Collaborative task: Cause and Effect

At this point, we have looked at cause and effect from many different angles. Your last collaborative task is to explore one more topic with your group and then write a paragraph about your findings. Group 1 will talk about one of the topics from 1 to 3, Group 2 will talk about one of the topics from 4 to 6, Group 3 will talk about one of the topics from 7 to 9, and Group 4 will talk about one of the topics from 10 to 12.

1. Explain the effects of stress on you. Focus by limiting to a specific situation.

2. How can one individual have an effect on the environment?

3. What are the signs of teenage depression? How can teenage depression be prevented or treated?

4. What are the effects of the computer on the quality of your writing?

5. What are the physical effects of anger?

6. Is the media a reflection of society's ills or does it cause society's ills?

7. What effect has the automobile had on the American society?

8. What is the value of having a pet? a hobby?

9. What are the effects of beauty? ugliness? poverty? wealth?

10. How does pain effect a person's life?

11. Which is more of an influence on a person's life -- genetics or environment?

12. What influence do you have over your friends and/or family? Why?

Check Your Reading

At this point we have another week until the big day. In this hour, really try to push yourself and read faster for better comprehension. Try to do the follwing tasks in one hour and leave 5 minutes at the end of that hour to put a comment on this post that reports your results.

Try to do:

1. Rate Builder

2. Power Builder

3. Newspaper Reading

4. Paced Reading

5. Timed Reading

Now place a comment on this post concerning your results. How did you do?

My Big Move

Making a big move is never an easy decision of task. There are so many elements that have to be weighed. This is a good subject to use your cause/effect critical thinking skills. With your group, think about and discuss what caused you to move to the United States. Then talk about what effects this move will have on you in the short term and then in the log run. You group is required to discuss the issues involved for everybody, then write a paragraph about your discussion that will then be posted on the blog.