Assignment outline:
GRADE EIGHT THESIS
Grade eight is really the last year that anyone can consider you to be a child. After grade eight, once you enter high school, life has the possibility of changing for you. You get more responsibilities and your teachers expect even more from you. The same is true for many of you at home. You may be getting a job soon, having new relationships and learning to balance your time that wants to get stretched in many different directions.
You have to have a mature outlook to deal with all of this, and your behaviour speaks louder than any words.
This is what the grade eight thesis is about. A thesis is an in depth examination of something. It is an independent project where you make the decisions.
Your job is to make a presentation to our class, either live or recorded, that shares with us the evidence that you are ready to be a mature high school student.
Your thesis can share many different types of information with us:
* accomplishments to this point in your life
* what type of a person that you want to be remembered as
* talents
* your work ethic (homework completion, chores, etc.)
* strengths and weaknesses
* volunteer efforts
* goals for the next few years
* your worries and concerns
The idea of this thesis is not to only concentrate on school. While school may play a part in your presentation, your thesis needs to be about your life as a whole. How can you show that you are growing in responsibility and maturity? How can you show that you are capable of becoming a high school student who can make good decisions? How have you changed?
I am looking for evidence of reflection (that you have taken the time to think about yourself) and creativity.
Here is an example of another grade eight student's thesis.
If you are looking for a web 2.0 tool to help you get started, check out this blog.
Good luck, and have fun!! I can't wait to see what you come up with:)
