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Heart of Darkness English Honors Project: Ahead of its Time or Bloody Racist
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Greetings and congratulations! If you have been given the link to this website, you currently have a first semester grade of at least a 90% in the course and have demonstrated great proficiency in all aspects of 10th Grade ELA. If you have these prerequisites, you will be given an opportunity earn honors credit for the course by completing an independent project. This is completely optional. However, I implore you to consider challenging yourself to not only receive the credit on your report...
Keywords:Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe and Attridge
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Comparative World Mythology
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Students will analyze mythology from different cultures for similar places, events, creatures, and items. They will then compile this knowledge to create an original myth using elements from different cultures.
Keywords:comparative, mythology, egyptian, norse, chinese, celtic, japanese, aztec, mayan, african and navajo
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The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
You will be expected to read the book The Bell Jar and finish a few assignments following the book.
Keywords:The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
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The Color Purple
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
The Color Purple is based on a poor girl named Celie. She is a uneducated black woman with a sad personal history. She survives a step father who rapes her and steals her babies. You will be very surprised by the ending of this novel.
Keywords:Intimate, african american, poor, rape and struggle & Mr._____.
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Poet Laureate Project
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Students select poems for analysis and annotation, and identify form, figurative language, and sound devices; then, students design an exciting new Poetry Project specifically aimed at engaging high school learners.
Keywords:poetry and figurative language
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Effective Themes in "A Brighter Sun" by Sam Selvon
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This Web Quest is designed to help students understand how to identify themes and understand how effective they are to the text " A Brighter Sun" by Sam Selvon. This Web Quest will help the students to present conceit argument orally as well as in writing.
Keywords:Themes, Sam Selvon, Tiger and Urmilla
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Once Upon a Time...
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Researching a Fairy Tale then re-writing it using an online children's book program that creates an Ebook. Can even buy a hardcopy from the site.
Keywords:writing, fairy tales, eBook, storyjumper and creative writing
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Looking Beyond the Fence
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Analyzing the characters of August Wilson's Novel Fences.
Keywords:Fences, Troy, Rosalie, August Wilson, Bono and The American dream
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Descriptive Writing
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This WebQuest is designed to assist students in improving their writing skills, specifically their descriptive writing skills.
Keywords:descriptive writing, descriptive words, organizing, outline, paragraphing, language and imagery
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Learning Proverbs
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This is a useful WebQuest that has an ability to help all students in learning proverbs,and how they are beneficial in our lives to understand various situations.
Keywords:Proverbs, cultures, sayings and meaning
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I am a journalist!!!
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
in this webquest you are going to be a journalist of sports, you will have to create your own interview to a famous athete and design a cardboard to present it in the class.
Keywords:sports, present simple, english, design, interview, basketball, volleyball, tennis and golf.
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The Process of Learning English Vocabulary
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This is a project based work on vocabulary in English as a foreign language. Students will acquire new words and will be able to use in practice.
Keywords:English vocabulary learning, flash cards and Picture dictionary.
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Prepositions.
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
In this web quest, students will learn preposition, but in a dynamic way....
Keywords:preposition, english and language arts
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How to Write an Opinion Paragraph ?
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This is a usefull WebQuest that has an ability to help all students when they are wrting an opinion paragraph. This WebQuest mainly focuses on to explain how to write a well developed opinion paragraph and the best ways to write it down.
Keywords:opinion, writing and paragraph.
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AVeryPotterWebQuest
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This WebQuest explores the wonders of the seven Harry Potter books, including assignments for an in-depth look at characters, character development, and story arcs like that which went into all seven books.
Keywords:harry potter
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Charles Dickens on Child Labor
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Through this webquest students discover what poor children's life was like in 19th century England, and how Charles Dickens denounced child labor through his novels. This webquest is designed for French high school students' "Literature from the English speaking world" course.
Keywords:Dickens, child labor, Victorian England and literature
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19th century children in Dickens and Hugo's works
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Through this webquest students will discover what poor children's life was like in 19th century, and how two major authors denounced child labor through their writings. This webquest is designed for French high school students' "Literature from the English speaking world" course.
