Skills Tutor Assignments

• Go to the Skills Tutor Web Site at:  www.myskillstutor.com

• Log in by using the following information:
  User Name:  your ID #
  Password:    _____  (leave blank at first login, then create your own password)
  Site:             palm01

• After you've logged in, click Language Arts.

• You should now see various lessons & quizzes on different topics.  You must complete each Quiz & Posttest for each section by the specified date below.  The lessons are there for extra practice, but will not be graded.  You may retake any quiz to improve your score.  I will grade your highest percentage score on each quiz, but the Posttest can only be taken once, so do your best.

• Complete the following grammar sections by these due dates:

  • Capitalization Quizzes & Posttest = Oct. 16th

  • Punctuation Quizzes & Posttest = Oct. 29th

  • Usage Quizzes & Posttest = Nov. 6th

  • Spelling Quizzes & Posttest = Nov. 20th

Lord of the Flies  Island Survival Project

As in the Lord of the Flies, imagine your plane has crashed into the ocean.  You and your friends have survived and manage to make your way to a deserted island.  You have collected some items from the wreckage of the plane, but in order to survive until a rescue plane or ship arrives, you need to set up your "society."  Your project is to accomplish the following tasks:

• You must create a Survival Manual with a creative cover, a table of contents, illustrations, and text describing the elements of survival.  Luckily enough, your plane crashed on the island with certain materials & equipment from the plane and suitcases that might help you survive.  Decide as a group what materials you have, and what you can do with it to survive.  The following web sites will help you consider what survival equipment you might need.  However, it is still up to you to explain specifically what you will need to do to survive on the island.  ( 4 pages, 12 pt. font, including illustrations)  http://www.survivalequipment.net/               http://www.wilderness-survival-skills.com/
•   Create a Human Rights document to outline the principles that will guide your existence on the island.  These will be the rules to live by and the consequences for breaking the rules.  You must have at least 10 different mandates that specifically explain their effects on the society of the island, and at least three different consequences for transgressions against these rules.  Consider carefully how each of your mandates will effect or limit the actions of everyone on the island.  The following sites will be necessary in building the foundations for such a document.  ( 2 pages, 12 pt. font )   
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/rights1.htm            http://www.hrweb.org/intro.html         http://www.amnesty.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights-anniversary/udhr-film
• You must write A Day in the Life  - a narrative of what you and the other survivors go through on a daily basis to survive and exist on your island.  You can include dialogue, narration and action to show aspects of your how your survival skills are used and how some rules and principals guide your existence.  ( 2 pages, 12 pt. font )
• You will Present your Island Survival Project to the class on the required due dates. 

Finally, this completed project will be due on Thursday/Friday, December 3/4.  It will be weighted with 8 letter grades in our class.  This is clearly the most important assignment in Language Arts thus far this year, so be sure to start early and complete an outstanding project.  You will work together in your group 4 students to turn in ONE project per group.  Be sure that everyone is involved in the completion of all tasks.  Have fun, learn a little, and create a project you can be proud to present on December 3/4.