Class Textbook (by categories)

WRITING 

General

Eleven-sentence Body Paragraphs (formula)

Eleven-sentence Paragraphs (two models)

Four-sentence Formula for Opening and Closing Paragraphs 
Graphic Organizers (Outlines) for Paragraphs and Essays  
Chunks: Developing by Explaining the SD
Composing Essays on Google Docs   
Four Ways to Develop a Paragraph (Using Bell Words and Echoes)  .
Google Docs
     Tutorial #1
     Tutorial #2 
MARCCRT (Seven Ways to Enhance Your Writing)
Peer Comments on Essays
Personal Letter Formats 
Rubrics for Formal Essay
Secrets of Good Writing 
Self-assessment Formula 
Specific Writing: ways to do it (1)
Specific Writing: ways to do it (2)

Vague Writing (ways to avoid it) 

Voicethread Lessons  about Writing
Wordle
The "Presentation" of Your Essays 
 

Tools for writing

Alliteration 
Alliteration (examples)
Anaphora

Antithesis
Appositives
Appositives (examples)
Assonance 
Asyndeton
Balance in Sentences (Youtube) 
Bell Words and Echoes (Models)
Buzzword Lessons 

Compound sentences 
Compound verbs (examples)
Coordinate Cumulative Sentences 
Economical Writing 
Epistrophe (Youtube) 

Examples of Fine Use of Writing Tools

FAST words
Generalizations

Isocolon 

Lists (using them to enhance writing)

Loose Sentence 
Metaphors 
Metaphors (examples)
Mixed Cumulative Sentences  
Multigenre essay
Musical Sounds in Writing  
Paper Rater 
Periodic Sentences
Polysyndeton
Prepositional Phrases
Prompts for Writing (AP -Advanced Placement) 
Readability Check 
Rhythm in Writing
Sentence Building with Adjectives and Adverbs  
Sentence Building with Adjective Clauses 
Sentence Building with Prepositional Phrases
Sentence Combining (Introduction) 

Sentence Composing (powerpoint) 
Similes and Metaphors (examples)
Sound Effects in Writing 

Subordinate cumulative sentences 
Tricolon
Transitions 
Verb appositives 

Words and Sentences 

Writing Longer Sentences

Tetracolon Climax

 

Writing Research Papers 

MLA Formatting and Style Guide 
MLA In-text Citations: The Basics 
MLA Formatting Quotations
MLA Works Cited Page
MLA Sample Works Cited Page
MLA Sample Research Paper

READING

A Raisin in the Sun
     Movie trailer 
     "A Dream Deferred"
A Tale of Two Cities: Audio Recording

A Tale of Two Cities: Online Text,  Searchable  
A Tale of Two Cities: Sparknotes
Charles Dickens:  Overview

Annotating a Text 

Generalizations 
Islands and Books 
Liking or Appreciating a Book: The Difference 

Literary Terms Flash Cards: 7 per Week  
Motifs (examples)
Motifs (definition)Multi-layered Timelines
Reading Strategies (1) 
Reading Strategies (2) 
Reading Strategies (3)  
Recreational Reading One-Pagers 
Speed Reading (1)
Speed Reading (2) SQ3R  

Three Key Questions
Two Kinds of Reading
Writing a Summary

GRAMMAR 


Base Clause
Capitalization Rules 
Comma Rules
Comma Rules #2
Comma Rules (you tube) 

Comma splices and run-on sentences 
Common Writing Errors
20 Most Common Writing Errors
Grammar Flash Cards (5 each week)
Grammar Flash Cards (all)
Punctuation -- Comma Rules 
Punctuation -- Quotations


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VOCABULARY


Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes  

SAT Words
 

SOCRATIC SEMINAR 
Procedure for Socratic Seminar 

Socratic Seminar (Youtube)
Socratic Seminar (Youtube) 
Rubrics for Socratic Seminar


   

TEACHER ASSISTANT

Teacher Assisant: Duties 
Teacher Assistant: Questions to Ask
Teacher Assistant: Tasks to Assign During Mr. Salsich's Lessons 

Rubrics for Teacher Assistant


MISCELLANEOUS

Model Essays by the Class of 2009  
Model Essays by Anna, Class of 2009  
Model Essays by Maddy, Class of 2010 
Model Essays by Hannah, Class of 2011 
Mr. Salsich's  Other Web Textbook

Mr. Salsich's Teaching Journal
Speech by President John F. Kennedy (inaugural) 

Speech by President Barack Obama (inaugural)
SpiderScribe 
Wallwisher 

YOUTUBE VIDEOS
Balance in Sentences 
Epistrophe
Socratic Seminar 
Comma Rules