Ted Project
School Assignments Secondary English
Introductory Writing Assignment
Due May 29, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Write under a page about someone who has inspired you. It will be a way for me to get know you and your writing better.
If you have trouble submitting the assignment via assignment tab, email me your assignment at ymaing@gse.upenn.edu (personal email) or yewonmaing@ilbc.edu.mm (school mail).
GRIT Essay
English (Tr Maing)
Due June 1, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Write about your opinion on Angela Duckworth’s argument on GRIT? Feel free to refer to your own experiences or experiences of famous people who have demonstrated grit and perseverance in their lives.
English Line Graph
English (Tr Maing)
Due June 5, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Create your own English Line Graph thinking about areas where you have been able to show growth, and goals you’ll like to be setting for upcoming year.
Master Harold and the Boys summary
English (Tr Maing)
Due June 8, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Write a 250 words minimum summary of the play, Master Harold and the Boys
Book Review Journal
English (Tr Maing)
Due June 12, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Pick a book by Friday that you would like to review on. Get started on reading, and post a photo of the book including a passage you would like to write about in detail. Write a journal entry about specific passages writing your thoughts and reflections.
Vocabulary Assignment
English (Tr Maing)
Due June 12, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Make 10 sentences using the words from the Power Point slides.
Dreams and Hopes Assignment (1 page)
English (Tr Maing)
Resources Reflection
Due June 19, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Write one page reflection on one of the youtube videos you have watched or blog posts you have read for class this week.
Ali Abdahl
Tim Ferris (Tool of Titans)
Journal Entry Assignment
T Maing
Due June 26, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Write one page reflection on one of the resources we used this week (video, lecture) or topic of your own from this week that you would like to reflect on.
Student work
Inside Bill’s Brain Reflection Paper
Due July 3, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Write one page reflection paper on the documentary, Inside Bill’s Brain we have watched for this week.
Improvising a Scene Drama Unit Assignment
Due July 10, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Using questions from the textbook provided in the powerpoint slides, write your own drama for the drama unit.
Refer to Files section for all assignments for this week. And submit a photo of yourself to help me identify your work.
The Landlady Roal Dahl Questions and Vocabulary Assignment
Due July 10, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Read the story The Landlady by Roal Dahl and answer questions provided in the Powerpoint slides. Then find 10 words you would like to know meaning of and make 10 sentences using those words.
Book Review Journal Entry
Due July 17, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Write one page book review for one of the books you have read for school or on your own. This assignment would toward the Independent Reading component of our school syllabus.
Michelle Obama Becoming Reflection Paper
Due July 17, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Write one page reflection of Michelle Obama’s Becoming in continuation of our documentary reflection series.
A Doll’s House Summary Assignment
Due July 24, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Write one page summary of the play, A Doll’s House we would be reading for our Drama Unit.
Interview Assignment
Due July 24, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Interview one of your family members for the narrative writing assignment. Feel free to interview them about their hobbies, childhood, relationship with you or any topic of your choice. This would count toward the narrative writing component of our school syllabus.
Drama Unit Henry IV Assignment
Due July 31, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Read through Henry IV extracts on page 55 and answer questions on page 56. The file is under Files section of the General Section inside the Class Materials Folder.
Vocabulary Assignment
Due July 31, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Write ten sentences using the vocabulary from Hackers 2 Powerpoint slides listed under the Files section of our class.
Informal Letter Writing Assignment
Due November 26, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Option A
Research about the different nobel laureate winners. Choose your field of study and write an informal letter to one of the nobel prize laureates.
Option B
Pick a Tedtalk relevant to your field of interest.
E.g: Brene Brown: On Vulnerability
Hans Rosling: Statistics and Developing/Developed Countries
Write an informal letter to one of the speakers of your interest.
Option C
Reflections on Documentary, The Last Dance on the Biography of Micahel Jordan
Option D
Write about a reflection after having said “I love you” to your parents. This assignment has been carried out in a university where students had to confess something that they wouldn’t be saying on a everyday basis (“I love you”) and students had varying responses from “Did you run out of your allowance?”, “Mom says she has already sent you an allowance” to akward pauses. Write about your responses as a reflection piece after having completed the activity.
