Folktale

What are the differences between folktale, folklore, and legends?

http://www.whatisdifferencebetween.com/culture/what-is-the-difference-between-epic-folklore-folktale-mythology-myth-legend.html

link

http://www.billtelford.net/sirgawain/Quest/medieval_webquest.htm

Chinese vs. Japan

What are two similarities and two differences between these two types of literature?

Poem

I love to write stuff
especially in English
I love to write, yes


What type of poem is this?  How do you know?

advertisement

You want to create a commercial for chocolate.  What  are you going to include in the commercial?

Reflection

 Reflect on your own persuasive speech.  How are the pillars of persuasion in your speech going to affect your audience?  Which one will be the most important to the speech?

Propaganda

What is bias?  Name some ways in which you can find the bias in someone's speech.

in text citations

What are in text citations, and why are they important?

Intro Paragraph

Read the introduction paragraph to an essay.  Respond:

What does this author do when writing his introduction?  What elements does he include?

Physical education is required in every American high school and for a good reason too. Many kids argue that P.E. classes aren’t important. These claims are false and are an example of the laziness of today’s youth. There are many reasons why physical education should be required, but perhaps the most important are that P.E. is good for one’s health, it teaches students about exercise and nutrition, it helps relieve stress, and it helps students develop healthy habits that they can use now and in the future.

Annotation

Why is it important to annotate?

Key Points

 Read the following article.  Copy and paste 5 key points into your response.






Washington (CNN) -- Will pot politics push Florida Democrat Charlie Crist to victory on his quest to regain the governor's mansion?

That's what some Democrats are hoping.

Polls show Crist and his GOP rival, current Gov. Rick Scott, are neck-and-neck. A Quinnipiac University survey released Monday has Crist at 42%, Scott with 41%, Libertarian candidate Adrian Wyllie with 7%, and 9% of likely voters still undecided. Public Policy Polling released Sunday had the Crist and Scott at 44% each.

Crist's law partner, John Morgan, spent millions to get an amendment to legalize medical marijuana on the ballot on Tuesday -- a move some say was meant to help Crist win by boosting turnout from Democratic-leaning groups.

"Democrats in Florida privately hope that having a medical marijuana initiative on the ballot can bring out a set of voters who aren't otherwise likely to vote in a midterm election," said Reid Wilson, a Washington Post reporter who closely follows state politics. "It's very political calculation and one that frankly Charlie Crist's allies have put a lot of money into."

In a sign of a growing trend, 23 states and the District of Columbia have already legalized medical marijuana. Florida is not the only state where pot is on the ballot this year -- voters in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C., have a chance on Tuesday to approve measures legalizing recreational use of marijuana, following in the footsteps of pot pioneers Washington and Colorado, where weed has proved to be big business. State records show marijuana sales brought in an average of roughly $332,000 a month to Colorado communities in the first eight months of the year.

There has been some big money behind the ballot battle in the Sunshine State. According to the Center for Public Integrity, an estimated $4.7 million has been spent on television ads supporting both sides of the debate. Most of that money -- $3.9 million -- has been spent by opponents of the ballot measure, who are financed in large part by conservative casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.

In contrast, after a massive effort to get the measure on the ballot, Morgan and his supporters have spent just $828,800 on television ads urging voters to pass the amendment -- a disadvantage that could prove decisive in a race that will come down to the wire.

That means it could be anybody's game.

Holder 'cautiously optimistic' on legal pot

"The campaign against [the amendment] has been pretty aggressive and I think pretty effective based on the polls so there are a lot of people who are now actually kind of mobilizing to vote against medical marijuana initiative, because they think it's just problematic, too many loopholes, too easy for people to basically be selling marijuana out in the open," said Adam Smith, the political editor of the Tampa Bay Times. "So there's at least some speculation that rather than driving young people who are inclined to vote for it to the polls, it's going to motivate people who are against it to turn out which could help Rick Scott.

The amendment needs 60% to pass and while many polls show strong support for the initiative, it is not clear that there is enough to pass it -- a sign that Democrats' high hopes the ballot measure could sway the race for their guy could go up in smoke.

Watch

Watch the following commercial. Answer the question:

Does this commercial make you feel bad for the animals?  What about the commercial makes you feel that way? 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO9d2PpP7tQ