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Bonus Opportunities, Assignment
Calendar, Podcast Episodes, Course Overview and Links.
Bonus
Opportunities
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Take
"Pride" the Dragon Bonus Instructions
Please
note: We have five dragons for check out: Pride, Spirit, Courage,
Heart and Oscar (named after Altman's LA awards night)! It's easy!
Sign up on the calendar in the classroom, check out the dragon and
follow the instructions above!
Assignment
Calendar
Check back daily for
calendar changes made due to student progress or student needs. However,
please be aware that information provided on the calendar may change at
any time without notice. Students are expected to maintain agenda's with
daily work posted on the classroom board under the big sign that says
"Homework."
Podcast
Episodes
Click
here for Mrs. Altman's LA
Extra Podcast!
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Current Episode:
Altman's LA Extra (New
Posting! - 2008-2009 Introduction...coming soon!)
Course
Overview:
Fun
Photographs
"Night with the Stars 2008" Altman's Awards
Night!
Links
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The
Interactive Raven - for
help with the stanzaic summary assignment (Wednesday evening).
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Mrs.
Altman's Podcast - A
weekly podcast containing news and information about Language Arts.
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"Flowers
for Algernon" WebQuest
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Dawson
Middle School Library -
Database access is available here.
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MLA
Citation Machine Generator
- An easy way to document papers for research!
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Literary
Elements - An extensive
list of literary elements and definitions including anaphora,
polysyndeton, chiasmus, syndecdoche and versimilitude.
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Dictionary
of Literary Terms/Elements
- An excellent list of literary terms and definitions.
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Guide
to Grammar and Writing
- Access this site for help correcting common grammar and writing
errors.
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Middle
School Writing Website -
A learning site for middle school students. This contains grammar,
writing, reading and literary information, quizzes, games and more.
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6-Trait
Writing Overview -
Definitions for the six traits of quality writing (Ideas,
Organization, Voice, Conventions, Sentence Fluency and Word Choice)
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Homonym
List - Alan Cooper's
Guide to Homonym's (i.e. e-errors) - provides definitions
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Sentence
Fragment - Excellent
review of fragments and how to fix them in your writing!
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English
Basics - Downloadable
worksheets for the parts of speech and basic English rules. Great
final exam review!
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Grammar
Games - This website
provides links to many sites that contain grammar related games for
review and practice.
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Grammar
Games - Great review
games for all kinds of grammar rules
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English
Language Games - Great
site for English games! Includes the "Grammar of Doom" interactive
mega-game. Enjoy!
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