Ninth Book Review Assignment
Due December 4, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Bluest Eye + Crime and Punishment (essays, literary devices)
Crime and Punishment (Ted)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2554/2554-h/2554-h.htm (PDF)
Role of the Dream (Essay Attached)
Toni Morrison (Interview)
Bluest Eye (Essay Attached)
Feel free to choose books of your own or we would have read aloud in class, writing letters to one another recommending the book to your partners in the other section.
Tenth Book Review Assignment
Due December 11, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Holes Book Review + Movie (Diagram of Holes/Camp)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqi_StXDhpU (Movie)
http://www.huzheng.org/geniusreligion/AnimalFarm.pdf (PDF)
Animal Farm (Representation/ Research) + Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGzRf0Ow1qU (Movie)
http://www.huzheng.org/geniusreligion/AnimalFarm.pdf (PDF)
Themes to consider: 10 commandments, some animals are more equal than others, social commentary/representation of Russian Revolution
To Kill a Mocking Bird
https://www.chino.k12.ca.us/cms/lib/CA01902308/Centricity/Domain/4957/To-Kill-a-Mockingbird.pdf (Study Guide)
http://giove.isti.cnr.it/demo/eread/Libri/angry/Mockingbird.pdf (PDF)
Elie Wiesel: Night
http://faculty.valenciacollege.edu/rgair/NIGHT%20Revised%20Study%20Guide%20REA%2002.pdf (Study Guide)
https://www.westada.org/cms/lib/ID01904074/Centricity/Domain/2311/NIGHT-FULL-TEXT-PDF.pdf (PDF)
Classics Summarized:
Feel free to explore the youtube channel which includes classics including Bewoulf, Lord of the Flies, Macbeth, Frankenstein and many other books we would have talked about in class.
Current Events Informal Letter Writing Assignment
Due December 18, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
Writing letters to one another concerning one of the current events.
Feel free to explore the Zero Project launched by Harvard Graduate School of Education where you will be able to find variety of resources, tools, books, articles and videos under the resources section on the website. You could start by introducing a innovative feature from the website that could help your peer navigate through their current events project.
Design Lab
Literary Devices Multiple Choice Questions
Due December 25, 2020 11:59 PM
Instructions
1. “All men are enemies. All animals are comrades” (George Orwell, Animal Farm)
A. Personification
B. Point of View
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Alliteration
2. “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.” (William Golding, Lord of the Flies)
A. Onomatopoeia
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Alliteration
3. “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.” (William Shakespeare, Macbeth)
A. Hyperbole
B. Point of View
C. Metaphor
D. Repetition
4. “It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.” (Mary Shelley, Frankentstein)
A. Point of View
B. Irony
C. Metaphor
D. Simile
5. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mocking Bird)
A. Metaphor
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Simile
D. Alliteration
6. “If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers…” (Antonine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince)
A. Metaphor
B. Point of View
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Alliteration
7. “Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson
A. Onomatopoeia
B. Point of View
C. Metaphor
D. Alliteration
8. “From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.” (Herman Melville, Moby Dick)
A. Hyperbole
B. Alliteration
C. Point of View
D. Personification
9. Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, “Come and find out.” (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness)
A. Personification
B. Alliteration
C. Point of View
D. Onomatopoeia
10. “I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God’s help I catch some.” (Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea)
A. Simile
B. Repetition
C. Point of View
D. Hyperbole
11. “Still immersed in his dream, he drank down the tepid tea. It tasted bitter. Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.” (Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea)
A. Personification
B. Metaphor
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Point of View
Find 5 examples of literary devices among books you would have read or that we would have covered in class to share with the rest of the class.
Practice Test Reading Comprehension Questions + Summary Exercise
Due January 1, 2021 11:59 PM
Instructions
- Refer to the first attached file (CamScanner to read through the text about Land Policy in Medieval Japan and answer multiple choice questions from the textbook)
- Read the science article about Importance of Touch on Development done on Lab Rats and summarize the article in your own words.
Article Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865952/
Current Events Project (First Draft Stage)
Due January 8, 2021 11:59 PM
Instructions
As part of the project requirement we have to be fulfilling for the semester, we will be completing a Current Events project.
