Each month you will find an update posted here from different students in each group, in order to share with everyone what our middle school English classes are doing.

Mrs. Brandt's Ten Commandments for the Five Paragraph Essay

Verbals! From Purdue's OWL

The Basics of Verbs (University of Oregon GO DUCKS!) Not so basic explanation of verbals

Writer's resources:

Homework Center: Writing Skills: How to Write a Research Paper

Write Source: Research Links

Write Source: Student Models

Purdue University: Online Writing Lab (OWL): The best site for answers to all your English questions from grammar to MLA, letter writing to research papers!

MLA

Grammar Slammer--English Grammar Resource

Friendly or Personal Letters

Commas in Letter Writing

Commas in Letter Writing

Capital Letters in Letters; Capitalizing; Letters

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation (Excellent grammar practice)

Just for fun: Animaniacs on Hamlet

                     Animaniacs on A Midsummer Night's Dream