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Grammar Sites

Grammar Bytes!  |  Activities, Games, Review, Exercises
http://chompchomp.com/menu.htm
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms.htm

Sentence Diagramming  |  Activities, Games, Review, Exercises
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/diagrams2/one_pager1.htm

Poetry Out Loud
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/

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Media Center Resources

media_center_tech_help_2018.pub
File Size: 304 kb
File Type: pub
Download File

media_center_pass_letter_for_parents_jan_2018.pdf
File Size: 574 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

MLA Format

MLA |  Citation Game
http://library.williams.edu/citing/game/play.php?game=3

The OWL at Purdue  |  Online Writing Lab
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Plagiarism
http://library.flvs.net/swf/plagiarism/plagiarism.htm

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Texts Online

Brave New World Text
http://scotswolf.com/aldoushuxley_bravenewworld.pdf

Brave New World Audio Book Read by Steve Parker 

Chapter 1: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/584-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-01?si=002bdb9cecb347f4a159517550880b93&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 2: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/585-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-02?si=20719726005b42fbb81bb04bea36ac6d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 3, Part I:  https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/586-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-03-part-1?si=16c7e82c487646eea172e483140843b7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 3, Part II: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/587-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-03-part-2?si=43cc21c605fa46d2b0aa8f39db37b1d0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 4:  https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/588-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-04?si=77fa62b2e41549d0ab851e20cd9348a5&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 5: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/589-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-05?si=3392c33ff4874b4d9435d66b08a2f7fc&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 6: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-06?si=68ec6ef44bd74667a6aca21749344c94&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 7: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-07?si=c4a8989edc4f4a108890a89b63f71405&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 8: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/592-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-08?si=6cdf219f184f43a98b2f8cedf8ad943a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 9: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/593-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-09?si=f408c8312e5e457fb7d65ca3d605d44b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 10: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/594-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-10?si=461cd6cfd95f4df093648f0cdae22b64&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 11: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/595-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-11?si=4c4fd7a2dd264441a89b8b59baf2809a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 12: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/596-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-12?si=23cf81f6b4ba4af08421bd54ae6f806c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 13: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/597-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-13?si=d8066b5d3dec45a2abaedcb4be0cb790&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 14: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/598-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-14?si=1e20f214090a4f2eb29c937d54a46a85&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 15: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/599-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-15?si=a3dcd9e649d5452583e457e8eed18b92&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 16: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/600-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-16?si=feb18dbb472c4975ae9f267fdc4d7f79&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 17: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/601-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-17?si=7b1b2e83598947cc824ff857df850a03&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

Chapter 18: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/602-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-18?si=c9070e1963ad493aa8dfd81b7782ceba&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing​

​The following links pull up several files in SoundCloud. You may need to scroll down to the specific chapter you are looking for.

Chapter 1: https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/584-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-read-by-steve-parker-chapter-01​
Chapter 2: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2002​

Chapter 3: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2003​

Chapter 4: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2004​

Chapter 5: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2005​

Chapter 6: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2006​

Chapter 7: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2007​

Chapter 8: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2008​

Chapter 9: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2009​

Chapter 10: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2010​

Chapter 11: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2011​

Chapter 12: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2012​

Chapter 13: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2013​

Chapter 14: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2014​

Chapter 15: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2015​

Chapter 16: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2016​

Chapter 17: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2017​

Chapter 18: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=brave%20new%20world%20chapter%2018​

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Brave New World Audio Book-Version 2
​https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxCX0Z8hFjf95VCwxOvA83jtokhJqGQK/view?usp=drive_link
Here are the start times for each chapter/section in Brave New World Aldous Huxley Audiobook.mp4
2 – 29:16
3 – 50:40
4.I – 1:38:12
4.II – 1:49:36
5.I – 2:04:34
5.II – 2:16:28
6.I – 2:33:38
6.II – 2:47:58
​6.III – 2:57:00
7 – 3:10:03
8 – 3:40:50
9 – 4:15:39
10 – 4:25:13
11 – 4:37:46
12 – 5:14:28
13 – 5:40:09
14 – 6:01:00
15 – 6:20:25
16 – 6:36:09
17 – 7:01:27
18 – 7:22:34
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Brave New World - The Really Cheesy Made-For-TV Movie
        Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwLrabfEdKY
        Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtqZJ3cwdYI

Beowulf  |  An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem from the Oral Tradition
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16328/16328-h/16328-h.htm
http://literatureproject.com/beowulf/index.htm

The Canterbury Tales |  by Geoffrey Chaucer
http://english.fsu.edu/canterbury/
http://www.canterburytales.org/canterbury_tales.html
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/webcore/murphy/canterbury/2genpro.pdf

Ballads  |  Medieval Poetry
http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

"Twa Corbies": http://www.twocrows.co.uk/twa_corbies.html

Hamlet: ​http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/download/index.html?filter=Hamlet

Books with Audio: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/books/

Winston Churchill
First Speech as Prime Minister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZpcMYL-cLU

Othello - No Fear Version
www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/othello/
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Othello - Complete Play on Youtube (Free)
William Marshall as Othello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCdHpKXw_Tg



Text Support Information

Technology through the Years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/entertainment/tech-generations/


Photostories

Create Videos Online with These Tools:
Adobe Spark: https://spark.adobe.com/home/
WeVideo: https://www.wevideo.com/

Photostory Samples are Available Here (and on our Google drive):
http://photo.journalism.cuny.edu/week-5/
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Just for Fun - or Relaxation!

Four Hours of Ocean Waves  |  Audio and Visual - NO Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_193985&feature=iv&src_vid=dsDTJ__jioo&v=isVl5XIiVNU

Thunderstorm and Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNLEPrNi2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kygoJiJAWG4
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDq6TstdEi8 (The Tempest storm)

​Rainforest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9pQYOGIWM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3131401453&feature=iv&src_vid=isVl5XIiVNU&v=95rXTV1GRRY

Dumbledore's Office
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJa8u5LWwdY​

Fireplace with Thunder and Rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atELVQ9aVGw

Rain in the Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdGUunu7pVI

Celtic Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCsi-lxW4yM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUfGjWYpE-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWObTfiovD8

Scottish Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMgQ7x2T9Yg

Music and Literature |  Songs Inspired by Works of Literature
http://www.corndancer.com/tunes/tunes_db.html


Harrison Today: http://esenetworks.com/live-events.aspx?id=13452

Developing an Argument

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​http://www.uefap.com/writing/function/argue.htm

Sample essays: ​https://www.mesacc.edu/~paoih30491/ArgumentSampleEssays.html_
Sample paper with analysis: ​http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref6e/lmcontent/ch07/PDF/Hacker-Hammond-MLA-Arg.pdf_
Avoiding Needless Words: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/272/needless.html 
Exercise, Making Sentences Concise: http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/praclutterex.htm
AP Editing Checklist: http://www.writersandeditors.com/blog.htm?post=958659

YouScience Opportunity
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/27d195344984152c2fe207387/files/YouScience_Friends_Family_Program_for_Harrison_High_School_1_.pdf_

Mythology

Ancient Greece Webquest: http://www.mythologyteacher.com/GreekIntro.html

Theseus Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Site: http://www.mythologyteacher.com/Theseusintro.html

Roman Webquest: http://www.mythologyteacher.com/RomanMain.html

The Story of Cupid and Psyche: http://www.chatterboxtheater.org/audio/play/21

The Hero Journey: https://youtu.be/Hhk4N9A0oCA
       Glove and Boots Hero Journey: https://youtu.be/yZxs_jGN7Pg

Medieval Bestiary: http://bestiary.ca/




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