Best of Adventure 2008

http://www.explorersweb.com/

English 12 Semester 1 Outline

English 12 Semester 1 Outline

English Wide Open Course Outline

The English Wide Open Course Outline is here.

Additional Sources -- Viewpoints on Chris McCandless

Sean Penn (director), Into the Wild

Catherine Todd (reviewer), "Chris McCandless from an Alaskan Park Ranger's Perspective"

Amazon.com reviews

Far North Science, "Into the Wild: The False Being Within"

Craig Medred, "McCandless' story isn't really told in the book or the film" (Schizophrenia article)

Adventure Blog, "Was Chris Mccandless Crazy, Literally?"

Alaska Daily News, Chris McCandless articles (links)

Not Very Bright (blog & discussion) "Chris McCandless"

Online Resume Builders

BEGIN HERE (and read the note below):

Online Resume Builder

Important note: You can save the resume you complete using the above Online Resume Builder by:
1. Dragging your browser over the resume, copying it, and pasting it into Microsoft Word.
2. Saving the Microsoft Word document on the transfer drive.

Other resume resources:
Resume Tutor from University of Minnesota.

A second online resume builder (click on free trial)

Sample Student Resumes from AIE

More Student Resumes

Sample Resumes for different careers.

College Essay Resources

The College Board has useful section on Essay Skills for the college admissions essay. Included are a section on how to choose a topic and tips on writing the essay itself.

Samples of successful essays can be found at www.quintcareers.com/

The Common Application essay prompts are at https://app.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/CommonApp2008.pdf

True fact: You can pay as much as $1000.00 to have a professional essay editing service such as EssayEdge help you with your essay. (Or you can just ask Wirthy and get help for free).

The College Board suggests you compete the following as part of your brainstorming process:

• Discover Your Strengths: Do a little research about yourself: ask parents, friends, and teachers what your strengths are.
• Create a Self-Outline: Now, next to each trait, list five or six pieces of evidence from your life—things you've been or done—that prove your point.
• Find Patterns and Connections: Look for patterns in the material you've brainstormed. Group similar ideas and events together. For example, does your passion for numbers show up in your performance in the state math competition and your summer job at the computer store? Was basketball about sports or about friendships? When else have you stuck with the hard work to be with people who matter to you?

Topics and Links for Things Fall Apart Mini-Research

Topics:
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart (criticism and reviews)
Ibo culture & traditions (music & dance, food, religion, family)
Colonialism in Nigeria
human sacrifice & cannibalism
Nigeria today

Links:
Portals to the World: Nigeria
Online Nigeria
NationMaster: Nigeria
Amazon.com: Things Fall Apart
Reading Room: Things Fall Apart Review

Creating a Personal Portaportal for Literacy 9

Your assignment for today is to create a Portaportal with links to 15 or more resources that will be helpful for Explorations Board research.

(1) Please begin by checking the Literacy 9 links at www.guest.portaportal.com/ray_wirth and bookmarking links to those sites that you feel are most useful, based on the web site criteria we have been discussing.

(2) Next use the following search terms on Google.com and investigate the sites you receive as results. Don't stop with page 1 of the results. Dig deeper:

Online Encyclopedia

Online dictionary

History resources

Science resources

Another site for Consideration: (See especially history and science headings):

EducationIndex.com

(3) Create your own Portaportal by going to www.portaportal.com and creating an account. (If you are unable to create a Portaportal account for any reason, please save your links as an organized set of desktop "bookmarks" instead.

(4) I'll check your work next time. Good luck!

Essay on Wild Places (Links)

Boston Globe Article: At Loggerheads Over Maine Woods

Forest Ecology Network: Maine Woods National Park

Evaluating Online Resources II

Evaluating Online sources: 5-Question quiz

Misleading Websites

More misleading sites.

Acadia National Park Resources

American Parks Network, History of Acadia

John William Uhler, Acadia National Park Information Guide -- History

Acadia.net, History of Acadia

National Park Service, Acadia -- History & Culture

Park Vision, Acadia National Park -- Photographs

Where Are You on the Political Map?

World's Smallest Political Quiz

Information Overload: Who Can You Trust? (Evaluating Internet Sources).

Three Internet Sites with information on the Plum Creek Plan for Moosehead Lake:

http://www.plumcreekplanmaine.com/

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1167053/debate_pro_con_heard_at_plum_creek_hearings/index.html

http://www.greenvilleme.org/news/120307.html

http://dlsoucy.blogspot.com/2007/12/blue-mecca.html


Four Internet Sites with information on Sarah Palin:

http://www.boycottliberalism.com/Sarah-Palin-Biography.htm

http://wizbangblue.com/2008/09/04/the-democratic-view-of-palins-speech.php

http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=27200

http://palin4america.wordpress.com/tag/sarah-palin-info/

Four internet sites on Dieting and Weight Loss:

http://www.consumerpricewatch.net/

http://www.weight-loss-center.net

http://www.medicinenet.com/weight_loss/article.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/health/24brod.html

AP English Summer Reading 2008

All students taking AP English in 2008-2009 should complete the following:
(1) Read one required novel: either Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses or Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees.
(2) Read one choice novel. This novel should come from the reading lists below or from one of the lists provided as a handout.
(3) Post your responses on the online forum at http://2liveis2learn.proboards105.com/
OR take notes as you read the two books. These "notes" should consist of 40 or more "bookmarks" in the form of post-it notes inserted into the book. Each booknote should be a comment about a particular passage in the book. Ideally your notes will include reflections, observations, analysis, connections, and more. Please write me at rwirth@msad56.org if you have questions.

I'm strongly encouraging students to post in the online forum rather than taking "booknotes" but have left the booknote option primarily for those students without internet access. See you on the forum.

101 Great Books

Recommended for College-Bound Readers

It's a good idea to talk to your parents, librarians, teachers, and counselor about your reading list. They can help you choose the best books for you from among your many options.

Author	Title
--	Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua	Things Fall Apart
Agee, James	A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James	Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel	Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul	The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte	Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily	Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert	The Stranger
Cather, Willa	Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton	The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate	The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph	Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore	The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen	The Red Badge of Courage
Dante	Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel	Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel	Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore	An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre	The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George	The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph	Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Selected Essays
Faulkner, William	As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William	The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry	Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave	Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox	The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Faust
Golding, William	Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas	Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph	Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest	A Farewell to Arms
Homer	The Iliad
Homer	The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor	The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale	Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik	A Doll's House
James, Henry	The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry	The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz	The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong	The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair	Babbitt
London, Jack	The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas	The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García	One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman	Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman	Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur	The Crucible
Morrison, Toni	Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery	A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene	Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George	Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris	Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia	The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan	Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel	Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas	The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria	All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond	Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry	Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D.	The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William	Hamlet
Shakespeare, William	Macbeth
Shakespeare, William	A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William	Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard	Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary	Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon	Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles	Antigone
Sophocles	Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John	The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan	Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William	Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David	Walden
Tolstoy, Leo	War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan	Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire	Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice	The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith	The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora	Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt	Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar	The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee	The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia	To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard	Native Son

Why Black and White Photography?

Please visit the following link and be able to explain 4 reasons why black & white photography still exists in a world of color:

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/why-black-and-white-photography/