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Mash up Rubric for Short Story

Essay rubric – mash up rationale

Here are some posts to help you with your research on mythical and other creatures.  Remember you have to research about two creatures.

How Strange Creatures Work

http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures

How Vampires Work

http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/vampire.htm

How Zombies Work

http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/zombie.htm

The final site you can use online is Wikipedia and their list of legendary creatures.  Remember that with Wikipedia, the information has to be approved and properly sourced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures

Here is a soft copy of the handout you have to fill in for this assignment.

Creature for Mashup

Here is a copy of the story:

To Build a Fire – Version 1

After the discussion, you have to write a reflective essay about your preparation, the actual discussion and what you learned.  It follows a reflective essay format.

The following document explains EXACTLY what you should have in your essay.  Feel free to copy the thesis statement example and the topic sentence starter examples, of course, you can create your own.

Discussion-Reflective-Essay

As well, there are two exemplars of reflective essays that were written by a grade 12 English A2 student from last year.  The grading rubric I used is different so disregard the grade.  As well, it is quite long – yours paragraphs do not have to be as long.  But it shows you an excellent essay so it is good to read over.

Discussion Reflection – Exemplar

Lastly, the rubric which will be used to assess your essays:

Essay rubric

Here are step by step instructions on how to search for an article on hip hop within EBSCO.

You have to bring the article you found to class on Monday, November 8th.

Using EBSCO for Research

Here is the link to a site which downloads videos:

http://keepvid.com/

Completed Powerpoint

Jim Cuddy Presentation – Outline

Here is the completed Works Cited List for my presentation:

Works Cited – Jim Cuddy

Attached is the unfinished Powerpoint which I showed in class today:

Unfinished Powerpoint

Here is the  work I have completed on my presentation:

Jim Cuddy Presentation – Material Gathered