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**ELA 9/Unit 1:****Conflict**
Grade 9 you will be reading literature that is focused on the idea of conflict. In the literature we study, the conflict between characters create internal conflict for us as we wrestle with these questions:


 * What is right? How do we know its right?

Conflict creates tension and interest in a story by adding doubt as to the outcome. You have been working on completing poems that embed oxymorons. This figure of speech allows us to practice selecting words that also seem to conflict with one another. Here are some examples: 
 * < ** open secret ** ||< ** larger half ** ||< ** clearly confused ** ||
 * < ** act naturally ** ||< ** alone together ** ||< ** Hell's Angels ** ||
 * < ** found missing ** ||< ** liquid gas ** ||< ** civil engineer ** ||
 * < ** deafening silence ** ||< ** seriously funny ** ||< ** living dead ** ||
 * < ** Microsoft Works ** ||< ** military intelligence ** ||< ** jumbo shrimp ** ||
 * < ** Advanced BASIC ** ||< ** tragic comedy ** ||< ** unbiased opinion ** ||
 * < ** virtual reality ** ||< ** definite maybe ** ||< ** original copies ** ||

http://www.fun-with-words.com/oxym_example.html

Click on the "oxymoron poetry" link at the right to read examples by other Grade 9 students.


 * Task:** Use image chef to create a visual image of an oxymoron. We will post your results here:



You will be creating your own wiki and compiling your work on it over the next few months. What is a wiki? How does it work?

Here is a short clip to watch to understand how a [|"wiki"] works. media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY&rel=1" height="355" width="425" align="left" When you make your own Wiki you also have to make your own logo. Here are some examples of students Wiki logo's. The students used imagechef.com or designed there own.
 * [[image:logo2.png width="110" height="129"]] || [[image:logo_1.png width="124" height="129"]] || [[image:logo3.jpg width="130" height="126"]] ||  ||   ||

This is an example of a slide show that a student created at slide.com to put on there Wiki Home Page. The Students enjoyed showing a little bit about themselves to other students. media type="custom" key="498306"