Tag Archives: extra credit

4/29/14

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We finished Othello today! As promised, we read an act a day.

First Block thought it was hilarious that Porfiro, who was reading at Iago, got to call me a “notorious whore” (multiple times, actually) and a “piece of trash.”

The Othello haikus will be due tomorrow. The haikus will be half a major grade (75), and the character chart will be the other half (75 points).

haikuAlso, I have provided an extra credit opportunity for you if you’d like. Just know that I am not allowed to give you over a 100 on your final grade, so if you end up with a 102, I can’t give you what you actually earned.

In Othello, there is a discussion board named Othello journals that you can do for some extra credit – I’d suggest doing this especially if you have LATE points taken off of your Marrow Essay.

othello extra credit

12/19/13

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I’m back today! Pretty much the same thing as yesterday, except that we are watching What Dreams May Come – a romantic movie that is based in part on Dante’s Inferno.

I know it starts out really depressing. I’m sure I’ll cry in every class. But it perks up, I PROMISE!

If you are done with Minos, you can watch the movie and do the extra credit questions. You can find those questions in Hell under What Dreams May Come. You’ll be able to answer some questions right away, but not all of them. You can earn up to ten points per question – up to 100 points! Granted, I’ll only give ten points per question for well thought out answers, but even if you only do a little work, you can still earn extra credit. 🙂

Here are my notes from the past few days:

Minos Project

This is what we have been working on since last week. You should know what you need to do, but if you are confused, go back on look at last Monday’s blog entry. If you are really confused about level and want my help, skip that level and I’ll help you on Thursday.

Helpful Links and Research Tips

Some helpful links:

  • A link that has been really helpful for me is TV Tropes. This is a webpage that takes devices, conventions, themes, or ideas that are used in pop culture.

First, go to the webpage and enter your search term in the top left hand corner. You will need to use BROAD terms, not specific.

tropes search

Then, you’ll get a few search result. Look at them and find the most general and broad one that fits your topic.

tropes results

When you get to the webpage, the examples will be further down the list. You’ll have options to choose from: television shows, real life, musicals, movies, comic books, manga/anime. MAKE SURE YOU DON’T PLAGIARIZE FROM THIS RESOURCE.

  • If you need to look up a character’s name (from a movie or tv show), look up the show in Wikipedia since you are blocked from IMDB.
  • Some search terms that might help you:
    • example of…
    • modern day…
    • cartoon character who are…
    • list of…
    • celebrities who are…
    • Choosing good search terms is essential when researching online. If you choose something that is too specific or too broad, you won’t find what you are looking for. If you are stuck, try changing your search terms. For example, you won’t find examples of “virtuous pagan” (It’ll just send you to summaries of Limbo), but if you good “good pre-Christian”, list of pre-Christians”, or even “cartoon characters who are cavement.”
  • 2013 Films, 2012 Films, 2011 Films, 2010 films, 2009 films, (you can search for any year by replacing the year you WANT in the link), list of Disney movies, or a list of cartoons.

I am going to repeat these helpful hints each day for the rest of this week. I hope that at least one person finds them useful.

3/8/2013

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The day before Spring Break. Yay! Since you have been working really well the past week and there are still lots of missing assignments out, we just used today as a “Shut Up and Work” day. Use your time wisely.

We also talked about the Extra Credit Scavenger Hunt – it’s in LMS. Go look at the instructions and the example for detailed instructions. For each 25 points you find on the scavenger hunt, you will earn 10 points for your grade. 🙂

Happy Hunting!

2/12/13

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Ahoy! Progress Reports came out today, and boy, is Ekster upset. Historically, Term 3 is where we have our highest failure rate, so this pressure isn’t going to let up. Neither Ekster nor myself want anyone to fail, so you need to mindful of what is going on.

We finished watching The 13th Warrior today, and you even have an opportunity to earn up to 20 extra points by doing the 13th Warrior short answer. You can find this in the Beowulf folder and then in the 13th Warrior folder. Click on the dropbox and you will two questions:

1. How is The 13th Warrior influenced by Beowulf?

2. How has the story changed to appeal to a modern audience?

You can answer only one question, or you can answer both of them.
If you turn in your work before lunch, I’ll change the average on the progress report for you before you show it to Ekster at lunch today.

See how nice I am!

