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> > >> >> ==__**Curriculum Docs **__ --  These are the latest electronic versions Nancy could find. Please post updated files if they exist.  ==
 * English Department Handbook (PDF -- coming soon)
 * Research Manual (PDF -- coming soon)
 * Wakefield Grammar Summary Outline (GSO) (PDF -- coming soon)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Words-of-the-Day Lists
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Middle School List A (in use 2008-2009): [|MS WOD List A 2008-9 (2).doc]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Upper School List B (in 2008-2009):

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">**Literature** > > <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif"> > > > > > <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif"> =<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(250, 15, 54); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center">  =
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">6th grade:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">7th grade
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">8th grade
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">9th grade: [|9th grade lit voc 2007.doc]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">10th grade
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">11th grade
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">12th grade
 * Composition and Grammar**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">6th grade: [|6th Grade Comp Grammar 2007.doc]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">7th grade: [|7th grade grammar comp.doc]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">8th grade: [|8th grade grammar comp 2007.doc]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">9th grade: [|9th Grade Composition grammar 2007.doc]; | [|2008-09 9th grade comp curriculum.doc]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">10th grade: [|10th grade comp grammar 2007.doc]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">11th grade
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">12th grade

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|Glossary of Major Formalist Literary Terms.doc] (emailed by Tom on 7/7/08)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|Proposed Division of Lit Terms.doc] -- after receiving Tom's list, Nancy and I (Laura) looked at the terms and thought about when it might be most appropriate to introduce each term. (posted 8/7/08)

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) Grammar and Spelling] (emailed by Tom on 8/2/08)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|Wordle.net] -- Input any chunk of text and Wordle will create a "tag cloud" indicating how frequently words appear in the text
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|NCTE Inbox Blog] -- Teaching tips and links to resources posted by NCTE
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|Elizabeth Beagle's electronic portfolios] -- Check out the examples of ePortfolios created by Elizabeth's students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|Teacher Tube] -- An offshoot of YouTube, this site houses school-appropriate videos, often uploaded by teachers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|RSS in Plain English] -- A YouTube video that explains how to set up and use an RSS Reader to save time reading your favorite websites
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|American Rhetoric] -- This site houses audio and video clips of many famous speeches, interviews, sermons, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|Google Lit Trips] -- Uses [|Google Earth] to show students where various literary settings are actually located on the globe.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|How to Mark Papers in Google Docs] -- a blog posting from a seasoned Google Docs user outlining ways of marking errors and giving narrative feedback (posted by Nancy on 8/9/08)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">[|"What Works for Me: First-Day Class Activities"]-- a site from NCTE with suggestions for activities to do during the first few days of classes (posted by Nancy on 8/13/08)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif"> [|Back to School Teaching Resource Collection]-- a site from NCTE with more suggestions for activities to do during the first few days of classes (posted by Nancy on 8/13/08)

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