Friday, March 25, 2011

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.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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

Monday, February 28, 2011

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

Friday, February 25, 2011

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"

Thursday, February 10, 2011

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.