What you will find here are the Optioned Weekly Homework rubrics for my classes. Students must complete one of these per week and add it to their digital portfolio. 

Students are no longer allowed to choose from the full list, but must follow their chosen Path for at least 6 weeks

This is part of my Gamified Classroom. For more information on Gamification, check out the Links page or the buttons to the right.

Reading / Research

This is an explanation of my students' Independent Reading difficulty system

Writing / Composition

Writing a Fiction or Non-Fiction story

Grammar/ Mechanics

Grammar and Terms PPT
Research PPT on topic of your choice
Designing your own achievement 
9-12 Grammar Review Worksheets
Written Book Review
Discover a new Cryptid and detail your discovery in a log of your adventures as a Cryptozoologist. 
Create your own catchy songs or lyrics to remember Grammar rules.
A research paper on a topic of your choosing
Research into Automobile types and parts culminating in designing your own car
Report on multiple sporting events as a print newscaster
Poem and Poetry Presentation
Designing a Role Playing Game
Using Art Class guidelines, create intricate tattoo designs using themes and characters from our primary text.
Write a 3.5 (Three points, five paragraphs) Argumentative Essay
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Using a master sheet of Root Words, create sentences that combine these roots and prove your mastery of these building blocks of vocabulary
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Review a Video Game using Word as well as PowerPoint
Building strange and interesting vocab
Using a set of famous quotes. Create a poster that shows the sentence diagram of your quote.
Reviewing a film or TV season
Designing a DnD Character based on a character from one of our primary texts
Reviewing a Music Album
Writing a Flash Fiction horror story
Creating a poster for a character, literary term, or a book poster
Create a Graphic Novel, chapter by chapter
Create a playlist for a book or play
Rewrite a song's lyrics to be more like Shakespeare
Creating a Diorama of a scene from a book
Creating scenes from a film or play
Create a system of folders to collate and collect research into a topic of your choosing
Research into how real life magicians ply their trade and present your own tricks to the class.
Write dialogue for a character (or characters) outside the context of a play to get used to writing dialogue.
Design using HTML or C++ a short flash game and explain the logic gates you are using in writing.
Design a deck of Magic cards using plot points, events and characters from a primary text in class.
Design a new dust jacket for a book that you have read in class
Create an annotated Bibliography of your favorite books/films/shows

Read and report on an ongoing Web Comic Series
Classify Kaiju (giant monsters) using a detailed classification system and describe their lives
Classify Jeagers (giant robotic suits) using a detailed classification system and describe their abilities and purposes
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Update a Shakespearean Play into a long form narrative story
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Create letters from one member of a post-apocalyptic wasteland to another
Update a Classical Text into a short story using modern themes.
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Research a conspiracy theory and report on it in a PowerPoint presentation.
Report on what make and model of cars are good at drifting and the most famous Drift racers currently living.
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Respond to historical philosophers in writing.
Research and catalog different styles and brands of shoe
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Annotate a series of songs on Rap Genius along with other great writers
Research and discuss your favorite cartoon characters
Research and write on the profile of a professional athlete
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Track your fitness and health over time
Research what it takes to get into America's Army
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Research what it takes to get into The Marines
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Research what it takes to get into The Navy
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Research what it takes to get into The Airforce 
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Research military tactics, from mixed unit to thermonuclear exchanges
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Track the stats of players and teams in your favorite sports
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Acting as the manager of a team and guide your team to victory on and off the court
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Write audio-hueristics for different genres of music
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Research applied psychology in your chosen career path
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Research ancient poets
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Print out poems and write their meters in using scansion
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Research the Beat Poet movement and write in the same style
Research the Harlem Renaissance and write in the style of a Harlem Poet of your choice
Research Journalistic Integrity laws and codes and call out journalists meeting or failing to meet them today
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Research photography and form in photography, produce a portfolio of images with captions
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Research famous visual artists and produce PPT lessons and quizzes on those artists to teach your classmates
Write a paper detailing your Point of View in an important issue. Respond to opposing viewpoints in your paper
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Create a short skit or sketch for you and a few other classmates to act out
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Create a playbook for the team sport of your choice.
Explain your strategy in writing.
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Design your own small business and plot the course of your growth as a manager and business person.
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Report on the growth of your new Nation! Detail your Nation's rise to power on the website Nationstates.net
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Work on College Class or Writing Prompts for another teacher and edit your work in this course
Produce and circulate magazine with other students on a theme and topic of your choosing
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Create a collection of poems and explain their importance and meaning to your audience
Publish your own music on Youtube
Create your own superhero
Write songs that prepare people for battle
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Create your own music label and begin writing for it
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Write an interactive story using the free Twine software
Study the history of gaming and predict its future in a speculative writing piece
Write and record music on an instrument of your choosing
Design a course you could teach!