As I promised, this is the post where you can ask questions about the speech assignment for Monday.  Remember, choose one topic and write your speech.  Include all of the parts we have talked about in class.

Michelle

Here’s the model for your presentation from Mr. Phoenix:

anthropology-powerpoint.ppt

anthropology-powerpoint-expanded.ppt

 If you have any questions, you can leave a comment by clicking the comment link at the end of the post.  Remember, your email address is required, but it will not be shown.

Michelle

Sometimes Houston has storms or flooding.  UHD may close due to severe weather.  An announcement is made on the radio, on television (Channels 2, 11 and 13) and on the UHD website.  Do not assume that UHD is closed unless you hear or read one of these announcements.   Only if the school closes is your absence counted.

Students are required to come to class on a regular basis.  You may not be absent more than 5 hours from any one class or 20 hours from all classes in any one six-and-a-half week session.  Chronic absence of F-1 students is reportable to Immigration.

Students who are absent are required to make up any work missed.  Students who are absent for an instructor’s test or who had work to turn in will be governed by that instructor’s make-up policies as stated in the instructor’s syllabus.

UPDATE:  Mr. Phoenix made worksheets for you guys to use for your assignments.  They are at the links at the bottom of this post. 

 Just in case any Level 6 students have questions about the interactive assignment given today, here are the instructions and link to the site.

Choose One Topic 

Topic:Darwin

Choose: An Origin of Species

Read page one and then click on the green link, “Species Gallery.”  Choose three different groups and then identify the arrival dates of the common ancestor for each group.  Then close that window.

Then click on the blue link at the bottom of the page.  Read page 2 and click through to page 3.

On page three, select two dates from the timeline at the bottom and click.  View the details for each of the four places on the map.  Summarize the information about competition, habitat, food, predators and changes (the last information is at a link just above the timeline.)  Do this for each of the dates you chose.

Topic:  Change

Choose All in the Family

Read and then click on the pink links on pages 1, 2 and 3.

Follow the instructions page 4.  What is the correct answer?

On page five, click on each of the links in the Tools section at the bottom of the window.  Summarize the information from the tools section.

Check your answer and click on the pink link, “what does this have to do with the ‘tree of life’?”  Read and summarize the information on the next two pages, then click on the pink link, “Build another tree.”

Follow the same steps for the next two groups.

Topic: Extinction

Choose:  What Killed the Dinosaurs

Read the introduction and then click on the link, “What happened 65 million years ago?”  Read the next page and then click on the link, “Explore what killed the dinosaurs.”

Choose four (4) different Hypothesis/Evidence combinations by clicking on the brown squares on the chart.  Read the information, watch the animation and then summarize the information for each one.

Topic: Survival

Choose:  Coral Reef Connections

Read the introduction and then click on the link, “Dive now”.

There are three different types of relationships.  Click on each one and read the information about the relationship.  Then identify all of the organisms which have each kind of relationship.

Next, click on the instruction button in the top right corner.  Read and follow the instructions in order to locate more information about the different organisms and their relationship.

Choose two different combinations and summarize the information you read about them.

Also, I will monitor this post over the weekend.  Please ask questions in the comments section, and I will answer them as soon as possible.  You can also use this space to discuss the assignment with your classmates.

Have a great weekend and happy Thanksgiving!

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open these files.  If you don’t have it you can get it here. 

Darwin Worksheet – Change Worksheet – Extinction Worksheet — Survival Worksheet

Here’s Levels 5 and 7.  I hope to have some of Level 3 tomorrow.

Here’s a few pictures from yesterday. Enjoy!

ELI graduates who take at least 12 hours successfully at UHD will receive an additional 3 hours of elective credit in American Studies.  A student planning to use this credit should not take American Studies as an academic course elective.  Contact ELI for a letter.

Graduates from the ELI’s Level 7 may attend credit classes at UHD without a TOEFL score if recommended by ELI. (Residents and citizens have no TOEFL requirement, so do not need recommendation.)  Eligible students submit a Recommendation Application at the end of the fourth week of the session and take the Exit exam in the sixth week of classes.  The test results, along with successful graduation from Level 7, determine your readiness to begin academic work at an American university.  You must take the ELI Exit test while you are enrolled in Level 7.  It is not available to and ELI graduate sometime after graduation.

I hope everyone had a good weekend.  I did, but as always it was too short!

Today has been very busy, so I only have time to let you guys know about a discussion on nuclear weapons which will be held tomorrow, (Tuesday September 26) at 2:00 and 3:15 in room  436A  (That’s the same building that the cafeteria is in.  It looks interesting and if anyone would like to go, I will be more than happy to join you.  Just stop by my office and let me know.

See you!