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  • 2022 Incoming 7th Honors Summer Reading Letter.docx
    2022 Summer Read- The Giver (7th grade Honors ELA) chart
     
    2022 8th grade Honors Summer Reading - Lord of the Flies

    Student SpringBoard Login Instructions Using Clever

    Step 1: Go to www.clever.com

    • In the top right corner, drop down the menu that says what you are logging in as (‘as a student)

    • Sign into clever using your SCHOOL-ASSIGNED google email account

    Step 2: Getting into SpringBoard Digital

    • Find the SpringBoard icon on your dashboard

    • You are in!!

    Quick Reminders:

    1. You have been assigned a specific class.  When you use the digital book, any notes or annotations that have been made by your teacher, in your class copy, will show on yours.

    2. Zinc is a free resource that your teacher may use to assign vocabulary and articles.  Make sure you check it out. 

     

     

    Oswego 308 Writing Style Guide

    http://oswego308writingstyleguide.wikispaces.com/Writing+Style+Guide 
    Works Cited Reference        
       

     https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

     
    PARCC Practice Website ELA and Math 
    http://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/english/ 
     
     

    Literary Elements Review

    Cinderella -  https://www.learner.org/wp-content/interactive/story/index.html

    7th grade Unit 1EA 1 

    Outsiders audio - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxqzZDA3Z9KXDEtv48QNKQFDx2bawobJj

     
     
     
     
    Evaluating websites

    Are they real or fake? Why?

    Google TiSP https://archive.google.com/tisp/index.html 

    Dihydrogen Monoxide    http://www.dhmo.org/

    Save the tree octopus   http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

    7th grade Unit 2 EA 1 Helpful Advertising Links
    https://www.justsayyes.org/topics/self-image-media-influences/
     
     http://www.apa.org/topics/kids-media/food.aspx
     
    http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/culture/consumerism/internet.html
     
     http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/culture/consumerism/materialism.html

     

    Cinderella Story Elements Interactive Site

     

     

     

    8th grade Unit 2 EA 1 helpful links

    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury audio - please note that the page numbers are not an exact match to our class books

    F451 audio

     
    8th grade Unit 2 EA 2 helpful links
     
    Most sites have a search option at the top
     

    Amnesty International

    Bureau of Investigative Journalism 

    Center of Public Integrity 

    Database: World of Great Debates

    Gallup

    Google Scholar

    Human Rights Watch

    Infoplease

    Jurist

    Room for Debate

    ProCon

    ProPublica Investigations

    Times Topics

    United Nations Human Rights

    University of Illinois Library -some links require a login that only their students can then use 

    When using  google use this tip:

    Google Search Strategy: Put your keywords in "quotation marks" add the date range  site:.gov
    EX: "death penalty" 2015..2016 site:.gov

          "death penalty" 2015..2016 site:.edu
     

     

    8th grade Unit 3 EA 1

    3.6 - Holocaust encyclopedia

    3.7 - Holocaust learning site

     
     
     
    8th grade Unit 3 EA 2

    3.14 -  #8 http://www.plantabillion.org/  

    https://www.dhs.gov/see-something-say-something

    https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/illinois/stories-in-illinois/our-world-campaign/

    http://www.wfp.org/ 

     

     

    3.16 -  use EBSCO - Points of View

     
     3.17

     http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/get-involved

     

    http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1490

     

    3.18 - 

     http://www.adcouncil.org/Our-Campaigns

     

    3.19 #7 -  http://www.beyondpesticides.org/

     
     
    U3 EA 2

    color meanings - http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html 

     

    persuasive advertising rhetorical appeals and techniques http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1166/PersuasiveTechniques.pdf

     
     
     
    Unit 4 EA 1
    4.2 Understanding the Complexity of Humor
     Irony
     
    4.3 Classifying Humor
    Comic strips and political cartoons
     
    4.4 - Humorous anecdotes
    Jerry Seinfeld video - I'm Telling You for the Last Time - Halloween 
     Jerry Seinfeld clip watch 1:30-7:47
     
    4.5 - Truth in Comedy
    Alternative quotes
    "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." -- Oscar Wilde
    "Humor is a rubber sword -- it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." -- Mary Hirsch
    "Many a true word is spoken in jest." --Geoffrey Chaucer 
     
     
     
    4.6 Satirical Humor -

     Satirical Article from the Onion


    School ‘Fine,’ U.S.Teens Report


    http://www.theonion.com/article/school-fine-us-teens-report-236


     Satire video clips

    Satire elements: Irony

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKQXTsXoHlQ

    (Pixar movies) 

     

    Satire elements: Sarcasm:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJp2XAWma_I

    (Big Bang Theory)

     

    Satire elements: Ridicule

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLStvtbZ18M

     

    (Saturday Night Live - baby toupee) 

     

    Satire in Shrek ppt. 

