If you are beginning to get antsy on the second snow day of the week, here are some suggestions for you to explore until tomorrow!


Websites:

If You Want to Create Cool Things:
Many of these websites let you share your work on facebook for all your friends to see.

www.wordle.net
Type in your favorite lyrics to a song, words from a book, quotes, or words that describe you. Push go and create and edit your own word cloud.

www.animoto.com
Use your email to sign up for a free account. Then upload pictures and video, pick your favorite song, and wait five minutes for animoto to create an instant video for you.

www.glogster.com
Create your own animated poster. Add images, photos, video, music, and more to create all kinds of personal posters. Click on “Try to Create Yours” to get started without registering.

http://blabberize.com/
Make your photographs talk

http://www.toondoo.com/
Create your own comic book or graphic novel

Websites for Class:

http://www.rocknrollsoldieramemoir.com/
We are going to begin reading Rock ‘N’ Roll Soldier, A Memoir out loud in class. This website has videos, photographs, and stories describing what it was like to fight in the Vietnam War.

http://www.teenreads.com/
Looking for a good book? This website has hundreds of suggestions!

www.viewat.org
Go anywhere in the world and view a panoramic photo of your choice.

http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/
Find out more about America’s space travel in the past, present, and future.

http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html
Every hour, this website scans news sources around the world and decides what the most important words and news stories are for the hour. Great to learn about current events!

Games:

Text Twist: http://games.yahoo.com/game/text-twist
Scramble the letters to make as many words as possible. Use all the letters to make the big word in order to move on to the next round.

The World’s Hardest Game: http://www.addictinggames.com/theworldshardestgame.html
It seems so easy-get the square from one side of the puzzle to the other!

Assignments for Class:

• Practice retelling the story of how the United States got involved in the Vietnam War
• Read The Outsiders
• Finish writing your rough draft for your juvenile delinquency essay

Literacy Summer Curriculum Materials
August 1-3, 2011

John Adams Middle School
Miss Kirwan and Mrs. Kacer