Read your peer’s response to Q1 and compare it to your own summary. Discuss the differences between your approach and that of your peer’s, and assess the effectiveness of their summary and paraphrase work. What did they do well? How can they continue to improve these skills?

English Question

  • Read your peer’s response to Q1 and compare it to your own summary. Discuss the differences between your approach and that of your peer’s, and assess the effectiveness of their summary and paraphrase work. What did they do well? How can they continue to improve these skills?
    Read your peer’s response to Q2 and review the Annotated Bibliography assignment prompt. To what extent has your peer’s response effectively evaluated the source, author, and publication? Do they have sufficient source evaluation evidence?
  • Review Wolf’s “Skim Reading is the New Normal,” Torheim’s “Do We Read Differently on Paper….,” and Baron’s “Do Students Lose Depth…” (Textbook pp. 246-256). As you read, either take notes, write short summaries (see Textbook, pp. 240-241), or create/use a chart (see Textbook pp. 238-239 or the Synthesis Matrix section of the optional video) to help you organize your thoughts as you search for connections between these readings.
  • Using what you learned about synthesis from the instruction and assigned readings, write a short paragraph that identifies and discusses the key connections between these selected readings and how they come together to reinforce, build on, complicate, and/or raise new ideas and questions about the role of social media.
  • Are there any assumptions, gaps, or new research questions that arise when reading these essays together and comparing them them in this way? Explain your thinking about what possibilities you see through this synthesis word.

Are there any ways circulation differs in this ocean compared to other oceans? What are the unique chemical and physical properties of this ocean? Are there any unique processes that occur in this ocean? Explain

Subtropical Gyres

Background Information

While the basic principles that lead to the formation of subtropical gyres applies to the circulation seen in each of the 5 Subtropical Gyres, there are differences that can still be seen in each of the major oceans.

Directions

Create a document that addresses the following prompt. For this assignment, you will be doing some writing and some drawing. Complete the two questions below:

  1. Using the image provided below, complete the following:
    • Label the Northern, Western, Eastern and Southern Boundary current for each major subtropical gyre. You do not need to label the subpolar gyres.
    • Color (or label) whether each of the currents are warm currents or cold currents.
      • If you color them, red=warm and blue=cold
    • If you would prefer to print this image and handwrite on it, you can use this document here: surface current map.pdfActions

surface currents of the world

  1. For this next question, choose one subtropical gyre from the question above to focus on. (North Pacific, South Pacific, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, or the Indian Ocean). In a paragraph, written in your own words, describe the circulation patterns witnessed in that ocean. Use these questions to help guide your writing:
    • Are there any ways circulation differs in this ocean compared to other oceans?
    • What are the unique chemical and physical properties of this ocean? Are there any unique processes that occur in this ocean? Explain

Explain your chosen text on a literal level and provide a brief discussion of your analysis.

English Question

This week, you will submit a PowerPoint presentation based on your Analytical Paper.

Your 5- to 10-slide presentation should explain your chosen text on a literal level and provide a brief discussion of your analysis. The last slide in your presentation should be a learning activity or tool for those viewing your presentation. The goal of the last slide is to guide others in the right direction so that they can develop greater insights about your text and its implications.

Be creative! How can you teach others what you have learned?

Ideas for engaging learning activities include:

  • Design a scavenger hunt; audience members must find examples in the text to confirm or challenge your conclusions
  • Create a checklist that others can use as they read the assigned text
  • Create an infographic or poster that presents your analysis at a glance
  • Provide instructions for a debate

Describe a formative assessment and discuss its importance and the function it will serve. How does summative assessment differ from formative assessment in design and purpose?

ED 400 Chapter 5 & 6 Questions

  1. a. Describe a formative assessment and discuss its importance and the function it will serve.
    b. How does summative assessment differ from formative assessment in design and purpose?
  2. In Chapter 5, the author stated that different data collection techniques are not aligned to one specific form of assessment function and that the user, usually the teacher, decides how the assessment is to be implemented based on its intended purpose. Explain what that means and what the implications are concerning classroom assessment.
  3. a. Discuss how performance assessment differ from other types of assessment?
    b. What are the benefits of using performance assessment? What are the disadvantages?
  4. a. Discuss why performance criteria are so crucial to performance assessment?
    b. How do they help the assessor not only with judging students’ performance and products but also with planning and conducting instruction?
  5. a. Describe portfolio assessment. What types of student work can be included in a portfolio?.
    b. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using portfolios as a means of assessment.
  6. Describe the characteristics and purpose of a rubric.
  7. Differentiate a holistic rubric compared to an analytical rubric.
  8. a. What are the differences between checklists, rating scales, and rubrics?
    b. How is each used to assess performance and products?