3/9/2012

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We read Sonnet 29 today – if you need help with understanding this even after we talked about it in class, go check it out on NoFearShakespeare.

Riley gave each of us a copy of the poem, a TP-CASTT paper, and four colored sheets.

Take the four colored sheets and stagger them about an inch apart thusly:

 

Then, fold the bottom over so that you have about eight 1-inch flaps.

Staple the top and then title the foldable Sonnet 29: TP-CASTT.

Cut out the TP-CASTT bits and glue them under the flap. When you look at the section for ATTITUDE, you should see both the bit that you pasted about attitude and the bottom flap with the title.

Pretty easy! All you have to do now is analyze the poem!

At the very end, cut out the poem and glue it on the back of the foldable.

Remember – LMS and Gradespeed will be down over the break. You will not have your school laptops. If you are going to work on your Extra Credit, go print the instructions and look at the example in LMS. For every fifty points you find, you can convert that to 10 points for a major grade. DO IT!

2/14/2012

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What? It’s Valentine’s Day? There’s a cute little new girl in class who is kinda cute, but we aren’t even Facebook official yet. This is all Bri’s fault.

Today, we sneezed about power and Riley explained the Extra Credit Scavenger hunt. It will be easy to do – just go to Wal-Mart and take pictures of things!

We then started reading The Canterbury Tales – we are hiding out from the po-po until things settle down and we can go back to our ship. We don’t want to get caught as PIRATES!

In order to prove that we are indeed people who belong on this pilgrimage, we are going to need to know the other people on the trip with us. So we are going to make a Cheat Sheet of pilgrims. This template for this is in PowerPoint. We “met” The Knight and The Squire today. Remember – ten words for each person, clip art for a symbol, and flip your words for when we print. You can use this for anything we do later on – even when we go up against the BOSS (the final).

4/7/11

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The journal today was about the King James bible.  “Do we feel like the bible had  not only religious but also historical, and literary elements?”

Mrs. Riley then gave us a “Anticipation Guide”. It was a questionnaire about where we stand on learning about the bible in school. Do we feel like religion should be kept secret from school? Questions like that. We used a 1-5 scale. one being strongly disagree and five being strongly agree, also putting our reasoning for why we feel that way. As a class, Mrs. Riley asked us to move to certian areas of the room when she asked the questions outloud. The certian areas of the room were labled 1-5.  The debate was on. We all said our own opinions.

After we were done with that, we downloaded the “Teaching Religious Literature” off LMS. We read this article. No need to print to one note, or save. we just read it off LMS. Mrs. Riley talked about a “Mythology” class she had in college and how people dropped it because they thought the class was saying it was a Myth.  Mythology just means “telling a story”.  After that we talked about religious classes. Do we believe there should be religious classes should be taught in school?

We had to beat the clock at reading this… The lesson will continue tomorrow.

 

Eskter stopped talking at 1:40 today. EVERYONE WAS WRONG. 🙂

4/4/11

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Daily journal:  what is the difference in being ignorant and being naïve? Mrs. Riley used a comparison to Othello, asking if Desdemona was ignorant or naïve?

We talked about “perfect” matches for relationships. Mrs. Riley told us she made a list of 100 things she wants in a man.  Knowing it’s not realistic, she just used that to brainstorm about what she likes in a partner.

We read “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”. It was written by a man named Christopher Marlowe, he was said to be more famous than Shakespeare, but was killed in a bar fight.

In order to get a modern feeling on the poem, Mrs. Riley reminisces on a past student she had that was a “fool” for love. The passionate shepherd in this poem is a “fool” for love. “Romantic with a capital R”

The idea of the poem is that love is all you need. Comparing to a Disney movie, like Cinderella.

We then read a response poem from Sir Walter Raleigh,“The Nymph’s reply to the Shepherd”. This poem was a spoof of the poem by Marlowe.

We then used what we learned after reading these poems, and wrote two Haikus. One about the first poem and one about the second poem.  We have to use technology to make a “poster” for the two poems.

We had 45 minutes to write the two poems and work on our bucket list.

 These are my poems: haiku poems

Mrs. Riley pretended to wake up Xavier by giving hima wet willy.  He woke up…

Here is the first poem we read, we highlighted it in one note.

The Passionate Shephard to his love

 

Heres the second poem: Highlight it into onenoteThe Nymph's reply to the shephard