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Create a personal web site that tells the story of your life. Be creative and unique, yet meet accepted W3C suggestions. Incorporate graphics and write your own CSS/XHTML code based upon the mock page design developed previously in Photoshop.

This rubric is useful for assessing student performance during a lab activity.

Students are to research and write an essay comparing and contrasting the response of two Asian societies to foreign imperialism during the nineteenth century. The essay must use a minimum of three sources and must include a bibliography; no more than two sources may be from the Internet. The student should read the "Accelerated" column of the rubric to understand the expectations for high-quality work.

AusVELS Achievement Standards: * Students understand how to use a variety of language features to create different levels of meaning. * Students demonstrate how manipulating language features and images can create innovative texts. * They create texts that respond to issues interpreting and integrating ideas from other texts. * They edit for effect, selecting vocabulary and grammar that contribute to the precision and persuasiveness of texts and using accurate spelling and punctuation.

The Discussion Forum is to be based on Your reading of the text book and other sources prior to the discussion. It should be student guided and professionally conducted with respectful attitudes, even through addressing differing opinions.

Students are to write a story that demonstrates their understanding of the stages of plot and the characteristics of a short story/short novel and the elements of dystopian fiction.

Students are to write a short story that demonstrates their understanding of the stages of plot and the characteristics of a short story and the elements of dystopian fiction.

This activity allows students to research and identify various aspects of some of the major world religions including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Students will use the World Wide Web to conduct research, recording their findings in Microsoft Word or Power Point or some other approved form and complete a visual display of the information they find.

Using the rhetorical strategies learned in class, students will give a call to action persuasive speech to their peers. They must persuade their audience to take action on a cause. They will be assessed on content and delivery.