Attached Web-Site Resources and Uses

At the top of my list is the "Parent Resources" category. I don't intend to use these in my class specifically, but I do hope that parents of my students will visit my web-site as well and become engaged in their students' learning processes. I really appreciated that the second link, which I titled "Parent information," not only gave tips for how to build a healthy relationship with the child's teacher, but also provided research on the benefits that a child-parent relationship has on a student's learning process. The other web-site, "Kid Info," can be beneficial to both parent and teacher in providing resources regarding the students.

My second category is titled "Teacher Resources," and is primarily for my own personal informaiton. It gives information not only on lesson plans and ideas for the classroom, but also ways to help parents become involved in the learning process. I also listed a few different teacher associations which will benefit me through providing support and union information.

Next, I have "English in the Community!" Here, I provided a few different opportunities for my students to get their writing out into the public: one, through the Senior Essay Writing Contest, and the other through "Poetry on Buses." This is a program that King County has developed to allow youth to have their writings published on public buses. I also linked a few theatres in the area, in the hopes that my students will not only discover a passion for literature, but also discover a passion for THEATRE, and get involved in viewing community dramas.

After that, I have provided links to the libraries. I linked both the King County Public Library System, and also the Bothell Senior High School Library System. My intention is to encourage my students to learn how to use their resources and not only check out books, but also use the journal articles for research and all the information available to them through the library systems.

Following the libraries, I have several resources on Grammar. I've provided grammar rules, sentence structure, comma rules, and definitions for parts of speech. Grammar is something that I really want to focus on with my students, because I feel that structure is critical to both understanding, interpreting, and writing the English language. I've provided these resources so that my students always have them available for review and for reference during writing papers. I hope to provide a lot of exercises on these in class . . . both definitions, games, and sentence diagramming workshops.

Next, I have some links to web-sites which show the rules on how to format different style papers, as well as links to a dictionary and a thesauraus. This is to encourage the use of great vocabulary and diction, as well as again to encourage my students to become strong writers with the ability to check out their writing styles and formats at all times from my web-site. I hope to especially focus on MLA formatting, and assist my students to embrace this style firmly before going on to college.

Finally, I have listed the web-sites for several different authors which we will be reading throughout the school year. I do this firstly so that the students can get a background/bibliography on who the authors are: where they came from, when they lived. This gives the students a better foundation for interpreting the literature they are reading. Additionally, my hope is that my students will use these links to read more of the works of specific authors that they most enjoyed, in order to increase the breadth of their knowledge and understanding of literature.

Overall, I am pleased with the work that I put into this assignment. I feel that I have a well-rounded base of web-sites which will provide for the needs of all three members of the learning triangle: my students, their parents, and me (the educator). I hope that they find it useful as well!