Assignment List
UNIT
Unit 1: Getting Started:
Literary Analysis
CONTENT/RESOURCES ASSIGNMENTS
Literary analysis; the
ASSIGNMENT: "Perspective"
Informal Essay
Questions
ASSIGNMENT: "Perspective"
Essay
QUIZ: "The Poet of the People"
Unit 2: Become an
Internet Detective
Plagiarism; Evaluating
Web Resources
Unit 3: The "Write Stuff"
Writing Forms
ASSIGNMENT: Becoming an
Internet Detective
QUIZ: Effective Research
QUIZ: Reading Comprehension
Test #1
ASSIGNMENT: Descriptive
Paragraph
ASSIGNMENT: Expository
Paragraph
ASSIGNMENT: Narrative
Paragraph
ASSIGNMENT: Memoir
ASSIGNMENT: Essay #1
Unit 4A: OPTION #1
Independent Novel Study
Independent Novel Study
BLOG: 3 Separate Posts [Reading
Journal]
RESOURCE: Students
FORUM: Be Your Novel's Critic
need to find their own
PROJECT: Freeze Frame [Visual
novel to read
Presentation]
The Count of Monte Cristo INTERVIEW: "A Time to Kill"
Unit 4B: OPTION #2
The Count of Monte Cristo Novel Study
ASSIGNMENT: "A Matter of
Balance [point of view rewrite]
RESOURCES: Novel (text ESSAY: "The Count of Monte
OR online); "Count of MC Cristo" [literary analysis]
movie; "A Time to Kill"
movie
Unit 4C: OPTION #3
The Kiterunner [OSBC]
"The Kiterunner" Novel
Study [Persian
Storytelling; "The
Kiterunner" movie;
Elements of Fiction [POV,
Plot, etc.]
RESOURCES: "The
Kiterunner" novel; audio
version available online in
ASSIGNMENT: Symbols &
Heroes
BLOG: 3 separate Posts [Reading
Journal]
ASSIGNMENT: Human Rights
in Afghanistan
ASSIGNMENT: Storyboard [3
scenes NOT included in the
movie]
the course
Unit 5: Writing to
Inform/Entertain
Unit 6: Writing to
Persuade
Unit 7: Short Stories
ASSIGNMENT:A Closer Look at
Character
ASSIGNMENT: Writing in
Nasruddin's Style
Blogging; Informal Writing FORUM: Three Awesome Things
ASSIGNMENT: Generating Ideas
BLOG: Your Voice…
QUIZ: Writing Test #1
Documentary Films;
QUIZ: Documentary Film
Persuasive Writing
ASSIGNMENT: Writing to
Persuade
ASSIGNMENT: Essay #2
Short Stories [elements of ASSIGNMENT: Point of View
SS - POV, Plot, etc.]; Short ASSIGNMENT: An Ounce of
Film
Cure [Conflict, Irony, Theme,
Setting]
ASSIGNMENT: The Painted Door
[Theme, Setting, symbol,
Foreshadowing, Plot]
QUIZ: Short Story Elements
QUIZ: Writing Test #2
ASSIGNMENT: Essay #3
Unit 8: Poetry
Reading, analyzing, and
writing poetry.
Unit 8: Poetry Alternative Reading, analyzing, and
Unit
writing poetry
Unit 9: Final Exam
Preparation
FORUMS
Exam information,
grammar review activities
Collaborative discussion
prompts
QUIZ: Poetic Devices
ASSIGNMENT: Poetry Analysis
ASSIGNMENT: The Misty Poets
PROJECT: Poetry Presentation
[visual, audio]
ASSIGNMENT: Imagery Poem
ASSIGNMENT: Found Poem
QUIZ: Reading Comprehension
Test #2
QUIZ: Writing Test #3
JOURNAL: Listening
ASSIGNMENT: Oral Presentation
ASSIGNMENT: Sounds Like
Nonsense
ASSIGNMENT: Poetic Forms
JOURNAL: Analyzing
ASSIGNMENT: Visual Poems
ASSIGNMENT: Three Poems
QUIZ: Final Grammar Exam
FORUMS: Self-evaluation