English 7 Resources:
Weekly Journal
Each week, every boy is required to read, at least, 25
pages from a book on our reading list or that has been approved. The
reading journal consists of
I. Events (6-10) detailed events on the week's reading.
II. My Response-An opportunity to choose any of the
35 choices on our list and reflect on your reading.
Useful Websites for class and projects:
1.
Dictionary.com
Don't have a dictionary with you? Go to
dictionary.com and look up words you don't recognize in your reading.
This site is also useful for vocabulary and spelling assignments.
There is no excuse for skipping words you don't know!
2. Thesaurus.com
Improve your writing and build your vocabulary by finding
stronger, more descriptive words with thesaurus.com. Be careful,
however, because context matters when you are searching for synonyms.
In other words, you can't simply choose any match that thesaurus.com
generates for you. Plug the word you select into your writing
to make sure that it makes sense in context.
3. The following sites are ideal for THE OUTSIDERS
IndyMedia (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml)
is a media center dedicated to grassroots journalism. It's an excellent
source of news articles and biographical information on both famous and
lesser-known rebels and outsiders. Read critically, though, since the
articles on this site have a distinctly leftward slant! You
decide.
allows users to search for information on
presidents as well as all congressmen and women by name, party, state,
position, or year.
The Nobel Foundation (http://nobelprize.org/)
provides biographical information on all previous Nobel Prize winners. You
can search for a specific year, or you can browse lists of the youngest,
oldest, most awarded, and most popular winners.
Women in History
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm
Distinguished women
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm
Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/
Fact Monster: People: Biographies
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0855207.html
Infoplease.com: Almanac: Biography
http://www.infoplease.com/people.html
Smithsonian: Spotlight: Biography
http://smithsonianeducation.org/spotlight/start.html
TIME 100: Important People of the Century
http://www.time.com/time/time100/
Famous People of the
http://history1900s.about.com/library/misc/blpeople.htm
A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/bioindex.html
History of the Twentieth Century
http://teachers.westport.k12.ct.us/resource/twentieth_century.htm
Famous Americans
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa :
Famous People search
http://www.famouspeople.com/
American Historical Biographies
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/bios/bios.html
About Famous People
http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/
Summer Reading
Each rising 7th grade boy will be reading Ernest
Hemmingway's
novel, Old Man and the Sea and a two other novels from the below
(attached) list.
**There is no summer reading report for this book;
however, you should be ready for a quiz when you return to school.
Make sure you mark your book (no hi-lighting).*
If you want
to read a novel that isn't on the below list, you must email me at
morgan@townschool.com for book
approval.
There is a wealth of excellent novels in every genre
on the list. Pick something you know will hold your interest.
Summer
Reading List
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