What Could You Do With $20,000 summary outline by Bobby

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Summary: “What Could You Do With $20,000” by Blake Boles states that going to college is not imperative.  If you aren’t a lawyer, doctor, scientist, or professor it's almost smarter to not attend college and save yourself the money.  With the money you could save from not attending college, there is a variety of things you could do.  Boles supports his idea by showing examples of what you could do with $20,000.  Boles proclaims that backpacking all over Europe would only cost around $2,500.  This still gives the experiences of cultural differences.  Additionally, Boles illustrates his point by showing that he could get an internship, do volunteer work, and interview other people for future jobs/careers for free.  Boles demonstrates through these examples that you don’t have to have a college education to be successful in the world today.  

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• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb,correctly portrays/ incorrectly portrays___________ because ___________ .

Claim 1: “What Could You Do With $20,000” by Blake Boles correctly portrays how going to college isn't imperative and is almost not a necessity for getting jobs or planning for your future.  Boles demonstrates throughout the video that there are plenty of options and opportunities waiting for you if you don’t choose get a college education.  One quote that stood out was when Boles states, “Another $3,000 could by me 100 hours of 1-on-1 tutoring”(Boles).  100 hours of 1-on-1 time with a tutor would increase someone’s intelligence by a significant number.  Maybe this would lead to a new business idea that takes and makes millions of dollars instead of going to college for 4 years. However, having a college education is useful in many places in the work field. Graduating from an ivy league school or any elite school will significantly help when attempting to finding a job. According to the article “College View” by Jeff Mcguire, “The more connections which are collected during your college career, the more options you will have when you begin your job search.”  This shows that going to college helps create connections.  When you have connections, you have possible jobs that could lead to making money.  In conclusion college may be very useful for getting jobs and preparing for your future but, in the video “What would You Do With $20,00” by Blake Boles illustrates that there are many options that you could take and still get jobs.  Even without a college degree.

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• Counterclaim 1: However, ....
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• What are the strengths/ flaws of this argument? (use rebuttal progression language)
• Concluding sentence: restate main idea

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• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb, main idea  “What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind” by Alison Gopnik tells about how puberty is coming at an earlier age for children and full maturity and adulthood comes later.  Gopnik stated in the article that puberty and the motivational systems come in earlier as well.  The motivational systems is where the teenagers greatly value rewards and will do almost anything to get them.  Additionally, Gopnik illustrates that puberty is coming earlier by saying that children are eating more and moving less.  This is one of the causes of puberty coming earlier.  She shows through these examples that puberty is happening sooner in children than it has in the past. Gopnik stresses in "What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind" that puberty comes at an earlier stages and full maturity comes later in life for teenagers today.     
• Supporting ideas and explanations to prove main ideas
• Concluding sentence: restate main idea

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• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb, agree/disagree (correctly portrays/ incorrectly portrays) because ___________ .
• Claim 1:  “What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind” by Alison Gopnik correctly portrays how puberty occurs sooner and adulthood comes later because the environment teens live in is changing rapidly.  Gopnik in her article illustrates this by saying that teens are eating more food than prior generations and being less active.  Gopnik states, “A leading theory points to changes in energy balance as children eat more and move less” (Gopnik).  Past generations would have never thought puberty would come so early based off how society has evolved.  Children today spend more time not being active than ever before.  On top of that, they consume more food than the healthy amount.  However, there is no solid evidence that adulthood occurs later.  Nick D’Asilo is one of the many young entrepreneurs that disprove Gopnik’s ideas.  He recently created a news app that he then sold to Yahoo for 30 million dollars.  D’Asilo is a teenager who has a job at a young age and is successful,  “The programming guru still has a year and a half left of high school” (Strickland).  High school students are mature enough to start their own businesses.  Young people today still have jobs and are successful at them at a young age.  Teenagers are maturing just as fast as they used to.
• Set-up
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• What are the strengths/ flaws of this argument? (use rebuttal progression language)  A common view is that teenagers still have internships and work in jobs.  It is thought that teenagers become mature at the same time in their lives as previous generations did.  Unfortunately, this is not the case; it has been proven that puberty is coming later in a teen's life than ever before. Students spend more time in school,  and not working on what their jobs will be in the future.  With every generation, puberty comes earlier and earlier; this causes kids to make bad decisions earlier, such as drinking, doing drugs, etc.  Eventually, if this pace keeps up, third graders will be starting puberty at a very young age. They won’t be fully mature until they are 40 years old.  The theory that teenagers act the same as they used to will have disappeared.  This shows how puberty is coming earlier in teenagers' lives and adulthood is coming later.  In summary Gopnik proclaims in "What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind", that in every generation puberty is happening earlier and full maturity is coming later.   

• Concluding sentence: restate main idea

Jake and Bobby's Bullying Outline

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Summary:  Bully by Lee Hirsch supports the idea that bullying is a major problem in schools today. Lee endorses the problem of bullying by showing several students that have been affected by this issue. Additionally, Hirsch illustrates his point by showing that a teenage boy is scared to go back to school because of severe bullying.  Hirsch shows through this examples that bullying is becoming a serious problem for students.  

