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Independent Reading or Listening Assignment – Spring 2010

TASK:        Choose one of the links listed below.
Listen to,
or
read
the text in that link.

After listening to or reading one of the below, in its entirety,

Complete the “Independent Reading/Listening Assignment Sheet” given to you in class.

DUE DATE:    The Assignment Sheet is due to Ms. Leo on Monday 1st March 2010.

*Do not turn in the text itself. Keep that with your notes.

Click on one of the links below…

Reading 1

Reading 2

Listening 1

Below are some links that will help you with this project. Also, don’t forget to use the books Mr. Thomarie told you about in the library.

Gale Biography Resources

SL Directory – Hispanics

Who 2

Infoplease

Biography.com

Bone Tired by Gomez

Paparazzi by Lady Gaga

1901 by Phoenix

The Fear by Lily Allen

Dominos by The Big Pink

Daylight by Matt & Kim

Click on the link below…

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/herosjourney/

JUST ARRIVED!!

We now have the full series of Darren Shan’s Cirque Du Freak. Come to the library and check out the last four in the series.
The Demonata series has also arrived. We have Books 1, 2, & 3 in the series so come check them out before somebody else does!!

Students have been dropping by and adding a few pieces to the collaborative puzzles in the library for over a month. Six puzzles have already been completed and 2 new Holiday themed puzzles are on the go. They must be completed before Christmas break so stop by and help complete them!!

There is still time to get a story submitted to the 2010 JHS Writers Anthology and writers are typing like crazy as we speak (really, they are – it’s a Tuesday word war!).

Some reminders for you as you near the finish line…
Short stories should be 2,000 to 4,000 words for the Anthology.
I need all rough drafts by 23rd December (last day before Xmas).
Print 1.5 or 2.0 spacing.

Any questions ask Mr. Thomarie.

Think you’re good at Halo 3? Prove it!

On the 29th & 30th October there will be a Halo 3 competition held in the Library. Anyone can enter this single player double-elimination tournament (that means you can lose twice before you are eliminated).
See Mr. Thomarie if you have questions and to sign-up (32 players maximum, prizes for 1st & 2nd place).

Begin with this Industrial Revolution Webquest…
http://brooklin-es.u76.k12.me.us/emints/irwebquest/introduction.htm

Then Goto:
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor/ind-rev-open.htm
Read each item and click next. There are a lot of them! Go all the way to the end and take the quiz.

When you are done, go to:
http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/IndustrialRevolution/activities.htm
Click the words in blue: The Industrial Revolution Take the three quizzes: General Quiz, Textile Industry, Industrial Revolution and the Iron Bridge

Go back to the words in blue: The Industrial Revolution History Study Shop > Games Room > The History Game
OR
Games Room > Games > Fling the Teacher (to do this click history topics and click Agricultural Revolution)

Below are some great links to get you started…

1- Missouri Botanical Garden http://mbgnet.mobot.org/

2- World Biomes http://www.worldbiomes.com

3- NASA Earth Observatory http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/

4- The World’s Biomes http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/

5- Blue Planet Biomes http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm