Create your own Mini-Page

For your next assignment in Writing, you will choose a subject you are interested in, research the topic and turn it into a newspaper, modeled after the Mini-Page.  A good topic for this assignment would be one you are interested in and already know a lot about.  It should be a topic that you can write about different aspects or subject areas.  For example, if you choose a sport, you will research the sport in general, learn about famous people who have played the sport, the history, etc.

Go to Google Classroom to access the pre-writing graphic organizer
Click here for the Mini Page assignment and Template

Not sure exactly what a Mini Page is.  Look at the examples below. Or visit the Mini Page archive.
Our Fragile Butterflies
Rosa Parks
Political Parties

Grade 8: Night by Elie Weisel

Watch the video of Elie Wiesel's return to Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey

Grade 7: Reading Beowulf

We studied the epic story of Perseus and discovered what makes an epic and an epic hero.  We are going to begin reading Beowulf.  This story comes from an Anglo-Saxon poem, which was probably written sometime between the years 700 and 800 A.D  The Anglo-Saxon people began to settle in Britain around 450 A.D. They came from Europe, mainly from the countries we now call Germany and Denmark.  Beowulf is written in an Anglo-Saxon Language (sometimes called Old English), but the the story does not take place in England at all. It is about some of the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons, tribes who lived in countries that are now called Denmark and Sweden.

• Click here to see Beowulf in its original form. Can you read it?
• Resources for the study of Beowulf  
• Shmoop-Beowulf
• Beowulf in hypertext 

Do you want to know more about the famous epic?  Click here to go to an interactive site to read more about Beowulf.

Click here to watch a video why you SHOULD read Beowulf!

Click here for a Glossary of Beowulf 

Click here to learn more about topics and different sections of the story.

Click here to view some of the things you can find out about in Beowulf for Beginners. This list will help you know where to look.


Click here to watch a summary of Beowulf

Johnny Appleseed

Click here to learn more about Johnny Appleseed!

Book Trailer using iMovie

You have finished your independent reading book, now you are going to create a Book Trailer based on the book.  A Book Trailer is a lot like a movie trailer--a short clip that pulls you into the book and makes you want to read it.  The music, pictures and captions all spark the viewer's interest.  Book Trailers are short--they either create the mood, sum up the theme or the main problem of the book.  Today we're going to watch some Book trailers and discus how they were made and why they work.

Things to consider as you view the Book Trailers: 

Do they speak or are only words used?

How did they use music?

Did they use still pictures or actors?

How did they use writing to grab your attention?

How much information did they give the viewer?

How did they create interest?

Watch a couple different trailers for Legend.  Think about what's the same in all three and what's different.






A Monster Calls



This Dark Endeavor

Sean Griswold’s Head

 

The Fault in Our Stars