| AIM | Lessons/Projects: The Objectives and Process - Assignment Template
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| 12 - What quote of the day would you put on your homepage? |
Quotes serve a valuable way for the writer to seque the reader into new text. You have seen many quotes
on ToDaY's MeNu. Now it is your turn to add a quote to your page. Wander through the previous Quotes of
the day (ToDaY's MeNu) or other quotation sites. Select one you like and find an important one for you.
Place the whole quote on your homepage index.html/main.html in a prominant place. Then provide a
link to a new file you create named: quote.html and explain the quote and its importance to you.
An example can be found on ToDaY's MeNu: Imitation is Suicide. |
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| 11 - What is satire? |
Add link on main.html/index.html to the new file, satire.html You will be exploring satire for the next couple of weeks. Your project will be to create a webpage that demonstrates your learning. You will research the definition of the word satire and then read some documents that display satire. What is being satirized in Taylor Mali's "The impotence of proofreading"? How does he do it? Let's continue by reading Onion. Choose the first article in the left corner. What is your reaction? Why? Your answers will help you understand satire. Our third reading will be "Advice to Youth" written in 1882 by Mark Twain. Use this worksheet to guide your reading, thinking, and writing about this satirical speech. Read the articles in NewsHoggers then select one to discuss how it is satirical. Add a cartoon or do a Google search for "satire cartoon" to your essay and explain the satire in the cartoon. Provide a good conclusion tothis essay. |
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10 - What does "Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see" mean? Benjamin Franklin investigate, trust but verify |
Explain how the above quote applies to the articles below. First, analyze the quote above by explaining what it means. Second, read the articles below and explain what you discover about resources on the Internet. Third, apply the meaning of the quote to the articles in an essay you name wiki.html. Fourth, conclude with a discussion of how you receive information and from what source; be it the Internet, the newspaper, magazine, television, or people; so as to inform yourself more clearly. You want to discuss the concept of perspective or point of view, of both sides of an issue, and of using multiple sources. Provide examples from your own life's experiences that help support your arguments.
Read these articles below and investigate:
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| 9 - What are your favorite things? |
Add a link on index.html/main.html to a new file called faves.html (USE Assignment
Template), label the link, My Favorite Things.
Try Elastic Mind for fun.
What is your favorite...?
Be sure to: |
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| 8 - What is the Haiku? |
Hypertext HaikuAdd link on index.html/main.html to the new file, haiku.html
You will be writing five Haiku and converting them into Hypertext Haiku. HINT: Use View, page Source. Use handouts One & Two from Ted to begin your project. You will be creating 6 new files: five for each of the five haiku (h1.html, h2.html...)you write and one for the first page that links to all the haiku.
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| 7 - What is 'linear text'? |
Add link on index.html and create new file linear.html, USE Assignment Page Template. Use the questions below to guide you in your writing. Please watch this short video,
What is this video all about? (Think Change) Use the pause button to take notes, move the moving button back to review what you just saw, watch it more than once. Read this article about Rethinking School. What information in this article can be used in your essay? Use this Video to help rethink schools. Use this Video to help rethink schools. Your essay (linear.html) should discuss how the digital world is changing writing, thinking, reading, learning, rethinking schools, and your life as you discovered from the video and the article. Include a discussion of what we need to "rethink," and how form and content are more connected in the digital world of writing and reading.
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| 6 - Do you make good choices? |
TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION. Hamlet III,i Shakespeare Create a link on your main.html page to choice.html.
Begin your essay with these quiding points:
Next you will read this poem:
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
You will read the short story, "Dead End" by Rudolfo Anaya. In your choice.html essay: We all have choices to make, Maria is no exception. What are her choices? What is your reaction to her final choice? Do you agree or disagree? Have you had to make a choice like this? Incorporate these questions in your essay.
You will read the short story, "Why Don't You Wear Shoes" by Daniel K. Inouye. In your choice.html essay: Here is another character faced with a choice. What is his choice? How does it come to happen? What are his options? What is your opinion of his actions? How do you identify with this situation? Incorporate these questions in your essay.
Select a cartoon to illustrate your essay. Be sure to explain the meaning of the cartoon as it relates to choice. Provide a good conclusion about choice that connects what you have read and your own choices. |
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| 5 - What is Irony? |
On your index.html page, add a link to a new file called irony.html. Use the Assignment Page code to paste into the new file irony.html. First, in this new file you will define Irony. Discuss how Irony has existed in your life, where you have observed it, and if it is part of your life. Second, we will read Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson and discuss it as an example of irony. Be sure to provide specific examples from the poem to defend your comments. Use this Poetry Fact Sheet to keep notes on the poem.
Third, you will read a short story and discuss how irony is important in it. Be sure to
provide specific examples from the short story to support your comments. Use this Fiction Fact Sheet to keep notes on
the short story. Select one of these short stories. Maybe the one you want to read can be read
to you on Librivox.
Fourth, discuss the irony in The House that Slaves Built by Gardiner Harris. Fifth, select a cartoon and include it on the irony.html page. Be sure to include the reason the cartoon is ironic. Conclude with a good discussion of irony. |
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| 4 - How am I a Genius? |
Add link on index.html in My Work section and create new file genius.html,
USE Assignment Page Template. Okay, so you know that you are a genius. Problem is not too many other people know this. You have to show them you are a genius. You are lucky. You can access a very interesting explanation with examples of how to identify a genius. If you know how to identify a genius, you might be able to identify the genius in you and then you can let us all know. After you have read "Awakening Genius" two or three times, select one of the qualities to use to help explain how you are a genius. Provide two examples from your life that demonstrate your genius. Let one example be about any time when you were in school and one in your life outside school that shows this quality of genius was clearly reflective of you. |
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| 3 - How am I doing so far? |
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| 2 - How was The President's Education Speech inspiring to you? |
Add link on index.html in My Work section and create new file myplan.html,
USE Assignment Page Template.
Listen to The President's Education Speech below and Read it.
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| 1 - Do you have a web presence? |
Create your Freeweb account.
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Login from home to see your webpage |