Create a correctly formatted annotated bibliography (using APA style) that includes three sources including the two attached and one source from the Internet (not Wikipedia) for: “Discuss the social function of the folktale and fairytale”.

Discuss the social function of the folktale and fairytale

1. Create a correctly formatted annotated bibliography (using APA style) that includes three sources including the two attached and one source from the Internet (not Wikipedia)
for: “Discuss the social function of the folktale and fairytale”.

2. Create a formal outline for: “Discuss the social function of the folktale and fairytale”. It will be no shorter than 1 and 1/2 pages and should be comprehensive in scope

Choose a Romantic poem from the nineteenth century that you intend to rewrite in a way that incorporates typically modernist qualities. You can find numerous examples of nineteenth-century Romantic poetry on pages 83–112 of your Journeys anthology.

Write Like a Modernist

Over the course of the next several days, you will complete a writing assignment. In the assignment, you will demonstrate your understanding of the tenets of modernist literature by rewriting a Romantic poem in a way that incorporates typically modernist qualities in terms of language, style, literary elements, and themes. The assignment is broken down into four parts.

Part 1: Choose a Romantic Poem.

Romantic literature champions the beauty of the world and the inherent goodness of human beings, and Romantic verse is highly structured and deeply traditional. Modernism frequently defines itself as a reaction against and a rejection of romanticism. Modernist poets viewed Romantic poetry as a remnant of the nineteenth century. Modernists did not think that writing as the Romantics did in the 1800s could effectively capture their twentieth-century world or their experiences in that world.

Begin this assignment by choosing a Romantic poem from the nineteenth century that you intend to rewrite in a way that incorporates typically modernist qualities. You can find numerous examples of nineteenth-century Romantic poetry on pages 83–112 of your Journeys anthology. For example, William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” which appears on pages 90–91 of your anthology, is a well-known Romantic poem. Note: You may not use this poem in your answer.

Part 2: Briefly Explain the Romantic Poem You Chose

In a single paragraph, describe the Romantic poem that you selected. Focus on the language, style, literary elements, and themes of the work. This step of the process is important because these are the aspects of the work that your modernist rewrite of it will change. Here, as an example, is a brief explanation of Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”:

Most of Wordsworth’s poem describes how a “crowd” of daffodils near a lake looked as they fluttered in the breeze. This poem uses formal language, has a fixed rhyme scheme, and employs an even meter. The speaker is very closely linked to the poet, and neither the voice nor the perspective in the piece ever shifts. The work contains a number of similes—one compares the speaker to a lonely cloud, another compares the daffodils to stars—and the flowers are personified to make the descriptions of them more vivid. Thematically speaking, the poem is about how, even long after having seen the flowers, the speaker feels comforted and happy whenever he thinks of their beauty.

Part 3: Do a Modernist Rewrite of the Romantic Poem You Chose

Begin your rewrite. To do so, imagine yourself as a poet in the early twentieth century, and imagine your rewrite as an attempt to update the outdated elements of the nineteenth-century work you selected. Remember that modernist poems

  • Capture the cynicism and disappointment many people felt toward outdated nineteenth-century ideas
  • Focus on the complexities of modern life
  • Highlight the alienation of the individual in the modern world
  • Break with past literary traditions and styles
  • Employ references to diverse cultures, belief systems, and histories
  • Use experimental language and techniques, such as drawing a distinct line between the poet and the speaker and writing from multiple perspectives and in different voices

Your rewrite must incorporate at least three of the six listed characteristics of modernism. Here is an example of a modernist rewrite of the first stanza of Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”:

Wordsworth’s First Stanza

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

First Stanza of a Modernist Rewrite of Wordsworth

I stood coldly alone, like a World War I flying ace
Who cruises over the shells of bombed-out towns.
As the black fog cleared, I saw a building,
Ten thousand crumblecracking bricks;
Beside a forsaken hospital, over a glass-strewn street,
Sagging depressed during Tefnut’s shower.

Part 4: Briefly Explain Your Modernist Rewrite

In a response of at least two paragraphs, provide an explanation of the steps you took to rewrite the Romantic poem you selected. Your explanation should point out at least three typically modernist qualities in your work with regard to elements such as language, style, literary elements, and themes. Here, as an example, is a brief explanation of the modernist rewrite of the first stanza of Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”:

In the first stanza of my rewrite, I tried to drastically change the mood of the poem. I did so by first changing the opening simile, linking the speaker (who is most certainly distinct from myself as the poet) to a World War I flying ace looking down on an empty town devastated by war. This image not only calls to mind the destruction that people in the early twentieth century witnessed, but also the loneliness felt by the individual when witnessing such devastation. I introduced ambiguity by not identifying the nationality of the pilot to whom the speaker compares himself: He may be a man seeing the destruction of his own town, or he may be one of the men who brought destruction on the town during battle.

