This digital interactive serves as an interactive graphic organizer to help you in writing your essays. While you may break away from the exact, standardized structure offered here, the basic organizational scheme will help you to keep your essay neatly in focus. If you need a quick review about how to structure your essays, this organizer will lead you step by step through the process. Even if you are familiar with the process, this organizer is great for creating a basic outline that you can elaborate on as you write. It has a great and easy print, share, and save features for when you have completed your organizer.
This interactive can help you to see how the kind of thinking literature scholars use is really applicable to the 21st century where so many diverse peoples have to find commonalities. This activity is based of the research of “Joseph Campbell, who studied myths, stories, and religions from all over the world to find their common elements.” This activity is great because it shows the elements that all of the cultures Campbell identified, and they were many, identify as heroic. Interestingly enough, although heroes are often flawed, he identifies some important patterns of relationships between heroes and the people of their community. Check out this visually stimulating tool that can help you ace our mythology unit!
When we get to Romeo and Juliet, I will know you haven't gone through my whole website if you ask me how such an old play in such old language is applicable to today. This digital interactive takes Shakespeare's ideas and brings them into a futuristic context where issues of communication and a lack of compassion for people who are different from one's own group of people still cause violence that threatens the stability of the social order. This game isn't your mushy-gushy romance. It's action packed with interstellar battleships shooting lasers at one another. What makes it different though is that the plot follows Shakespeare and throughout the development you will learn literary terms and biographical information about "the Bard".
This interactive will be utilized for multiple homework assignments. The class will be separated into groups of three or four at the end of a class discussion on a piece of literature. Before the next class meeting, students will comment on pieces of evidence I have already put up online. Each student will be responsible for finding one additional supportive or counter-argumentative piece of evidence that has not yet been posted. Additionally they must rate the strength of and comment on their choice of seven pieces of evidence. This interactive allows for student interaction to occur outside the classroom. The next day we can brief responses together.