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Bookshelf: Books and Documents

Ecosystem Writing Project
John Mark Kuhns provides a set of instructions for an Ecosystem Writing Project. It outlines the requirements for researching and describing an ecosystem, including both biotic and abiotic factors, threats to the ecosystem, and its importance. The project includes specific grading criteria for the o

Work Studies
In Manitoba, students need 30 credits (17 compulsory + 13 electives) to graduate. The province has frameworks for Student Initiated Projects and Credits for Employment. We decided to combine them into what we call "Work Studies" and allow students to earn up to 4 work study credits to replace b

William Faulkner and the Southern Renaissance
This assignment provides guidance to students as they watch a short documentary on the American South's literary renaissance: https://www.learner.org/series/american-passages-a-literary-survey/southern-renaissance/ . Students are asked to summarize and interact with the material in the video by answ

Reading Outline and Journal Prompts for "A Wrinkle in Time"
This document contains a reading schedule for Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time . It also provides many journaling prompts for students to chose from as they read the book. Many of the journaling prompts in this document were taken or adapted from "Teacher's Guide for A Wrinkle in Time ," publis

Modernist Literature Final Project
The document outlines the final project for a unit on Modernist Literature. Students are asked to recite and explicate a short passage of poetry or prose. Explication is a way to clarify pieces of writing (Gardner, et al. “Reading and Writing about Literature,” in Literature: A Portable Anthology ).
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