Homework due Tues 1/24 -- Vocab!
J -- Unit 13, p. 81-84, ex 1-4
K -- Unit 10, p. 61-65, ex 1-4
L -- Unit 5, p. 27-31, ex 1-4
Monday, January 23, 2006
Friday, January 13, 2006
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Mr. Porter’s Class 1/10/06
Freshman English -- Communications
The Odyssey -- A project of EPIC proportions
Due Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2005
Assignment: Choose one of the five projects below.
Requirements: See project descriptions and scoring rubric below.
Projects to choose from:
Book Jacket: Design a book jacket for Homer’s Odyssey. The book jacket should he folded into 4 parts: an illustrated front cover with title and author’s name, a back cover designed to get readers interested in the book, a front inside flap that summarizes the story and a back inside flap about the author.
Movie Poster: Design a poster advertising a movie version of the Odyssey. Illustrate it using eye-catching images. Include a few lines of catchy description or excerpts from rave reviews to attract viewers. List the actors who will play the main roles, choose a director, and state that the screenplay is based on Homer’s Odyssey.
Travel Brochure: Imagine that you are the owner of a travel tour company. Design a travel tour of Greece, Italy and the Mediterranean Sea where travelers get to see/experience the sites of The Odyssey. Include a day by day itinerary explaining exactly where and what the travelers will be doing.
Map of the Odyssey: Create an illustrated and annotated map of the Odyssey showing & explaining the highlights of Odysseus’s journey.
Magazine Advertisement: Search the internet for businesses that reference the Odyssey in their names, titles or products. Choose one and create a magazine advertisement for the company or product.
Scoring Rubric:
Requirement
Point Value (worth up to …)
Size – Epic proportions! The bigger the better! (But must be larger than a 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper.)
20 pts
Must include “Homer’s Odyssey,” student’s name, title and period of course, teacher’s name and room #, date
20 pts
Neat and attractive
20 pts
Content – Meets the project requirements; uses eye-catching images that represent the spirit, events, characters, gods and monsters of Homer’s epic poem.
20 pts
Quotation – uses at least one quotation from the Odyssey to make a connection between the project and the poem.
20 pts.
Freshman English -- Communications
The Odyssey -- A project of EPIC proportions
Due Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2005
Assignment: Choose one of the five projects below.
Requirements: See project descriptions and scoring rubric below.
Projects to choose from:
Book Jacket: Design a book jacket for Homer’s Odyssey. The book jacket should he folded into 4 parts: an illustrated front cover with title and author’s name, a back cover designed to get readers interested in the book, a front inside flap that summarizes the story and a back inside flap about the author.
Movie Poster: Design a poster advertising a movie version of the Odyssey. Illustrate it using eye-catching images. Include a few lines of catchy description or excerpts from rave reviews to attract viewers. List the actors who will play the main roles, choose a director, and state that the screenplay is based on Homer’s Odyssey.
Travel Brochure: Imagine that you are the owner of a travel tour company. Design a travel tour of Greece, Italy and the Mediterranean Sea where travelers get to see/experience the sites of The Odyssey. Include a day by day itinerary explaining exactly where and what the travelers will be doing.
Map of the Odyssey: Create an illustrated and annotated map of the Odyssey showing & explaining the highlights of Odysseus’s journey.
Magazine Advertisement: Search the internet for businesses that reference the Odyssey in their names, titles or products. Choose one and create a magazine advertisement for the company or product.
Scoring Rubric:
Requirement
Point Value (worth up to …)
Size – Epic proportions! The bigger the better! (But must be larger than a 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper.)
20 pts
Must include “Homer’s Odyssey,” student’s name, title and period of course, teacher’s name and room #, date
20 pts
Neat and attractive
20 pts
Content – Meets the project requirements; uses eye-catching images that represent the spirit, events, characters, gods and monsters of Homer’s epic poem.
20 pts
Quotation – uses at least one quotation from the Odyssey to make a connection between the project and the poem.
20 pts.
Dear Students and Parents,
Hello and welcome to my weblog. This is where I will be posting homework assignments for students in my freshman English class at WHRHS. Hopefully you will find this website helpful for you to keep track of our assignments.
If you notice, all the posts that come before this one are from 2004, when I was teaching in Jersey City. So please ignore them.
If you need to contact me, my e-mail at the high school is mporter@whrhs.or.
Thank you.
-Mr. Porter
Hello and welcome to my weblog. This is where I will be posting homework assignments for students in my freshman English class at WHRHS. Hopefully you will find this website helpful for you to keep track of our assignments.
If you notice, all the posts that come before this one are from 2004, when I was teaching in Jersey City. So please ignore them.
If you need to contact me, my e-mail at the high school is mporter@whrhs.or.
Thank you.
-Mr. Porter
