Youth Advisory Committee

For more information check out cbt website

Free audio books all summer long

Sync YA literature to your earphones all summer long. Free downloads of the newest audio books like The Hunger Games, The Angel Expirement, Bloody Jack, The Looking Glass Wars and more!

All book titles along with more details can be found at Sync.

Emotions Personified

Students in Mrs. Smith's English 12 class have been working on creative projects focusing on creating metaphors for emotions. Michaela Daniel produced a powerful project on terror.

Make your life easier - sign up for Google Docs today.

Guaranteed that using Google Docs will make your life easier. You will no longer need to email assignments back and forth between home and school nor will your files refuse to open on school computers. You can work on a collaborative project from any computer with an internet connection and even do it simultaneously with those in your group from the comfort of your own home. Google docs works with power point projects, word documents and excel spreadsheets. Sign up is simple and you will soon wonder how you managed without it. Watch the video from the folks at Common Craft to get a better idea of what it is all about.



Here are some more web 2.0 tools that will help you organize, research and present your learning.

Easy Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers

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Skate 4 Cancer

Thanks to Camille Craig for bringing this to my attention. For every view of this video, one dollar will be donated to Skate 4 Cancer. Watch it and pass it along to everyone you know.

WIN AN iPAD

Shmoop High School Essay Contest: Win an iPad
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Shmoop announces our first essay contest for high school students.
Answer this question in 500 or fewer words:

In Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” …

Examine the relationship between the speaker in the poem and his environment, which includes not only the woods themselves but his horse, the owner of the woods, and the community. Include in your discussion an examination of Frost’s use of language and imagery, focusing on how these contribute to the meaning of the poem and help him to achieve his purpose. Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the poem.

* Read the Shmoop Learning Guide for the poem
* Visit Poets.org to read the full text of the poem

Contest is open to all students and entry deadline is May 28, 2010. For further details follow the link to Shmoop.

Propaganda Project English 9

Brogan Pastro created this poster to bring awareness to the problem of homophobia. You can read in depth discussions around this and other issues on the English 9 wiki.