Agree or Disagree Questions
Assignment: Essays - Search either of
the two sources below for a quote. Tie the topic into a larger concept.
Then write a carefully reasoned, persuasive essay which defends, challenges,
or qualifies this concept as you have defined it. Be sure to use
evidence from your observations, experience, or reading to develop your
stance.
Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations
A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and
Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by
John Bartlett.
Simpson's
Contemporary Quotations
Over 10,000 quotes from over 4000 sources,
including 25 categories of quotes, and 60 sections.
Analysis Essay
Justin Treadeau eulogy.
Close Reading
Assignment: Learn the skill of close
reading.
The
Reading Process: Reading, Re-Reading, Explorations
Uses Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
Columnists
Assignment: Browse through the newspaper
columnists linked below. Read something daily. Various tasks
could include writing an agree or disagree essay on a topic covered by
an article read, evaluating the effectiveness of the argument raised
in a particular editorial, etc. The possibilities are endless.
American
Media Columnists
Online Newspaper Columnist and Commentator
Index Hundreds of North American newspaper columnists and commentators.
Also political and editorial cartoons and cartoonists, political scientist
resources, political sites.
Boston
Globe Online / Columnists
Choose from a list of all Globe columnists
and writers who publish occasional columns.
Chicago
Sun-Times columnists
Choose from a list of all Sun-Times columnists
who publish occasional columns.
Newspaper
Columnists Pages and
Op/Ed
Pages from Around the World
Editorials, opinions and commentaries, columns
and columnists from English newspaper and magazine Web sites.
Boston
Herald.com Columnists
Select article by topic and columnist.
The
Denver Post Online - Columnists
Select from Columns, Discussions, Editorials,
Growth forum, Mike Keefe , Letters, Perspective.
Houston
Chronicle.com Select an editorial by title.
SF
Gate - Columnists
Select a columnist by name and subject.
Dallas
Morning News Select an editorial columnist by name and subject.
The College Application Essay
Assignment: Practice personal expression
by writing a college application essay. Seniors should use these
sites to help write essays they are going to submit.
Writing
the College Application Essay
Covers Brainstorming, Selecting An Essay Topic,
and Writing the Essay, Tips for Success
Your
College Essay - Excellent site from the College Board.
Comparison and Contrast
Assignment: Compare treatments of a
news item from one newspaper columnist to another. Find those that
have varying opinions on the same subject. Evaluate these opinions
and develop your own personal stance.
Creative Suggestions
Assignment: Write a short story.
Twenty
Fives Ways to Find Story Ideas
Creatives suggestions about where to
find story ideas by Michelle Giles.
Assignment: Write cartoon captions.
USA
Today Cartoon Contest Different cartoons are pictured periodically.
Students in two age categories (age 13 and older or under age 13) are invited
to submit captions for the cartoon.
Assignment: Write persuasion.
Post
Your Opinion USA Today has an interactive forum on the day's
critical issues where you are invited to post your opinion.
Drama
Antigone(Grades
9 - 12) An introduction to moral dilemma in Greek theater.
The
Crucible (Grades 10 - 12) Arthur Miller's play is studied in
conjunction with McCarthyism. An excerpt from Cotton
Mather's The Wondersof the Invisible Worldis used as a
companion piece.
Hamlet
on Trial (Grades 9 - 12) The students enact a courtroom
trial where Hamlet is tried for multiple murders.
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Extended Writing Projects
Assignment: Use the following authoritative
sites to research good writing practices.
The
Writing Process This page is designed to aid students at various
points in the writing process.
On
the Art of Writing Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, 1916.
This collection of lectures capture the artistic and vital nature of language.
Fables
Assignment: Read fables of your choice;
write fables, etc.
Aesop's
Fables
Journal Writing
Literary Movements
Romanticism
Realism
and Naturalism
Mythology
Assignment: Use the following authoritative
sites to research the allusions in your reading.
The
Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch, 1913. Revised and enlarged
four-volume edition of the classic work on the mythology and fable of the
ages.
Dictionary
of Phrase and Fable
Brewer, E. Cobham. 1898. Comprising
over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and
otherwise catalog ìwords with a tale to tell.î
Newspapers
Assignment: The following newspapers
can be read for pleasure, for news , and as texts for thousands of
assignments. Just search each newspaper for ideas. They are
already there!
Newspapers.com
A lengthy list of newspapers can be found here. The Top Ten
Newspapers Online is updated on a weekly basis, and posted every Friday
at 5:00 p.m. US Central Time. Newspaper links are listed in order of most
visited to least visited from Newspapers Online!. Here is the
list for June 2000. They are listed in order of most visited to least
visited from Newspapers Online!.
THE
ATLANTAJOURNAL
NEW YORK
TIMES
ST. LOUIS
POST-DISPATCH
LOS ANGELES
TIMES
DALLAS
MORNING NEWS
THE
WASHINGTON POST
BALTIMORE
SUN
THE
BOSTON GLOBE
NEW
YORK POST
MIAMI HERALD
Nonfiction
Novels
Poetry
Reading
Assignment: Use the following authoritative
sites to research good reading practices.
On
the Art of Reading Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, 1920. This series
of lectures is rich with insight on the activity of effectual and intelligent
reading.
Satire
Short Story
Style
Syntax
Test Preparation
Study
Guides for Testing, Reading, Writing, and Classroom Participation Units
include: Preparing to learn, Participating in Classrooms, Studying,
Reading Skills, Webtruth: a guide to the understanding and design
of websites, Math testing, Preparing for Tests, Taking Tests,
Writing Skills, Writing Essays
Vocabulary
Writing
Young
Writer's Club
Writing about
Literature Good Instruction on Analysis and Interpretation
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