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A+Typing and Keyboarding Help
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Typing Test and Games
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NEW EXCITING Typing Game
Typing game
Creative Writing Sites
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Creative Writing Prompts
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Story Spinner Online
Spin the wheel for story ideas!
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Writing Prompts
random prompts generated on-line
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ScribeTime - More journal writing prompts
Many starter ideas!
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What is FREEWRITING?
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Free writing exercise
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30 Days of Poetry!
Ideas for many poetry forms -
Ideas for Poetry topics
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Acrostic Poem defined
Develop Your Vocabulary
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Fun Quizzes
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Learning Vocabulary fun
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Vocabulary Workshop practice tests
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Practice Sat vocabulary tests
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Sentence completion, analogy, critical reading
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More Practice tests
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FUN
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Visual Words online
Graphic Dictionary
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VOCABULARY GAMES!
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Vocabulary Tests by Unit
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It's All Greek to ME!
roots, prefixes, and suffixes
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Quia - Greek and Latin roots
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Homophones
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Grade 8 Flocabulary videos
14 unit rap videos teaching vocabulary
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High School SAT Flocabulary
12 unit rap videos teaching SAT words
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100 Words Every HS student should know
List of words
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100 Word List quiz
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Vocabulary - TESTING Words
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Enhance Your Vocabulary
An extensive site for tutorial and test prep
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Spelling City Vocabulary Practice
Menu on left has many helpful pages and word lists.
Confused Words and Homophones
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Practice 1 confused words
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Commonly confused words Lesson #1
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Easy Quiz
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Challenging Quiz
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affect/effect; advise/advice
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More practice quizzes for commonly confused words
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More practice Lesson #1
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Commonly Confused Quiz
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Less vs Fewer Quiz
ProfQuiz
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Less vs Fewer quiz practice
drop down choices 9 questions
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Less vs Fewer
Quiz is at the bottom of the page.
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Less vs Fewer English.com quiz
10 questions.
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Lie vs Lay Quiz biz
8 question quiz
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Lie vs Lay English zone quiz
practice
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Lie vs lay Quiz #1
quiz practice for lie vs lay
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Lie vs Lay English,com
This one will give you a score.
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More lie vs lay practice
Quiz is at bottom of the page
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Sit vs Set Quiz, Test and Exercise.
practice with homophones
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Sit/Set Grammar Quiz
quiz is at the bottom of page
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Problem verbs sit/set
homophone practice
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Rise/Raise Quia Practice
practice with homophones
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Rise/Raise English Club Quiz
homophone practice
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Confusing words rise/raise
homophone practice
Greek and Latin Roots
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It's All Greek to ME!
game with roots, prefixes, and suffixes
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Quia practice
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Practice Quizzes by section
Start with Section 1 and progress in order
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Self Scoring quizzes
Includes Diagnostic tests - challenging!
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Greek and Latin Roots
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Greek and Latin Roots #2
Forensics
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Pioneer Drama
Royalty free 10 minutes plays
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Brooklyn Publishers
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4n6 membership
On-Line sites regulary used
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Wise County Schools
home page/access to on line library/alternative ed/schools, etc.
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Lonesome Pine Regional Library
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Clusty.com
approved search engine
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Renaissance Learning
AR/STAR links
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EasyBib.com
Citation Maker
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Paper Rater
paper grader and checker
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OnLine Grammar Quizzes
Sends report to your teacher's email
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Grammar Checker
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Central High School Web page
Power Point Presentations
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OWL-sentence clarity
– Power Point Presentations for sentence clarity including combining sentences and dangling modifiers.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing
all of these are useful from sentence building to punctuation
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Foothill Global Access
– 18 power point presentations about aspects of writing, commas, and troublesome words. Excellent resource!
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Classroom. JC schools
Designed for 4th graders but could be useful for lower ability high school students.
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Literary Terms
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Conquering the comma
Click on the media file link to load the power point.
Public Speaking
SOL practice
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SOL Reading Practice
Choose your grade level!
