Wordsworth meets the Worldwide Web:

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Wordsworth meets the Worldwide Web

• Using Web Media to Supplement
• Literary Texts
• Cameron Ratliff and
• Caroline Sain
• Jordan-Matthews High School
• Siler City, NC

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How Can Technology Supplement English
Instruction?

• All NCSCOS and HSELA curriculum goals can be
  enhanced with appropriate use of technology.

• Introduce a lesson
• Provide background
• Develop critical thinking skills
• Assess understanding

• Technology can be used to

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Starting from the Beginning

• The Metacrawler
• Google (www.google.com)
• Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)
• Tried and True Sites
• Web English Teacher
• 
  (www.webenglishteacher.com)
• SAS in Schools (www.sasinschool.com) See your
  school for password information--all NC schools
  have logins.

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A Study of Character Introducing Lord of the
Flies

• Goal To introduce the concept of character
  analysis by having students evaluate their own
  personalities.
• Eng. IV NCSCOS Goals 1.01, 2.02, 5.01
• HSELA Goals I, II, IV
• Lesson Link
• http//sasinschool.com/ProductEntrance/login.jsp

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Discovering the Anglo-Saxons

• Goal To provide a framework for studying
  Beowulf
• Depending upon pacing, two options can introduce
  Anglo-Saxon culture
• Option One Mini-Webquest using
  Filamentality website
• Time needed 90 minutes
• Website http//www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pa
  ges/sambeowulfca.html
• Make your own quest!
• 
  http//www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/
• Option Two Group webquest and power point
• Time needed Two to four 90-minute
  classes
• Website
• http//www8.chatham.k12.nc.us/student_teacher/2004
  /hscohort_04/jmhs_honorsengIV/index.html

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Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

• Goal To help students make connections between
  the events of the novel and the major events of
  the Civil Rights Movement
• Engl. III NCSCOS Goals Addressed 1, 4, 5
• HSELA Goals I, IV, V
• Links http//www.sparknotes.com/lit/missjane
• http//www.classzone.com/novelguides/litcons/missj
  ane/guide.cfm
• http//www.enotes.com/autobiography-miss/
• http//www.mcoe.org/instruct/litpackets/pittman.ht
  ml
• http//www.42explore2.com/civilrights.htm

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The Canterbury Tales A Modern-Day Pilgrimage

• Goal Students will research the medieval
  pilgrimage in order to write an essay that
  discusses the differences between the Chaucerian
  pilgrimages and an imagined modern-day
  pilgrimage.
• NCSCOS Goals 2, 4, 5
• HSELA Goals I, IV, V
• See assignment for details

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Chaucers Wife of Baths Tale

• Goal To use primary source documents to help
  students analyze the tale from various critical
  perspectives
• Eng. IV NCSCOS Goals 2, 4, 5
• Time needed Two 90-minute classes
• Links
• www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/chaucer/canttales/wbp
  ro/
• www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bible-marr.html
• http//eserver.org/history/finding-a-wife.txt
• (see handout for lesson instructions)

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Lord of the Flies Review Game

• Goal To help students review the author
  background, setting, plot, themes, symbols and
  characters of the novel
• NCSCOS Goal 5
• HSELA Goal V
• Link http//www.nobel.se/literature/educational/g
  olding/

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Macbeth Assessment Cube

• Goal To assess student understanding of Macbeth
  (college prep students had watched the Richard
  Burton film version)
• NCSCOS Goals 1.02, 2.02, 4.02, 5.01
• Technology is integrated into the assessment in
  that several of the project choices ask students
  to use the web and create power point
  presentations.

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Good News!

• You can access everything you saw today by
  visiting the site below, or go to the Chatham
  County Schools website (www.chatham.k12.nc.us),
  click on the link that reads Classroom
  Features and scroll down to find Cameron
  Ratliffs link.
• http//www8.chatham.k12.nc.us/student_teac
  her/2004/hscohort_04/jmhs_honorsengIV/index.html

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Our Contact Information

• Thank you for attending our session! If you have
  any questions or ideas to share, please email us.
• Have a great day!
• Caroline Sain cmsain_at_chatham.k12.nc.us
• Cameron Ratliff cratliff_at_chatham.k12.nc.us