Final Project Content Instruction

Objectives

At the end of this on-going, year-long lesson, students will have published and maintained as a class a relevant living literary journal (blog) that reflects the spirit of the class and what they are studying. Over the course of the year, each student will:

• Write and publish on the class blog at least two content-rich, 500-word essays based on his or her critical analysis of two different novels.
• Demonstrate his or her knowledge of literary web sources, such as blogs, online versions of print journals, ezines, and reader community forums, etc. by posting at least two concise and thoughtful responses on approved literary websites.
• Spend at least one week of the school year maintaining the class blog by uploading student essays, monitoring site traffic using an application such as Sitemeter, and responding to comments posted from the online community.
  

Final Project Menu Selection

Here are links so you can read about my high school English class Literary Blog Project. This is a year-long project, but I describe the initial lesson for this project in greater detail and provide some possible topics for follow-on lessons. Thanks in advance for participating in the survey and giving me feedback on my lesson.


Content Standards [LINK]
Content Instruction [LINK]
Lesson Structure [LINK]
Rubric/Assessment of Student Performance [LINK]
Technology [LINK]
Survey [LINK]

Favorite Inspirational YouTube Clip

Hi, everyone!

I used this YouTube clip of a Ukranian sand animation artist last fall to inspire the 8th graders I was teaching to think about the narratives they were writing in a creative way. Enjoy!

Podcast Link

One of the book publisher's who keeps me supplied with excellent books to review is Open Letter. Here's a link to a podcast from the MLA convention about the word of international literature.

Survey

Powerpoint: EB White's Here is New York

On Tuesday, I will be working with my reading class on an excerpt from E.B. White's essay, Here is New York. I created this powerpoint that pairs the text we will be discussing with images that will help the students connect to the text and to New York City.

Here Is New York

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