)
http://oglobo.globo.com/
13.) The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/
14.) The Wall Street Journal (Business News - U.S.A.)
http://asia.wsj.com/home-page
MOST IMPORTANT
1.) Charts Bin - THE place to find interesting graphs and maps.
http://chartsbin.com/
2.) TED Talks - You already know from Teacher Rony
http://www.ted.com/
3.) Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
Enjoy,
Mr. Gibson
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