Please type your Cinderella Compare and Contrast Essay in Word, and then copy and paste it in the comments section of this post.

Please use the Venn Diagrams you created for the two Cinderella movies and complete this:

Compare And Contrast Map

After it’s completed, please print it out.

Also, please leave a comment on this post saying which movie you liked the best and why you liked it.

Please type your “My Ideal Neighborhood Essay” in a Word document, print it out, and paste it in the comments section.

First, type the first paragraph of your “Which Is The Better Neighborhood?” essay in a Word document.

Then, after you’re done, print it out and also please copy and paste it in the comments section of this post.

Please type your persuasive essay in a Word Document, and then copy and paste it in the comments section of this post.

Please go to these sites to find information for your neighborhood research sheet:

ZipSkinny

Hotpads

SacBee Homes

You can also look at apartments for rent in the area at:

My New Place

Rent Bits

My Apartment Map

Either on your own, or working with a partner, develop a short persuasive “essay” stating your position, providing reasons to support it, giving an opposing view, and then a counter argument. Create at least one each day (more would be great), and post the link in the comments section of this post.

WRITE A PICTURE STORY: Five Card Flickr Story lets you pick five photos from a group of pre-selected images from Flickr and then write a story about them. It saves your selection and story, and provides you with a link to it. No registration is required.

MAKE A TALKING PERSON: The Arby’s restaurant chain will let you take any image off the Internet and then make it talk by either recording a message on a computer microphone or using the text-to-speech feature.

MAKE A MOVIE: Use Dvolver Moviemaker to create short animations with text bubble dialogue. You can see many examples of these films on my Examples of Student Work page.

CREATE A CARTOON/COMIC: Again, there are a number of great sites in this category. They include MakeBeliefsComix and the Toronto Public Library Tell-A-Story Builder.

MAKE A SLIDESHOW: Bookr is about as easy of a slideshow maker as they get. You can search through images with a tag word, drag them into a flip-like book, and add text. My students love it. You can see some of their samples here.

PICK AN IMAGE AND WRITE A SPEECH BUBBLE: There are a number of sites that allow you to easily grab an image off the web and add a speech bubble with your text. The best one is Bubblr.

SUBTITLE A CLIP FROM A BOLLYWOOD OR A B-MOVIE: Bombay TV lets you choose a scene from a B movie from Bollywood and have fun creating subtitles for the clip.

WRITE A STORY WITH PAINTINGS: The Art of Storytelling is a site from the Delaware Art Museum that allows you pick a painting, write a short story about it, record it with your computer microphone, and email the url address for posting on a student website or blog. It’s extraordinarily simple, and extraordinarily accessible to any level of English Language Learner. No registration is required.