Building Your Works Cited: Check out this easy to understand video and jot down notes in your plabook as you watch. Feel free to re-watch to make sure you understand what to do!  
Click here: Citing images and other stuff  

How to improve your Google searches #googlescholar #ruletheweb

Take a look at these awesome tips on Mashable.com http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/

Simple tips: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/1264/12-Quick-Tips-To-Search-Google-Like-An-Expert.aspx

Use Sparks Notes to help you research for your Shakespeare "Crash Course". *You can also find a No Fear Shakespeare link on the Sparks Notes webpage for full plays with modern English translations.

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/

Happy researching!!  

Virtual Tour / Shakespeare's Globe

Click below to take a virtual tour of Shakespeare's Globe Theater!



Virtual Tour / Shakespeare's Globe

"What I'm Reading"

 Here is your opportunity to share what you are currently reading for extra credit!!  Earn up to 10 points each week just by sharing your thoughts: 

• make a reading reccomendation
•  a personal response to your reading or
• Pose and answer a level 3 question about your reading
• Comment on what your classmates are reading for 1 point each comment! Don't forget to add your name to receive credit.  

*Each Reading Response is worth 5 pts. each. 

Want to know how to win NaNoWriMo? Click here for the official validation instructions!!
http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/how-to-win

Way to go, you just climbed the mountain called "A Writer's first Novel". Congratulations!  Still writing? If so, don't give up, reach your mountain top!!    

Welcome new 2013-2014 seventh grade students to our English Class Blog!!!!  

Here you will find the latest updates to ongoing class projects and upcoming lessons from the classroom and beyond. Feel free to post questions and or comments after each new post.  

Next week in class we will be having Reading Workshop on Monday: Learning Target - I can preview a work of fiction.
 We will learn how to preview fiction books to see if they will be a good fit for us to read!!! We will call it the Five-finger Preview!  1.Genre 2. Author 3. Cover art 4. Summary 5. Readability

Tuesday: Learning Target - I can explain how I learn best using evidence from sources.  
*This will be based on last weeks workshops on learning styles. Please use all the notes and articles you have used to do this exercise.  

Wednesday: Learning Target - I can explain how I learn best using evidence from sources.
Writing Workshop. You will write a well contructed piece of writing that explains how you learn best.  

Thursday: Learning Target - I can explain how I learn best using evidence from sources.
Writing Workshop. Finishing up any necessary revisions to your writing.  

Friday: Learning Target - I can understand how to construct a writing portfolio. I can create and record writing ideas for my portfolio. 
We will be introducing how to construct your writing portfolio for class and go over all of the requirements.