Keywords:Dickens, child labor, Victorian England, literature, Victor Hugo and 19th century
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Denouncing Child Labor
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Through this webquest students will learn about the issue of child labor, and discover how different writers have denounced it in their works. This webquest is designed for French high school students' "Literature from the English speaking world" course.
Keywords:Dickens, child labor, Victorian England, literature and children
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Charles Dickens and the Poor
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Through this webquest students will discover what the lower class' living conditions were like in 19th century England, and how Charles Dickens denounced this situation through his novels. This webquest is designed for French high school students' "Literature from the English speaking world" course.
Keywords:Dickens, politics, Victorian England, literature, lower class and poverty
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Charles Dickens on School Education
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Through this webquest students discover what school was like in 19th century England, and why Charles Dickens wanted a reform of the system. This webquest is designed for French high school students' "Literature from the English speaking world" course.
Keywords:Dickens, child labor, Victorian England, literature, school and education
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Understanding Characters, People and You
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This webpage will guide you to fiction and nonfiction literature for you to select, explore and learn.
Keywords:Fiction/Nonfiction Literature
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The Evolution of the Tragic Hero
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Odysseus, Prometheus, Kratos, Spiderman, Eddard Stark? What do these characters from vastly different time periods and media have in common? This webquest will aim to highlight the evolution of the Tragic Hero from classical literature to current literature and media.
Keywords:tragic hero, odysseus, prometheus, literature, media and kratos.
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The Horrors of War through American, British and World Literature
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
War and the aftermath of it is indescribable yet authors throughout the years have tried to capture the horrors of war and the aftermath of such destructive events. "War is always, in all ways, appalling." Gary Paulsen. Click on the "Introduction" page to begin.
Keywords:The Horrors of War through American and British and World Literature
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The Trial of The Montagues Vs. The Capulets
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This webquest is designed to help students understand the themes within Romeo and Juliet. This webquest will help the students understand the components of an argumentative essay through writing.
Keywords:Romeo, Juliet, Shakespeare, Capulets and Montagues
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British Literature: The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Periods
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
Students will work through a series of tasks to review and reinforce learning from units on the Anglo-Saxons and The Middle Ages. Students will read excerpts from Beowulf, Le Morte d'Arthur, and The Canterbury Tales as well as related informational texts to accompany the assigned tasks.
Keywords:Anglo-Saxon Period, Beowulf, Medieval Period, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Satire and The Pardoner's Tale
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Romeo and Juliet WebQuest
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This webquest is designed for students in ninth grade english classes.
Keywords:English, 9th grade, reading, writing, language arts and Romeo and Juliet
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World Gone Awry
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This webquest focuses on a study and understanding of dystopian societies and challenges students to analyze those things which exist in current dystopian literature which have contributed to the societies depicted.
Keywords:Dystopia, Society, Literature, Change, Social and Responsibility
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A Picture is Worth 300 Words
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This WebQuest is designed to help students learn and practice descriptive writing, while incorporating peer editing and research skills, as well as integrating with social sciences. Students will need to research examples of descriptive writing, and research descriptive techniques and devices. Students will then need to find a photo from a current event, and write a short piece describing the photo. The piece should not exceed 300 words, but should still adequately describe the photo and the...
Keywords:ImageryEnglishDescriptionEssayWriting
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Dewey On The Shelves
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
This WebQuest was created to use with high school students in an effort to familiarize or refamiliarize them with the non-fiction section of the library. Common Core Standards require students to read more non-fiction. Therefore, they may have more reason now to utilize the Dewey Decimal System.
Keywords:Melvil Dewey, Dewey Decimal, Library, Dewey and Non-Fiction
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Shakespeare's London: "The best of the cut-throats" and more!
Curriculum:
English / Language Arts
Grade Level:
9-12
Description:
A webquest to build background knowledge about the life and times of William Shakespeare. Focusing on the man and the playwright, this webquest includes videos and activities that will build understanding and provide a broad foundation for study of the tragedy, Macbeth.
Keywords:Shakespeare Elizabethan Globe Macbeth Renaissance
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