Link-to-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:
- Citation Machine: interactive web site for assisting scholars in proper citation of informational sources in MLA, APA, Chicago and (soon to come) Turabin citation formats.
- Are
there words you should know to be
successful in school and college?
Is there a difference between academic
vocabulary adn everyday vocabulary?
You bet there is! And the essential
vocabulary of a successful academic
has been identified by the Linguistics
Department of the University of Victoria,
Wellington, NZ. Knowing these
words are critical to your success!
The website is geared to helping
you learn with tutorials and is a
recognized teacher resource.
- Writing:
Online Community for Readers &
Writers of All Ages
- Exploring
English: wonders and quirks of
our language, including parts of
speech, usage, style guidelines and
more.
- Guide
to Grammar & Writing for
Teens
- Grammar
Bytes
- Grammar
Station
- Former
Librarian Marie Wallace's Tips
on How to Write A Speech.
- Cliche
Finder: over 3,300 Indexed Cliches
- Quia:
Quia Subscriber-Created Games and
Activities for English Arts
- Professor
Brian's Common
Errors in English website
- Free
English
Languare Art Lessons Online from
InterLink Language Centers: lessons
on reading, writing, vocabulary,
grammar, pronounciation, etc.
- Traditional
English Grammar by Prof. D. Hardy
of Colorado State University
- Word
Sources: the etymologies or word
origins especially of English
words from Latin & Greek
- a resource supporting California
Language Arts Standards for 9th and
10th grades!
Teacher
& Student Resource Links:
Fun
& Unusual Stuff:
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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.
Jesse 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.
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. |