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.

Developing Good Skills

The scholars have been developing great writing skills and even very good HTML skills as they continue to publish their essays.

As we work with both content and form, the scholars' pages are using multimedia and publishing tricks to create their pages. Much was learned from the video we used to introduce the importance of content and form. Learning to decorate the pages has added a great deal to the pages and has enhanced the content because the scholars are learning to pay better attention to the details of their pages which improves the content.

Another fun project is about Wikipedia and why it ain't so bad.