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Check Skyward and Canvas to see if you have missing work to complete, and feel free to ask me questions as you get started. You may work on homework for any class, as long as you are completely caught up in English.
Grab a reading book from my bookshelf, your backpack (from home), or ask me for a pass to the Media Center to check one out. I always encourage all students to have a book with them to read for enjoyment when there's extra time. Ask me how you can earn extra credit by reading books.
Log onto Khan Academy, and practice, practice, practice. I recommend the SAT Prep sections for Reading and Writing, as well as the 9th and 10th grade ELA sections for Grammar & Syntax. Ask me how you can earn extra credit by completing Khan modules.
Use the Writer Igniter to generate a unique creative writing prompt for you. This is a great tool for any student who wants to try their hand at writing a story, no matter how short or long, with the help of a loose plot guide (assigned to you by a random spin!). Feel free to ask me for feedback on the stories you write. I love to read them!
Seek out or create study sets to practice with on Quizlet, or make flashcards for yourself using index cards from my supply table.
Browse one of the following sites:
wikipedia.org (I encourage you to seek out more reading and information related to the concepts/stories we are studying in class. Remember to click on footnotes to see what type of sources the information was pulled from.)
VCS Research Databases (These databases, like Google Scholar below, are great for discovering and learning about topics being poured over by college students, professors, and field experts today.)
scholar.google.com (Google Scholar is another database of mostly-free academic journal articles. This is a great starting-point for discovering the type of cutting-edge research taking place around the world about topics that may be of interest to you.)
oed.com (The Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating database of word usage patterns dating back hundreds of years. Type in a word and learn where it came from.)
newsmap.js (See what current events are taking place across the world! News is sourced from all sorts of websites and publications that provide article data to Google News. Feel free to click through articles and read what's of potential interest to you.)
gutenberg.org (Project Gutenberg is a library with tens of thousands of free eBooks. I recommend sorting by Main Categories at the top of the homepage. These are texts in the public domain, which means they're mostly very old, which might be of interest to many.)
poetryfoundation.org (The Poetry Foundation offers thousands and thousands of poems to read and enjoy online for free! I recommend using the Topics and Themes link at the top of the homepage to find poems of potential interest to you.)
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If there is another online website/activity that is not listed here, but you believe it has some form of educational, personal or intellectual value to you, please tell me about it and I will typically have no issues with you using it.
Remember to ask me questions as you like or need.
Lastly, consider telling me or writing to me about anything noteworthy you find or complete during downtime!
disclaimer: i, mr. abbott, am solely responsible for this website and its content. therefore, the personal thoughts & website recommendations you see expressed here are exclusively my own. these websites were chosen because of their potential to help students learn, prepare for major assessments like the SAT, and maybe become more curious about the world and/or themselves via the act of reading & writing!