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- Oral History Release Form
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- Proofreading checklist
- Rubric for essays
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- Story form rubric
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- Basic Writing Standards
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- Facebook and The Chosen Assignment
- Five fatal writing mistakes
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- Guidelines for journal or blog entries
- Incorporating quotations into a paragraph
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- Parallel Structure Self-Test
- Slide presentation on Top 10 Rules of Writing
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- The Basic Functions of Paragraphs
- The Basic Functions of Paragraphs
- Thesis worksheet
- Transitional Expressions
- Writing for Advanced Placement English
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- English 11 - Monday, October 1
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- Making Field Notes
- Paragraph Development
- Preparing an informative speech
- Recording of Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention
- Review Guide for English 11 Test over Literature Before 1800
- Steps for writing an informative speech
- Theories of Rights and the Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Paine-Assignment
- Voices of the American Revolution readings
- Voices of the American Revolution readings
- Writing a 5-paragraph essay
American Literature
- ACT practice tests
- Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics
- Book Reports
- English 11 - Monday, October 1
- English 11 Handouts
- Huck Finn Reading Schedule
- Recording of Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention
- Registering to use MOSAIC
- Review Guide for English 11 Test over Literature Before 1800
- Theories of Rights and the Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Paine-Assignment
- Voices of the American Revolution readings
- Voices of the American Revolution readings
Announcements
- Creating a blog on learnerblogs
- Final Exam 2nd Quarter
- Placing an image on your learnerblog
- Posting on your blog
- Schedule for English 11 first quarter
- Seminar questions from student blogs
- Setting up Google notebooks on your desktop
- Themes in A River Runs Through It
- U.S. Department of Education
- Writing Essays
- Writing Rules
Handouts
- ABCDs of Timed Writings
- ACT practice tests
- An Example of detailed interpretation: Thanatopsis
- Assessing a comparative essay
- Comparing "Civil Disobedience" and "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
- Cornell Note Taking System
- Discussion questions for peer review
- Eng11 Period 2
- English 11 Handouts
- Grading rubric for slide presentation
- Guidelines for journal or blog entries
- Guidelines for Participants in a Socratic Seminar
- Left Brain Right Brain
- Oral History Release Form
- Oral Interview Checklist
- Overview of American Romanticism
- Portfolio Essays Assignment Sheet
- Pre-Seminar: Forming discussion questions
- Questions about American Romanticism slide presentations
- Reading Schedule: A River Runs Through It
- Sand County Almanac Discussion Guide
- Semester final exam American Literature
- Sixties music resources
- Slide presentation: historical and cultural background for American Romanticism
- Stories and aspirations
- Taking notes for others
- Taking notes in class
- Ten Bad Listening Habits
- The Art of the Essay
- The Crucible Essay Topics
- Thesis worksheet
- Types of questions that support dialogue
- Worksheet for Romantic Powerpoints
- Writing About Poetry
Readings
- A Wagner Matinee - Lesson Possibilities
- Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics
- Column Writing and Editorial Writing
- Emerson resources
- Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Out, Out--
- Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- Reading Schedule: The Chosen
- Recording of Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention
- The Hanging
- Theories of Rights and the Declaration of Independence
- Visual Cognition Studio
- Voices of the American Revolution readings
- Voices of the American Revolution readings
Before 1800
- Affliction
- Capitve Selves, Captivating Others
- Carl F. Strauch
- Desperate Crossing, notes
- Glossary of concepts related to Puritans
- Mary Rowlandson and the invention of the secular
- Puritan resources
- Resources for The Crucible
- Seth Lerer
- The Crucible Essay Topics
- Thomas Paine's Style
- Understanding Puritans
- Winthrop graphic organizer
Romanticism
- "Thoughts" about Longfellow
- American Romanticism
- American Transcendentalism
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Essay topics about Walden
- excerpts from Walden
- Final Exam 2nd Quarter
- First Things First
- Further on Jon Shumaker's question
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry
- Insight on the News
- More face-to-face, less Facebook
- Pre-writing guide for Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
- Preamble to The Constitution of the United States of America
- Resources and Handouts on Douglass
- Sample Thoreau Essay
- Sample Thoreau Essay (without notes)
- Sample Thoreau paragraph: using a quote for supporting detail
- Scarlet Letter Study Guide
- Seminar on American Renaissance
- Slideshow discussing "A Psalm of Life"
- Socratic Dialogue Thoreau
- Technology has made us slaves to our machines
- The importance of understanding Thoreau
- Thoreau: quiet desperation
- Uncivil Disobedience
- Writing journal or blog entries about Walden
Realism
- Huck Finn Handout: Conformity
- Huck Finn Handout: Irony
- Huck Finn Handout: Romanticism and Realism
- Huck Finn Reading Schedule
- Hucklberry Finn Reading Schedule
- Huckleberry Finn Discussion Questions
- Huckleberry Finn Final Exam
- Huckleberry Finn Handout: Aristocracy, feud
- Huckleberry Finn Handout: Huck's father
- Huckleberry Finn Handout: irony and complexity
- Huckleberry Finn Handout: Levels of moral reasoning
- Huckleberry Finn Handout: point of view
- Huckleberry Finn Handout: The ending
- The New York Times, December 6, 1959
Red Badge Courage
Modernism
The Great Gatsby
Contemporary
Local Studies
- Introduction to documentary photography
- Making field notes slideshow
- McNickle: Student resources - handouts, assignments, etc.
