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

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

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

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

Tonight (Thursday, August 25th's) Homework

Ni hao,

OK, here is tonight's homework...





1.) Translate the MUN Draft Resolution Vocabulary. Remember those are the words from your Preable (Preambulatory Clause) and your Proposal (Operative Clause) which begine each clause.

Some examples from the Preamble include Emphasizing, Recognizing, Seeking, Welcoming, etc.
Some examples from the Proposal include Declares, Demands, Endorses, Notes with Interest, Proposes, Suggests, Urges, etc.

HINT: Remember what we talked about yesterday with "spin" and "flowery language." When a reporter asked the head delegate from China about the genocide in The Sudan, his answer discussed "providing stablitity to the region" and "creating mutually benificial relationships which date back to the 1960's between the P.R. of China and The Sudan."

Here is my point...You must translate and use the MUN Draft Resolution Vocabulary words in order to be specific about what you want to do, or (like the delegate from China) in order to be evasive. And you must be able to identify someone if they try to do that.


2.) Come up with a new Strategy for tomorrow's caucuses. Your strategy should also be evident in your Draft Resolution.


3.) Write your Draft Resolution. You must turn it in by 10:00 p.m. tonight to mtgibby@gmail.com.





Draft Resolutions

* What are they?

A draft resolution is a plan to identify the problem and come up with concrete plans to fix it which each country writes down.


* What's in it?

The first part is called the Preable (or Preambulatory Clause). This section explains what the problem is and why it is a problem. This section is usually very broad in its' scope.

Example: The U.S. Preamble to the Constitution

(http://www.aclassicpainting.com/Graphics/Preamble/preamble_large.jpg)


The second part is your Proposal (or Operative Clauses). This section includes concrete plans that articulate (look it up in the dictionary) what will be fixed, when it will be fixed, where it will be fixed, how it will be fixed, how much it will cost to fix it, and who it will be fixed by. Generally, the Proposals are very specific.

Example: The Magna Carta

(http://vi.uh.edu/pages/bob/elhone/Magna.html scroll down)





OK everyone,

JIA YOU!

I look forward to seeing what you come up with!



P.S. If you want to see how not to do your proposals, take a look at what you guys did during first semester of last year. Go to "December" on our blog. Do you remember our "UN Conference on H1N1?"

Tonight's Homework

OK,

One more time, here is the homework


EVERYTHING MUST BE EMAILED TO ME BY 10:00 p.m. at mtgibby1985@gmail.com


1.) If you haven't finished or fixed your Country Profile or Position Paper, do so and email me.

2.) Print out the Final Drafts of your Country Profile and Position Paper.

3.) Create a Caucus Outline. Print one copy for each delegate in your group.

4.) Write an Opening Speech. Practice your speech. The louder, clearer, more confident, and more natural it sounds, the better it will sound to the judges. Each delegate must speak for at least one minute, and the speeches must last from 2 to 3 minutes. DO NOT READ STRSIGHT FROM YOUR POSITION PAPER!

5.) Create some sort of Strategy. What are your goals during the conference? How will you accomplish them?

6.) Make sure you are dressed in Business Attire. Boys, this means, dress pants, collared shirts, dress shoes and ties. Girls this means blouses, no gaudy earrings, no makeup, and dress shoes (they don't have to be heels).

Feel free to email me with any questions as always. I hope you guys are as excited as I am!

Mr. Gibson

Position Paper Outline

OK everyone,

Here is the template and outline for your position papers. You need to have three sections. Each section can have as many paragraphs as you need. However, you must have all three of those headings (Description, Past UN Actions, and Country Policy/ Solutions).




Position Paper: Most conferences will require a position paper. The following is a generic outline to a position paper, however, specific conferences or committees may have different requirements, so be sure to check the conference's website for details.

Format: 2 to 3 pages, 12 pt font, Times New Roman font, double spaced, typed, stapled (no covers), correct spelling and grammar.

Outline:

Country: _______ Committee: ______ Topic: _________ I. Description of the Topic (What is the problem? Who, what where, when, why, and how.) II. Past UN Actions (What has the UN already done) III. Country policy and solutions (What does your country want to do?)
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