*Mr.+Cook's+Model

Companion Book Project  The final book project is due Thursday May 26, 2011. All projects will be on display in the school library on Friday, May 27 for a gallery walk. Each student’s project will be on display for all eighth grade students and school administrators to view.

NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED! If you will not be present on May 26 your project must be in early. If it is not in on time it will be graded as a ZERO. No exceptions.

Project Guidelines **I.** Written Synopsis A. Content Specifications a. Title and author of book b. Complete plot – beginning, middle, and end c. Spelling, capitalization, and grammatical errors are not accepted B. Format a. one page typed b. 12 point font / Times New Roman font c. 1.5” spacing per line C. Cover Page should Include the following items: a. Title of Project b. Student Name <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">c. Class Name <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">d. Teacher’s Name <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">e. Date Submitted <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.5in;">**II.** Visual Project <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. PROJECT THEME: What has your book taught you about the experience people endured during WW II? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">B. Potential Visual Projects, but not limited to <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a. Power Point <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b. Poster or science fair board <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">c. Video create scene play (see Mr. Cook for more information) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">d. Create a graphic novel (comic book) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">e. Create a Holocaust tribute magazine (use your technology) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.5in;">III. Teacher Notes <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. This is an opportunity for each student to use his/her critical thinking skill. Be sure to think outside the box. Any project ideas not listed in section II.B need to be approved by Mr. Cook or Ms. South prior to being submitted.
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Point Value || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Points Earned ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Synopsis || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">50 ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Visual Project || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">150 ||  ||

**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Essay Topic __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: Should students, who attend North Dorchester High School, be allowed to participate in athletics at Cambridge-South Dorchester High School if the sport is not offered at North Dorchester High School? **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Value ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Actual Points **  || ( <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Classwork )  ||   || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Font **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">: Times New Roman, 12 point **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Title **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">: Times New Roman, 12 point, bold, underlined, center **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Header **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">: Each student’s name needs to be listed in the top right corner of the page with the date "March 28, 2011." || ** 10 **  ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Things to look for: ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Description **  ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Point **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell Extra Bold','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Pre-Writing ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Plan your work with an outline. ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">You have used a graphic organizer created in class to organize your essay. || ** 100 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell Extra Bold','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Essay Writing ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Lead ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The introduction paragraph uses one of the following three leads – personal feeling, question, or exaggeration. || ** 10 **  ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Thesis Statement ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A thesis statement lets your audience know what the essay will be addressing. || ** 20 **  ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Topic Sentences ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Each body paragraph needs to have a topic sentence using a different sentence structure. Students who use topic sentences from graphic organizer will succeed in this task. || ** 15 **  ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Transition Words ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Each body paragraph needs to have a transition word. || ** 15 **  ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Explanations & examples ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Each body paragraph has three easily identified details which support the topic sentence. || ** 30 **  ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Conclusion ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Students will write a good organized conclusion paragraph. This will include restating the thesis statement in another manner. || ** 10 **  ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Grammar/Mechanics ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">No use of run-on sentences, fragments, and improper capitalization. || ** 10 **  ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Layout ** || **__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Specifications: __**
 * ||  ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell Extra Bold','serif'; font-size: 20pt;">120 **  ||   ||

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=__Writing a historical eulogy__=

= Choose a character that we have studied in this class this year that you think had a positive impact on the future of America. You have been asked to speak at his/her funeral. Write an appropriate eulogy for the occasion. Use the Gettysburg Address as a model and include at least four parts of the Greek Epitaphios in your eulogy. Separate from the eulogy; identify the five parts of the Epitaphios that you use. =

Mr. Cook's Example using-- The Gettysburg Address
==Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain —that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth==

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 * == ** Actual Points ** == || == ** Possible Points ** == || == ** Description of items needed ** == ||
 * || == 10 == || == The eulogy contains at least four parts of the Greek Epitaphios; used appropriately. == ||
 * || == 5 == || == Five parts of the Greek Epitaphios are identified. == ||
 * || == 5 == || == The eulogy contains appropriate information from our studies pertaining to the person. == ||
 * || == 5 == || == The writing is well organized and there are no grammatical errors. == ||