Assignment #8: PLS cyber bullying

We have been seeing reports about Cyber-bullying on Channel One this week. Please post your thoughts in the PLS and see who else in the community can relate to your post? Remember to enter at least three keywords! i.e. cyber, bully, Internet, crime, ...

Assignment #7: Haiku Poetry

April is Poetry month, so we will be ready when it arrives! We will create beautiful Haiku poetry to publish in the first WJPS book of poetry!
Each of you will create and revise 3 Haiku poems and 3 art compositions to communicate your words in visual form also.
Click HERE to see the rubric for our Haiku project.
Here are some poetry resources, of course you can go to wikipedia and look up Haiku too:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry
   
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_device

American Revolution Portfolio Requirements

Students have been provided with a checklist to aid them in compiling their portfolios. This checklist, along with a cover letter, and projects from the interdisciplinary unit will comprise the complete portfolio. Items collected by teachers will be returned along with rubric sheets containing grade received.

Here is the list of Portfolio contents:
1. Checklist ________
2. Coverletter ________
3. Research Articles (ELA) ________
4. Written Interview, Final Draft, Typed (ELA) ________
5. Rubric for written interview (ELA) ________
6. 10 facts on your person, typed (SS) ________
7. Exam from Social Studies (SS) ________
8. Who am I writing entry (Tech) ________
9. Digital Collage (Tech) ________
10. Rubric for Collage and who am I (Tech) ________
11. Performance/Audience Rubric ________
12. Quicktime Movie ________
13. Rubric for movie ________