Assignment List
UNIT / CONTENT/RESOURCES / ASSIGNMENTSUnit 1: Getting Started:
Literary Analysis / Literary analysis; the Informal Essay / ASSIGNMENT: "Perspective" Questions
ASSIGNMENT: "Perspective" Essay
QUIZ: "The Poet of the People"
Unit 2: Become an Internet Detective / Plagiarism; Evaluating Web Resources / ASSIGNMENT: Becoming an Internet Detective
QUIZ: Effective Research
QUIZ: Reading Comprehension Test #1
Unit 3: The "Write Stuff" / Writing Forms / ASSIGNMENT: Descriptive Paragraph
ASSIGNMENT: Expository Paragraph
ASSIGNMENT: Narrative Paragraph
ASSIGNMENT: Memoir
ASSIGNMENT: Essay #1
Unit 4A: OPTION #1 Independent Novel Study / Independent Novel Study
RESOURCE: Students need to find their own novel to read / BLOG: 3 Separate Posts [Reading Journal]
FORUM: Be Your Novel's Critic
PROJECT: Freeze Frame [Visual Presentation]
Unit 4B: OPTION #2
The Count of Monte Cristo / The Count of Monte Cristo Novel Study
RESOURCES: Novel (text OR online); "Count of MC movie; "A Time to Kill" movie / INTERVIEW: "A Time to Kill"
ASSIGNMENT: "A Matter of Balance [point of view rewrite]
ESSAY: "The Count of Monte Cristo" [literary analysis]
Unit 4C: OPTION #3
The Kiterunner [OSBC] / "The Kiterunner" Novel Study [Persian Storytelling; "The Kiterunner" movie; Elements of Fiction [POV, Plot, etc.]
RESOURCES: "The Kiterunner" novel; audio version available online in the course / ASSIGNMENT: Symbols & Heroes
BLOG: 3 separate Posts [Reading Journal]
ASSIGNMENT: Human Rights in Afghanistan
ASSIGNMENT: Storyboard [3 scenes NOT included in the movie]
ASSIGNMENT:A Closer Look at Character
ASSIGNMENT: Writing in Nasruddin's Style
Unit 5: Writing to Inform/Entertain / Blogging; Informal Writing / FORUM: Three Awesome Things
ASSIGNMENT: Generating Ideas
BLOG: Your Voice…
QUIZ: Writing Test #1
Unit 6: Writing to Persuade / Documentary Films; Persuasive Writing / QUIZ: Documentary Film
ASSIGNMENT: Writing to Persuade
ASSIGNMENT: Essay #2
Unit 7: Short Stories / Short Stories [elements of SS - POV, Plot, etc.]; Short Film / ASSIGNMENT: Point of View
ASSIGNMENT: An Ounce of Cure [Conflict, Irony, Theme, Setting]
ASSIGNMENT: The Painted Door [Theme, Setting, symbol, Foreshadowing, Plot]
QUIZ: Short Story Elements
QUIZ: Writing Test #2
ASSIGNMENT: Essay #3
Unit 8: Poetry / Reading, analyzing, and writing poetry. / QUIZ: Poetic Devices
ASSIGNMENT: Poetry Analysis
ASSIGNMENT: The Misty Poets
PROJECT: Poetry Presentation [visual, audio]
ASSIGNMENT: Imagery Poem
ASSIGNMENT: Found Poem
QUIZ: Reading Comprehension Test #2
QUIZ: Writing Test #3
Unit 8: Poetry Alternative Unit / Reading, analyzing, and writing poetry / JOURNAL: Listening
ASSIGNMENT: Oral Presentation
ASSIGNMENT: Sounds Like Nonsense
ASSIGNMENT: Poetic Forms
JOURNAL: Analyzing
ASSIGNMENT: Visual Poems
ASSIGNMENT: Three Poems
Unit 9: Final Exam Preparation / Exam information, grammar review activities / QUIZ: Final Grammar Exam
FORUMS / Collaborative discussion prompts / FORUMS: Self-evaluation