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A Good Argument
We are bombarded everyday with arguments, without even realizing it sometimes. Can you identify a good argument? Can you create one? After this webquest, you will.
Keywords:argument fallacy premise conclusion advertising
Published on: 2009-11-03 09:42:22 |
Last Modified: 2009-10-28 12:55:07 |
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The water cycle
Life on Earth is balanced by many different processes, one of them is the water cycle, as you know water is the factor that determines life on a planet.
Keywords:water cycle precipitation condensation evaporation weather channel stages natural
Published on: 2009-11-02 18:13:59 |
Last Modified: 2009-10-29 21:03:25 |
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Conflicts and Change Through Out the History of English
How has English changed through out its history? What conflicts were involved in this change? How can we relate those changes to languages today?
Keywords:English, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Normans, Middle English, Old English, Danelaw, History
Published on: 2009-11-02 05:45:05 |
Last Modified: 2009-11-01 21:45:50 |
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THINK LIKE AN ANIMAL, Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of NIMH, by Robert O'Brien
Students will select and identify a character, from Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, and begin to create an idea of who they prefer to analyze and critique.
THEME: Think like an animal: The character of a mouse.
I. Beginning and Struggling students have a choice to create 3 graphic organizers depicting the character selection in depth.
2*The Intermediate or more advanced learner will analyze characters with creative writing skills.
3. The gifted and advanced learners would choose to IDENTIFY character types and support their types from the text, based on their dialogue and relationship with other characters.
Students’ pre-assessment was the reading of two research texts: “Biology of the Laboratory Mouse”, and “Teaching Sign-Language to a Chimpanzee”; after which a 300 word writing response was required. The texts would serve as a link to the novel.
PRIMARY READING: All students are required to read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien
IDENTIFY: the character who is well-rounded or well-developed, or static., i.e. one who knows a great deal about the character’s personality, emotions, motivations but the character does not significantly change in thinking, personality, or motivation by the end of the book.
Keywords:IDENTIFY, ANALYZE AND CRITIQUE
Published on: 2009-11-01 19:27:11 |
Last Modified: 2009-11-01 19:22:27 |
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Conformity
This webquest is to create a research based persuasive argument in response to the following quotation:
"We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it." ~Charles Dudley Warner
Keywords:Area of Study, Year 11 Standard English, Conformity, creative, debate
Published on: 2009-10-29 21:15:18 |
Last Modified: 2009-10-29 21:10:18 |
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"Hamlet" Webquest
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This is a Webquest designed for 11th and 12th grade English students, as well as College Preparatory English students.
Keywords:Shakespeare, Hamlet, hamartia, close reading
Published on: 2009-10-28 19:52:44 |
Last Modified: 2009-10-28 19:47:13 |
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THE CONTEMPORARY TALES
This web quest is based on 'The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer. Students briefly explore the Tales and work together in groups in order to create and stage their own "Contemporary Tales".
Start with the Introduction (menu on the left) and work your way down till you get to the Conclusion. Good luck!
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Keywords:Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, ESL, EFL
Published on: 2009-10-28 17:45:49 |
Last Modified: 2009-11-01 03:47:06 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird: A WebQuest into the Past
In order to analyze an literary novel you must first, understand the time, place, and people in which it is based upon. As we begin our study of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird we have to look beyond the literary context into the past. While we have to have an in-depth understanding of the plot of the novel and it setting of the South in the 1930s. We must seek to understand the people, their way of life, and the ideas which they built their lives upon.
Keywords:Ms. Horn, To Kill a Mockingbird
Published on: 2009-10-28 17:31:43 |
Last Modified: 2009-11-02 19:10:36 |
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Creative Writing
This site is about creative writing. Students will learn how to write effectively and come up with creative topics to write about.
Keywords:essays, writings, Language Arts, English
Published on: 2009-10-28 16:40:54 |
Last Modified: 2009-10-28 12:59:19 |
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Battle of the Puritans
A compare and contrast guide to Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards.
This will hit the following Michigan Curriculum Benchmarks: ELA.I.1.HS.3, ELA.I.1.HS.4, ELA.I.3.HS.4, ELAI.3.HS.5. ELA.I.4.HS.5, ELA.I.4.HS.6, ELA.I.5.HS.3, ELA.II.1.HS.4, ELA.II.1.HS.5, and ELA.II.1.HS.6.
Keywords:Puritanism, puritan, anne bradstreet, jonathan edwards, sermons, great awakening, poetry
Published on: 2009-10-27 16:10:21 |
Last Modified: 2009-10-27 15:21:11 |
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