The purpose of this page is to assist students from Mr. Cyra's class in learning English.  I have placed links that will aid you in completing the assignments for British Literature.

 

In class games, activities, and assignments are listed below.

 This web site will assist students in the writing process.

  Here is an excellent site that lists the most commonly confused words in the English language from A to Z.

 This is similar to above site but it has more commonly confused words.

Here is a good activity for students to learn parts of speech.

 This is a free site dedicated to answering specific grammar, composition, research or formatting questions. 

 You will play a matching game of homonyms.  Have fun!

This page was originally created to give a good group of tongue twisters to people in speech therapy, to people who want to work on getting rid of an accent or to people who just plain like tongue twisters.  

 

 

Prepositions of Place assist learners in the correct usage for prepositions and objects.

A multiple choice format that tests your knowledge of the prepositions.

Here are some of the most common errors using to and at , preceded by their correct form. 

Picture This - Prepositions of Place.  This web site is picture format site that enables the user to visually interact with the lessons.

 This web site focuses on prepositions that have a reference to a point, a surface or a containing area.

 

This section will assist you in common grammar usage that we have completed in our assignments.

This link will give you the five comma rules and examples to refresh your knowledge while writing an assignment.

Here is a web site that teaches basic sentence diagramming. Scroll down and learn to diagram basic sentences. 

To get a quick history on diagramming sentences, click on this site to get a brief slide show presentation on how it was developed by Reed -Kellogg.  If you have time, work on the exercises that are given!

If you want to learn how to properly diagram sentences in the English Language, here is a Ms. Hellmer’s page that will first give you a tutorial then a challenge! 

 

Here are some sites that will assist you in writing an essay and your research paper.

If you need assistance in writing the persuasive ACT essay, here is a web site that will help you draft a five-paragraph essay.

This is a great site that takes the writer through the steps in writing a research paper

Another site to explore is “A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation.”

 

 

 

E-mail Mr. Cyra if you have any questions. 

 

Tutoring is now available in room 122, after school from 2:31 until 4:00 p.m. every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday!!!  Take advantage of this opportunity.  If you are absent during a test day, you may make it up at tutoring.

 

Required Text:                                                           Mr. Cyra’s Office Hours                  

Textbook:  Adventures in English Literature                                             Before school = M-F                 7:30 to 7:55 in room 224

Grammar Book:  Warriner’s High School Book                                             After school = M-Th                 2:31 to 3:00 in room 224

ACT Prep:  Cambridge ACT English Victory