Thesis Generator: Establishing a Base Point for Writing Your Thesis

We are going to use a thesis generator to help in writing an effective thesis statement for your research paper. This will only serve as a base point, however, and you will have to make some revisions.

Click HERE to move to the Thesis Generator.

Persuasive Speech Vocabulary

Click HERE to take the quiz over the persuasive speech terms. Good luck and have a great weekend!

Pronoun Pretest

Click here to take the Pronoun Pretest. Remember you will be taking the 50 point quiz tomorrow!

The Rhetorical Situation: Visual Arguments Pre-Test

Click HERE to enter a pre-test to check your understanding of the terminology associated with the rhetorical situation.

Wondersay: Showcasing Our Hint Fiction Stories

Below are links to individual student's hint fiction pieces. Students worked on the impact of certain words, manipulating the showcasing on wondersay.com. Students also used various fonts, colors, sizes, and transitions to help create impact for the 25 word or fewer stories. Click on the links below to see their creations.

First Period Composition

Ethan: The Crematorium
Nicole: Dumpster Diving
Hannah: Tornado
Alicia: Shaw
Olivia: Garden of Graves
Sydni: Falling Star
Carly: Under the Moonlight
Dustin: Evolution
Leighton: Thunder
Taylor R.: Sunken Treasure
Dayton: Prisoner
Taylor S.: Cannibal's Chicken Soup
Colin: Sleepwalker
Ciaira: The Electrocution
Sam: Mad to Live

Seventh Period Composition

Jasmine: Breaking Through
Christine: Memories
Chase: Time Served
Brandon: There's No Tomorrow
Isaac: The Rotten Finger
Tiffany: Plague
Dylan: Mirror, Mirror
Savannah: Crooked Smile
Alex: Buried Alive 
Sasha: Unbelievable
Derek:
Josh: Reloading

Fun in Composition: Hint Fiction and Wondersay.com

Students in composition are working on descriptive writing. One exercise we've used to provoke thought on the power of words is Hint Fiction. Ms. Shaw shared several examples of hint fiction from Robert Swartwood's  Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer. Students then drew random titles for their stories from a bizarre collection created by Ms. Shaw. Students were given guidelines for their stories, such as the stories had to hint at something much larger, the title could not be used in the story at all, and the story had to focus on descriptive language.

Students will be using wondersay.com to showcase their hint fiction stories.

The story below was written by Ms. Nicole Shaw and is showcased as a model for students in using Wondersay.

The Wastelands by Ms. Shaw

The Multi-Genre Research Project

Seniors will be creating digital multi-genre projects as a culminating project after The Kite Runner unit. Students will be choosing a topic based upon the question: How does a specific aspect presented in Hosseini’s The Kite Runner have relevance in today’s culture, political scene, society, etc?

The project outline can be seen in the following PowerPoint.