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  Student-made Web Pages...Show Off Their Work! Designed to teach students how to create a web page using Netscape Communicator's Composer and can be used by students in grades 3-12 to present their projects or research on their school's web page. Designed to be taught in a lab setting and will be used by the technology teacher in coordination with the classroom teacher.
  All But My Life: Hope, Survival and Healing Study Gerda Weissmann Klein’s memoir All But My Life. Discussion will focus on Klein’s experiences as a Holocaust survivor. Students will read and complete activities, explore themes related to the work: the Holocaust, hope and survival, and use Klein’s experiences as a catalyst to explore and investigate instances of injustices in school, community, country and world. Understand the Holocaust experience (man’s injustice to man), acknowledge these atrocities happened, continue to happen today, and the fact that hope is a powerful force that can help to overcome tragedy. Discuss change/personal growth (in our lives, can we affect change personally and globally?)
  Parliamentary Procedure This lesson will allow the student to participate in a meeting that is run using parliamentary procedure.
  Creating a Web Page The focus of this unit is to create a web page.
  Area, Perimeter and Volume: from rectangles to box Students will design and build a pizza box from a single piece of cardboard. They will analyze its surface area and volume and justify why their design is the best for their product.
  Hero Research Cont. Project continued.....The Hero Project is an opportunity for students to research and write a research paper about an abstract idea: the qualities and characteristics of a hero. The focus is on the idea of heroism rather than on a particular hero. The project includes an emphasis on using computers to do research, to help organize information, and to present information.
  Her story: Women's Sports and Title IX Focuses on women and thier impact on literature and history.
  Yeas and Nays: Parilamentary Procedure Essential Questions: What internal structure enables officers of varied groups to conduct business in a consistent and orderly manner? Which international, national, local groups apply the principals of parliamentary procedure? What are the ingredients necessary for a smooth running meeting? What vocabulary is associated with parliamentary procedure? What are the established authorities on parliamentary procedure?
  Collecting Poems Tied to a Short Story Theme ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What literary techniques and elements must a poem possess to be able to compare/contrast it to another piece of literature?
  Powerpoint Presents: Poetry Builds students' knowledge of poetic devices, exercises library research skills. They work in collaborative pairs to prepare/present oral interpretation/analysis of poem, biographical information about poet, enhanced by Powerpoint presentation. Integration of English, library, and technology skills provides evidence of having achieved several NYS Learning Standards. (ELA #1-Using Language for Information/Understanding: Speaking/ writing to acquire and transmit information; MST Standard #5-Technology-Using technological knowledge/skills to design, construct, use, evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.
  Julius Caesar Research in the life and times of Julius Caesar
  Analysis of theme in Impressionist writing Students will investigate and explore "What is teh average soldier's image of war, based on an examination of the experience of an author using the literary technique of Impressionism?"
  What If It Happened to Me? A Look at the Disabled Essential Questions: What can I do well? How do society and disabled people relate to each other? How should parents of disabled children challenge as well as protect their children to help them reach their full potentials? What resources are available for disabled people? What rights, if any, should be denied to people who are disabled?
  Responsibilities of a Working Citizen Designed to align/integrate study of computer applications with acquisition of vocational knowledge/academic knowledge. Students use basic computer applications in as word processing, database, spreadsheet, desktop publishing, and presentation capabilities to demonstrate knowledge they acquire about themselves as potential employees, new perspectives on the workplace, and understanding of how academic knowledge is used in the workplace.
  Going My Way Geography/Writing/Adventure Education
  You are the Star! The purpose of this learning experience is to give the students the opportunity to be a participant of an online course as well as the tools to use a digital camera.
  Character Study in Macbeth Study of Shakespeare's Macbeth and the power of characters.
  Teacher's Cheat Sheet: Good Research Papers! For teachers of any subject: this is a guide to assisting your students in developing thier research papers. A soup to nuts description applicable in any subject!
  What's Growing at the Tips of Your Fingers - In ad This experience creates a learning environment that allows students to connect the worlds of laboratory microbiology and health care infection control. Its purpose is to enhance the awareness that science is an integral part of the students' career technical education program.
  Haircutting The students will have a better understanding of haircutting terminology, rules, tools, and techniques.
  Bridge Design This learning experience is integrated into Mohawk Central Schools Mathematics Course II curriculum in the laboratory setting. Students having developed a physical model using geometric concepts will use the Interactive Physics program to redesign or improve their designs. Additional components include a demonstration of computer skills, writing skills, and interpersonal skills.
  Remember when....???? Students will research a decade in the 20th century and will prepare a research paper and a PowerPoint presentation.
  Author Brochures The purpose of this experience is for students to gain better exposure to authors of literary works. This will be achieved through construction of a visually appealing tri-fold author brochure using Microsoft Publisher and Internet research.
  So Much Can Happen In A Night! The purpose of this unit is to familiarize students with Shakespeare’s comedy. Most students only get exposure to either history or tragedy. The theme for this unit is humor and its relevance, as well as Shakespeare’s impact and relevance on our world today. The unit takes approximately 4-6 weeks of 42 minute classes.
