Reading Milton's Literary Epic Paradise Lost

code: 1066. I would use this lesson to teach students the elements of a literary epic. I would probably teach this to an 11th or 12th grade class because it is more advanced and more difficult to understand right away. I would use sections from the Odyssey to trigger students' prior knowledge (what they learned about the Odyssey in 9th grade). The materials included with this lesson are also very interesting, and I might try to figure out a way to use the smart board with them so that the students could interact with the material.

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all for one as well as one for all

I think that there should be two separate grades- a group grade and an individual grade. I think that this is the most fair way to do this, as it will allow an evaluation of the whole work put into the project as well as allot each their due in terms of quality of work put in.

I find that it is sometimes difficult to complete my portion of the work on time not because there is too much work, but because it is a matter of determining which assignments (for this class and others) should have priority. Obviously, they each must be done by the time it s due, and so it becomes a matter of learning to work with multiple courses on your plate.

Visual Ranking

I used the visual ranking tool to set up a project where students would rank, from greatest to least, particular characters from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in terms of character development. I think this is a good way to promote higher- order thinking because students have to really pause to recall what they've read in order to do this task. They really have to stop and think when  they have to consider examples for the character who undergoes the most amount of development and the one who undergoes the least amount of development. This is just one example, however. The visual ranking tool could also be used to rank grammar terms, for example, in terms of which ones the students themselves have the most difficulty with. Similarly, I can see the Seeing Reason tool being used for plot development in certain works of literature. For example, as (some character's love for another character) increases, (that character's motivation) increases. But that's just one example.