English+I

Essay: Persuasion
For this project, you will write an essay comparing and contrasting two things. They can be items (apples and oranges), events (Waterloo and Normandy), places (Hawaii and Alaska), people (two politicians), or anything you can think of. You will create a graphic organizer to help you get your thoughts together, make a brief outline for the reasons you prefer one of the two, organize the reasons from least important (or least persuasive) to most important (or most persuasive), write one paragraph for each of your main points, and summarize and conclude your thoughts and opinion in a conclusion paragraph. Use the procedure explained on the lesson to compare and contrast two things. Write a one to two page essay with an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.

Project: Delivering a Speech
Use the paper you wrote earlier in this unit to make a speech.  Take the essay you have written and turn it into a three to five-minute presentation of your proposal by creating a podcast. To create your podcast presentation, you can use Audacity or any recording software of your own. Once you have recorded your speech and edited it to sound exactly the way you want, post it to PodBean.com. You will have to download the Audacity software if you do not already have it on your computer and you will also have to create your own Podbean account (which is free) if you do not already have one. Make sure you check out the help files for each of these sights to learn how it is done. Once you have posted your speech to your PodBean.com account, send me an email with the link to complete this assignment.

Essay: Business Letter
Write a business letter. It may be a letter of application, request, or complaint.

**Instructions**
Write one paragraph for each of your main points (and you will have at least one main point).

Project: Proposal, Outline, and Works Cited
In this project, you are writing a proposal for a research topic, an outline, and a works cited page for a complex process that you will research.

Essay: Complex Process
Plan, write, and revise a complex process essay. Here is example of what a quality complex process essay should look like.

Project: Multimedia Presentation
Using your essay as a guide, create a Power Point presentation describing the complex process you wrote about.

Project: Introducing Your Argument
Every project in this unit is designed around the idea that students within the school can have a voice in school improvement and can make a difference in the learning environment when given a voice to affect change. As a primarily online school, face-to-face interactions between students are hampered by distance. Field trips can be difficult to arrange and fund. We need ideas and suggestions to improve our Arts program. Therefore, students are tasked to identify elements to add to our program that will benefit the Music, Drama, and Art instruction as well as consider, research, and assess possibilities for field trips. In this first project, students are to identify which problem they will choose to pursue and outline a business proposal.

=Researching Your Argument = <span class="empty_container">Now, it is time to begin researching to support your claims. Your goals for this project are:


 * Collect valid, relevant, and appropriate information from sources to support your thesis.
 * Practice note-taking strategies and correct usage of direct quotations: [[file:Citation Note.docx]]

=<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Practical Persuasion Special Project = This is the final project of this unit. Use the information you gathered to create a digital story presentation to present to the school board explaining your ideas for school improvement. You will need to brainstorm story ideas, draft a script and a storyboard, and produce a digital story using your computer, the links provided, and free downloadable audio, video, and editing software listed in the files below. Students should connect with their teacher to discuss ideas and the process to produce their final products. The final products will be posted on this wiki for all to see. Here is an example of a digital story.

=<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Create, Present, and Evaluate a Poster = <span class="empty_container">Now that you can identify the elements of visual design and assess their relationship to purpose, it is time to try your hand at creating visual media of your own. For this project, you are to create a public service announcement (PSA) keeping the principles of SOAP in mind. If you are unfamiliar with what a PSA is and need help finding a topic, here is a list of many acceptable examples. You can use Glogster or Blabberize to help you create your presentation

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">The Heroes Journey: A Special Project <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">To complete this project, ead the directions presented in the file below:



<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Tragedies: Special Project <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Do as instructed below:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">1. Read this play

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">2. Pick one character from the play and <span style="color: #891b1b; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">compare yourself to this character using this survey, then email me the results

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">3. Select one scene from the play above and rewrite the scene using modern day English and Pop Culture references. You can be as serious or as funny as you want just as long as it connects to what the story would be like in your time and world.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">4. I will give you 100 Extra Credit Points if you actually enlist help and act out your new, modern-day scene, film your interpretation, and either post it on YouTube and send me the link or just send me the short film as an attachment in an email.

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Now you are done with all of the major English I projects for the year!