Welcome to the OCHS Senior English Project Webpage!
This page will be your portal to your final English project, the one you must complete and that you will have so much fun completing before you graduate and move on to all of the wonderful adventures that await you when your time at OCHS is done.
FYI, for resources and sample resumes, cover letters, and recommendation letters, click on the "Senior Project Resources" tab, which you can access by hovering your mouse over the "OCHS Senior English" tab.
To access your group's website, click on this link.
FYI, for resources and sample resumes, cover letters, and recommendation letters, click on the "Senior Project Resources" tab, which you can access by hovering your mouse over the "OCHS Senior English" tab.
To access your group's website, click on this link.
Project Description
Background:
Put yourself in Eliza Doolittle’s shoes. Through your interactions with Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering, you’ve acquired skills, experience, connections and acquaintances, and self-awareness that allows you to recognize your innate strengths. Now that you’ve come to the end of Higgins’ and Pickering’s experiment, you will need, to some degree, to reinvent yourself again. In order to avoid giving up your prized independence and marrying simply to allow someone else to take care of you, you will need to find a job!
Your Senior Project will be to establish an online profile for Eliza Doolittle to help her in her pursuit of respectable employment. Be aware that although your Eliza will be a 21st Century version of Shaw’s, she must still reflect the personal qualities and abilities of the original.
I have assigned each of you to a group, and I have created a student website for each group. You, in cooperation with your group, will be responsible for fashioning your group’s website in order to show off Eliza’s strengths, skills, experience, and potential to possible employers.
Your website must include the following elements:
You can find your group assignments at the bottom of this section.
EACH member of your group must assume an equal role in the creation of your group's website. Working collaboratively is one of the key aspects of this project. Therefore, your first assignment will be to assign roles and responsibilities.
I suggest divvying up the responsibilities as follows:
12B Groups:
12A Groups:
Project Rubric
___/15 Content-the purpose of the website is clear, and pages link to related information. The content is useful and engaging. The web pages link to relevant information. ALL of the assigned components (resume, cover letter, 2 recommendations, one blog/video/portfolio/or similarly creative page) are included in the final website.
___/10 Project reflects care and effort and an attention to style, detail, and creativity that reflects Eliza and the profession you choose for her.
___/15 Spelling, Grammar, Style: written content is clear, concise, and well written and edited with no serious errors. Letters and resume clearly reflect the personalities and characteristics of Shaw's original characters.
___/15 Each team member has turned in a personal log OR included her log on a "Meet the Creators" page on the website. The log should include the following:
___/15 Layout-the Web site has an attractive and usable layout. It is easy to locate all important elements. Graphic elements and/or alignment are used effectively to organize material.
___/15 Graphics- images are related to the theme/purpose of the site, are thoughtfully cropped, are of high quality and enhance reader interest or understanding.
___/15 Work Ethic/Group Ethic-Student uses classroom project time well. Conversations are primarily focused on the project and are held in a manner that typically does not disrupt others. Student is responsible for her own work and collaborates efficiently with her team mates.
___/100 TOTAL
Put yourself in Eliza Doolittle’s shoes. Through your interactions with Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering, you’ve acquired skills, experience, connections and acquaintances, and self-awareness that allows you to recognize your innate strengths. Now that you’ve come to the end of Higgins’ and Pickering’s experiment, you will need, to some degree, to reinvent yourself again. In order to avoid giving up your prized independence and marrying simply to allow someone else to take care of you, you will need to find a job!
Your Senior Project will be to establish an online profile for Eliza Doolittle to help her in her pursuit of respectable employment. Be aware that although your Eliza will be a 21st Century version of Shaw’s, she must still reflect the personal qualities and abilities of the original.
I have assigned each of you to a group, and I have created a student website for each group. You, in cooperation with your group, will be responsible for fashioning your group’s website in order to show off Eliza’s strengths, skills, experience, and potential to possible employers.
Your website must include the following elements:
- Standard resume
- At least 2 letters of recommendation written by other characters from Shaw’s Pygmalion
- Cover letter written by Eliza, expressing her interest in a specific position
- Relevant graphics that contribute to the aesthetic appeal of the webpage
- Non traditional resume (see Prezume samples below)
- Blog posts—stay true to Eliza’s character; her observations should reflect her unique outlook and should somehow be related to the type of jobs she is seeking.
- Video or photographic portfolio presentation that displays some of Eliza’s handiwork (for example, if she is seeking employment in a flower shop, you might include samples of her arrangements).
You can find your group assignments at the bottom of this section.
EACH member of your group must assume an equal role in the creation of your group's website. Working collaboratively is one of the key aspects of this project. Therefore, your first assignment will be to assign roles and responsibilities.
I suggest divvying up the responsibilities as follows:
- Website manager (team leader; should be fairly adept with internet tasks and have internet access at home)
- in charge of overseeing the entire project
- makes sure team stays on task and on schedule and keeps a log of team input
- oversees/edits the final arrangement of content on the website
- Copy Editor
- proof reads and fine tunes written content
- adds written content to complement visuals and to make the site cohesive
- Visual Editor
- in charge of finding, creating, and planning the placement of appropriate visual content for the website
12B Groups:
- Shaina, Chani, Shira
- Mushky, Kaila, Gittel
- Leah, Mushka W., Sarah, Mushka B.
- Hannah, Raizel, Rikki
- Orly, Genni, Mirel
12A Groups:
- Shaina, Shaina, Simcha, Ohr Miriam
- Chaya U., Esti, Rochel
- Chaya O., Sarah'le, Leah, Adina
- Chana Tova, Tzipora, Baila
Project Rubric
___/15 Content-the purpose of the website is clear, and pages link to related information. The content is useful and engaging. The web pages link to relevant information. ALL of the assigned components (resume, cover letter, 2 recommendations, one blog/video/portfolio/or similarly creative page) are included in the final website.
___/10 Project reflects care and effort and an attention to style, detail, and creativity that reflects Eliza and the profession you choose for her.
___/15 Spelling, Grammar, Style: written content is clear, concise, and well written and edited with no serious errors. Letters and resume clearly reflect the personalities and characteristics of Shaw's original characters.
___/15 Each team member has turned in a personal log OR included her log on a "Meet the Creators" page on the website. The log should include the following:
- team member's title and responsibilities
- assignment journal/blog in which the student keeps track of her daily contributions to the group effort. Student may also include a brief reflection on the process--the frustrations, successes, etc.--of working with the group to make the project work. Each entry should be at least 1 informative sentence.
- reflection, in which the student writes at least two paragraphs describing the overall process, the positive and negative challenges, suggestions she might have for improving the website and/or the group dynamic, and the lessons she's learned from the project.
___/15 Layout-the Web site has an attractive and usable layout. It is easy to locate all important elements. Graphic elements and/or alignment are used effectively to organize material.
___/15 Graphics- images are related to the theme/purpose of the site, are thoughtfully cropped, are of high quality and enhance reader interest or understanding.
___/15 Work Ethic/Group Ethic-Student uses classroom project time well. Conversations are primarily focused on the project and are held in a manner that typically does not disrupt others. Student is responsible for her own work and collaborates efficiently with her team mates.
___/100 TOTAL