Advanced English 10
C-Poetry
The Alchemist Independent Reading Assignment -- DUE MAY 31st
- The rubric is located as a downloadable file below
- For discussion questions to aid your responses, please visit "The Alchemist Lit Circle" group on Edmodo
- Question to keep in mind: What is your personal legend going into your Junior year?
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Twitter.
Students are required to post THREE "tweets" per week about a connection to anything English that they find or hear about in their daily lives. For example, if a student hears someone use a Shakespeare quote, and we're reading Shakespeare in class... he/she can post that connection using only 140 characters. Another example is if a student finds a grammar mistake in the paper. What is the error and why? The possibilities and connections are endless.
Possible Tweets
Reply to one of my tweets
Start or continue a conversation with a fellow classmate about English
Tell a story that happens in your life including ONE old or recent vocabulary word
Reply to ONE of my daily challenges
If you hear a word that you haven't heard before on TV, read in a book, or see/hear in a movie, define it
Forward a text that you don't understand and instruct classmates to decipher what it means
Start a thread about something involving our class (Examples: #favmrcquote, #vocabword, #C201memory)
Start or continue a conversation with a fellow classmate about English
Tell a story that happens in your life including ONE old or recent vocabulary word
Reply to ONE of my daily challenges
If you hear a word that you haven't heard before on TV, read in a book, or see/hear in a movie, define it
Forward a text that you don't understand and instruct classmates to decipher what it means
Start a thread about something involving our class (Examples: #favmrcquote, #vocabword, #C201memory)
Weebly.
After experimenting with journal writing, the decision was made to have students create blogs using the user-friendly website/blog creator site called Weebly.
As noted by wikipedia.org:
"Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts."
With this explanation alone, these blogs will tremendously aid our purpose of The Humanities Project: researching and commenting on the world around us focusing on communication and English's importance to learning.
As noted by wikipedia.org:
"Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts."
With this explanation alone, these blogs will tremendously aid our purpose of The Humanities Project: researching and commenting on the world around us focusing on communication and English's importance to learning.
Advanced English 10 Syllabus
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Assignment Sheets:
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Grad School Connection.
To hit two birds with one stone, I have decided to make "The Humanities
Project" my senior independent study for the Fall 2010 semester at
Duquesne University.
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What is the Project?
The English subject is more than just reading novels and writing compositions. It is about noticing and reflecting on the world around you through the use of words. The Humanities Project is a year-long higher level study for Advanced English 10 students in conjunction with the district curriculum to answer the simple question of “What is English?”