World History: 1500 - 2001

Caro

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Plan for the Break

Although the end is near, we must make the most of our time from afar! I suspect we will be apart these last few days prior to the break, thus I will lay out the plan for winter break and make hints for January.

First and foremost, many of you are concerned about the IA (and rightfully so). Allow me to get that out of the way first. You should e-mail your FULL IA in one main attachment (or in as few as possible) in Word (.doc or .docx). DO NOT SEND MICROSOFT WORKS FILES -- THEY WILL BE CONSIDERED LATE. Feel free to send me a test fire! PDF works as well. This is DUE by MIDNIGHT This Friday.

Your IA will be graded as usual save the Discussion section. Given that you most likely will not get these back in time, REVISE your Discussion the best you can. Please, stick closely to the rubric. Too many of you have ventured away from this for some reason. The further you venture, the worse the score. I will grade the Discussion with the understanding that you did not have my feedback. Be careful and do your best work here. It is worth 60 points. Please do not send me the entire thing to read again. If you have specific questions, simply send the section you have a question on. I am currently overwhelmed with requests for revisions. Sadly, I am unable to keep up with the demand. If you send me a single question with the text, I can respond very fast! That is good for you and me!

Regarding this Week's Readings
Wednesday (12/17)
Read pages: Freud and Dreams: 279 AND Read pages: 302: Unromancing The Dream - JAS

Thursday (12/18)
1. Review your Notes on Dreams
Read pages: 308: A New Neuocognitive Theory of Dreams - Take Notes on theory, applications, and analysis

Friday (12/19)
1. Dream Analysis: The Wolf Man page 319

Please use the blog as a classroom in that if you post questions, I can answer and others can learn from it!

EXTRA CREDIT DREAM RESEARCH OPTION
This extra credit assignment is a serious undertaking! Know that it is worth your while (20 points extra credit) but it is an effort for sure! Follow the instructions for how to recall a dream and contact me if you have any difficulties and/or questions.

Over the break, if you wish, view, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and write a 1-2 page response on how the neural network model of information processing would explain and evaluate the movie's premise.

January will be the final unit of IB Psychology: Dysfunctional Psychology. I will be designing the plan in the next few days. Although I will not be with you, I will be online and willing to help. I plan to make a few appearances in January to go over Eating Disorders and Schizophrenia. I will also be posting videos to the blog and the sub will play these files in class. So, be sure to check the blog often!

In short, e-mail me any questions and/or concerns!

Have a wonderful winter break! I will miss you all in January so keep me posted on how things are.

I leave you with a video...of course. This is one of THE BEST videos. It is all about dreams! So enjoy!


30 comments:

Anonymous said...

A fantastic video. I love the Foo Fighters!

Anonymous said...

Can we just go to school to turn it in?

Anonymous said...

My email does not allow me to send attachments. Can I just send my IA in an email?

Mr. Caro said...

No because I cannot go to school AND it is closed! Sorry.

Mr. Caro said...

Lauren,

If you have web access -- and it appears you do--open a yahoo or hotmail or gmail account. Those you can send attachments with. You will really want to be able to do this in the future anyway!

Anonymous said...

So do the snow days have any affect on the Cognitive Perspective test date?

Joseph said...

I love that song. And I'd like to say it sucks that we have to miss the last week with you, especially when it was covering one of the most interesting topics.

I do have two questions. How can I do page numbers with everything in one document? Whenever I try to do it it puts numbers on the title page and table of contents, and I don't know how to get rid of them.

Also, is there any specific spacing or text size we need to use on the title page?

Anonymous said...

OH MY GOODNESS!

To those of you reading this, you are witnessing my first post on Mr. Caro's blog!!

Now I'm a Caro and Carlisle blog poster =]

YESS!!!

If we email you our IA's does that mean you still want the table of contents and cover page as well? or should we just straight up give it to you?

Anonymous said...

yes yes good piont. should we add extra baggege to the email or should we just give you the good meaty stuff such as the intro and blah blah?

Mr. Caro said...

Greetings All!

Okay, to start, the most attachments you should need are 3: one for the title page, one for the table of contents, and one for the body and appendix.

By doing this, you will also solve the page number issue! So it should work.

The cognitive essay is the same. I will also post updates on January next week. I need to finalize the plan for January! Wish me luck.

Omar! you are most considerate. Thank you. You are welcome to walk all the way to downtown Lake Oswego. But the journey will be long and treacherous. I can promise nothing. It is not necessary to go on such a journey, but if you do, stop off at Chipotle and pick me up a chicken burrito. I take it with no beans, extra chicken, hot salsa, and cheese. Drop the sour cream because I am a fatty.

Welcome Niz Rizzle! It's about time you showed up! Welcome home.

Anonymous said...

Thank you...i think i will try sending it a few to times to make sure it works, if thats ok

tiffany. said...

Two Questions:

Can we turn in our Final IA to you now?

and, i already watched the ec movie and, i wrote about the semantic network, should i just add on to it and write about the neural network?

Anonymous said...

so caro can you not leave your house, like can you not drive anywhere? Do you live on a hill?

my parents won't let me drive.

its really annoying

Mr. Caro said...

You can submit it at any time!
Send the extra credit response separate from the IA.

Amy, yes! I am frozen in here.

Anonymous said...

Dear Tiffany,
Please leave your house. Stop making me feel bad for doing absolutely nothing for school the past 3 days. Put on some mittens and some boots, and go play in the snow.
:] :] :]

Mr. Caro said...

Alex has it right!

tiffany. said...

HAHAH, Alex, I have. I walked to Mary Woodward, and almost fell a bajillion times on the ice.

AND, i havent even started my world lit paper:[
Ive been sitting at home, and looking at the snow:D

Anonymous said...

Caro, can we send the IA on microsoft open office?

Mr. Caro said...

Let's give it try!

Anonymous said...

Tiffany,
Jeeze isnt Mary ww. far from your house?...at least for walking in the snow.
Hi Alex.

Hi Mr. Caro! Did you ever get your Chipotle?

Anonymous said...

I on the other hand have been working on school work AND sledding with pals! =]

I'm well rounded =]
hahha

Uhm Alex, lets play outside on the big hill together!then there can be a hill on a hill!! get it? haha wow that was so bad..I think all those JAS sheets are getting to my head.


I LOVE BLOGS!!!!

Mr. Caro said...

Not yet! Come one Omar!!!! I am starving!

tiffany. said...

caro, do we turn in the IA, on turnitin?

Yvonne! said...

CARO! It's an outstanding video!!!!

Mr. Caro said...

Turnitin.com is not required

Anonymous said...

can i send you my abstract to see if i am doing it right?

Anonymous said...

Weellll heck that sounds like a terrific plan. i would have to write all that down mr caro lol however i am still in the process of finishing my IA mr caro. if only i could get it done i could be at your place in a jiffy with 3 burritos! one for me, one for you and one for pippin! there perilous journey would be no match to my other journeys where i ventured deep into middle earth with pippin. you can ask him about it. no promises he will tell you. those trolls and orcs really scare pippin.

Anonymous said...

YES, Nisreen, we must go sledding tomorrow! And we can wear our matching scarves! :D

A Hill on a hill. Original.

Anonymous said...

I came to ask where I should find the directions to recall a dream... was that in notes or a reading? THEN, I found out Mr. Caro is all for the Chipotle Chicken burrito.... that is the way to go! And although the sour cream is a yes, I skip the gauc. because I'm classically conditioned to have nausea when I taste it.

Anonymous said...

NO, got the answer! Thanks though.