Iowa State OPPTAG Experience Reflection

7th grade GOAL:

Reflect on your day in Ames.  Answer the following questions in a thoughtful paragraph.  Back up your opinions with evidence and/or explanation.

Here's a link to the official track titles, if you need them.

• Describe your first class.  What did you learn?  What did you do?  
• Describe your second class.  What did you learn?  What did you do?
• What was the most educational part of your day?  Explain.
• What was something you learned about Iowa State University?
• What was the most fun part of the day?
• If you could give one piece of advice on how to improve the experience, what would you say?  Explain.
• What is your biggest "takeaway?"  In other words, why did we do this?  What did you get out of the experience?

Thesis Statements

Here's a quick and easy guide to writing thesis statements.

Persuasive Paper Topics

Not sure what to write about?  These links might give you some ideas:

https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/writing/persuasive-essay-topics/

https://www.thoughtco.com/persuasive-essay-topics-1856978

http://www.myspeechclass.com/persuasivetopics2.html

http://www.k12reader.com/persuasive-essay-and-speech-topics/

Deep Thinking Friday

Here are some videos to get us thinking about plastic water bottles... why we have them, their impact, and what we can do about the problem of SO MANY of them.  Watch these in any order you'd like.  Comment with your thoughts and ideas.

Plastic Bottle Village from MEL Films on Vimeo.