Saturday, March 29, 2014
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Cutting Edge Education Using Ipads as a Literacy tool at the HS level: Transcendentalist Ipad Activity
NAME___________
Ford Quinn English 11
Transcendentalist iPad Project
Use
1. The ideas from the transcendentalist video, http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/transcendentalism-impact-on-american-literature.html#lesson
2. Class notes, class discussion, the readings from 3/5/16 http://media.collegeboard.com/sbo/pdf/cb_sb_ela_miu_L6_U5_activity2_SE_v2.pdf?__gda__=1394121614_4860edfd548b53dfb30bbc5640078d4e
3. The Excerpted works of Whitman, Emerson and Thoreau, and
the chart that was filled out in class 3/6/15 http://www.mybigcampus.com/groups/quinn-english-11---1147758/group_wallposts
To CREATE
1.
Create a Prezi- visual and text
analysis of one of the selected works and make a connection to Chris.
OR
2.
Create an original 20-30 line poem
emulating one of the writers studied (Emerson, Thoreau, or Whitman) present a
poetry slam and capture it in video format.
OR
3. Create a 1 minute "confessional"
video analysis of one of the writers and make a connection to Chris.
EXTENSION
ACTIVITIES
1.
Create a
school appropriate Twitter account and follow @quinnenglish200, good reads, nytimes,
satword of the day, grammargirl, retweet one of my posts and read one of my
retweeted articles
2.
Open 3d
timeline app and begin to create a timeline of events in Chris’ life based on
the events revealed in Into the Wild
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