Independent Reading Projects



As part of the Honors Independent Reading Project, each student created a WIKI page in which they analyzed various aspects of their respective novels.

 

You can view the WIKI Projects here. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as the students had creating them!

Literature Circle Setting Murals 2013

My students went above and beyond this year.  I asked them to create their interpretation of the setting from the novel read in their Literature Circles.  This is the result...

A Wrinkle in Time

The Giver

The Five People You Meet in Heavan

The Man Who was Poe

The View from Saturday

Never Cry Wolf

It is needless to say that I am blown away with the results and very proud of what these students have created...

Check This Out!

100 Books Every High School Student Should Read

 This is a challenge some of my honors students should take on...(hint hint)

Elizabeth I

Study and Research
Researching Queen Elizabeth. For fun, look at the History on the Net page called Elizabeth – Portrait of a Queen. The page includes many portraits of Elizabeth, and a list of little known personal details about her.

Take an Online Tour.

The Royal tradition is still alive in England today. Access The British Monarchy and take a tour. If you click on Monarchy Through the Ages you will find a story about Elizabeth. But you may also be interested in a virtual tour of the Royal Palaces, or in reading about Diana, Princess of Wales, or Today’s Royal Family. Who is the current Queen? Who is next in line? You may also want to look at a Timeline of The British Monarchy that includes portraits.
 

Elizabeth – Portrait of a Queen

The British Monarchy

Timeline of The British Monarchy

Robert Frost

just because....

Fire and Ice

BY ROBERT FROST

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

This is a fun Fiction Map I found this weekend while I was Stumbling...

Also, check out the Reading and Writing Tabs for new interesting things...

Reading

There is a linked list of American Authors in the Reading Page which is located on the right of the BLOG.  Please peruse it at your leisure.  There are numerous links for you to follow to learn more about these authors and their works.  

It's important as young readers and writers to have prior knowledge about the authors you will encounter this year and in the years to come.

Happy Reading!