Every couple of weeks there will be a new choice board available and the resources required to complete it. When you have mastered the content, we will move on to the next standard. You will be provided with multiple assignment, book, and content choices and you're welcome to direct your study where you choose as long as we master what we're doing.
Module 1
We will be starting at square one with the prehistory and early civilization. Have a look at the resources and the enrichment material to the left. Go through them all and take note of things you find interesting to you. I will post the assignment choices in the next couple of days.
While you're at it...can you do this quick, online test for me and post your result at the bottom of this page? It'll help me pick out interesting books for you without them being too hard or too easy :) It's not life changing, but do your best! It's just to help me make this better for you.
Literacy Goals
We will consistently be working to meet these goals, if you think your work doesn't cut it...you might want to reevaluate and do some editing. They will remain posted for the entire summer. Make them your friends.Below are the literacy standard for the State of South Carolina, followed by a list of what they really mean to you!
What literacy goals actually mean to a teenager:
- You can prove that you're right based on what you have read and can show the teacher where you found your information.
- You can read between the lines to understand not just the information the author was trying to tell you, but how it relates to thoughts, emotion, and historical events.
- You can tell the teacher why this document is important both now and in the time it was written.
- You can understand how the meaning of words changes across time periods to determine comedy, irony, and sarcasm in the text.
- You try to make sense of why the author or historian arranged the text in the way that they did.
- You can identify when a theme is used in multiple works of literature (like history repeating itself).
- You have read, understood, and applied the above standards to texts from the 18th-21st century.
- The biggest goal of all? That you can do it alone and bring a new perspective to the discussion.
