The home page and project driven curriculum empowers the students. By empowering them, I have transferred the responsibility of the coursework to the students, which is where it belongs. At any one time, the students will be working a book report, an opinion on a current event from a web based zine, vocabulary from the web, and a class project. The books my students read come from a cyber, Internet, computer related booklist . The online zines include print newspapers or magazines with a web presence which provide access to current events.
Students prepare responses to the articles read online.
There are many vocabulary and analogy sites which offer formidable ways of providing vocabulary enrichment. To supplement writing exercises, there are many grammar related sites on the web which provide variety and reinforcement for my student-writers. All of these resources are accessed from our class syllaweb page. Projects result in poems, essays, research projects, and creative writing. The types of writing I get from the students covers many genres.