http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 22 May 2013 13:53:38 PDT Wed, 22 May 2013 13:53:38 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=546486 home page for our required first-year composition course http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=502235 The Google Docs Paper Editing lesson was designed to encourage students to begin using online collaboration tools during the writing process. To implement this plan, students should have composed a draft, understand the essential components of academic writing, and how to use post and share documents on Google Docs. The target audience for this lesson is upper level high school students, but the content can be modified to fit all paper writing units. The appeal of this plan is that allows for students to make real-time edits to others papers and post corresponding comments on the author's Google portal. At the completion of this lesson students should have use their knowledge of academic writing to edit at least two papers. Students should also write a self-reflection of their readers comments, further continuing the conversation about their piece. This lesson also is designed to help students use critical skills to improve the products created by their peers.Although this lesson is the only resource posted on this website, other documents will be coming soon. The site is currently a work in progress and will continue to grow as time passes. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=438449 Appropriate for middle school, this activity explains how to read nonfiction and then requires that the student apply those reading strategies to a non-fiction piece on how to repair a tower that is beginning to fall. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=742312 I know that I’m a member of society, but am I a member of my community? What defines the specific community that I am a part of? And how can I share my unique community with the world?The educational need that this lesson will address is helping students to learn about, define, and share their community. This can be an interest group community or a large geographical community. Students will explore which aspects of their community have influenced them, the things they are proud of, and how they would like to define their community for the world to see. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=696289 This is a lesson plan for teaching students about credible sources. I have used CARRDSS developed by Joyce Valenza, a teacher librarian and leading expert on web site evaluation who has created criteria for evaluating Web Sites, Blogs, and Wikis. Students take notes on a PowerPoint about CARRDSS. They then discuss examples of credible sources they have visited previously and explain how they can tell if they are reliable. Next, students head to the computer lab and visit various websites. They use the CARRDSS form to evaluate if a source is credible or not. Finally, students and teacher discuss their findings. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=437209 This WebQuest draws on the literary analysis skills necessary to prepare high school students for expository writing. Students will work as cultural historians, literary reviewers, and critical theorists regarding multicultural works such as "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison and "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich. They will combine family cultures and societal cultures to draw attention to certain disconnects between Western culture and non-Western residents. It is meant for secondary English students. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=674214 Introduction and lesson for initiating the 3 different types of Irony http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=586922 This two-day lesson plan will introduce High School students to the poetry of Walt Whitman, and the associated ideas of realism and transcendentalism. This lesson plan utilizes a variety of educational technology tools, including an in-class presentation system (projector, internet-enabled computer) and a set of iPads (or other internet-enabled computer or mobile device.) In this lesson, students will collaborate together to research the historical relevence of Whitman's poem, The Year of Meteors. In small groups, students will present the results of their research so the class will understand the historical meanings represented in Whitman's poetic verse. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=742192 This is a lesson plan for an interactive project used to as a unit wrap-up assignment for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn using Scratch. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=540295 This is a writing assignment that ties the song, The Impossible Dream, in with the movie, "The Pursuit of Happyness" and Martin Luther King's, "I have a dream" speech. Instructions are provided to students, and lyrics to the speech and the song are provided. Students will probably have to do some additional research to obtain information.