There will be three stages to the project.
Jan 8th: 1st draft proposal stage (1 page describing the idea you will be writing about) – 10pts
Jan 15th: 2nd draft (2-3 pages elaborating on your idea) – 10pts
Jan 22nd: final draft (3-5 pages final draft on your idea) – 20pts
You will be choosing a current events you will be writing about from your project (it could be the same topic that you had written to your partner for the letter writing assignment, but make sure there is enough information on the topic for you to do enough research to write 3-5 pages final report on the topic)
A report is part of a directive writing piece where you might be analyzing, explaining, analyzing, comparing or contrasting issues.
Feel free to extend your project into a tedtalk, video that raises awareness or calls for action for a current event or cause of your interest (environmental issues).
Feel free to refer to Out of Eden project where mapping out of the neighborhood and recording stories and documentation of the neighborhood (photos, sketches) could serve as a personal project you could turn this project into.
There are total of six sample papers provided in this assignment tab:
1) Development of Education in developing countries: Southeast Asian Countreis (Group Project)
2) Refugee Education Policies
3) China funding African countries
4) One Laptop Per Child Project Report
5) Cash Transfer Policies Evaluation Report
6) Development in Africa
These topics and skills would also be very similar to the topics and issues you will be encountering in MUN or Social Studies (History) class.
The first two stages will each be worth 10 pts and the final draft will be worth 20 pts, totaling 40 pts for the entire project.
Current Events Project (Second Draft)
Due January 15, 2021 11:59 PM
Instructions
As part of the project requirement we have to be fulfilling for the semester, we will be completing a Current Events project.
There will be three stages to the project.
Jan 8th: 1st draft proposal stage (1 page describing the idea you will be writing about) – 10pts
Jan 15th: 2nd draft (2-3 pages elaborating on your idea) – 10pts
Jan 22nd: final draft (3-5 pages final draft on your idea) – 20pts
You will be choosing a current events you will be writing about from your project (it could be the same topic that you had written to your partner for the letter writing assignment, but make sure there is enough information on the topic for you to do enough research to write 3-5 pages final report on the topic)
A report is part of a directive writing piece where you might be analyzing, explaining, analyzing, comparing or contrasting issues.
There are total of six sample papers provided in the first draft assignment tab:
1) Development of Education in developing countries: Southeast Asian Countreis (Group Project)
2) Refugee Education Policies
3) China funding African countries
4) One Laptop Per Child Project Report
5) Cash Transfer Policies Evaluation Report
6) Development in Africa
Additional Resources to look at:
Gapminder:
Tedtalk (Hans Rosling)
These topics and skills would also be very similar to the topics and issues you will be encountering in MUN or Social Studies (History) class.
The first two stages will each be worth 10 pts and the final draft will be worth 20 pts, totaling 40 pts for the entire project.
Option B:
As a sequel to I love you to your parents project, write a reflection paper for what you’ll like to be written on your tomb, what you would like to have be remembered for (or a will to your family) where you reflect about what you’ll like people to remember you for as they participate in your funeral.
Current Events (Final Draft) OPTIONAL
Due January 22, 2021 11:59 PM
Instructions
As part of the project requirement we have to be fulfilling for the semester, we will be completing a Current Events project.
There will be three stages to the project.
Jan 8th: 1st draft proposal stage (1 page describing the idea you will be writing about) – 10pts
Jan 15th: 2nd draft (2-3 pages elaborating on your idea) – 10pts
Jan 22nd: final draft (3-5 pages final draft on your idea) – 20pts
You will be choosing a current events you will be writing about from your project (it could be the same topic that you had written to your partner for the letter writing assignment, but make sure there is enough information on the topic for you to do enough research to write 3-5 pages final report on the topic)
A report is part of a directive writing piece where you might be analyzing, explaining, analyzing, comparing or contrasting issues.
