Links to the Future

newsoffuture.com Future News for Year 2020 and Beyond

futureforall.org/ A Layperson's View of Future Technology and Society

globalfutureonline.org A World Vision Journal of Human Development

globalfuturist.com Harnessing the Power of Innovation

thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com The Future of Our World

wfs.org World Future Society

Assignment for Monday, March 30

• Biographies were to be completed last week. Any student who has not completed his/her biography should use some of the class time today for reading.
• Reading conference sheet also due last week.
• Genre piece planning sheet (chart). Please complete this as well.
• Drafts of 3 genre pieces (totaling 3 or more pages in length) are due by the end of the class on Friday.
• Begin research by locating and bookmarking online sources for topics related to your biography.

AP English Literature -- Exam Prep. Links

College Board: AP English Literature
(Program Description, Test Information, Sample Questions, more)

Just for Advanced Placement Students
(Practice Questions, Program Info., & more)

Creating a Bibliography and Works Cited Page

An easy way to organize and format your bibliography and works cited page is at:

www.easybib.com/


A sample bib. entry for an Amazon.com review of Into the Wild is below:

"Into the Wild." Amazon.com. 17 Mar. 2009 .

(Note, author of the review and date of review is not available, so that information is omitted).

Cool Hamlet Sites

Hamlet Links

Dr. Seuss Does Hamlet: Fox in Socks, Prince of Denmark

HAMLET: The Song (from Prarie Home Companion)

Enjoying "Hamlet"

Hamlet Discussion Questions

Hamlet Resources

Shakespeare Resource Center: Hamlet
The Rotten State of Denmark
Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country

Best of Adventure 2008

http://www.explorersweb.com/

English 12 Semester 1 Outline

English 12 Semester 1 Outline

English Wide Open Course Outline

The English Wide Open Course Outline is here.

Additional Sources -- Viewpoints on Chris McCandless

Sean Penn (director), Into the Wild

Catherine Todd (reviewer), "Chris McCandless from an Alaskan Park Ranger's Perspective"

Amazon.com reviews

Far North Science, "Into the Wild: The False Being Within"

Craig Medred, "McCandless' story isn't really told in the book or the film" (Schizophrenia article)

Adventure Blog, "Was Chris Mccandless Crazy, Literally?"

Alaska Daily News, Chris McCandless articles (links)

Not Very Bright (blog & discussion) "Chris McCandless"

Online Resume Builders

BEGIN HERE (and read the note below):

Online Resume Builder

Important note: You can save the resume you complete using the above Online Resume Builder by:
1. Dragging your browser over the resume, copying it, and pasting it into Microsoft Word.
2. Saving the Microsoft Word document on the transfer drive.

Other resume resources:
Resume Tutor from University of Minnesota.

A second online resume builder (click on free trial)

Sample Student Resumes from AIE

More Student Resumes

Sample Resumes for different careers.

College Essay Resources

The College Board has useful section on Essay Skills for the college admissions essay. Included are a section on how to choose a topic and tips on writing the essay itself.

Samples of successful essays can be found at www.quintcareers.com/

The Common Application essay prompts are at https://app.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/CommonApp2008.pdf

True fact: You can pay as much as $1000.00 to have a professional essay editing service such as EssayEdge help you with your essay. (Or you can just ask Wirthy and get help for free).

The College Board suggests you compete the following as part of your brainstorming process:

• Discover Your Strengths: Do a little research about yourself: ask parents, friends, and teachers what your strengths are.
• Create a Self-Outline: Now, next to each trait, list five or six pieces of evidence from your life—things you've been or done—that prove your point.
• Find Patterns and Connections: Look for patterns in the material you've brainstormed. Group similar ideas and events together. For example, does your passion for numbers show up in your performance in the state math competition and your summer job at the computer store? Was basketball about sports or about friendships? When else have you stuck with the hard work to be with people who matter to you?

Topics and Links for Things Fall Apart Mini-Research

Topics:
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart (criticism and reviews)
Ibo culture & traditions (music & dance, food, religion, family)
Colonialism in Nigeria
human sacrifice & cannibalism
Nigeria today

Links:
Portals to the World: Nigeria
Online Nigeria
NationMaster: Nigeria
Amazon.com: Things Fall Apart
Reading Room: Things Fall Apart Review

Creating a Personal Portaportal for Literacy 9

Your assignment for today is to create a Portaportal with links to 15 or more resources that will be helpful for Explorations Board research.

(1) Please begin by checking the Literacy 9 links at www.guest.portaportal.com/ray_wirth and bookmarking links to those sites that you feel are most useful, based on the web site criteria we have been discussing.

(2) Next use the following search terms on Google.com and investigate the sites you receive as results. Don't stop with page 1 of the results. Dig deeper:

Online Encyclopedia

Online dictionary

History resources

Science resources

Another site for Consideration: (See especially history and science headings):

EducationIndex.com

(3) Create your own Portaportal by going to www.portaportal.com and creating an account. (If you are unable to create a Portaportal account for any reason, please save your links as an organized set of desktop "bookmarks" instead.

(4) I'll check your work next time. Good luck!

Essay on Wild Places (Links)

Boston Globe Article: At Loggerheads Over Maine Woods

Forest Ecology Network: Maine Woods National Park