Week 1: June 8 - 11
Practice Vocabulary Words (listening, spelling, pronunciation) with these links (click the link and then click Teach Me, Test Me, or Play a Game):
Topics/Themes:
Getting to know each other
What is digital storytelling?
Favorites and Bests, Leisure Time Activities
Reading: How We Spend Our Leisure Time, Time Magazine
Graphing project: ExcelGraphingProject.doc
Digital Story Project #1
PowerPoint 2007 Instructions (courtesy of Eli Clarke)
Music to download for first project
Instructor's Sample:
Grammar:
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
PowerPoint:
Uploaded on authorSTREAM by reyesk
Online Exercises:
Comparatives and Superlatives (type correct form)
Comparatives and Superlatives (choose correct spelling)
Comparatives and Superlatives (typing)
Week 2: June 15 - 18
Themes/Topics:
Crime and Punishment
Reading: "The Reliability of Eyewitnesses" in Issues for Today
Related online games:
How good are your detective skills? * (witness game)
Inspector Wombat. Game
Madame Fate Game (good to practice vocabulary!)
Special Investigations Unit Game
Detective Grimoire Game
Found Lost Game
Digital Story Project #2:
Draft and type digital story script, revise, record voice-over narration
Grammar:
Simple Past and Past Continuous Tenses
PowerPoints:
Regular Verbs
Uploaded on authorSTREAM by kreyes
Common Irregular Verbs
Uploaded on authorSTREAM by kreyes
Past Continuous with Past
Uploaded on authorSTREAM by kreyes
Online Exercises:
Practice and quiz yourself on -ed pronunciations with these links:
Exercise 3 (wait for this to download)
Regular and Irregular Verbs
Flash quizzes on irregular forms: A - B C - D E - F G - H K - M (1)
Flash quizzes on irregular forms: P - S S More S T - W (1)
Flash review quizzes on irregular forms: Quiz 1 Quiz 2 (1)
Flash quiz on verbs with similar past/present tense forms. (1)
Flash quiz on regular/irregular verbs. (1)
A Birthday Party: Past tense questions (1)
A Disastrous Day Flash quiz on irregular forms (1)
My Beard Flash quiz on irregular forms (1)
A Little Accident Flash quiz on irregular forms (1)
Quiz yourself on past tense. Click on the link and then click Unit Self Tests 6, 7Also try Part Self Tests Self, Self Test II:
Was Playing / Played: Flash quiz on past and past in progress (1)
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/Tenses10.cfm
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastcontinuous.html
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pascon.htm
Quiz yourself on past continuous and past. Click on the link and then click Unit Self Tests 9, 10.
Week 3: June 22 - 25
Themes/Topics:
Personality
Reading: "Bumps and Personalities" in Weave it Together 3
PowerPoint for pre-reading and note-taking
Digital Story Project #2:
Storyboard and images, prepare soundtrack
Grammar:
Adjectives v. Adverbs
Wordle Assigment
PowerPoint 1: (for speaking practice)
PowerPoint 2:
Uploaded on authorSTREAM by reyesk
Online exercises:
Week 4: June 29 - July 2
Themes/Topics:
Fables
Reading: "The Outcast" by William March in Weave it Together 3
Digital Story Project #2:
Import images, audio, add titles and credits, apply effects, align audio and images
Grammar:
Conjunctions
PowerPoint:
Uploaded on authorSTREAM by kreyes
Online exercises:
Week 5: July 6 - 9
Themes/Topics:
Learning Languages
Reading: "English Around the World" in Weaving It Together 3
Pre-reading PowerPoint
Digital Story Project #2:
View rough cuts and revise: rough cut feedback form
Grammar:
Conjunctive Adverbs
Final Computer Project: Voki
Handout/sample (My Summer): MySummer.docx
Sample:
Get a Voki now!
PowerPoint
Uploaded on authorSTREAM by kreyes
Online exercises:
Week 6: July 13 - 16
Themes/Topics:
Cultural Differences
Viewing and Discussion: Real Women Have Curves
Digital Story Project #2:
Burn digital story to a CD / DVD, upload to blogs, and present: scoring sheet