There are total of six sample papers provided in the first draft assignment tab:
1) Development of Education in developing countries: Southeast Asian Countreis (Group Project)
2) Refugee Education Policies
3) China funding African countries
4) One Laptop Per Child Project Report
5) Cash Transfer Policies Evaluation Report
6) Development in Africa
Additional Resources to look at:
Gapminder:
Tedtalk (Hans Rosling)
News Websties:
National Geographic
United Nations
New York Times
Forbes
CNN
WSJ
Washington Post
NPR
Economist
BBC
These topics and skills would also be very similar to the topics and issues you will be encountering in MUN or Social Studies (History) class.
The first two stages will each be worth 10 pts and the final draft will be worth 20 pts, totaling 40 pts for the entire project.
The Good Project Dilemmas Mini-Project (OPTIONAL)
Tr Maing
Due January 29, 2021 11:59 PM
Instructions
dilemma
/dɪˈlɛmə,dʌɪˈlɛmə/
noun
- a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially ones that are equally undesirable.
Choose a dilemma you’ll like to be resolving from one of the dilemmas presented in the Good Project Website and answer the questions from the website on how you will be resolving the dilemma after having read through the synopsis provided in one of the columns on the website.
Or choose to write about a dilmma you had to solve for yourselves.
Other Options
- Write about the documentary we would have watched on Coronavirus Explained. Explore the historical, cultural, relational aspects of the pandemic as explored in the pandemic for various countries.
- Write about The Creative Brain. Explore the different ways in which creativity is spurred in different countries, importance of creativity and how it may be developed both personally and at the global scale.
- Write about 14 Minutes from Earth, a doumentary on sapce that we would have watched. Write a descriptive writing piece on what the experience of being in space would be like.
Explore any of these options to write a one page reflection paper.
Siddhartha Herman Hesse Book Review Assignment
Due February 5, 2021 11:59 PM
Instructions
Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) PDF
“No longer knowing whether time existed, whether this display had lasted a second or a hundred years, whether there was a Siddhartha, or a Gotama, a Self and others, wounded deeply by a divine arrow which gave him pleasure, deeply enchanted and exalted, Govinda stood yet a while bending over Siddhartha’s peaceful face which he had just kissed, which had just been the stage of all present and future forms. His countenance was unchanged after the mirror of the thousand-fold forms had disappeared from the surface. He smiled peacefully and gently, perhaps very graciously, perhaps very mockingly, exactly as the Illustrious One had smiled.”
Siddhartha, from the Brahmin family is destined to be the heir of his father taking on the traditions of his family and become the prince of the caste members. But he meets religious leaders and instructors along the way that waver his decisions about becoming the prince of the caste members. Read about his life journey and decision making processes where he wavers between his family expectations and his struggle to reach personal enlightenment. Refer to the Reading Guide below to complete a book review of the book. Then write a letter to your peer about the reflections about the book in the form of an informal letter. We will be discussing the book in class.
The Great Gatsby Book Review
Due February 12, 2021 11:59 PM
Instructions
Read The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald and write a summary concerning some of the important themes and character analysis of the book.
The Great Gatsby (PDF)
Reading Guide (Additional Resource)
The Clay Marble Book Review
Due February 19, 2021 11:59 PM
Instructions
Sign up at archive.org to borrow the photocopied version of the book (The Clay Marble) on the website. You could be checking out the book 1 hour at a time. The archive contains many other books that you would be able to take a look at while at home. The link below also includes the Study Guide that goes along with the book where you would be introduced to the author, main characters, setting, signifiance of several themes, and other key components to the book. Write a one page review about the book, or book of your choice for completion of this assignment.
Create your own country Mini-Projet
Due February 26, 2021 11:59 PM
Instructions
Include diagrams of money, flag, clothing, or food of the country and descriptions of the family, education, government to be completing this project.
Experiment with the following website to experiment with various components that make up a nation-state/country.
Feel free to explore the arts and culture page in google for insights to your own project.
Final Reflection Assignment
Due March 12, 2021 11:59 PM
Instructions
Complete the Strengths Finder 2.0 Survey to find out about your individual strengths. Reflect about how you have grown and developed as a thinker and learned over the course of the year with reference to any of your favorite project, assignment or classwork with reflections about what you made most out of your assignments. This could be completed as a peer letter assignment that you could be addressing to someone within the class. Feel free to make references to any of your peer work we would have reviewed in class as well.
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