Elective Credit Choices
Project Ideas for Credit:
Project Ideas for Credit:
- Type 35 WPM with 3 or fewer errors: 5 credits
- Average 80% or higher on all math Unit Tests: 5 credits
- Create a lesson for Art or PE and teach it to your class: 5 credits
- Demonstrate a talent for your class: 5 credits
- Create an invention that can be put on display for your class: 5 credits
- Write a three-page story (10 - 12 pt font, double spaced, 1 inch margins): 5 credits
- Write a poem: 5 credits
- Draw a picture that makes a connection to a grade level topic you’ve recently learned: 5 credits
- Paint a picture that makes a connection to a grade level topic you’ve recently learned: 5 credits
- Take a picture that makes a connection to a grade level topic you’ve recently learned: 5 credits
- Create a sculpture that makes a connection to a grade level topic you’ve recently learned: 5 credits
- Write & publish 2 non-assigned writing pieces: 5 credits
- Advance 4 reading levels or be at "z"by the end of the year: 5 credits
- Create a science experiment that includes the scientific method: 10 credits
- Write and film a movie (9-sentence story board): 10 credits
- Research and write a five page typed report of your choice with bibliography: 10 credits
- Computer created personal history timeline: 10 credits
- Write two articles or two comics for the school newspaper and submit them on the shared drive to "Falcon's" mailbox under "newspaper": 5 credits
D U of Learning - Associate's Degree
Assignment Requirements:
- Read 2 unassigned chapter books, with at least 100 pages. Complete a book report for it.
- Read an informational book of your choice, at or above your reading level. Complete a book report for it.
- Review the math tab on this site. Watch 3 Learn Zillion videos using the “form” to take complete notes. Submit completed form, with your parents signature, to your teacher.
- Choose and complete three project ideas totaling, at least, 20 elective credits.
DU of Learning - Bachelor's Degree
Assignment Requirements:
- Read 2 unassigned chapter books, with at least 100 pages. Complete a book report from the list of 30 ways to share a book.
- Read an informational book, then print and complete book report from the list of 30 ways to share a book.
- Review the math tab on this site. Watch 3 Learn Zillion videos using the “form” to take complete notes. Submit completed form with your parents signature.
- Review three science links from the "Science" tab on this site. Fill out a checkout slip for each site you visited.
- Memorize the "Don't Quit" poem, then recite it to your teacher.
- Choose and complete four project ideas totaling, at least, 25 elective credits.
DU of Learning - Master's Degree
Assignment Requirements:
- Read a chapter book, with at least 100 pages, then create a power point presentation that illustrates (pictures) and describes (words) the following story elements: genre, characters, setting, plot (main events), conflict/resolution, point of view. Please create a slide for each story element. Present the power point to the class.
- Review the math tab on this site. Watch 3 Learn
Zillion videos using the “form” to take complete notes. Submit
completed form with your parents signature.
- Review three science links from the "Science" tab on this site. Fill out a checkout slip for each site you visited.
- Review language arts tab on this site. Fill out a checkout slip for each site you visited.
- Find a poem of your choice. Memorize the poem, then recite it to your teacher.
- Use a digital camera to take 10 pictures of your family and friends, then create an iMovie with the photographs. Present your iMovie to the class.
- Choose and complete five project ideas totaling, at least, 30 elective credits.
DU of Learning - Doctorate's Degree
Assignment Requirements:
- Read a chapter book off the Newbery Book list. Then, complete the two parts to this assignment after reading the book. First, create a comic document that illustrates the main events of the story. Second, research the author of the book you read. Create another comic document that highlights the author. For example: who the author is, when they wrote the book, other books they have written, and any other interesting details about that person. Present the comic to the class. Online comic tool: http://chogger.com/
- Read a historical-fiction novel (See me if you need help finding a historical fiction novel!). Use the venn diagram graphic in to create a compare/contrast of how life was during the book's historical time and life today in the year 2012-2013. Present your venn diagram to the class.
- Review the math tab on this site. Watch 3 Learn Zillion videos using the “form” to take complete notes. Submit completed form with your parents signature.
- Review three science links from the "Science" tab on this site. Fill out a checkout slip for each site you visited.
- Review five language arts links from the "Language Arts" tab on this site. Fill out a green checkout slip for each site you visited.
- Think of a survey question to ask a group of at least 100 students. Survey the students. Analyze your survey results, then create a graph that illustrates your findings. Type a seven sentence paragraph that tells what you learned from your survey. Present your findings to the class.
- Write a poem. Memorize the poem, then recite it to your teacher and the class.
- Go to the Zoom website, find a skit from the playhouse list. Ask friends, family members, and YOU to memorize the lines to one of the skits. Practice the skit until everyone knows their lines without goofing up or looking at the script. (Feel free to add props and costumes!) Then, video tape the skit! Edit your work and present it to the class.
- Choose and complete seven project ideas totaling, at least, 35 elective credits.
Don't Quit Poem:
Don't Quit
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will
When the road you're trudging seems uphill
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile but you have to sigh
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you never can tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems afar
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst that you musn't quit.
Don't Quit
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will
When the road you're trudging seems uphill
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile but you have to sigh
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you never can tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems afar
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst that you musn't quit.