This moodle site was created in order to provide students with an opportunity to interact with their classmates and experience an online literature circle. There are a variety of activities for students to complete. Some activities will be done independently while others will require students to create presentations and websites and to respond to other students' work.
This course is designed to provide information about accommodations available for students to use to complete written language components of curriculum and testing. It is designed to be informative, providing information on the array of available tools, provide video of individuals using tools and allow for trial opportunities using actual tools.
This English Composition course is meant to prompt consideration and discussion about the history of communication and where things are going. How will we interact with the world around us which is changing faster than many people can keep up? What role does Education play in all of this? It also has some writing lessons
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Students read and respond to literature independently or in groups using blogs to facilitate the discussion. Kidblog.org is the resource used to implement classroom blogs. It's a free service that does not require student email addresses to create user accounts. Students will work in small groups and publish blog posts about their reading. Then they'll comment on each other's posts in order to create discussion centered around their chosen text.
William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies examines the role of individuals in the shaping of a society. What are the responsibilites of citizens in a society? Students must be prepared to answer this question for themselves through creative writing and thought, group processing, and independent reading.
This course was developed for grade 8 students by , a humanities teacher at the Chatham Middle School.
This unit covers the MN Academic Standards in English/Language Arts for Speaking, Viewing, Listening, & Media Literacy [SL]: Media Literacy 11.9.8.8
Time: ~1-2 weeks
In this unit, students will create a list of places, books, films, events and other items that they would like to see in their life time. In creating this list, students will fine tune their internet research skills and will learn correct MLA citation. Students will also learn various technological skills and tools that will prepare them for post-secondary education.
This is a 9th grade non-fiction unit that requires students to be critical consumers of non-fiction, learn how to cite sources, build a thesis, and synthesize found information.
This course explores the tensions between technology and culture as represented in popular film. It ran as an e-learning Module for the University of Southern Denmark in March 2005, delivered by Dr. Deneka MacDonald, and is now being used, with Denmark's permission, as a demonstration module. Artwork for the course is courtesy of Alex Ronald, Judge Dredd & 2000 AD Copyright © Rebellion A/S 2004.
This unit will introduce and reinforce grammar concepts.
This course is a complete unit for teaching The Hobbit.
Please click to access a document that shows how this unit aligns to NCTE and ISTE NETS-S standards.
This unit is for a mini-search paper. Student write a short research paper using 2-3 sources in order to learn the basics of using citation and research skills.
This unit covers the MN Academic Standards in English/Language Arts for Reading Literature [RL] and Reading Informational Texts [RI].
Time: ~6 weeks
This course is open to guest access.
This course has students working in groups to do research in order to prepare arguments for a persuasive writing essay. Once the essays are written and submitted the students will use the Workshop feature of Moodle to assess the essays of other students.
Reading Summer School is designed to use technology and reading instructional methods to help students who have not passed or are in danger of not passing their graduation reading test.
This course provides options for students who need remediation before taking (or re-taking) a high-stakes reading test. By determining students' strengths and weaknesses early on in the course, students will select specific units to complete. In addition, the course focuses on fostering a love (or like) of reading instead of just isolated test preparation.
A research unit which uses the book The Crucible.
This is a mini sample course showing just one unit of literature study on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
This course is based on Frank Herbert's novel Dune, the best-selling Science Fiction novel of all time. In addition to reading and analyzing the book, students will consider how the themes and metaphors presented are reflected in modern society and their own lives. The novel is considered to be at a 9th grade reading level though may be somewhat advanced for younger readers.
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This Language Arts unit is aimed at 9th grade and utilizes the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson to teach some elements of fiction and a few critical lenses.
This is a high school Language Arts course which focuses on writing a creative personal essay based on the "This I Believe" radio series.
Students will be led through a variety of interactive activities that guide them to an understanding of what a personal essay is, as well as support them through the process of writing their own essays.
Students will use a variety of technologies in this class and will work supported by an instructor through both online and face-to-face feedback.
This site was designed for 8th grade students studying Watership Down. Some activities will be guided, while others may be completed independently at school or at home. It was created by a Humanities teacher at the Chatham Middle School.
Watership Down Language Arts Course by Cindy Macomber is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
In this online unit, high school students work to create personalized children's stories for elementary students. The final products are presented on VoiceThread.