SLA

The following project is a persuasive essay on why the King Tut artifacts should be displayed in the Franklin Institute. This was completed through numberous edits and succcessfully writen. I realized that the artifacts in the exhibit are more controversal than I thought, i did not think that displaying the specimens would be considered wrong or unjust.

The following project is a creative essay on a journey home.  This was completed through numberous edits and succcessfully writen.  Through writing this I realized how much description affects how the reader identifies with the story.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the big deal about IM-speak?
2. Why are so many non-teachers and teachers writing about IM-speak?
3. I think PROS of IM-speak are...
    I think CONS of IM-speak are...
4. Do you think IM-speak is a "new language"? Why? Why not?

1. The big deal is that it is informal and people are blurring the lines between IM Speak and the correct English language.

For our third quarter english benchmark we wrote a five page essay on the time period of our choice.  The twist was that we had to relate this time peroid to poetry to emphasize our points.  In my essay, i researched the twenties, but i focused on 1922, when the tomb of King Tutanhamun was found.  This was perfect timing, considering that the Franlin Institute's King Tut exhibit opened up that same month. 

For our second quarter there were two parts:  a five paragrapf essay and a creative essay.  For our five paragraph essay we had to come up with a thesis statement and then the following paragraphs had to prove our thesis.  For our creative essay we had to write about a victorious journey home, like we were reading about in the odyssey.

For our first quarter english benchmark we wrote a proluge to the book that we were reading at that time; Kindred.  Personally, I liked my proluge and i hope you will!

For our third quarter history benchmark we had to write a five paragraph essay on whether or not we thought that the King Tut exhibit should be displayed in the Franklin Institute or not.  I argue that it should.

For our first quarter history benchmark we had a few asssignments that were combined as a benchmark.  They are as follows:

1.    Updated Social Institutions Chart/PowerPoint done on computer
2.    Two updated Moodle assignments (include the original on the same sheet)
3.    Five-Paragraph Essay
4.    Unit Letter explaining connections between our work in the first two units and African-American History

Our second quarter history benchmark was to write a creative essay as if we were one of the characters in a gold/ salt trade.  For my essay i took on the role of a gold nugget.

For our third quarter Algebra benchmark we had choose a topic that we could gather two sets of data with.  With these two sets of data we had to draw a graph and answer a few other questions.  In addition to that, we had to evalute a seperate person's data set.  For my data set i researched the amount of people at a table vs. the amount of time they spent there.