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Spring 2012

Reading Survey

To Kill a Mockingbird and Google Docs collaborative online project

Inherit the Wind was conducted on edmodo

Google Docs Book Review Instructions

Business Letters Jan 5 - 24 Instructions on paper in class

Online Resources

Read Inherit the Wind
Take three check for reading quizzes and write three mini-essays all on edmodo Jan 25 - Feb 24

What is Edmodo? Find out here.

Send me a file here: http://www.dropitto.me/mrgibbs heremrgibbs

Write a one page dialogue debating a moral dilemma
Upload this file to Edmodo by Tuesday March 6

Fall 2011

Course Calendar: Classroom Activity Sequence for Fall 2011 |   Syllaus

1. About me
2. Your favorite person, place, or thing
3. Describe your ideal life in 20 years
4. What is your earliest memory?
5. Reading and me
6. Rollercoaster
7. Deserted cabin
8. The day was hot
9. The day was cold
10. The restaurant was a dump
11. What if... you had one million dollars to spend on others?
12. What if... people did not sleep?
13. What if... monsters were real?
14. What if... high school was voluntary?
15. What if... water cost $1 a gallon?

Writing Vocabulary Context Sentences,
"Sentences for Dummies"

(The online version shows errors and corrections simultaneously; the downloaded PowerPoint presentation withholds the corrections until you mouse click) Download PowerPoint Here

Hero's Quest / Hero's Journey / Hero's Monomyth
(see details here)

The formula of the Hero's Quest appears in many popular stories, such as The Catcher in the Rye and Jason and the Argonauts

Jason and the Argonauts - a Hero's Journey

The Greek Gods' Family Tree