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 * interesting background information related to material we are studying
 * web site resources to help with homework and studying
 * slideshows of student work
 * mulitmedia writing prompts

[|On-line Learning Styles Assessment Survey] [|Study Skills Strategies University website: advice to students]
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**//A graphic orgaizer for prewriting an ORQ or essay //**
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 * //Website with tips about nearly EVERYTHING you need to know about writing from Purdue University--prepared for students grade 7-12. //**
 * //[|OWL writing strategies website] //**
 * //MLA style guide: How to cite sources properly //**
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**//<span style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Explanation of the Rhetorical Triangle (how to argue effectively) //** <span style="color: #008080; font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 250%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">

<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">Click on this title for background information on why Dec. 7 is "infamous".

<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; cursor: pointer; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|The day that lives in Infamy] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 90%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; color: #0000ff; cursor: pointer; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">Below is the text of a DRAFT of FDR's famous address to Congress. Notice that his draft, like ours, is dated, labeled as a draft, and contains **MANY, MANY revisions to give his words more impact,** clarity, and just the right tone. <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; color: #008080; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">Notice that the word "infamy" was originally "world history". Without the revision, the line would not be as strong or memorable. <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">**If the President of a nation that has 24 hours to decide to enter a world war has time to revise and edit--YOU DO TOO!!!** Even the best ideas can use some polishing to become better--and in this case, part of our collective culture. <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">

[|Character logo slideshow writing assignment] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 10px;">[|"Why I lived with Garbage..." writing prompt article] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; padding-right: 10px;">[|Poetry Out Loud site: Delight poem--What delights you?] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; padding-right: 10px;">[|Ahern 2010 Artshow slideshow writing prompt] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; padding-right: 10px;">[|Screen cast explaining how to add sensory language to writing]
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//Out of the Dust// related websites [|American Experience: Surviving the Dustbowl] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; padding-right: 10px;">[|Text of "In Flanders Field" poem]
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[|Plato's Allegory of the Cave animation]

//Walk Two Moons// related websites [|Walk Two Moons Author Sharon Creech's web site] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 10px;">[|Vase or Face? optical illusion]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**//The art of argument: How do these videos try to persuade?//** Short video of plastic bottle "waterfall" media type="youtube" key="OZbTXDkrD1o" height="153" width="210" align="left"

CNN on tap water vs. bottled water

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Veteran's Day background information for writing prompt Nov 10, 2011 media type="custom" key="11254876"

[|How are the PC dominos like conflict in literature?] media type="youtube" key="5_tXcRYOYZ0" height="251" width="336"