Culturally Relevant Inspiration A number of important resources supporting the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of culturally relevant instructional experiences are available online. Throughout this course, you have had many opportunities to view a number of such resources. This assignment encourages you to reflect on the key concepts presented in the course through the creation of a web-based tool that you can use in the […]

Why Write a Literary Analysis? Literature teaches us about the value of conflict. We experience conflict in our personal relationships and in our interactions with society. Literary analysis helps us recognize the conflict at work in literature, which gives us greater insight into the personal conflicts that we face. In addition, learning how to closely read, analyze, and critique a text is beneficial beyond a […]

Supporting Diversity Through 21st-Century Teaching and Learning This assignment re-introduces you to the framework of 21st Century Skills that you will consider each week as you work to redesign prior coursework for your ePortfolio. Note that a similar format is followed for each of the assignments in this course. You will upload this assignment to the course for evaluation and to your ePortfolio (Pathbrite). Specifically, after […]

Assignment This week, you begin writing your journal entries. This journal is designed to give you practice in academic writing, which is very different from the personal essay writing that you have been practicing. Academic writing entails making a point and supporting that point with information from a reputable source. There are three ways to support a point with information from a source: quoting, paraphrasing, […]

According to Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, and Schellinger (2011):  A key challenge for 21st-century schools involves serving culturally diverse students with varied abilities and motivations for learning…Unfortunately, many students lack social-emotional competencies and become less connected to school as they progress from elementary to middle school to high school, and this lack of connection negatively affects their academic performance, behavior, and health (p. 405).   In […]

1.What are some recommendations for shaping the 21st century as far as determining new technologies, their use and highly developed nation’s values?  Contrast this with the ideas of 20th century U.S. values related to technology, industrialized nations, crime, consumerism, and support of new technologies.  How should the developed world support the developing world in these strategies?  What kind of relationship (cooperation versus confrontation) do you […]

Essay 2: Writing to InformUsing any or all of the 3 article databases in the APUS Online Library (Proquest, EBSCO, and/or the LexisNexis) research the topic you have chosen in Week 3, and write an essay in which you inform the reader about the topic. Do not, however, write the essay in the first person. Instead, write in the third person—i.e., “Astronomy is an innately […]

ENG 102Research Essay: Art Spiegelman’s Maus Task: prepare a 6-7 page (double spaced) argument-based, thesis-driven research essay created in response to one of the below prompts on Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Your essay should also contain 3-4 secondary sources suitable for a scholarly essay. 2 of these must be peer reviewed academic journal article (the type of material found on JSTOR). Option 1:  Analyze the extent […]

Essay 1- Informative Essay Task: For this first assignment, you will compose a 3 1/2 -4 page researched essay that explains a current trend in your field. You should not merely summarize or tell me what you already know about the field but rather use this as an opportunity to research and find out something new about what is happening in your field at the […]

You are going to write in some depth about an “ah ha moment.” This means, a moment when you gained a deeper understanding or insight into the assignment and how to meet some part of the assignment. This “moment” of clarity or understanding may have occured during Invention, Arrangement, or in drafting and revision during our in-class discussion or workshop. It may have occurred while […]