Writing Activities

Writing Activities 

Here is an easy and interesting  site where you can grow a story. 

Story Plant
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A format for a simple composition

http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/lyn/level-b/a-memorable-trip/

Just For Laugh

One half of the class can't see the screen, the other half must explain. Finally, watch again all together and explain in detail.

Media Literacy

Media Literacy

http://stevesmedialiteracy.blogspot.it/2008/09/media-literacy-5-key-concepts-and-media.html

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Which is the message in this short video?
Answer the questions about ads

Holidays

Discovering Halloween

http://www.harrison.k12.nj.us/faculty/ndamiano/Halloween%20webquest.htm

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EASTER
http://www.theholidayspot.com/easter/worldeaster/
http://www.marks-english-school.com/games/mes-easter_01.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/easter.html

Culture and Holidays

CULTURE

The development of the English language
ReadingsA complete guide to British culture and traditions

http://projectbritain.com/

http://www.anglik.net/britishlife.htm


UNUSUAL TRADITIONS
http://www.cristinacabal.com/?cat=11




Something about presents.......



 http://culturenote.blogspot.com/

.................................................................................The PressThe Presshttp://www.webquests.ch/newspaperuk.html?page=92220..........................................................................................................Stories from the worldWhere do last names come from?http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/where-do-last-names-come-from/..........................................................................................................IDIOMS http://www.autoenglish.org/jungle.htmlEnglish Idioms And Proverbs Jesler
SOME USEFUL PROVERBShttps://sites.google.com/site/proverbssayings/home

QUIZ

NEWSPAPERS ___MAGAZINES_

INTERESTING ARTICLES

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

10 things you don't know about Walt Disney

Curiosities

Types of students   

click on the photo                                                                                                                  ( http://www.wepsite.de/school_is_hell_81_types_of_high_school_students850pix.jpg)

 

Types of teachershttp://ninespv.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/types-of-teachers.gif

Literature links and study guides

Narrative Genre

http://www.englishlanguageterminology.org/index.htm


Literature Wiki

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Cliffs Notes

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Spark notes

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eNotes

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The Best Notes

A good link for literature

THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

http://www.novelexplorer.com/category/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner/

POETRY

WEBQUESTS

Canterbury Tales Webquest

            Today you are going to research background information about Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales.  Anything not completed in class should be finished for HW.

- Working alone or with one other person, use the links to answer the questions listed below.  - Please PARAPHRASE your answers rather than copying and pasting information.You may type your answers directly into the document and print when finished.

1.      Geoffrey Chaucer: What kind of writer was he?

2. What were the years of his birth and death?

3. Where was he from?

4. What was his “masterpiece” ?

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chaucer.html

2.      What is a pilgrimage? (You should already know this from our vocab. quiz.)

3. Define prologue.http://www.webster.com (or other dictionary site)

4.      Where is Canterbury?

What famous event happened there?

What are the goals of the many people who travel there on pilgrimages?

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Canterbury,-England

http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/history/history.aspx

5. When were The Canterbury Tales written?  In what language were they written?

·         What are they about? What is a frame tale? What happens in the Prologue?

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/canttales/gp/

http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm

        6. What were the “Three Estates” during the Middle Ages?

Estate =

1st =

2^nd =

3^rd=

How were women categorized?

The “___________________ estates”

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http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl430/estates.html

6. What was the Black Death?

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chaucer.html

http://the-orb.net/textbooks/nelson/black_death.html

7. Choose a picture from the site below to copy and paste it into this document:  http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/macabre.htm

(Copy, paste and resize to fit this space.)

What do you notice about the illustration?
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4 Class
A modest proposal
http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Jonathan-swift-a-modest-proposal-annotated#note-1163636
Modern topic
http://www.bbncommunity.com/child-hands-beggar-always-sleeping/