Extra Credit Opportunities
Essay Contest-
If you would like to participate, turn this in by May 26th
http://cultivatingthought.com/essaycontest/
If you would like to participate, turn this in by May 26th
http://cultivatingthought.com/essaycontest/
For 4th Six Week Grading Period DUE BY TUESDAY FEB 24, 2015
Mythological Vocab Assignment (20pts or a Daily Grade)
DA1-Reassessment Corrections (20pts added to exam)
If you failed the reassessment, you may come by after school on Friday to pick up your booklet. I will let you know which questions you missed. You can correct your exam for 20 points.
Correct you exam using a 3 column chart.
Mythological Vocab Assignment (20pts or a Daily Grade)
- Define the following words:
Apollonian
Delphic
Dionysian
Jovial
Mercurial
Olympian - In a short paragraph ( 2-3 Sentences), explain how the word connects to it's corresponding myth.
DA1-Reassessment Corrections (20pts added to exam)
If you failed the reassessment, you may come by after school on Friday to pick up your booklet. I will let you know which questions you missed. You can correct your exam for 20 points.
Correct you exam using a 3 column chart.
- Column one will be titled Original Response
In this column, you will write your original answer in, and you will explain why your response was not the best response.
What originally drew you to this response? - Column two=Correct Response
Explain why you chose this new response. Why is this the best response? - Help Column
If another students helped you (I strongly encourage this), makes notes on the conversation that you had.
EC that is available to you all year
Soundtrack (25 pts or a daily grade)
Creative Writing Response (20pts or a daily grade )
- Choose one of the pieces of Literature that we have read in class
- Find songs that relate thematically to the work we read in class
you must choose a minimum of five songs - Print the lyrics to the songs, and annotate them.
highlight what lyrics specifically relate, and write a short comment out to the side
this comment should show how you relate the song to the reading - Presentation: just like any album/record, you need album art.
this should be a representation of the songs and what we read in class. - You may use a collage, but you may not print out a copyrighted image and use that as your art.
Creative Writing Response (20pts or a daily grade )
- For this extra creditic assignment, you will come up with an original poem, short story, or play that responds to one of the peices we have read in class.
- Your response should reflect your own thoughts on the thematic issues presented in the text. You do not have to agree with the author.
- You should allude to the text a minimum of two times.
- Poems need to be at least 15 lines long
- Short stories need to be at least 3 pages long.
- Your work should employ figurative language. Highlight your examples of figurative language (minimum of 3)