Central Bucks

• In-class chart for Miller drama vs screenplay chart
• Suggested topics (you are more than welcome to choose something that isn't on the list.  Just run your idea by me!) TOPICS
• Links to research resources through the library research resources

Sample student projects

• SHORT STORY: Hartford Circus Fire (short story excerpt) circus
• SHORT STORY: Pearl Harbor (short story excerpt) Pearl Harbor
• SHORT STORY: Great Fire of London (short story excerpt) Fire of London
• SHORT STORY:  Ghost story of a lady in a lake  lake legend
• SHORT STORY: Johnstown Flood Flood
• PLAY: 1918 Flu Epidemic (play excerpt) Flu

Writing Process

• Research sheet research sheet
  
• Graphic Organizer/Pre-Write organizer
• Graphic Organizer/Pre-Write MODEL sample
• Setting Context setting context
• Pointers about annotations (from class editing) model annotations
• Reminders about annotation requirements/more samples annotations
• Annotation feedback: overall feedback
• Having trouble avoiding "commentator" status with a sports piece?  Check out 2 models:
  • excerpt from Slam! by Walter Dean Myers sports Myers
  • excerpt from Foul Trouble by John Feinstein sports Feinstein

Rubrics

• Rubric for your original story/play excerpt and for your annotations rubrics