- Polson 100 Years Ago
- Questions about Polson's and the Reservation's Past
- Questions from "Hard Riding"
- Research topics
- Selecting topis for 1910 Research
- Taking notes
- Test over "Meat for God"
- Thinking about the readings
- Where is my family from?
Composition
- Book Reports
- Examples of 5-Paragraph Essays
- Making Field Notes
- Paragraph Development
- Registering to use MOSAIC
- Slide presentation on Top 10 Rules of Writing
- Writing a 5-paragraph essay
- Writing the College Essay
Announcements
Handouts
- ABCDs of Timed Writings
- Basic Writing Standards
- Career Planning Process
- Create your own print ad
- Eng10 Comp: Occupation research overview
- English Spelling
- Grading the "work" essays
- Guidelines for journal or blog entries
- Guidelines for Participants in a Socratic Seminar
- Making Field Notes
- Materials to makeup introduction to Julius Caesar
- Oral History Release Form
- Oral Interview Checklist
- Paragraph Development
- Revision: Guide to tightening your writing
- Sample paper with endnotes
- Sample Thoreau Paragraph
- Sand County Almanac Discussion Guide
- Self-evaluation of Personal Narrative
- Template for a "Where I'm From" poem
- Ten Bad Listening Habits
- Thesis worksheet
- Transitional Expressions
Online Text
Readings
Samples of student writing
Speech and Media Arts
- Book Reports
- Informative Speech Assignments
- Preparing an informative speech
- Registering to use MOSAIC
- Steps for writing an informative speech
- Using transitions between your main points
- Writing your introduction
Announcements
Handouts
- Apocalypse Now - Sound Analysis Notes
- Casablanca slide show: grading criteria
- Casablanca Study Questions
- Casablanca: Shot Sequence
- Casablanca: Thinking about Act I
- Deconstructing "the invisible style" of Hollywood Movies
- Elements of Film Analysis
- Evaluating your thesis and outline
- Guidelines for journal or blog entries
- Guidelines for Participants in a Socratic Seminar
- How to Read a Frame
- Informative Speech checklist
- Movie Terms and Concepts
- Oral History Release Form
- Oral Interview Checklist
- Overview of persuasive speaking
- Overview of Persuasive Speech
- Persuasive Speech Rubric
- Questions for television shows
- Speechmaker's Wheel
- Ten Bad Listening Habits
- The Mighty
- Thesis worksheet
- Thinking about conclusions
- Topics for persuasive speeches
- TV-What you don't see
- Using transitions between your main points
- Worldmaking
- Writing your introduction
Media Studies
- Apocalypse Now resources
- Casablanca screen shots
- Casablanca: screen shots
- Deconstructing "the invisible style" of Hollywood Movies
- Introduction to film studies
- Media studies course outline (draft - in progress)
- Merchants of Cool
- Our ideas about beauty
- Questions for television shows
- Resources on Casablanca
- Test over Pride and Prejudice
- The angry librarian
- The Mighty
- The Mighty: notes on knights
- Thinking about storyworlds
Readings
- Consumerism
- Alice in Wonderland Resources
- Apocalypse Now resources
- Bored?
- Casablanca Resources
- Casablanca script
- Casablanca script
- Film Terms Slide Show
- from Branded: the Buying and Selling of Teenagers
- Functions of the mass media
- Functions of the mass media
- Good Sense in the Old Virtues
- Notes for Viewing Cacablanca
- Speechmaker's Wheel
- The Art of the Shot in the closing scene from CASABLANCA
- Titanic resources
- What is a corporation?
- What's Wrong With This Picture?
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