My Life project

Using Microsoft PowerPoint, create a presentation consisting
of at least 10 "slides" about your life and family/friends.
Include pictures of you and your family/friends as well as
captions and stories.
Use at least two different backgrounds.
Use different fonts and font colors.
Include some music or video on at least two slides.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRMQeQ9J3AA

http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORZjcNPVadw

Plagiarism Pt 2

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/14/us/school-cheating-scandal-tests-a-town-s-values.html

Imagine this exact situation took place at TCA...

How would you respond if you were convicted of plagiarism?

How would your parents respond?

Do you feel as if you deserve a passing grade because you parents pay tuition?

Does this story affect your view of plagiarism?

What do you take away from this narrative?

Plagiarism

group A- http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/03/nyregion/hamilton-president-resigns-over-speech.html

group B- http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/16/opinion/fame-can-t-excuse-a-plagiarist.html

group C- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/25/business/25post.html?_r=0

group D- http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/02/world/europe/hungary-president-resigns/index.html?iref=allsearch

handout-
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4weVnLdNaVsX3B6QnFwaWJpeDA/edit?usp=sharing

The Ethics of GTA V

http://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2013/09/four-questions-ask-considering-gta-v.html

fifth question- Should Christians who are indwelt by the Lord Jesus Christ have moral issues with killing people in a virtual world?

Six Words You Need to Hear today

http://rachelheldevans.com/blog/six-words-you-need-to-hear-today

I apologize to Mrs Evans for copy and pasting this article. Due to the web restrictions at our school this is the only way my classes could read this content. 

This is not my material but has been copied directly from the link above. 

Six Words You Should Hear Today

“I love to watch you play.'"

According to Rachel Macy Stafford, an author and special education teacher, those six words changed the way she related to her children.  Rather than praising or critiquing their performances at swim meets, recitals, and soccer games, she began pulling her children close, and simply whispering, “I love to watch you swim,” “I love to hear you sing,” “I love to hear your read,” “I love to watch you play.” 

Their reaction to these words, she said, was telling: 

My child's face broke into her most glorious smile -- the one that causes her eyes to scrunch up and become little slices of joy. And then she did something I didn't expect. She threw herself against me, wrapped her arms tightly around my neck, and whispered, ‘Thank you, Mama.’ And in doing so, I swear I could read her mind: The pressure's off. She loves to hear me play; that is all.

"The pressure’s off. She loves to hear me play; that is all." 

Even as someone who is not yet a mother, I see the wisdom of this approach. And as my eyes scanned the article, I thought of how desperately we adults need to hear these words too, perhaps most especially from the God who identifies as our Father and who is often compared to a Mother. 

What a relief it would be to know the pressure’s off. God delights in our living and breathing and working and praying and that delight is not something we have to earn by doing everything right. 

God just loves to watch us play. 

Too many corners of the Church have been infected with a legalistic, performance-based view of God in which God stands over our lives with crossed arms and a disappointed scowl, applauding only when we get everything just right and rendering judgment on everything we do wrong.  Some pastors seem to thrive in lording this disapproving God over their parishioners. As one pastor put it: “Some of you, God hates you. Some of you, God is sick of you. God is frustrated with you. God is wearied by you. God has suffered long enough with you. He doesn’t think you’re cute. He doesn’t think it’s funny.”  He then proceeds to explain how to win back God's favor. 

For too many Christians, God’s unmerited favor is a one-time gift that applies exclusively to eternal security. In the meantime, God’s favor has to be earned.  It has to be fought for with one flawless performance after another. The Family of God is a competitive, disciplined, performance-based family that runs on the economy of gold stars, rules and shame. God is rendered into the  classic nightmare sports parent  whose favor has to be earned, who is always, always, always disappointed in us.  

But this is not the God we encounter in Scripture or in Christ or in the Eucharist.  The God we encounter there is the God in whom we live and move and have our being, the God who rejoices over His children with signing, the God who spreads Her wings over Her children like an eagle over her chicks, the God who loved the world enough to experience all of its pain alongside of us, the God who—as Nadia Bolz-Weber puts it—“would rather die than be in the sin accounting business anymore,” the God who loves to watch us play. 

God doesn’t love us because we’ve earn it.  God loves us because we are God’s children. God created this world and everything in it—don’t you think God delights in it? Don’t you think God loves us at least as much as a good parent who delights in the activities of her children, regardless of whether they get everything right? 

This isn’t a performance-based relationship; it’s a relationship based on unconditional love and endless delight. We can breathe a deep and long sigh of relief because the pressure’s off. We’re not here to impress or perform; we’re here to revel in God’s delight. 

So hear these six words from God today: 

          I love to watch you play. 

Or perhaps: 

          I love to watch you write. 

          I love to watch you bake. 

          I love to watch you nurse. 

          I love to watch you read to your kids at night. 

          I love to watch you care for the sick. 

          I love to watch you take pictures. 

          I love to watch you study. 

          I love to watch you laugh. 

          I love to watch you seek the truth even when it’s hard. 

          I love to watch you be the church together, even when it’s imperfect. 

          I love to watch you love one another, even when it seems impossible. 

          I love to watch you eat and drink and dance and explore and worship and pray and get out of your car to move that poor little turtle out of the road…not because you do any of these things perfectly, but because you do them as my children. 

Now sink into that sigh of relief and believe this today:

      

The pressure's off. God loves to watch me play. That is all.

Creating Business cards

Using the instructions given in the tutorial, choose a business card template.
Your card will have two background images like shown in the tutorial.
You are welcome to create a hypothetical business.
Use attractive fonts and colors. Use Boarders. Use your God given creative abilities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnotkxgVTxY

Creativity Lesson

Bob Dylan was a very creative man... go and do likewise.
http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/bob-dylans-115th-dream

Grading Papers with PDF Annotations

You save last weeks MLA assignment as a PDF.

Upload and share the PDF with a partner.

Take your partner's PDF document and upload it to the following website-
http://www.pdfonlinereader.com/

Use the OWL website to grade your partners assignment. Pay special attention to the works cited section.

Once you have fully graded your partner's assignment, upload the annotated PDF to drive and share it with your partner.

Intro to MLA

Here's the MLA intro video... Word Tutorial Video

Today we will write a short one page essay using MLA formatting. You must include a block quotation, a book title, and an appropriate title and header. We will use University of Purdue's website to learn the details of MLA. Here is the OWL link to OWL.

Sometimes it's easier just to look at a sample.... this MLA sample essay should be very valuable
OWL sample