Freshman Writing

October News

• Your teachers will post your current CGAs Wednesday, November 4.  That average will be the grade submitted for your Marking Period I Report Card. 
  
• Make sure that you are completely up-to-date with your work insuring that this is the most accurate representation of your course work.
  

• Luminarium Great Brit. Lit. Site!
• Merriam Webster Dictionary
• The Write Source Grammar reference
• The Write Source Grammar reference
• Librarians Internet Index Websites you can trust
• Library of Congress: American Memory A primary source collection provided by the Library of Congress. Great for teaching history and culture. You can also find activities and lesson plans and curriculum suggestions.
• Newseum This site provides newspapers from around the country and the world. Each day you can check out the various front pages and compare/contrast.
• Gale Trial Site for Union Catholic (Good for March, 2008) All databases and eBooks
• Moodle Writing I
• The Meaning Behind YouTube
• Christopher Walkin & Tim Burton's YouTube
• Simpson's VodPod
• Grammar for Writing Student Activities
• Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now Awesome Shakespeare Site!
• Clusty search engine groups similar results together into clusters.
• Ask.Com Formerly Ask Jeeves. Get to what you're searching for faster! Just point your mouse on the Binoculars icon and a preview of the site will appear, saving you time and the hassle of clicking through search results to get what you want.
• Grokker Grokker’s name is inspired by the 1961 Robert A. Heinlein science fiction classic “Stranger in a Strange Land,” in which Grok is a Martian word meaning to understand something completely.
• Virtual Globe Theatre Tour