Caroline LaMagna’s Blog

Here is the Prezi presentation with your notes – just in case you missed class… Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes

Have you visited Library Thing? Well, if you love to read, you might want to click that link back there in the previous sentence. On the Library Thing site, you can catalog the books you’ve read, review them, add tags, and read what others have said about the books they’ve read (which is one good way to find new books to read).  Library [...]

Shmoop has announced an essay contest, in celebration of National Poetry Month, for an Apple iPad! Essays must be a discussion in response to Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” – see this link for more specific details about the required elements. Essays must be 500 words or less and the deadline for submission (via [...]

The annual Script Frenzy Challenge begins April 1st – no, this is not an April Fool’s Day joke. 30 days, 100 pages – a complete screenplay, stage play, TV show script, short film script, book or graphic novel script, or any other type of script you can envision yourself writing. That is the challenge. As [...]

Click here for a hotlist of resources for introducing research writing to 4th Grade students. Resources include: A Teaching Power Point (feel free to download and make changes) What is research writing? Plagiarism Citing Sources (very brief – not MLA citations) Using Outlines Locating Resources Taking Notes – Research The Writing Process BrainPop resources – [...]

(If you just want the template…scroll to the bottom of the post!) If I had a nickel for each time over the past couple of years a student asked me, “Do you have a facebook?” or “Do you have a MySpace?” I could retire. Okay, so maybe I couldn’t actually retire, but I could afford [...]

Reading classic literature this holiday season? Me, too! Speaking of classic literature (nice segue, no?) - here’s a handy, dandy unit on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol What you’ll find on this website:

Click below for a Hotlist of resources for Tech Tools you can use in your Middle or High School English classroom to support the Virginia standards of learning. Links for a cross-curricular project (with history) using many of these tools are included at the bottom of the page, including activities for analyzing primary source materials, examples [...]

It’s not too late! November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) – the goal is to write a 50,000 word (175 page) novel by midnight November 30, 2009. Click below for more details: National Novel Writing Month

Notes on Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes Notes on Verbs and Verb Tense Consistency