Then I decided to change the daffodils—a symbol of the beauty of the natural world in Wordsworth’s poem—to a crumbling building on an abandoned and ugly street. I thought these images helped convey a sense of loss. I used the word crumblecracking—an invented term—to call to mind how the broken bricks of the building look. This type of experimentation with language is typical of modernist poetry. Finally, I used the word forsaken not only because it suggests abandonment, but also because it calls to mind the last words of Jesus on the cross. This allusion then quickly blends into the reference to a mythological figure, Tefnut, the Egyptian goddess of rain and fertility. This allusion hints at the possibility of remaking a new world out of the fragments of the old, yet the “sagging” hospital attests to how hard such a restoration would be. Thematically, I was trying to depict the loneliness and the alienation of the speaker in this decrepit world.

Now begin your assignment.

 

 

Total score: ____ of 100 points

(Score for Question 1: ___ of 10 points)

  • Choose a Romantic poem from the nineteenth century that you intend to rewrite in a way that incorporates typically modernist qualities. You can find numerous examples of nineteenth-century Romantic poetry on pages 83–112 of your Journeys anthology. Copy the text of the poem here.
  • In a single paragraph, describe the Romantic poem that you selected. Focus on the language, style, literary elements, and themes of the work.
  • Rewrite the Romantic poem you selected. Focus particularly on making your rewrite read like a modernist poem in terms of its language, style, literary elements, and themes. Be sure to incorporate into your rewrite at least three of the six qualities of modernist poetry listed below.
  • In a response of at least two paragraphs, provide an explanation of the steps you took to rewrite the Romantic poem you selected. Your explanation should point out at least three typically modernist qualities in your work with regards to things such as language, style, literary elements, and themes.

Write a job application cover letter for a position advertised on a website such as Indeed or Monster.

Job Application Cover Letter

Write a job application cover letter for a position advertised on a website such as Indeed or Monster. The position should be one for which you feel qualified. The letter should highlight your key qualifications and request an interview. The letter must not exceed one page.

Is the witches and lady Macbeth who are responsible for Macbeths downfall. Do you agree?

DISCUSSION ESSAY

Is the witches and lady Macbeth who are responsible for Macbeths downfall. Do you agree?

Report and analyze the results of your survey with the intent of developing a deeper understanding of your point of inquiry through the perspectives of a variety of individuals.

Survey Report Assignment

Overview:

For this assignment, you will report and analyze the results of your survey with the intent of developing a deeper understanding of your point of inquiry through the perspectives of a variety of individuals. You will be required to distribute at least 50 surveys. Further, you will be required to complicate at least 2 demographic variables to more critically engage in your research process.

The report should include:

A background section that presents your research question, summarizes your survey questions (what you wanted to find out from the survey), states your hypotheses (what you thought you’d find out from your survey), and describes your population. This section should also begin by contextualizing your research topic, and therefore should integrate 6-8 outside sources. These can include those that you used in both your Observation Report as well as your Interview Project but should build off of these.
A methods section that details your surveying process, including how you wrote and revised the questions, created answer choices, structured/formatted the survey; how you distributed the survey, elicited responses, targeted a particular population; and how many responses you received, any demographic data about respondents
A results section ordered by significance and reported by theme or topic that tells readers what you discovered from your research by describing and interpreting findings
A conclusion section that tells readers what your survey results reveal about your topic, how they help to answer your research question, and why they are meaningful; you may also mention any researcher or participant biases, research design flaws, oversights/missed opportunities, and/or directions for future research
an appendix that provides complete survey results

 

Reports should be approximately 6-7 pages in length and follow either APA or MLA style guidelines.

Do you work in a linguistically diverse educational setting? How does your school approach linguistic diversity, such as bilingual students or students who use a dialect outside of Standard American English (SAE)?

Language at Home vs. The classroom

Language is a vital part of education. Thinking back, were there differences (either nuanced or more significant) in the language you used at home growing up versus what you heard and saw at school? Did this disparity have any effect on you?

Now think about your work. Do you work in a linguistically diverse educational setting? How does your school approach linguistic diversity, such as bilingual students or students who use a dialect outside of Standard American English (SAE)?