END OF YEAR CHECKLIST:Friday, May 13, last day to turn in late work

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PRESENTATION RUBRIC: read me - ALL of me

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the FINAL survey

You should be 3/4 done with your book

by Monday, April 11. The next in-class writing assignment will be on character development and will require a description of the character over time, to right before the climax of the story.

Project Proposal Meetings Taking Place This Week

Please be prepared with your choice of technology for you presentation, and some ideas (written down) for what your presentation will look like. The longer you delay, the less time you will have to work on the project.
     I will be available for additional appointments before school (7am), during 5th period and after school until 3. Just let me know you are coming ahead of time so that I make sure I am in the room.

hold off on typing up your proposal

until later in the week

5 project choices

1) multi-media presentation (powerpoint, etc.)
2) multi-media X-mind
3) visual story telling (film)
4) machinima
5) game idea/pitch

BE PREPARED - monday/tuesday, 3/28-29

there are FOUR things that need to be with you.

1) printed copy of 'Danger' essay
2) printed copy of 'Macbeth' notes
3) printed/written copy of book writing
4) reading book

this will be a graded assignme t. if you cannot print this at home, you need to visit themedia center before class.

Appendix to 'Macbeth' notes

Please complete the five following items and place them after the group notes for Act V.
This is due, with completed notes, on Monday, March 21.

1. List 10 examples, from the play, of the magic number '3'.
2. 10 quotes that show 'fair is foul and foul is fair' either literally or figuratively. Include the speaker and the act/scene number.
3. 5 thumbnails of Elizabethan personifications (ex. Lady Fortune)
4. Create table 1 and fill it in
5. Create table 2 and fill it in

table 1

table 2

DANGER rubric

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quarter 4 final project

The first step to the completion of the multimedia final project is the development of the project itself. You should have completed research and compiled a minimum of two, count 'em, TWO URLs to sites which give both general information and explain the educational application of the following:

• machinima
• digital story telling
• gaming

THEN, in a minimum of two complete sentences for EACH of the above, answer the following questions.

1. What is it?
2. What is its educational (language arts) application?

THEN, offer up an idea for a project, again for each of the above, that will be based on the independent reading of a novel from the Victorian Age.

to complete the assignment, due FRIDAY, MARCH 4, read the following

• copy your LIVE links and construct your answers on a word processing document
• copy and paste your completed response as a comment to this blog

putting quarter 3 to bed

• vocabulary
• friday, 3/4
• lesson 22 due - 3/4
• last day to hand in missing lessons
• last day to take/retake past quizzes
• DANGER essay
• rubric available: monday, 2/28
• final draft completed, 3/4
• MACBETH notes
• rubric available: monday, 3/11
• final draft completed, last class of quarter
• remember to demonstrate "effective use of a bulleted list"

MY bad - important - read below

Yes, I forgot to forward vocabulary lessons 19 & 20 until this morning. SO - lesson 19 is not due until MONDAY, FEB 14. Lesson 20, however, is still due on Friday the 18th.

completing Act I notes for 'Macbeth' on the Google Doc

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setting up the group 'Macbeth' document in Google Docs

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DANGER essay - ALERT

Many documents are improperly named - please fix this.
Some documents have not been shared properly - make sure that your partner and Mr.M. can both EDIT

DANGER essay - write it up!

Now follow your outline to complete the 500 word essay. You and your partner may write this up as two complete, consecutive essays (500 words each) or one section followed by a response for each section to be more like a debate exchange. A word count guide is provided below.
     1 - intro (50 words)
     2 - three reasons why the character is dangerous (150 words each)

THE COMPLETED DRAFT OF THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE BY MIDNIGHT, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH. EMAIL Mr.M. WHEN THE ASSIGNMENT IS COMPLETED.

DANGER essay document and outline

shared with mr.m. by sunday, january 30, MIDNIGHT

1. name your document - Danger#NameName
# - block
Name - last name

2. share the document with your partner and mr.m.

3. Character Name (Actor Name)

4. arrange the following three aspects of DANGER in the order you will argue them for your selected character (that would be in order of importance)
- what they did
- dangerous to whom
- who they are (position/status)

What's your favorite Google Maps find?

CHOOSE A BUILDING, MONUMENT, NATURAL WONDER, ETC. WITH A STREET VIEW

QUIZ POSTPONED

new dates: Wed/Thurs, 1/26 & 27
don't be TOO upset

Shared documents

lessons 15, 16, 17, 18 have been shared with you on Google Docs. if you do not have them (remember you need to look at 'all' in the widget) you have not sent me an email asking me to add you to my contact list, and you will have to ask a classmate to print one for you.

it's so boring...

looking at all of those profiles without pictures - add yours now!!!

an example of friday's assignment

click to see how to write up one of the three topics to complete the standards assignment that is due this Friday. don't forget to use the NETS standards handout as your model.

British Royalty Family Tree

http://www.britroyals.com/royaltree.htm

linked to dynasties, pix and bios

quarter 3 vocabulary lessons available in Google Docs

see google calendar for deadlines - if you have not emailed me so that I can add you as a contact, I am unable to share these documents with you

you should have an email reminder - there are some procedural bugs to work out so expect some duplicate emails until I get this all worked out