My Google Website

My site is called English 6h Reflective Essay Assignment. It is about-let the suspense build-the reflective essay assignment that my juniors are going to write. I am hoping that this website will offer guidance as they write their papers. More importantly I hope this site will help me to remove some instruction/peer editing from class time to open up space for a workshoping activity for the kids. This site is mostly done. I still need to add a links page that will lead the students to good writing tip sites.

My Site Is Done (Almost)

Well I have finished my site, mostly, and am actually excited to see it in action. My only concern is that I will have a terrible time figuring out how to monitor student work on google docs and on the discussion boards...

My new thing...

I have decided to run a creative writing project through a google based website. I want to have the students use google docs to do peer editing but my computer at work doesn't support the program. How do I get that to change? Looking forward to it...

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Big Idea

I think that I want to try to run an entire essay unit through Google Docs. Is it possible to run a google site that outlines the writing assignment, complete with links to useful writing sites, maybe good examples for them to emulate? Can I have the students do their peer editing through google docs and submit the marked up pages? Can multiple students make corrections in different colors? Is this going to be a huge pain in the rear? I like the idea of providing them with the assignment online. I think it could be especially effective for my honors classes...

Using Thinkfinity

For this assignment I used an article from Thinkfinity about Route 66. I actually couldn’t find a whole lot to use on the site. I am currently teaching Slaughterhouse 5, for which there wasn’t any material to choose, and The Grapes of Wrath, for which there were 10-15 different sources to use. I picked this article from The National Geographic because we had just finished the chapters that bring the Joad family from Oklahoma to California. The article was interesting and did a good job of acting as a starting point for a discussion of symbolic imagery from the chapters the students had read. In the future I will see if there are more materials available for my ELD Reading class. I think this site is useful for those times when you need to find a good activity and cant think of anything.