December 22nd--TTH Project Self Assessment

December 20th--The Tell Tale Heart Project

Through this project you will analyze and/or interpret* some aspect of The Tell Tale Heart (click here to see the story)

*
Analyze-to examine something in great detail in order to understand it better or discover more about it
Interpret-to establish or explain the meaning or significance of something

The project you create should:

1.   Be based on evidence from the text
2.   Use multiple digital mediums (any combination of text, images, video, audio, drawings)
3.   Be thoughtful and creative
4.   *and remember, it should analyze or interpret some aspect of the story.  It is more than a simple retelling!

Below are some of the project possibilities that we discussed in class:

•  Retell the story from a different perspective (officer, lawyer, old man, neighbor, etc)
• Write an essay and analyzes or interprets some aspect of the story
• Retell the story through images
• Create a visual image of scene or event based on a line or two from the story.

A list of digital tools that you can use to create your project can be found on Mr. Fulton's Student Page.  Your project must be published to your blog before you enter class on Thursday, December 22nd.

The Tell Tale Heart--Active Reading Lesson

1. Go to this website

2. Click begin, enter 2-3 responses into the text of each page.  One must be a question on each.
3. After reading, click "yes I'm sure." 
    Then, click "print" 
    Scroll to the bottom of the text to find your annotations.  Highlight and copy them.  Continue below.

Hunger Games Research Project

Requirements

I. Your paper should:
    1. Give the reader a better understanding of the Hunger Games and your research topic
    2. Use information from at least three different credible sources
    3. Contain in-text citations and a bibliography (both in the correct format)
    4. Be written well.  The result of careful revisions.
    5. Be proofread.  No spelling/grammar mistakes

II. You can also,

Add images
Use the following cc sites:  the JohnJohnston site or Xpert .  Images, if not your own, must be Creative Commons and properly attributed!**

embed other media
     comic creators  Toodoo
  Pixton

    animation/cartoon creators
   GoAnimate
   Xtranormal

    audio recording/podcasting
   Audioboo

   multimedia slideshow
    animoto
     Use this email/password to access our school Pro account:
        email: debby.smith@kcs.k12.nc.us
        password: eagles

December 6th--Research Writing, Citations

I. To create your bibliography,

• First, create an account on EasyBib.
• Then, open your Diigo Library. 
• For each source you will use for your research, copy and paste the url into EasyBib.
• Complete any blank entries for your source information (EasyBib doesn’t catch everything)

Paste your completed bibliography into a post that will later be your research paper.  When you are done writing it, your bibliography will go at the end.

II. To cite your work in the text of your writing:
After using information from one of your sources, include a citation in parentheses.
The citation will be whatever comes first in your bibliography entry for that source.  Either:
      (The Author’s Last Name)
      (“The Title of the Article”)
      (The Title of the Site)
**If you want to see an example of what this should look like, check out Carol’s post here.