Hot Take Forum Post Leader Expectations/Information

Students need to choose topics based on current events, social issues or US History.
A 'Hot Take" is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as "a quickly produced, strongly worded, and often deliberately provocative or sensational opinion or reaction to on a specific topic.
Everyone in class will write one Hot Take/Story a quarter. Hot Takes/Stories will be added to the "Forum" section of my website.
Due to the nature of school, our "Hot Takes" will need to stay away from strong language, bullying, racist/sexist/homphobic or any other discriminatory topics. If you are not sure if your topic is appropriate, please check with me before posting.
Students will lead their "hot take" discussion on the forum. At the end of every week, one-four new students will be selected to be a "hot take" forum post leader in each class for the next week. Forum post leaders will be graded(100 points) on the last day of school for the week.

Expectations:

1. Length should be neither too long or nor too short(roughly haplf a page). Focus on quality writing. Be sure to use proper capitalization, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, etc.
2. If using sources, be sure to cite them at the end of your post.Also, be sure to summarize information from the source in your own words. Summarize, not plagiarize.
3. Do not write anything that would be considered discriminatory towards others in any way.
4. Be sure to reply regularly to student comments throughout the week(at least three different days with Thursday being one of the days).
5. Be sure to ask a couple of good questions at the end of your "hot take" so students have something to reply to.
6. Have a catchy title. Don't forget to capitalize key words in your title.
7. Your "hot take" needs to be published by class time on Monday so you can give a brief summary of your topic to the class that day. If you do not have it posted, you will lose ten points per day it isn't posted. You will receive a zero if not posted by the time I grade it on Friday. If you then get it posted over the next weekend, you can only earn up to 50% credit.
8. Check all the posts from previous weeks so you don't select the same or very similar story.
9. Replies you make to other students as a forum post leader do not count towards your 20(or 25) forum posts you need each cycle.
10. The top five stories with the most comments will get extra credit(5,4,3,2,1).

Breakdown of the 100 points:

-70 points will be based on the topics you choose and how well written your summary is as well as the quality of the question(s) you pose.

-30 points will be based on how well and frequent you reply to student comments.

**If no students reply to your topic, I will look at the quality of your summary to determine your grade. Is it your fault no one replied?

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