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SAT Vocabulary Practice
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Alternative Ed Interactive quizzes
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TEXAS Released Tests
GOOD practice for the Virginia SOLS!
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PROJECT GRADUATION
tutorial for SOL EOC Reading Test
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***Online Writing Practice Tool***
SOL writing practice
Student Practice Grammar, Mechanics, and Spelling
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1. Practice Quizzes
Find the specific skill, practice and learn!
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2. Punctuation and Grammar Review
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3. Common ERRORS Practice quizzes and Tutorials
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4. Comma, semi-colon, or colon?
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5. Basic punctuation Quiz - Three levels
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6. Basic Punctuation practice
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7. Practice quiz
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8. Tutorial links
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9. Punctuation Points -quizzes
choose quiz from list
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11. Parallel Structure
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12. Parallel Structure Examples
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13. Parallel Structure - Grammar Bytes
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10. Passive Voice
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15. Pronoun antecedent exercises
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16. Pronoun antecedent Practice
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17. More Pronoun Antecedent Practice
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18. Pronoun Antecedent Exercises 3
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14. Parallel Structure Quiz practice
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19. Good grammar practice quizzes
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20. Grammar Quiz Sample SAT
English Grammar Help Grammar Rules
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DIAGNOSTIC GRAMMAR TEST
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GRAMMAR BYTES
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Punctuation and Mechanics Diagnostic
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More Practice Quizzes and tutorials
Confused Words
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Writing English online tests
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Internet 4 Classrooms
Troublesome Confused Words
CONJUNCTIONS
Adverbial Conjunctions
Coordinating Conjunctions
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Choose the correct coordinating conjunction
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EASY quiz Commas with coordinating conjunctions
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Inserting punctuation in sentences w conjunctions
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Tutorial and Harder quiz
Scroll to the bottom to find the Practice Quizzes #1,2, and 3
Subordinating Conjunctions
Diagramming
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Notes and tutorial examples
Simple Sentence Patterns
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Notes and tutorlial examples
Compound and complex sentences
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Notes and Tutorials specific phrase help
Sentence parts
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Interactive tutorial
Drop and Drag examples
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Video Sentence Pattern #1
Subject/ Verb
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Video Sentence Pattern #2
Subject Verb Direct Object and Indirect Objects
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Vdieo Sentence Pattern #3
Predicate Nominatives and Predicate Adjectives
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Video Sentence Pattern #4
participles, gerunds, infinitives
English quizzes
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MANY quizzes for various English topics
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Adjective or adverb?
Do you know which one to use?
Indefinite Pronouns
Irregular Verbs
Parts of Speech
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Easy Parts of Speech quiz
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Parts of Speech Game
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Tutorial and Pop Quizzes
Review each section; then take the pop quiz for that section.
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Quick Review quiz for Pts of Speech
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8 Parts of speech test practice
44 questions
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Rudolf Academy 8 parts of speech quiz.
9 questions
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Chart - 8 parts of speech
pts of speech defined w/examples
Predicate Nominatives and Predicate Adjectives
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Easy Quiz
Easy printable quiz
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Sentence Complement Quiz
Includes Direct Objects and Indirect Objects.
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Quiz on Predicate Adjectives
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Tutorial and Tests
PUNCTUATION
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Punctuation Portal
Punctuation Rules explained
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Seven Deadly Sins of Punctuation
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Punctuation Practice
Quotation marks
Semi colons and colons
Underlining and Italics
Run on sentences and fragments
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Run on Sentence Practice
OWL
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Run On Quiz
printable
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Fragments and Run on Sentences
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Sentence Speedway
Identify phrase, dependent and independent clauses
Spelling
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Catch the Spelling
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Miss Spelling's Spelling Bees
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Top ten Confusing Words
Bog article outlinining the correct use of the top ten most confusing words
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Ten more confusing Words
An additional ten words confused
Verbals
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Tutorial on Verbals
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Basic Verbals Quiz
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Verbal quiz
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Indentifying Verbals and Verbal phrases
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Verbals Quiz MC, True False, etc.
