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Assignment of English is the important part of the life of each student and preparation. These missions can be totally different, but they all aim to develop specific skills for students of English and other areas related to it

This blog post would be fun to turn into a writing assignment: Have minor characters in a novel your students are studying discuss the other minor characters in the manner of Mr. Palmer.

"Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language brings together historical and contemporary works of art that treat language not merely as a system of communication governed by grammatical rules and assigned meanings, but as a material that can be manipulated with creative freedom, like paint, clay, or any other artistic medium. The exhibition is divided into two sections. The first is a historical overview of 20th-century art that experiments with the graphic, sonic, and kinetic possibilities of letters and words. With a few notable exceptions, these works are confined to the two-dimensional parameters of a page. The second section presents an installation of contemporary works, most of which do away with the page; some do away with writing altogether. The artist and poet Emmett Williams observed that "the poem as picture is as old as the hills," citing its beginnings in hieroglyphics,"

We create a single wiki, "A Critical Supplement to Major History Textbooks," and create a page on it for each textbook we're using, in whatever class. In our classrooms, we assign student teams to tackle each section of the textbook by identifying any perceived biases, coverage emphases and de-emphases, omissions, errors of fact, and so forth, in that section, and publish their findings on that textbook's page on the wiki.

A remarkable site that posts up each Sunday. Beware that you not send students to this site as an assignment: Often very adult content that will cost you your job by day's end! I do, however, often print up single postings to transparency or as single ima

St. Columba's College English department's transition year extended essay assignment is a great project.

Annual contest: write a letter to the author of a poem or book that changed your life. Great writing assignment.

Keep in mind to restate the name and deviser of the assigned reading in the conclusion. Ultimate elements for your critical composition The critical essay is defined as didactic evaluation supported by convincing and professional evidential support. Read more: http://education.ezinemark.com/how-to-write-a-critical-essay-7d2ca37506f.html#ixzz1HQnxiSS7 Under Creative Commons License: Attribution No Derivatives

Outstanding video from Penny Kittle. Her high school students explain how they get around required reading in school.

Coherent, concise assessment of the reactionary nature of school, not "learning"