huffenglish http://huffenglish.pbwiki.com/ RecentChanges for huffenglish http://huffenglish.pbwiki.com/feedlogo.gif PBwiki http://pbwiki.com/ PBwiki 3.7 support@pbwiki.com Project The Bluest Eye http://huffenglish.pbwiki.com/Project+The+Bluest+Eye email.hidden@example.com (Dana Huff) Dana Huff edited Project The Bluest Eye After reading Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye, I realized that acceptance and beauty are linked to social and financial success in America.
See? Easy, peasy.
through demonstrating their use application in your own writing, and if I help you, you won't be demonstrating anything, right?
Resources
Web Sites
]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 19:55:23 +0000 mod Project The Bluest Eye http://huffenglish.pbwiki.com/Project+The+Bluest+Eye email.hidden@example.com (Dana Huff) Dana Huff edited Project The Bluest Eye Next, click on Task. Keep in mind Ms. Bisguier evaluates her students differently. Your project will count as a major grade; please ignore any point totals on the Webquest. You will only be writing the position paper. In order to create the position paper, you will need to do research.
After you have read the Task, please review the Process. The TIPS Public Policy Analyst links will help you refine your position.
links ms. Ms. Bisguier provided no longer work, so I located some resources for you, which you can access at the bottom of this page. Near the bottom of this page, you will notice I posted the video we watched in class before we read the book ("A Girl Like Me").
You will not find the Evaluation page on the Webquest helpful, as your evaluation will be different from that of Ms. Bisguier's students. As Ms. Bisguier explained, you will create a public policy paper, a persuasive essay, in which you present a solution to the problem that "[t]oo many people fe]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 19:52:59 +0000 mod Project The Bluest Eye http://huffenglish.pbwiki.com/Project+The+Bluest+Eye email.hidden@example.com (Dana Huff) Dana Huff edited Project The Bluest Eye Next, click on Task. Keep in mind Ms. Bisguier evaluates her students differently. Your project will count as a major grade; please ignore any point totals on the Webquest. You will only be writing the position paper. In order to create the position paper, you will need to do research.
After you have read the Task, please review the Process. The TIPS Public Policy Analyst links will help you refine your position.
and relay rely on Web sites. Unfortunately, many of the links ms. Bisguier provided no longer work, so I located some resources for you, which you can access at the bottom of this page. Near the bottom of this page, you will notice I posted the video we watched in class before we read the book ("A Girl Like Me").
You will not find the Evaluation page on the Webquest helpful, as your evaluation will be different from that of Ms. Bisguier's students. As Ms. Bisguier explained, you will create a public policy paper, a persuasive essay, in which you present a sol]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 19:51:54 +0000 mod Project The Bluest Eye http://huffenglish.pbwiki.com/Project+The+Bluest+Eye email.hidden@example.com (Dana Huff) Dana Huff added Project The Bluest Eye

In our study of Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye, we examined four essential questions, two of which were



  • How do we determine beauty? What is beauty?

  • How are people treated based on their appearance? Why do we treat people differently?


We will focus on these two questions in Project The Bluest Eye, a Webquest created by Cele Bisguier, a teacher at Bronx Leadership Academy in New York.


 


First, open the Webquest in a new tab (Firefox, Safari, Opera, or Internet Explorer 7) or window (Internet Explorer 6, older versions of Safari).  You can do this by right-clicking the link and selecting either "Open Link in New Window" or "Open Link in New Tab" (Windows) or mousing over the link and pressing CTRL+click, then following the same procedure (Mac).


 


Project The Bluest Eye


 


