My daughters!

Hello everyone.

I know I have come to you before on behalf of my girls and you all have provided such a wonderful cross-section of views that they have both requested that I ask this knowledgeable forum for assistance yet again with their current projects as one is about energy (COAL) and the other is literature (Shakespeare), both topics often discussed on this forum. Any assistance you can provide is greatly appreciate.

So please, grab a cup of something and maybe a bit of chocolate, sit back, take a read and see if maybe you can help them out.

First up:

Project #1: Energy - Coal:

She is NOT asking you to answer ALL of the questions for her (of course in reality she would not mind)… that is not the point here of this forum doing her homework for her. HOWEVER, what she would like is if you see a question and it calls to you, if you have firsthand knowledge, thoughts, ideas, know of Web sites or articles that may offer information (age appropriate 11-12) and are willing to share them, she would appreciate it greatly.

She needs to make a one minute, four slide PowerPoint presentation at her “Energy Summit” and write a brief position paper on the energy source of Coal. She must include a bibliography and she must address the specific questions:

1. What is the energy (coal)
2. What the energy transformations required for the use of this energy?
3. What is the typical source for this energy? What are other sources?
4. How is it used to meet our energy demands?
5. How else could it be used?
6. What are the waste products and/or hazards involved with using this source of energy?
7. Why should we use this source of energy instead of others?
8. Why aren’t we using more of it?
9. What recent technological innovations or inventions have been made related to this source of energy?

This information must be challenging because this role requires that “you” know a little bit about everything. “You” need to understand the “Big Picture,” and know something about all of the other forms of energy as well. (this is the other reason daughter asked me to post this on MR)


Project # 2: Shakespeare

This project is for English Class and it is on William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night Dream.

Her request from the forum… if anyone has read this play and has any good insight with Hippolyta (Queen of the Amazons and betrothed of Theseus) and can give her a good starting point or other really good nuggets of information for either the essay or the character traits, she would appreciate it greatly.

She also would like you to know that she has read the play not once, but twice this year (once in Theater and now in English class), so she is not trying to pull a fast one here by having you do the work for her.

She needs to write a multi-paragraph essay examining how Hippolyta’s choices influence the outcome of the story. She needs to support her explanation with examples and textual evidence.

She also has to do:
1. List of character traits, with reasons and evidence from scene.
2. A poster with set design and props and provide a list of and evidence from scene