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=Welcome to the Crestwood Junior High Advanced Communications Wiki!=

Our topic: J.R.R. Tolkien's world

Having studied ancient Greek mythology and the epic with the Odyssey, we will be looking at a similar topic next with Tolkien. Tolkien as an author created an extensive mythology, which included:
 * a whole middle earth with several lands
 * a slew of creatures
 * races of people, elves, hobbits, and dwarves
 * 15 invented languages
 * three ages (over 9,000 years) of genealogy
 * a pantheon of gods/goddesses (known as the valar)
 * famous battles and heroes, as well as villains
 * magical possessions
 * many mythological stories
 * and much more

There is literally so much about Tolkien's world that needs to be known for his stories to be understood. Obviously, some of us have quite a bit of prior knowledge on this world, and some have none at all. Therefore, we will be constructing a class wiki on Tolkien's world in preparation before we read the Hobbit. Here's how it will work.

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 * 1) You will each start with six topics, (which includes the one you had for our "social party" activity).
 * 2) You will research the topics through various sources. Sources can include other websites, the books (for those that have read them), the movies (for those that have seen them), or your own knowledge. First hand sources (the books, the movies) are better to use than websites.
 * 1) You will construct a new page on each of the topics, using at least three sources for each topic. To do your research, you should read the entries in the websites first, take a break, and then from memory or from some brief notes, write down what you remember from them. I'd rather see you create those entries based on what you know rather than havin a precise listing of everything on different websites.
 * 1) You then will add to the wiki in various ways. The first way is to link images to our wiki so that we have a visual way to see the info.
 * 2) An additional way: make new pages on unassigned items that you find interesting.
 * 1) Another way: look at other member's pages and ask poignant (vocab word alert!!!... meaningful, profound) questions. These questions could be about what the original person has said or hypothetical questions about the topic.
 * 2) Still another way: add more facts (with citations) to someone else's page
 * 3) Yet another way(!?!): Add corrections to what others have said, if they are wrong or misleading
 * 4) And finally: link that page to your own topic or other topics.

Mr. Abbey will provide you with the scoring system. The more you add to the wiki in terms of quality research, questions, corrections, and linkages, the higher your grade! There is no limit... extra credit can be gained for those that go above and beyond. And, points can be subtracted for material that is inappropriate or off task.

As always, make sure you do not plagiarize any works. All your facts must be summarized into your own words and properly cited. The purpose is to build our own knowledge, not to rewrite what someone else has said.

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