Macbeth Portfolio -- All items must be present to receive any credit.
- Macbeth Journal #1: Don't judge a book by its cover. What does this mean? Do you agree with the assumption? Give me some examples from your personal life and experiences (can be from TV, books, movies, etc.).
- Act 1.2 Stage and Directions: You should have either the stage or the directions (depending on which one you ended up with from your twosome).
- Macbeth Journal #2: Turn "don't judge a book" on its head. Write about one quality or possession that you have that really represents you. What? How? Why?
- Tracing a Word in Macbeth
- Macbeth Journal #3: Is greed ever really good? Why or why not? What if we change the word from greed to ambition? Does this change the way you think about it? Why?
- Macbeth Journal #4: Recall a time in your life when you were involved in a tough situation, had to make a decision about whether to turn back or push on, and found both options equally difficult. What did you do? Why?
Sites We Use For this Class:
Important Stuff:
What to Read Next:
- American Literature Reading List
- Book Trailers for Readers
- British Literature Reading List
- Hanging by a Book
- Media Literacy - Reading is Seeing
- Reading Rants! - Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists
- The Goddess of Young Adult Literature
- World Literature Reading List
- YA Book Central Blog
- Young Adult Book Reviews by Young Adults
- Young Adult Books Central
Interesting Internet Sites:
- A Woman's World
- Affluenza Interactive Timeline
- Artcyclopedia
- Beauty Surrounds Us - Native American Art and Culture
- College Board
- Daily Comics - Read the Funnies Online
- Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy
- Fairy Tales and Mythology
- FIRE! - Anti-McCarthy Cartoon Site
- Free Classic Audiobooks
- Free Rice - Feed the World a Word at a Time
- Internet Detective
- Inventor of the Week
- Inverloch - Online Graphic Novel
- NY Times for Teens
- Profile Publisher
- ReadPrint - Free Online Library
- Shakespeare Searched
- Shakespeare's Words
- Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
- Teens and their Money
- The Big Picture
- The Code of Chivalry and Courtly Love
- U. S. History Webisodes - Background for Reading
- UCAS Home Site
- UEN for Students
- Virtual Witch Hunt
- Virtue Quiz - Ben Franklin
Writing Help:
- Mad Woman in the Forest - Laurie Halse Anderson's Writing Blog
- Newsweek - My Turn - Personal Essays
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
- Research Writing - How to use voice in a research paper - P. J. Rourke
- Research Writing - Sample Position Paper with MLA
- Research Writing - Several examples of the style of a Pulitzer Prize nominee - James Gleick
- The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor - NPR
- This I Believe - NPR Essays
- Tumblemoose Writing Services - Creative Writing Blog
Your Research Assistant:
- Academic Search Premier
- Citation Machine
- CQ Researcher
- How to Evaluate a Website
- JSTOR-Core Scholarly Journals
- LexisNexis Academic
- Library of Congress
- Logical Fallacies
- Newspaper Source-Full Text for 154 Newspapers
- Online Writing Lab - Purdue
- Pioneer Library (see Mrs. Tyler for the login and password)
- Research and Writing - Step by Step
- SIRS Researcher
- Student Website Evalution
- TOPICsearch
Mrs. Tyler on a good hair day
Quotation of the Day:
What I Do For Relaxation:
Music I listened to when I was your age - 80's Rule!