  To Be Or Not To Be... This is a unit focusing on Hamlet. It contains in depth analysis of the plot, themes, and characters.
  The Unraveling of a Poem Students will focus on poetical analysis with the goal of understanding the theme of a poem.
  Puritans in Literature - An Accurate Portrayal? A historic perspective of the Puritans will be examined through history texts as well as primary source documents. This perspective will then be used to analyze the accuracy of the portrayal of Puritanism in several genre of American literature.
  Frederick Remington: His Life and Times Document based research, Internet Research project studies on Frederic Remington, planned and delivered in collaboration across standards areas.
  Frederick Remington: His Life and Times Essential Questions: What is the correlation between America's art and it's foreign policy? Can one artist control an entire nation's perception of an era? Is the Internet a useful research tool? Does art imitate life? Are American culture and politics related in any way?
  Career Exploration/Job Shadowing This unit is designed to guide students in making career decisions. They will begin by examining their interests, matching their interests to a career, exploring how to attain that career and finally job shadowing a person in that occupation.
  Letters to the Government-Powerpoint The students become active participants in their government.
  Reconstruction to Civil Rights To study Reconstruction to Civil Rights and its effect on society
  Appreciating the Scarlet Letter Title: "Appreciating The Scarlet Letter —the most moral book in American literature."
  West Side Story: An Interdisciplinary Analysis This unit focuses on encouraging students to appreciate and understand the musical West Side Story by analyzing the musical from different perspectives. The unit prepares Band and Voice class students to expressively perform West Siode Story at a public concert and English students to write a critical essay comparing the musical's plot to the plot of Romeo and Juliet.
  On Stage Tonight The Harlem Renaissance was a period of awakening in the history of the United States. It was marked by a migration of Black Americans from the south to the area of New York City known as Harlem. The creativity of the "New Negro" showed itself in the areas of literature, art, and music. Too often we pass over this movement and only see one perspective of life in the early Twentieth Century.
  On Stage Tonight, The Great Migration The purpose of the WebQuest is to allow students to actively explore the World Wide Web (WWW) for information concerning the period known as "The Harlem Renaissance." This experience will reinforce discussions from the social studies curriculum concerning the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. Students will better understand the contributions made by African Americans in the areas of literature, art, and music during this period in American history.
  This Isn't Your Little Sister's Poetry: Analyzing This unit actively pursues student comprehension of poetry and poetic terminology for application on part three parallel tasks of the NYS English regents. A variety of techniques to acquire the terminology and analytical skills needed for both the regents and intelligent discourse are utilized. Technology is integrated by having the students synthesize information in electronic presentations.
  Process Writing with Powerpoint English students combine a process essay and speech with a Powerpoint presentation
  Acids and Bases This unit was written to combine the Regents Chemistry syllabus, NYS Standards, and the use of technology. The concepts of acids, bases and pH were introduced with demonstrations and were further explored using the MPLI (Multi Purpose Lab Interface) system with a pH probe. All lab reports were done using Microsoft Word. The unit culminated with the students creating their own set of color change markers. The text used was Modern Chemistry, by Metcalfe, Williams, & Castka, Holt, Rinehart, & Winston Publishing, but any high school chemistry text could be easily adapted.
  The Crucible by Arthur Miller Essential Questions: How does the Puritan view of guilt affect major characters? In what ways does authority misuse power? In what ways did social restraint and inhibition affect the plot? How is the Salem paradox contributing to the major themes?
  Black Boy by Richard Wright Write about an episode when you were the victim of or a witness to an act of prejudice. Discuss your feelings and the outcome of the situation.
  The King and I by Rogers and Hammerstein Students will watch a video on Siam/Thailand. "Bangkok: Rim Nam, Rim Khlong"
  Celebrate the Arts Advertising Design Class, students are expected to complete assignments using different mediums, and will understand the roles a person in the Advertising Field has, includes meeting deadlines, being creative, working toward a specific goal and presenting completed projects in a professional manner. Students are upperclassmen, most have had some art courses and been introduced to the basics. Assignments are challenging, but allow students to succeed and see personal growth, allows students to create an Advertising Campaign in which they are able to support the arts program, creating T-shirts, designing posters, billboards, and videotaping commercials created from original storyboards. Theme of this campaign is "Celebrate the Arts."
  Ceasar II The program itself has built into it an overall usage of the learning standards. By the students interaction with the game, they will interact with each other as they work together to build an empire. They will be adhering to the standards without being aware they are attaining this goal. This reflects best practice in that all the students are engaged in learning are creating their own best learning environment, they are meeting standards, and there is a tangible end-product.
  Revisiting Salem Literature based: the unit will begin with a series of free response journal entries designed to encourage students to consider issues such as freedom, fair treatment, tolerance, and authority.
  Decoding Edgar Allan Poe Analyzing and interpreting literature with technological skill.





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