Lessons/Projects for Fall 09-10 Technical Writing

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8 - What is the Haiku?

Hypertext Haiku

Add link on index.html/main.html to the new file, haiku.html

You will be writing five Haiku and converting them into Hypertext Haiku.
Read this page. to learn more about Hypertext Haiku.

  • What is going on with this page?
  • Can you explain how it works?
  • How would you make your own?
    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.

    		• Write five haiku.
    Keep working on your webpages.
    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, MORE THAN ONCE!

    What is this video all about? (Think Change)
    Collect details and application names.
    What is the content of the video?
    Examine the presentation format. What do you recognize in the video?
    What is Form? What is Content?
    What is the difference between Form and Content?
    How are we in control and not the machine?
    What do the words after "Rethink" mean?
    How is writing evolving?

    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:
    We make choices all the time. We hope we make good choices. We will look at some literature that shows us choices characters make. You will be assessing those choices. What choices has the author made? What choices have you made? What is the process we go through when we make choices? Are you happy with your choices?

    Next you will read this poem: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.

    1. Do the work found on this
    2. Listen to the poem.
    3. Answer all questions as you listen to the poem.
    4. Use the poem to further your discussion about choice.

    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.

    1. What is the setting of the story?
    2. Who are the main characters?
    3. What are the conflicts?
    4. How is the word "lonely" important?
    5. What are the promises? Are promises important to keep?
    6. How are "empathy" and "envy" important in the story?
    7. What is the symbol in the story?

    Next you will read an essay The Tyrany of Choice [USE: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bschwar1/Sci.Amer.pdf] by Barry Schwartz. Consider these questions as you read and add to your essay on choice.

    1. Is there a connection between choice and our happiness?
    2. Are we happy with having choice? Are we happy with the choices we make?
    3. Are you a "maximizer" or a "satisficer"?
    4. What can "regret" do to our choices?
    5. What does "adapting" to our choice mean?
    6. Do we have high expectations before we make a choice?
    7. What is the effect of our high expectations?

    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.

    1. Lamb to the Slaughter BY ROALD DAHL
    2. The Monkey's Paw BY W. W. JACOBS
    3. The Most Dangerous Game BY RICHARD CONNELL
    4. The Gift of the Magi BY O. HENRY
    5. The Necklace BY GUY de MAUPASSANT

    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? Be sure:
  • Give a description to My Plan on index.html file.
  • Link to assignment in myplan.html file.
  • Use graphics and color.
  • Add link to your "passion" file on index.html
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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.
    Select two points he makes about how you will take his words and charge to heart and follow them for this school year and beyond. Explain these remarks and explain how you will follow them, what will you need to do, and how will you do it.

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    1 - Do you have a web presence? Create your Freeweb account.
    1. Go to FreeWebPage
    2. Sign up following Ted's instructions.
    3. Use the sheet from Ted to make your webpage.
    4. Decorate page Make corrections as per Ted's directions for your pages.
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