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• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb,correctly portrays/ incorrectly portrays___________ because ___________ .
• Claim 1:  Bully by Lee Hirsch correctly portrays that bullying is a major problem because many students have gone to extreme measures such as cutting, suicide, and murder.  Hirsch, in his documentary, illustrates how big of an issue bullying is by showing a 12 year old named Alex and all his struggles.  Alex states, “Most kids don’t want to be around me, I feel like I belong somewhere else” (Hirsch).  20 years ago people never would have imagined how cruel teenagers could be to each other.  Unfortunately, at this rate almost every student will be bullied several times each year.  However, bullying is just regular behavior for teenagers.  Dean Donehoo, the dean of Murray County, had a conference with parents.  In response to being criticized for the bullying problems in his district he said, “Boys will be boys” (Hirsch).  This shows that boys aren’t really trying to be mean and hurtful, but they are just doing what all boys do.  Bullying is made to be a bigger deal than it really is and the teenagers are being the obnoxious teenagers they are.   
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• Evidence: Lead-in  “ quotation” (Shakespeare 1.2.13-17).
• Explanation of quotation to prove claim: explain quote, connect to claim
• Counterclaim 1: However, ....
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• Evidence: Lead-in  “ quotation” (       )
• Explanation of quotation to prove counterclaim: explain quote, connect to claim
• What are the strengths/ flaws of this argument? (use rebuttal progression language)
• Concluding sentence: restate main idea

A common view is that boys are just being boys, or girls are just being girls and therefore bullying isn’t a big problem.  It is just how teenagers act.  This position seems reasonable because bullying happens in all schools, and it is nearly impossible to stop it from happening.  However it’s more complicated than that, more students than ever before are being bullied to a point where they want to hurt themselves.  It is viewed as not a big deal to bully, so more teenagers are doing it because they aren’t told to stop.  Teachers don’t always attempt to prevent bullying from happening in schools.  Thousands of people every year commit suicide, almost always because of bullying.  This shows how bullying is a major issue.  In conclusion, bullying happens too much and it is a very big problem which needs to be stopped as soon as possible

Bobby and Jake's Summary Response "Whats's Wrong With the Teenage Mind"

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Summary:

• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb, main idea  “What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind” by Alison Gopnik tells about how puberty is coming at an earlier age for children and full maturity and adulthood is coming later.  Gopnik stated in the article that puberty and the motivational systems come in earlier as well.  The motivational systems is where the teenagers greatly value rewards and will do almost anything to get them.  Additionally Gopnik illustrates that puberty is coming earlier by saying that children are eating more and moving less.  Saying that this is one of the causes of this topic.  She shows through these examples that puberty is happening sooner in children than it has in the past.     
• Supporting ideas and explanations to prove main ideas
• Concluding sentence: restate main idea

Response:

• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb, agree/disagree (correctly portrays/ incorrectly portrays) because ___________ .
• Claim 1:  “What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind” by Alison Gopnik correctly portrays how puberty occurs sooner and adulthood comes later because the environment teens live in changes rapidly.  Gopnik in her article illustrates this by saying that teens are eating more than prior generations and being less active.  Gopnik states, “A leading theory points to changes in energy balance as children eat more and move less” (Gopnik).  Past generations would have never thought puberty would come so early based off how society has evolved.  Children today spend more time not being active than ever before.  On top of that they consume more food than the healthy amount.  However, is no solid evidence that adulthood occurs later.  Nick D’Asilo is one of the many young entrepreneurs that disprove Gopnik’s ideas.  He recently created a news app that he then sold to Yahoo for 30 million dollars.  “The programming guru still has a year and a half left of high school” (Strickland).  High school students are mature enough to start their own businesses.  Young people today still have jobs and are successful at them at a young age.  Teenagers are maturing just as fast as they used to.
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Jake and Bobby's Summary Response "A Vision of Students Today"

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• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb, main idea “A Vision of Students Today” by Michael Wesh confronts the problems students are having with technology and other school issues.
• Supporting ideas and explanations to prove main ideas Students are overwhelmed with all of the work they have to do, and even their technology.  Most of the students said that technology is distracting them from their school work.  When they are on their computers they use it for fun activities such as Facebook instead of doing their work.  Students have a schedule that takes them 26.5 hours a day, this means that they have to multi-task.
• Concluding sentence: restate main idea This video shows how students are having troubles with getting distracted by their technology and their school work.

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• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb, agree/disagree (correctly portrays/ incorrectly portrays) because ___________ .  : “A Vision of Students Today” by Michael Wesh asserts that technology distracts students from their school work.  Technology has it’s pros but it also has it’s cons.  
• Claim 1: Many people in the video wrote on their paper that they spend the class time on Facebook and they spend several hours each day on technology.  The time students said they are on technology is more than the time they are in class or studying.  One of the papers held up said “I bring my laptop but i’m not working on class stuff”.  This shows how big of a distraction technology can be.    
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However, technology can also be useful for learning. For example one of the students in the video said that there are online textbooks which saves money and is a more efficient way of learning.  It is less expensive to have one computer with all your books than multiple textbooks.  A student stated “I buy hundred dollar textbooks that I never open”.  In “Technology in the Classroom” by Brian Braiker stated "The iPad gives them more opportunities to be better communicators, to be better learners,(Shane)”  This shows how technology is helpful in learning.    

• What are the strengths/ flaws of this argument? (use rebuttal progression language)  A common view is that technology is useful in learning.  This viewpoint seems reasonable because in almost every classroom technology is used by the teachers and even the students.  However it’s more complicated than that, technology is becoming more distracting because of social media and everything that you can look up on the web.  Games and new sites are frequently being made and improved which causes students to be even more distracted.  These reasons show how technology is a detriment to the learning of students.  

Concluding sentence: restate main idea  In summary technology distracts students more than it helps them learn.