     

    4.7 Comic Caricatures
    Simpsons Intro

     

    4.8 Comic Situations

    I Love Lucy clip - chocolate factory scene

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3axU2b0dDk

      

    4.10 - Comic Wordplay

    Abbott & Costello - Who's on First? transcript

    http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/yhst-57190479284260/WhosonFirst.pdf

     

    Who's on First? video clip https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/whos-on-first-abbott-costello

     

    Unit 4 EA 1 - Performing Shakespearean Comedy 
     
    4.13 - Shakespeare  webquest
    www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/z8k2p39 
     

    4.15 - Act3, Scene 2 lines 282-305

    Hermia vs Helena

    How to memorize lines

    Other Shakespeare sites

    Shakespeare’s Words
    The best online glossary to all the strange, confusing, and beautiful words that appear in Shakespeare’s works. Based on David and Ben Crystal’s incredible book, also called Shakespeare’s Words, it lets you look up any word instantly. It even features full-text editions of the plays with the definitions linked in!

     Shakespeare Online
    Looking for a Shakespeare homework helper? This site features everything from historical background to Shakespeare’s original sources to useful study guides. A great starting place.

     

     Internet Shakespeare Editions
    Want to see what Shakespeare’s plays looked like when they were originally published? This is a great site for comparing quarto to folio, and how words and spellings changed from text to text.

    Folger Digital Texts
    There are plenty of places on the Internet to find clean texts of Shakespeare’s plays, but this is the best. Using the texts from their terrific Folger Library Shakespeare series, they’ve made 38 plays and 4 poems available online to download or copy

    William Shakespeare   

    The Academy of American Poets provides this Shakespeare exhibit. Included are selected writings, biographical information, and links to related resources. 

    William Shakespeare's Biography 

    Biography.com has Shakespeare's full biography as well as several video clips about his life. 

     

    http://www.folger.edu/shakespeares-life

    Discusses Shakespeare's birth, childhood, marriage and children, the London theatre, and his final years. 

     

     http://absoluteshakespeare.com 
    "The essential William Shakespeare resource with Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems. Study Shakespeare with plot summaries, essays, character analyses, quotes, biography, pictures, timeline, trivia, the Globe Theatre and links."

    http://www.bartleby.com/100/
    A collection of quotations.

     

    Language Arts Resources

    Parent/student resource - writing lab

    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/680/01/

     

    Adverb list

    http://www.paulnoll.com/Books/Clear-English/English-adverbs.html

     

    Language Arts Production Tools

    Comic Creator

    http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/

    Concrete Poetry

    http://www.wild-about-woods.org.uk/elearning/concretepoetry/

    Doodle Splash

    http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/doodle/

    Letter Generator - friendly and business

    http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/

    Printing Press - brochure, booklet, flyer, and newspaper

    http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=110&title=

    Webbing Tool - create graphic organizer/web

    http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=127

     

    Student materials index - has the above production tools and more

    http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp

     

    Other Resources:

    Composition Resources

    On-line dictionaries

    New Words/Wierd Words/World Wide Words

    University Writing Resources

    Garbl`s Writing Resources Online

    Purdue On Line Writing Lab

    A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Students

    Paradigm On Line Writing Assistant

    Citing Electronic Sources

    Writers Net

    Inskspot

    Interactive Poetry

     

    Literature

    Award-Winning Children`s Literature

    Kids Mystery Site

    Bulletin of the Center for Children`s Books

    Carol Hurst`s Children`s Literature Site

    Kids Love a Mystery

    The Internet Classics Archive

    Thousands of Books Online

    Project Gutenberg -- online texts

    Complete Works of Shakespeare

    Shakespeare Links

    The English Server

    Library of Congress

    Internet Public Library

    IDAL - Illinois Digital Academic Library

    Scholarly Journals on the W WW

    Newslink (9,000+ newspapers)

    Nando Net`s School Zone -- Newspapers in Education

    Amazon Bookstore (1,000,000 titles)

    Journalism Resources on Internet

    Playbill OnLine -- Theater on the `Net

    Persuasive Techniques

     

     Propaganda and Advertising slideshow

    http://www.thematzats.com/propaganda/prop/sld001.htm

     

    State of Debate

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/game/english/index.shtml

     

     

    Poe, Edgar Allen

     

    Interactive

    http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp

     

    Poe and his poems

    http://www.poedecoder.com/

     

    The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe - interactive

    http://www.teachersfirst.com/share/raven/start.html

     

    The Raven audio

    http://loudlit.com/works/raven.htm

     

    Tell-Tale Heart audio

    http://loudlit.com/works/heart.htm

     

Bednarcik Junior High School

Together, we empower, support, and motivate all students to thrive along their unique educational journey.

3025 S. Eola Road Aurora, Il 60503|P: (630) 636-2500|F: (630) 636-2591

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