Resources
This page lists links to general resources that our literacy and history teachers find useful. Unless indicated, the basic versions of these resources are free for classroom use.
Technology Resources
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For all students enrolled in the 9th - 12th grades for the 2017-2018 school year, Echo is how much of our content will be delivered, how objectives will be communicated, how assignments will be submitted, and where day-to-day grades will be posted. Parents are encouraged to contact the high school for parent access to Echo.
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Students love Edmodo because it looks a lot like Facebook. Teachers love Edmodo because it provides a place to host discussion board questions, polls, and quizzes in a variety of formats including multiple choice. Edmodo grades multiple choice quizzes for you, and students can get immediate feedback. Teachers can view overall data as well as data for individual questions.
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This web article explains a plethora of ways that you can use Google for educational purposes.
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Go to goo.gl and paste a long URL (web address) into the bar. Google will generate a shortened web address to give to your students.
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Today's Meet is an online chatroom that can function in a variety of ways in the classroom, including to fishbowl activities, to allow students the opportunity to ask questions calling attention to themselves by stopping class, and to hold class discussions.
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Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to engage students in the writing process, provide personalized feedback, and assess student progress over time. The online tools checks student papers for plagiarism against websites and other student submissions. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 150 countries.
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Weebly can be used to make teacher websites, but can also be used to create students accounts for projects. Here is an example of a class project that Geo-Lit students created during the 2013-2014 school year using Weebly.
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Blytheville High School New Tech subscribes to the online Write Source program, which in addition to having a variety of teaching resources available for quick reference, also has games, videos, and online quizzes that help students master grammar and become more proficient writers.
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Wise Old Sayings has hundreds of unique lists of quotes and sayings on a variety of topics
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General Education Resources
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The Achieve organization is one of the developers of the Common Core State Standards.
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Newsletters, files, frameworks, licensure, and links to everything .
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ASCD develops a variety of types of Professional Development, including online PD; they also publish some of the foremost books on education (for example The Art and Science of Teaching by Robert Marzano), and the Educational Leadership journal. ASCD also has Common Core information and resources here.
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The College Board AP Central website contains information about the courses, the exams, sample syllabi and more. Don't forget to sign up for the discussion group for your content area!
Search lessons by CC standards! This is an awesome resource.
In addition to the standards, you will find links to the appendices and other resources.
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Featuring John Green, the Crash Course youtube videos provide a wealth of information on all sorts of educational topics from literature to U.S. and world history to psychology and biology.
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These online databases are invaluable resources for research papers and projects. BHS students and teachers, please see Ms. Ashley (Library Media Specialist) or Ms. Sneed (Instructional Facilitator) for login information.
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From the makers of the ACT, Quality Core is a component of ACT's college and career readiness system.
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ACT Aspire maps learner progress from grades three through high school on a vertical scale, anchored to the scoring system of the ACT. The ACT Aspire assessments will be administered to our students in the Spring. This website contains sample tests as well as released practice tests and the newest news on the upcoming state assessments.
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Speed reading app that helps students increase their reading rate and comprehension.
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Used by Advanced Placement teachers to help build vocabulary for college bound students.
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Content Specific Resources
English
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This is a .pdf, created by BHS Instructional Facilitator Robin Sneed, which aligns the CCSS Reading: Literature standards to all of the released AP Literature Free Response questions from the years 1970-2014.
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Ms. Sandra Effinger's website contains invaluable information for AP and Pre-AP English Language Arts teachers. There are tons of resources, lesson ideas, handouts, prompts, multiple choice stems, etc. at this site!
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Ms. Sharkovitz's website contains resources for teaching AP Language, AP Lit, and journalism. There are example writing tasks with exemplar student samples available.
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Purdue's Online Writing Lab is a virtual style guide that will assist with research papers and projects.
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Weird Al's parody of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," which is a hillarious commentary on grammar.
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History
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Arkansas Council for the Social Studies Shelf contains resources for social studies courses that are aligned with the new Arkansas State Standards, including the standards, course outlines, units, and lessons.
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Hosted by John Greene, crash course is a youtube channel featuring 10 to 15 minute videos pertaining, in this case, to World History topics.
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Features interactive resources for the teaching of civic learning.
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Provides lesson plans designed to "engage students in historical inquiry."
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One-stop research site for argumentative papers.
Provides documents and podcasts that provide information for supreme court cases.
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