Compare and Contrast

For your midterm you will be doing a Compare and Contrast essay using Richard Wright's "The Fight" and Raymond Barrio's "The Confrontation." In addition we are continuing with VETY. See me if you need to make up any missed VETY quiz.

Beginning Cycle Three

We are beginning Cycle Three. Many of you did very well last Cycle and began showing what you can do when you put your mind to it. Keep it up and complete Cycle Three better than you ended Cycle Two. For those of you who didn't get started in Cycle Two, please make every effort to make Cycle Three the cycle you begin to complete your academic requirements.

You can do it, some have shown that and should serve as models to those who need to start. Make it a good cycle.

You have another fresh start. Please use it.

We will study Short Stories this cycle.

How are you Learning?

As you conclude the Cell Phone radiation project, you will write in your journal about the process of learning you just experienced. More than what you learned. Discuss how you learned. Investigate the processes you went through in the learning process that resulted in the final project. Explore the kinds of decisions you had to make and what kinds of questions you had to ask yourself as you navigated the research. What did you learn about yourself and more specifically how you learn?

Fact or Fiction?

Is cell phone radiation dangerous or not? Can a cell phone make popcorn? What are the facts about cell phone radiation? We will spend some time researching cell phone radiation.

Great Start

Everyone has done very well in beginning their webpages. Now we want to see how you do in designing and customizing your page. Have fun!

Welcome to a new school year.

Welcome to Summer School 10

We are embarking upon a summer of fun making webpages. Let's have fun while we learn.

Home Stretch

We are now in the last couple of weeks of classes. Please complete all work, review all work, edit all work, maintain homepage, use desktop publishing tricks to enhance all pages, do your best, and be in class everyday on time.

Going through Literary Terms

We will be studying symbol and irony in the next couple of weeks. We will explore the terms and see how they are used in poems, short stories, essays, and cartoons. This is so much fun.

Welcome to Cycle Six

This is the final cycle for the school year. We will be studying short stories. In order for you to earn credit for this cycle your attendance is crucial as well as the work you do. Let's make this cycle better than your earlier cycles.

Happy Birthday Shakespeare

Today is the day William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and the day he died 52 years later in 1616.

You Tube is also five years old.

Welcome Back from Spring Break

We will now spend some time with poetry and the occasional short story to develop different themes. The first theme will be about parents with a hypertext poetry project.

Welcome to Cycle 5

This cycle we are going to have fun with poetry. April is poetry month so we will be spitting the verse. We will start with the metaphor.

End of Cycle 4

We are coming to a conclusion to Cycle 4. Please make it a strong ending.

What are your Civil Rights?

We will begin a project that outlines how we have our civil rights. What are your civil rights? How did you get your civil rights?

Adding graphics and links

As you work on the "My Favorites" page, you will be learning how to make links and to add graphics from the HTML style sheets page. Spend some time reading the directions so you can be more flexible. Have fun and make your file beautiful and reflective of who you are.

Making a Homepage

Today you will begin building your Webpage that will be the beginning of making a web presence and publishing your work in this English class. Make that webpage reflect who you are by using color and graphics.

Welcome to Cycle 4

As you make your webpages, please celebrate the producer aspects of this class. You will consume information and then you will produce a product on the web that you will share with your classmates. Have fun.