English I
picture of book

Read students' poems, Life Is...

Syllabus

Essential Learning

 

Homer and The Odyssey

Homer

The Mystery Man

Who was he?

What do we know?

A 9th grader's web site

All you need to know
An Overview of the Story

Background and Culture

Overview

The word "odyssey"

Importance

A Retelling of the story


Greece in Homer's Day

More Greek Culture

A guide to understanding the story

Greek view of death

Greek people

Greek gods

The entire story in 10 seconds!

Some audio clips of selected stories!

The story in one page!

After you read the story, you can play a game in which you become one of the characters!

 

 

 

 

 

Rubric for bio paper

Example of paper

Descriptive Narrative Assignment

Descriptive Narrative Model Essay

Rubric for grading

 

Crop Circle information

 

Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts

Writing and Editing Tips

Test-Taking Tips

Personality Tests

 

Assignment: Describe a remembered event using sensory details

Grading rubric
Read Bio Papers

 

Shakespeare's Language

Shakespeare's Insults

 

Essay Test Tips

All You Need to Know About English Literature List

Telling stories

Check out this web site. Look at some examples.

Parts of a story.

Examples

More examples

Narrative essay handout

Example 1

Example 2

Grading rubric