Lesson Twenty Two: The Voyage Home

1. Focus and Review

• Journal Time based on yesterday's question of the day.
• Discussion of journals in class.
• Go to computer Lab
  

2. Objectives

• Standard Course of Study Goal English I:

• 2.04 Form and refine a question for investigation, using a topic of personal choice, and answer that question by using non print sources and using interactive technology. (Writing Essay)

• 3.02 Express an Informed opinion that states clearly a personal view. (Daily Journal Entry).

• Standard Course of Study Computer Competency Goal for 9th Grade students:

• 4.01  Identify information needs and formulate questions about those needs.
  
• 4.05 Gather information from the most effective resources.
  
• 5.02 Produce Media in various formats.
  
• 5.06  Apply fair use copyright guidelines (Copyright Law, P.L. 94-553) in all projects.

• This lesson is an assess and publish lesson because students will be taking information that they have received from classmates and editing their essays and inserting them into their web sites.  They will be using the outliner to organize their essay, and they will be learning to use spell and grammar checks as they finalize their final draft.

• Materials needed are student journals, Computer lab 30 students, Netscape Communicator, Netscape Navigator, and Word, a hand out with web addresses, instruction sheet on how to use outliner,  paper, pencils, sticky notes.
  

3. Teacher Input

 
• Review copyright and fair use guidelines with students.
• Discuss any questions with  project rubric with students, and discuss questions and concerns regarding web site project.
• Basic lesson on how to make a better essay.
   

4. Independent Practice

• Students cite any Odyssey web sites they have used in their projects.  They get to choose from the list and find things that interest them and that they want to use in their web site.
• http://search.britannica.com/frm_redir.jsp?query=the+odyssey&redir=http://www.velocity.net/~jutman/homer.htm

• http://members.nbci.com/bladesmaster/myths/odyssey.html

• http://www.cc.emory.edu/CARLOS/ODYSSEY/GREECE/dailywear.html

• http://library.thinkquest.org/10805/greece.html

• http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9705/seven.wonders/

5. Guided Practice

• Students are guided through placing their essay in the outliner in word, and then cutting and pasting their completed essay on the web page.
  

• Students work by themselves and in a group to finalize their essays and input them into their web site.  This is the construction phase, so students will be cutting and pasting from outliner and Netscape into their web page.
  

6. Closure

• Go over objectives of the day.
• Today we have begun the process of completing our web site by exploring the rubric in creating our final product.
• Today we will have learned to use copyright guidelines and fair use guidelines. 
• Today we will have cited our non print source on the web.
• Today we have explored ideas about the Odyssey through the writing process as we assess and publish our essays into our web sites. 
• Today we have created our essay in outliner which we then cut and pasted into our web site.
• Today we have learned how to edit a Netscape document.
• Today we have created a solid  web page which is ready to be published.

• Informal Question and Answer time with Students

• Question of the Day and your journal question for tomorrow is:
• Analysis:  What is the function of the outliner in Word?