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Verbals and other phrases Quiz
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Verbal Quiz -print only
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Verbal Practice interactive and print version
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Common Mistakes with Infinitives and Gerunds
Choose the correct phrase
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Identifying Verbals Practice
Student Resources for Literature
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Cold Sassy Tree
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Walt Whitman #3
Power Point
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Walt Whitman #1
Power Point Washington State University
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Walt Whitman #2
A pictoral look at the American poet
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Emily Dickinson #1
Power Point
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Emily Dickinson #2
Power Point
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Emily Dickinson #3
power point
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Writing About Literature
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Writing about Fiction
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Writing an Approach Paper
Figurative Language
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Myths and Legends
Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Short Stories
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The Most Dangerous Game
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The Most Dangerous Game (2)
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The Minister's Black Veil
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Symbolism Analysis of Minister's Black Veil
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Summary and analysis of Minister's Black Veil
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Quia Quiz Minister's Black Veil
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Quiz Quiz #2 Minister's Black Veil
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"The Cold Equation" quiz
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Quiz quiz - "The Cold Equation"
Type in name before beginning quiz.
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Short Story Elements Quiz #1
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Short Story Elements Quiz #2
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The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst
full text
The Canterbury Tales
King Arthur and Arthurian Legends
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What Arthurian character are YOU?
a fun quiz to determine what character in the Arthurian legends you might be.
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King Arthur links
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King Arthur Quiz
Try your hand at the legend trivia!
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Language quiz
Try your hand at these archaic words using your context clues and vocabulary skills!
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The Code of Chivalry
A listing of the code of conduct for knights!
The Crucible
The Hunger Games and Trilogy
The Scarlet Letter
To Kill A Mockingbird
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Universal Teacher
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Cliffs Notes
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Sparknotes
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Student's Survival Guide
Vocabulary, allusions, idoms
Wish You Well
Student Resources for Poetry
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Glossary
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GREAT glossary
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tutorial and games
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Poetry Forms
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Another Forms site
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Interactive Quiz
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tutorial and quiz
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HARD! quiz
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Tutorial and Quiz
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Quizzes
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I AM poem
Create your own "I Am" poem
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Where I'm From Poem
Study guide and sample for writing a "where I'm From" poem
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Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carrol
Student Resources for Research
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Evaluating credibility of on-line sources
Is this a good source or not?
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Plagiarism
Avoiding the crime
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How to Research
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*Power Point on Plagiarism
A Full Tutorial
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Works Cited
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A+Research and Writing
Step by Step Instruction for a research paper
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Research topics and possible thesis
Possible topics and links
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Social Issues Research Topics
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Animal Rights research topics
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Kent University
A Guide to Literary Criticism
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Tallahassee Comunity College Library
A Guide to Literary Criticism
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MLA Quiz
Interactive!
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MLA Citation Practice
Drag and Drop in the Right Order!
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Understanding Google Search results
Short movie clip on researching Google
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MLA Study Guide Citation examples
Many sample resources
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Developing a Research Thesis
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What is a Thesis?
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Thesis Statements
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Source Cards
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Source Cards
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Notecards
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Notecard sample
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STYLEBOOK
Choosing Credible Sources
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MLA vs APA style writing
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MLA vs APA differences
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Chart - MLA vs APA
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Sample MLA paper
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Sample APA paper
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Citation Practice Avoiding Plagiarism
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BIG DOG's GUIDE TO MLA
Great site!
Student Resources for Writing
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Complete
Follow the links for each part of the writing process
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The Writing Center
Basic Writing Help
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More writing help!
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Using Quotations
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MLA tutorial
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Writing the Five Paragraph Essay
Includes outlining
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How to Write a THESIS
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Web page for Revision Help
Excellent site with links
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Paraphrasing to avoid plagiarism
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*Paola Brown's Student Learning Tools