Rutigliano, Kerry

• Try Something New for 30 days
  Try Something New for 30 Days Video
• Grammar Tips from New York Times Best Seller Grammar Girl
  Deepen your understanding of grammar with the cultural cool Mignon Fogarty. Check out this website.
• Word of the Day
  Enrich your vocabulary with the word of the day. Check it out.
• NONFICTION POSSIBILITIES You might find a nonfiction title from this site that you will enjoy.
• ACT ENGLISH TEST
• ACT READING TEST

• Helpful video created by Ms. Long
  
• Works Cited Information
  
• SAMPLE PAPER
  Read through paper; take note of the parentheticals and works cited page.

• Recommended reading
  BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY FIELDSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL for middle school students.
• HAISLN RECOMMENDED READING LIST 2012
  
• Additional finalists from NPR's best teen books
  Additional finalists from NPR's best teen books.
• NPR top 100 teen books
  "Summer, like youth, is fleeting. But the books we read when we're young can stay with us for a lifetime. Here's hoping that when the school bell rings in a few short weeks, it will find you engrossed in just such a memorable read, selected by the NPR audience. Enjoy."

• Sarah Kay: Ted Talk
  
• Diagnostic test

• Problem and Solution Links
  Part I: Select a video to watch from the following links: 1. Growing Up Online Chapter 1 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/view/ 2. Dropout Nation Chapter 1 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dropout-nation/ 3. Cell Towers Part 1: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cell-tower-deaths/ 4. Poverty: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poor-kids

• Snowflakes for Sandyhook
  26_ACTS_OF_KINDNESS_NBC_CLIP
  

• Margaret Haddix link
  Investigate Margaret Haddix site. Based on her website, books that you have read develop five questions that you will ask her at the assembly next week. Five questions should be a blend of the following: literal, inferential, evaluative, synthesizing and one of your choice. You should have only one literal question.
• Check out additional Project Inititiative on Ted Talk
  Be attentive to the purpose and thesis of each project initiative.
• Check out additional Project Inititiative on Ted Talk
  Be attentive to the purpose and thesis of each project initiative.

• Prezi: Signal Phrases
  Prezi: TRANSITIONS
  

 QAA Links:

• Prezi III
  
• Prezi II
  
• Prezi I

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