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=Some important information for everyone to get going:=
 * There are 5 Edmodo groups, each with a separate code.
 * Please request membership to this wiki so you can add your school's information.
 * Links to the examples for the week will be in folders on the sidebar.
 * Feel free to have students share other examples they find that would be interesting to the group.
 * Glogster plays well with Edmodo so I plan to use this tool and have my students share what they make.
 * My email is weiteljorg@shipleyschool.org if you have any questions.

=A Few Examples of work from last year:=

===1. Here is an example of what a student wrote as a book character. She was writing as Philip from __The Cay__. The first bit that summarizes some of the plot is from the book, the rest is all her.===

I believe that war is not the answer. This is my story. I used to think that war was a game. I played it with my friends. It didn’t matter who won because everything would turn out okay in the end. No one really got hurt or anything. Sure there were scrapes on the knee but that could be fixed with a band-aid. But I found out war wasn’t play, but affects lives. One of those lives was mine.

One day war came to my island where I live. I was really excited to see the game I’ve always played in real live action and I thought it would be so cool. My mother disagreed. She hardly liked that my friends and I played war. She decided that we would take boat to Virginia, where I was born, and we would be safe. My dad had to stay and help with repairing boats for the army. It was already mad that I had to leave my dad. It got worse though. On the way there, we were hit by an enemy torpedo. Everything went black. I was blind. I sailed to an island with a man I didn’t know, only to have him die. That left me alone. War isolates people,not only physically, but mentally too. I didn’t see half the terrors that a soldier sees. It scars people forever, like it did to me. This kind of scar can’t be fixed with a band-aid. This is how my life changed.

Now this may make you think that there is no hope. But there is. All of the things I just described could vanish completely. It’s not just that war is bad, but that peace is good. If we all advocate peace, not war, then we could have a better world. War is not the only option you know. Even the generals in the army say they don’t fight just to win, but so that there can be peace. I think that if we all work together, war will stop. I don’t just think-I believe.

2. This is an example of a podcast of a student's personal essay. He loves to do puzzles.
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