If you want to take the quiz a second time add the code Q13F2-4762 and put a 2 behind your first name.

Once you have finished the quiz, you will need to post another quote response to your blog.  Yesterday you should have located a quote that applied to any of the three stories that we have read so far and posted the meaning of that quote and indicated how the quote applied to the story.  If you did not do that, you are 1 assignment behind.

1. Go to this page and select a quote that applies to any of the short stories read in class.  You will need to select a quote and apply the words of wisdom to one of the stories that we have read.  You will need to create a new post and title it “Thoughts on the story title“ orrr…  Here are my sample posts
2. Be sure to look at your ePortfolio and address some of what I identified before: add a comment box to your home page, add an Awards page, pages in the wrong order, pages not labeled, etc.  Here is mine as a sample

Today you will also need to post a engagement emoticon indicating how you feel about the work that you have done in class this week.  Select the emoticon that applies, add it to your blog and explain how you feel about your work for this week.

Here are the answers to Study Guide. Quiz tomorrow!!!

1. You need to finish your analysis and post it to your short story page of your ePortfolio.  Drop down a box with picture and text and put your analysis here.
2. Today, select a quote from this page and see how it applies to any of the short stories read in class.  You will need to select a quote and apply the words of wisdom to one of the stories that we have read.  You will need to create a new post and title it “Thoughts on the story title.“
3. Be sure to look at your ePortfolio and address some of what I identified before: add a comment box to your home page, add an Awards page, pages in the wrong order, pages not labeled, etc.  Here is mine as a sample

For Homework you were to use the template above to create an analysis of The Most Dangerous Game.  You will take the information from your analysis template and create a paragraph that will be posted on your Short Story page.

1. Log into http://www.weebly.com/
2. Open Microsoft Word and begin to type in your homework analysis.
3. You will copy and paste this onto your Short Story Page.  Drag down a box that has a picture and text so that you can add a picture later on.
4. Be sure to look at your ePortfolio and address some of what I identified before: add a comment box to your home page, add an Awards page, pages in the wrong order, pages not labeled, etc.
5. Check to see if you have been awarded a badge to put on your site, I am still updating this page sorry so you will probably need to check back again tomorrow.
6. If you have time today select a quote from this page and see how it applies to any of the short stories read in class.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WAAAAY BEHIND here is a link to Friday’s post where I summarized last week’s assignments http://englishiwork.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/friday-jan-20th/

If you did not do any wordles: here is the opportunity to create one for yourself to be posted on your home page or your Who Am I page: Go to http://www.wordle.net/ and you select 20 words from this list and combine them with descriptive sentences about you.  To have words linked up together you need to write them with a tilde in the phrase ( ~ tilde is located at the upper left corner of keyboard.  Phrase will look like Ms~B~is~online)

Tomorrow we will begin to create a photomovie about The Most Dangerous Game using http://photopeach.com/home.  Your photomovie MUST BE embedded on your Short Story page for you to receive credit for the assignment.

For Homework you will need to compose an analysis of The Most Dangerous Game.  You will write to the prompts below, add some transitions and VOILA!! you have written an analysis for the story.

We will be posting short story analysis on your ePortfolios. You will compose an analysis for The Gift of the Magi and for The Most Dangerous Game.

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We will read the story, answer the comprehension questions and complete a paragraph using the short story reading log requirements.

using this template, you will need to compose a paragraph summary.

Tonight’s homework is to re-read story in English workbook.  Wednesday, you will have a quiz on this story’s events and literary elements.

Tomorrow you should have completed:

Comprehension questions and the paragraph summary.

1. Create ePortfolio on Weebly.com
2. Add pages and a blog to the site.  As I look around the sites, I can see that some of you did not add a blog page for your site, You added a new page and titled it Blog.  You must add a blog that looks like this
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3. Send me a link to your site. Check here to see if you have already done that.
4. Create wordles – for Thank You M’am
5. Create wordles- for yourself
6. Complete the Welcome to Class form
7. Check to see if you have been awarded a badge to put on your site
8. Create a photo movie about Thank M’am using http://photopeach.com/home
9. IF YOU HAVE COMPLETED 1-8.  Here is my sample site  http://sampleengsite.weebly.com/ For those of you who have finished 1-7, take a look around my site and see if there is anything that you might want to add to your site. ie. glitter text, pretty slideshow with image chef, put a map so that you can count your hits

Check out some of the work from my scholars

Keon has added her photo movie and wordle to her site.

http://keonswork.weebly.com/short-stories.html

Tatiyana needs to add a homepage but she has changed her site and made it her own. Look at how she added the page names to each page. Short Story, nonfiction, etc.

http://tatiyanawork.weebly.com/

You will need to gather at least 10 pictures that will help you retell the story of Roger’s encounter with Ms. Luelle Washington Bates Jones. Find pictures that look like Who? What? When? Where?

Make sure that your photomovie addresses the following:

• Title and Author
• Significant Events – Be sure that your photomovie answers the questions:Who? did What? When? Where? Why? and How?
• Climax – what part of story determines the rest of the story’s action.
• Conflicts (Man v Man, Man v Self, Man v Nature, Man v Society, etc.)
• Resolution
• Major Characters
• Theme

Here is a page from one of my blogs showing How To use Photopeach.

Here is an incomplete one that I started last year.

You must have your photo movie completed by Friday and embedded onto the Short Story page of your weebly.com EPortfolio.

Create your website on Weebly.com. This site will house your ePortfolio for this class. You will publish your electronic work here. Here is my sample site  http://sampleengsite.weebly.com/

You need to add the following pages.

Once your site has been created, you will need to put material on it.  We are going to create Wordles.

We will be creating 2 wordles:

one for Thank You M’am – You can either write a brief summary for the story and create a wordle with your summary OR you can create a wordle that describes the characters in the story

one that describes you­­ – you will select 20 words from this list and combine them with descriptive sentences about you.

Click here for detailed directions on making wordles.

1. Thank You M’am pg. 108
2. Complete the comprehension questions
3. Discuss requirements for ePortfolio

A Reading Log must be filled out for The Initiation and Thank You M’am

• RS: making inferences
• LE: Understand how character traits are revealed through dialogue;
• WS: Write a character description