For Miss Geise's juniors who did not earn 100% on recent CommonLit assignments, here's an explanation of how to take Guided Notes to show mastery of reading comprehension on these pieces (and earn full credit!).
Geise Week 8, 10 Assignment 2 Walkthrough Online Learning 2020. In this video, I will be walking you through how to complete assignment 2 of week 8. This assignment involves quote integration as well as analyzing Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech for rhetorical devices and techniques.
This video shows an example of an MVCTC resume and reference sheet. I explain a few parts of the resume that often give students trouble. Then, I show the format for references and give some suggestions for who to include as references.
Geise Week 8 Assignment 2 Walkthrough Online Learning 2020. In this video, I will be walking you through how to complete assignment 2 of week 8. This assignment involves quote integration as well as analyzing Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech for rhetorical devices and techniques.
An explanation of persuasive rhetoric for American Literature class. Concepts include ethos, pathos, logos, rhetorical question, antithesis, and repetition.
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Guided Reading, part 3, read by Miss Geise. Watch this video for help on reading the story. I will ask questions, point out important parts, and overall help you understand the story as you read.
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Guided Reading, part 2, read by Miss Geise. Watch this video for help on reading the story. I will ask questions, point out important parts, and overall help you understand the story as you read.
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Guided Reading, part 1, read by Miss Geise. Watch this video for help on reading the story. I will ask questions, point out important parts, and overall help you understand the story as you read.
Geise Week 2 Juniors: American Themes Paragraph Instructions. Watch this and complete your assignment at the same time so I can walk you through your first CREW paragraph.
How to set up a quote to use as evidence when writing a paragraph (CREW Method). This video explains how to lead into your quote. Watch the next video to see how to do an internal citation.
An explanation of what should go in the body paragraphs of the Analytical Paper assignment (group 2) for the American Poetry Project Multigenre Project.
A very entertaining creative video project from Mrs. Geise's senior class for A Midsummer Night's Dream; starring Tyler Browning, Chase Dearing, Rick Adams, Jacob Rankin, Austin Bellar, and some puppets! Edited by Jacob Rankin.
For each of your genres, you must include an endnote explaining more about the piece and where the information came from. Watch the video for specific criteria and examples to help you write.
This video will help you fill out your narrative plan worksheet. This worksheet is meant to help you decide which events you will write about in your project and what genres would best suit each event in your story.
This video will help you choose which genres you would like to write in your Multigenre project. Make sure you choose pieces which would be FUN to write!
This video will help you write your Synthesis paper on obedience to authority. Watch it after you have read all 3 articles and completed summaries and opinion paragraphs on each.
Use this information to help you understand what a thesis is for a researched or other paper. Thanks to Tiffany Minton for the featured PowerPoint presentation!
This video will show you how to cite an article, essay, chapter, poem, or other small work featured in a book anthology. Mrs. Geise's class, April 11, 2014.
This video shows you how to set up a paper in MLA format, the format used in most English and Social Studies classes. It goes through header format, font, spacing, and how to save it all to a template for future use. This video uses Word 2010.
This video is specifically for Mrs. Geise's English students. This explains how to complete your sources worksheet to document information on your sources and prove that it's a reliable source. Complete ONE WORKSHEET PER SOURCE as you find sources for your paper.
Finding reliable sources can be a huge problem in research papers. There's all kinds of information out there, but how do you know that information is reliable and can be trusted? View the following video on reliable sources to learn how to determine reliability through authorship, bias, and timeliness of the source.
I know! I KNOW! You really like Wikipedia; however, your teachers are always telling you not to use it. WHY!? Don't they realize it's awesome!!? Well, students, there are some really good reasons why you shouldn't use Wikipedia in your research papers and I'm here to explain why. Watch and be converted!!
We all know plagiarism is bad and can result in zeros on assignments, office referrals, and a break down of trust between students and teachers, but what is plagiarism? How does one avoid plagiarizing? Watch this video to learn about plagiarism and some tips to avoid it. You might be surprised to learn that you may be plagiarizing and not even know it!!
Watch the following video to learn how to cite book citations for a researched paper. Create citations for your Works Cited page in English class or for your RAP paper.
In a researched paper and whenever you are using information from another source, you must use internal citations to show where that information came from. This video will show you what internal citations are and how to create them. Use this for your English classes and your RAP researched paper.
Watch the following video to learn how to cite internet citations using the website www.easybib.com. Create citations for your Works Cited page in English class or for your RAP paper.