After you have op

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The Bean Trees Wiki
Project The Bluest Eye
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Elana (Book 8)
Daniel (Book 9)
Simon
Jed (Book 10)
Jed (Book 11)
Ari (Book 12)
Tali (Book 13)
TBD
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into "portkeys" "port-keys" by which he travels to a new time.
Our hero's name is Perry Green, a homonym for the name Peregrine, which we learned means Wanderer.
Our hero's wife is named Hally May, a homonym for the name Halima, which is Arabic for Patient.
Naomi will be writing the first chapter.
Tali will be writing the last chapter.
Perry is a history professor at Emory University
Factors to Determine
Which war is our Odysseus coming back from?
What countries or places will he visit?
What sorts of monsters/creatures will he encounter?
his crew? crew? He doesn't have a crew
Who will write the first chapter an]]> Tue, 08 May 2007 09:14:37 +0000 mod Odyssey Project Wiki http://huffenglish.pbwiki.com/Odyssey+Project+Wiki email.hidden@example.com (Dana Huff) Dana Huff edited Odyssey Project Wiki Rachel (Book 7)
Elana (Book 8)
Jed (Books 9-11 -- Jed Daniel, and Simon are still figuring out which order they will write in)
Daniel
Simon
Jed
Ari (Book 12)
Tali (Book 13)
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Naomi (Book 1)
Zoe (Book 2)
Michal (Book 3)
Shira (Book 4)
Ethan (Book 5)
Steven (Book 6)
Rachel (Book 7)
Elana
Jed (Book 8)
Jed (Books 9-11 -- Jed Daniel, and Simon are still figuring out which order they will write in)
Daniel
Simon
Tali
Shira
Michal
Steven
AriAri (Book 12)
Tali (Book 13)
Sources
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Group members
AriNaomi (Book 1)
Zoe
Ethan
Michal
Steven
Ari
Tali (Book 13)
Sources
The Odyssey
TBD
TBD
Resolved
Our hero is traveling through time in a broken time machine. He has been called from the future to fight a war. We discussed the possiblity of the gods playing havoc with Odysseus's return by turning random objects into "portkeys" by which he travels to a new time.
Our hero's name is Perry Green, a homonym for the name Peregrine, which we learned means Wanderer.
Our hero's wife is named Hally May, a homonym for the name Halima, which is Arabic for Patient.
Our hero's son is named Marcus or Markus (spelling to ]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:00:11 +0000 mod Odyssey Project Wiki http://huffenglish.pbwiki.com/Odyssey+Project+Wiki email.hidden@example.com (Dana Huff) Dana Huff added Odyssey Project Wiki

Group Project


 



 


Working together using this wiki


 


 



Think of this wiki as a shared online whiteboard. Your entire group can share information using this wiki, making your research accessible to everyone. Play around with this wiki: Notice how you can add comments to a page, see what people have changed, and edit all the text.



 


Group members


 



  • Ari

  • Zoe

  • Ethan

  • Elana

  • Jed

  • Daniel

  • Simon

  • Tali

  • Shira

  • Michal

  • Steven


 


 


Sources


 



  1. The Odyssey

  2. Let's add some more mythology and history texts as we figure out where we're going.


 



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Verbals
Odyssey Project Wiki
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Senior students at our school have the opportunity to study in Israel for part of their senior year. On this page, seniors can share their learning experiences, journals, photographs, and videos.
blog: WeberIsraelExperience'07 WeberIsraelExperience'07.
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Senior students at our school have the opportunity to study in Israel for part of their senior year. On this page, seniors can share their learning experiences, journals, photographs, and videos.
Follow Weber students' adventures in Israel on Jamie's blog: WeberIsraelExperience'07
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! 11th Grade Trip

Watch the video made by the Class of 2007, documenting their Junior Journey.

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Senior students at our school have the opportunity to study in Israel for part of their senior year. On this page, seniors can share their learning experiences, journals, photographs, and videos.
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Working with Billy Planer of [http://www.etgar.org|Etgar 36], our school has been on some amazing journeys. Students, please feel free to share your experiences on these journeys (pictures, journals, videos). Even if you are now in 12th grade, please write your comments about the grade level trip on the appropriate page (for example, for the Boston trip, put your comments, videos, and pictures on the 10th grade page).

* [9th Grade Trip]: New York, New Orleans

* [10th Grade Trip]: Revolution -- Boston
* [11th Grade Trip]: Civil Rights and Rock and Roll -- Montgomery, Birmingham, and Memphis

* [12th Grade Trip]: Washington, D.C., Chicago

Feel free to edit the information on this page, such as cities visited or trip themes. I will admit I only know about the two trips I went on myself, so your contributions are appreciated.

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! Grade Level Trips

Working with Billy Planer of [http://www.etgar36.org|Etgar 36], our school has been on some amazing journeys. Students, please feel free to share your experiences on these journeys (pictures, journals, videos). Even if you are now in 12th grade, please write your comments about the grade level trip on the appropriate page (for example, for the Boston trip, put your comments, videos, and pictures on the 10th grade page).
* [9th Grade Trip]: New York, New Orleans

* [10th Grade Trip]: Boston

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! Grade Level Trips

Working with Billy Planer of [http://www.etgar36.comorg|Etgar 36], our school has been on some amazing journeys. Students, please feel free to share your experiences on these journeys (pictures, journals, videos). Even if you are now in 12th grade, please write your comments about the grade level trip on the appropriate page (for example, for the Boston trip, put your comments, videos, and pictures on the 10th grade page).
* [9th Grade Trip]: New York, New Orleans

* [10th Grade Trip]: Boston

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! Grade Level Trips

Working with Billy Planer of [http://www.etgar36.com|Etgar 36], our school has been on some amazing journeys. Students, please feel free to share your experiences on these journeys (pictures, journals, videos). Even if you are now in 12th grade, please write your comments about the grade level trip on the appropriate page (for example, for the Boston trip, put your comments, videos, and pictures on the 10th grade page).
* [9th Grade Trip]: New York, New Orleans

* [10th Grade Trip]: Boston

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