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   Rosemount High School  English Department  2009-2010 Resources/Events/Discussion Forum

** Update for September **
Please share any news (or great reads) you may have in the space below.

Member Update:

1. The projectors/video-DVD/document camera should now be complete but for the tables which are on order. See Jim Norris with any concerns.

2. The RHS calendar for this year.

3. PSAT on October 14th hours 1-4.

4. PLAN for all tenth graders on September 30th.

5. Ninth Grade Respect Retreat September 29, 30 and October 1.

6. College Fair on Sept 30th.

7. If you would like to introduce a change to the department curriculum/course offerings next year see me asap. The deadline for these changes in approaching. This would include adding, restructuring, renaming a course.

8.Be sure to save your essential learnings to the course guide folder.

9. There is grant money available from Q comp. Please go to the Q comp folder on the intranet site under project application. See what you need to do to request a grant.

Great article by president elect NCTE [|Crash! The Currency Crisis in American Culture]

Please add any links to the following categories.

= Workshop Opportunities =

= RHS English Teacher Schedule 2009-10 =

= RHS English Curriculum Matrix =

= Sub Numbers = Casey Reichardt 31994 Rita Gundacker 08386 Jerry Omera 27354 Jane Gaut 01401 Jamie Brist 30977 Jean Olson 30870 Cindy Rowley 11381 (she will do summer school substitute teaching - call at 651-238-9680)

Treat Schedule
= General Websites = [|NCTE Secondary Home Page]

MCTE [|Home Page]

[|EdSitement Lesson Plans National Endowment for the Humanities]

[|Story Corps] (short inspirational audio stories on a variety of topics)

= What Department Members are Reading = RHS Book Club: //Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire// by David Mura //Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor// by Brad Gooch (Brooks) //The Story of Edgar Sawtelle// by David Wroblewski (several members have read and recommend)

= Misc Resources =

How to Access Grade 7 Writing Scores (09 freshmen)

Literacy Stampede Powerpoint from Elliot

9th Grade annotated classroom library list

10th Grade annotated classroom library list

[|MCA Practice Pioneer Press] [|100 Useful Tools to Research the Deep Web]

[|Banned Books Online]

= Writing Resources = [|Are You Ready for College writing] How to Write Good [|Plain Language.gov] National Writing Project [|Resources] University of North Carolina Writing Center [|Handouts and Links] Dan's Writing Rubric and Sample [|30 Ideas for Teaching Writing] = Literature Resources = Holocaust (Teaching Night) [|Holocaust Survivors Honor Camp Liberator] [|Food and the Japanese Internment] (Emperor Was Divine) Read/Write/Think Become a Character [|Adjectives, Character Traits and Perspective] Bloom's Taxonomy [|Book Review Questions] (Dallas) [|Literary Resources (Background Information Around Novels] [|200+ Full Text Poems] [|Teaching Books Novel Resources] [|Teaching Literature] [|Odyssey Packet] [|RHS Library Gale Group ebook Resources] [|Shakespeare on the Net]

=English 11 Resources = See "Wiki Sites" in upper left side bar.

=** Discussion **= Socratic Seminars

= AP Resources = AP Lang and Comp Purpose/Overview/Devices Grid (Hon 9 and Honors Am Lit)

AP Lit and Comp Purpose/Overview/Devices Grid (Hon 9 and Hon Am Lit) [|AP Central] [|Responding to Student Writing] =Speech = [|Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest]


=Technology and Teaching English = [|Computers and the Writing Process]

[|Blog Hosting Site that allows teachers and students to create their own blogs]

[|Blog Resources and applications]

=Media Literacy = [|Center for Media Literacy]

= ebooks = Get Nine Free Audio Book MP3s from Barnes and Noble [|Free Audio Books]

= Critical Lenses Applied to Department Texts = Useful in teaching //The Things They Carried//

[|The Great Gatsby Multiple Perspectives] [|Trauma Theory Resources] [|Literary Theory on the Web]

[|Critical Lenses Rick Beach]