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**Welcome** to your Honors English 11 Wikispace for Transcendentalism.


 * Purpose:** This multimedia project is designed to help you experience and apply the Transcendental concepts of non-conformity, self-reliance, free-thought, confidence, and the importance of nature in today's culture. Also, we will be collaborating to innovate solutions to real world problems through the Transcendental concepts.


 * The Project:** You will be assigned to a Corporation with roles (CEOs, Vice-Presidents, and Managers) and tasks to complete. Your tasks could be solved through a variety of multimedia tools: videos, podcasts, magazine articles, blog posts, powerpoint presentations, websites, etc. Your imagination is the limit. You will complete four tasks during the Transcendentalism unit; each task will correspond with a specific area of Transcendentalism: Non-Conformity, Self-Reliance, Free-Thought, Confidence, and the Importance of Nature.


 * The Corporations:**
 * **Chairwomen of the Board** – Mrs. Hendrickson and Ms. Moeller. Responsible for final assessment of task completion and quality. Think of us as “The Donald”.
 * **CEO** – The CEO must delegate work to the staff, personally upload to the wikispace, and generally take responsibility for the group. The CEO is responsible for proofreading all grammar and spelling for the post.
 * **Vice-President -** The VP is the second-in command. The VP assists the CEO in duties and records participation of group members and takes notes on group progress. Publishes meeting notes (attendance and role fulfillment) for the Chairwoman of the Board.
 * **Managers:** These managers complete the work delegated by the CEO. These members do the “behind-the-scenes” research to help the CEO make a successful post.


 * Assessment**: You will be evaluated as a group for your response to the assigned task and, at the end of the unit, as an individual for your active participation and contributions to your Corporation.


 * __Rules__**
 * 1) Do not edit a page unless instructed to do so. The system keeps a log of sign-in times, IP addresses, and passwords.
 * 2) If you want to respond to another group’s post, you can only do so in your following post or in the discussion forum. You may NOT edit another group’s page unless the edit is part of an assignment from your teacher