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What's Literally Happening?
, English Department
Link-to-Links:

TESOL/ELL/ESL/EFL Links

Literature Links:

  • California Reading Lists: a very useful website designed to help students, teachers & parents select books written at a level of difficulty that corresponds to a student's reading ability based on scores obtained through California's spring statewide assessment program.
  • Guys Read: Books for Guys
  • Teen Times: Looking for a good book? Teen Librarian shares reading experiences and offers lists of books.
  • Spagetti Book Club: Students (Grades 9-10 & 11-12) provide their own book reviews - maybe you'd like to join this group and be a book reviewer, too!
  • See Me 4 Books! Young Adults Book Reviews
  • LibriVox: Download free audio books to enjoy on your IPod or download into your computer and then burn a CD to play back.

Writing, Grammar & Vocabulary Resource Links:

Teacher & Student Resource Links:

Fun & Unusual Stuff:

Teachers:

  • Peter Cirelli
  • Paul Davis
  • Charline Decker
  • Marcia Hill
  • Beth Hull
  • Sharon Jones
  • Jo Karabasz
  • Anita Malchiodi Abedi
  • Kristin Mandal
  • Marcia McGee
  • Jeff McMoyler
  • Chuck Pearson
  • Joan Petty
  • Frank Russsell
  • Tadd Scott
  • Carla Surber
  • Deborah Williams
  • Major Woolard

Want an early start? Learn what novels are available for your classes at Jesse Bethel High School? See our Inventory of Course Novels w/some Related Links


Attention English 9 & 10 Parents and Students: With the 2006-2007 school year for 9th & 10th grade English, we will be using new textbooks from Holt-Rinehart-Winston Publishers. All 9th & 10 grade English classes will follow district approved pacing & instructional focus guides. All students will be administered quarterly exams.

Please preview the following course outlines to learn more for:

Standards-based instruction and pacing has superceded the JBHS English Department's prior use of "competancies" for 9th & 10th grade. Similar program changes are anticipated for 11th & 12th grade English courses in the future.


State Dept. of Education Links:

State Standards


SAT Preparation: Over 3,000 multiple choice questions divided into
21 groups! Also a database browser to review and print the questions and the correct answers.


notepad gifJesse Bethel High School's English faculty has identified some critical skills which students of English should be able to demonstrate at various grade levels. These specific skills or activities are called "competencies".

Each English teacher has latitude for the manner in which class competencies are achieved. By doing so, English classes benefit from unique expertise of individual teachers.

If you have additional questions, please contact your student's teacher for more details on the execution of these competencies in his/her particular course.

Choose the competencies you wish to view by clicking on its' hyperlink.

Eleventh Grade ( 8 Competencies)
Twelfth Grade ( 8 Competencies)

Answer to quiz question on our JBHS faculty homepage: The faculty pages show a fresco titled "The School of Athens"; it can be found painted on the walls of the Signature Room in the Vatican. Some of the famous teachers depicted in the painting include Socrates, Aristotle.

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