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Archive for August 11th, 2009

Welcome Back!

Posted by mr c on 11th August 2009

Both Classes:

  • Register at mpsomaha.myelearning.org
    • Go to the site
    • your user name is your millard username
    • your password the first time is: millard
    • change your password to your millard techid
    • Search for a course by keyword: Catron
      • my AP Language & Composition and Creative Writing classes will appear.
      • click “enroll” (this is below the class title)
      • Go to the class page; save this page.

      If the Keyword Search Bar Does Not Appear:

      • The Course ID for Creative Writing is: 0033_eng_macatron
      • The Course ID for AP Lang is: 0047_eng_macatron


    • I will use the mpsomaha.myelearning.org site as my main page.

Some of you may have trouble accessing the school website. The web address has changed.

To get to the Millard West Home Page go to: http://mps.mwhs.schoolfusion.us/

AP Language:

  • For Thursday:
    • Read “The Chase”-Dillard in the Bedford. Annotate thoroughly and carefully.
    • Register for my class on the Bedford site at: Bedford St. Martins
      • When you register, use your Gaggle email, set your Millard Tech ID as your password, use macatron@mpsomaha.org as “instructor’s email”. Failure to do this will cause you not to receive credit for your quizzes.
    • Take the Quiz over “The Chase”
    • Read and annotate the class Syllabus.

Creative Writing:

  • For Thursday:
    • Appliance Poem:
      • After reading the poem I should know what your appliance likes and dislikes, what motivates it, what it hopes for. Try to speak in terms your appliance would use.
        Poem must be 80-120 words in length.
        Type and print your poem according to MLA guidelines.
  • For Friday:
    • Bring a character visual:
      • Bring an anonymous image to class. You can bring a photograph, an image from a magazine or catalog, or an image you find on the internet. The person in the image should not be famous or otherwise not known to your classmates. Find something interesting.

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