My blog is where I include my reader responses, my poetry, and
other pieces of writing that began in my writer's notebook. After
some revision and editing in my writer's notebook, I will share
my writing to a larger audience when I put them on my blog.
Mr. Perez's Language Arts Blog
This is the home of edublogs.org where I created my teacher blog.
Students will create a free student blog at edublogs, so they can
begin writing a blog.
I chose edublogs because it's free for students and no e-mail is
needed and they can link it to my teacher blog.
Edublogs
A description and other useful information for doing Writer's
Workshop in a Language Arts classroom.
http://www.ttms.org
If you need any help with ideas or what to put in your writer's
notebook, then check out this site! Flecther wrote "A Writer's
Notebook" which we read the preface in class.
Ralph Fletcher
This is the website for the magazine for teens from scholastic
and New York Times.
New York Times Upfront
Teen Ink is a great website to read literature from other
teenagers. You can also send your work (poetry, fiction,
nonfiction, reviews)to this site for publication.
Teen Ink
Mythweb.com has a picture and a description of each of the major
12 Olympian gods. Also, there is an index that gives more
description for each one.
Mythweb.com
Another reliable source on the web about the gods of Greek
Mythology. The site has a bibliography page that represents the
website's sources. It's a good example of what you will be doing
for your bibliography page.
More Greek Myths
Another website with lots of information about the Greek gods of
Olympus.
Greek Gods
http://www.everyculture.com/
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/moremaps.htm
http://bartleby.com/67/
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
Hero's Journey webquest
http://questgarden.com/09/99/6/080229073613/
Real Heroism in Action
http://library.thinkquest.org/C001515/
Modern day heroes from the current news and of the 20th Century.
Heroes
More research on real-life modern heroes.
More heroes
300 Women that changed the world.
Female heroes
Encyclepedia Britannica: If you're doing research, a great
website to start looking for your subject.
Britannica
Reading Skills Webquest. Good practice.
http://questgarden.com/09/99/6/080411072228/
BrainPOP! An interactive website for all subjects.
Brain Pop
More educational games!
Games
A wikispace created for students learning the research process
created by Mrs. Alilunas, Mrs. Harris, Miss Smith, and Mr. Perez.
Research Webquest
A short clip going over the techniques used by Steve Jobs to
entertain an audience using a powerpoint presentation.
How to present like Steve Jobs
A 5 minute clip from CNET that show Jobs' powerpoint presentation
about the iPhone 3G to a large audience.
Steve Jobs presentation
Another powerpoint presentation example from the "Last Lecture"
professor. A shorter version of the lecture that appeared on the
Oprah Winfrey show.
"Last Lecture" presentation
This is the clip of the 5 year old we saw in class. Listen to him
talk about his writer's notebook. Do you think he's a writer? Why
or why not?
Jeremiah's Writer's Notebook
A great site for young men (and ladies too) to find a book that
they will be interested in reading.
Guysread.com
Another great site to find the "just right" book for you.
readkiddoread
Take the "fiction finder quiz" and they will recommend books for
you by looking at your chosen answers. It's quick and fun. You
don't have to buy the books from them.
Justtherightbook.com
A cool website that suggests books, music, movies, shows based on
your favorites. Try it out!
Tastekid.com