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Resources for Reading
Romeo and Juliet
- BBC Bitesize - A great resource with summaries, video, and quizzes to test your understanding of the play.
- Who makes a play happen? - A slideshow explaining the roles various individuals play to turn a script into a finished production.
- Romeo and Juliet Act I, Scene 4 - A slideshow of images to complement this scene.
Spelling City - Play games to practice for your next word study quiz!
The Interactive Raven - The Edgar Allen Poe poem, made interactive to point out vocabulary words and poetic techniques.
VocabGrabber - Copy and paste any text to help you find the most important vocabulary words and organize them visually. Fun and useful!
To Kill A Mockingbird - The entire book online! (In PDF format.)
Of Mice and Men - Student Survival Guide - A handy guide to help with key vocabulary, allusions, and idioms found in the book.
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Resources for Writing:
TeenInk - A publication featuring writing by teens and for teens!
ReadWriteThink Letter Generator - This handy tool makes it easy to write a letter with all the parts you need!
ReadWriteThink Printing Press - This is a great tool for making newspapers, brochures, flyers, or booklets. Flash player required.
The Purdue OWL Guide - Information on how to properly format research assignments. See also the APA style guide.
The American Academy of Poets - Here you can find text, audio, video, and themed selections from some of our nation's most celebrated poets.
The Poetry Tool - This tool from Chicago's own Poetry Magazine allows you to search a huge collection of poems. You can search by author, topic, occasion, and many other ways.
Interactive Persuasive Essay - Analyze the strategies that writers use to create effective arguments.
Skillswise - Games and quizzes to practice your grammar.
Rhymer - A helpful rhyming dictionary. Contains advertisements.
Publishing and performing opportunities - The English Department of North Lawndale College Prep High School has put together this great list of publishing and performance resources for young people.
Daily writing prompts - Updated Monday through Friday. Contains advertisements.
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Resources for the High School Search:
EXPLORE testing - Find out more about the test and see sample items.
2010 Open House dates - A list of open house dates at 14 different area high schools.
CPS high schools - Search and learn more about all the high school options offered by Chicago Public Schools.
Selective enrollment and career/vocational - All selective enrollment applications are online from now on, so go here to find out more!
LINK Unlimited - Providing four-year high school scholarships, mentoring, and support.
The Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund - This organization offers four-year scholarships to a wide variety of private schools in Chicago.