Mrs. Joy Patterson

The Bedford Handbook

The Bedford Handbook can be accessed through this site. To establish an account, enter your e-mail, a pass word you will remember forever, and my e-mail as the instructor: pattersonj@melbournecc.org.

If you have already registered for a Bedford site, update your profile to ensure that my e-mail is there when you do exercises for our class.

Grammar and Writing for Standardized Tests

Prentice Hall Literature, Grade 10 online textbook

Prentice Hall website, Grade 10 activities companion site

 Prentice Hall essay scorer:

http:// essayscorer.com/ph/fl/mcc

(You will need to cut and paste the address into a  webpage.)

Holt Literature

The Holt literature website will be established for you by your instructor. Be sure to get your login name and password from your teacher and record it in a safe place.

Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop

This site lists all the words in the vocabulary books. There are also games and puzzles you can do for review for major tests.

Practice vocabulary tests

Glencoe Literature

Bedford Literature

This is the companion website for the Bedford Literature textbook which is used for the AP English Literature course.

APA documentation This is a website for the new 6th edition for the APA style sheet.

Little Brown Handbook

The Little Brown Handbook used by the class of 2009 has a website that has resources for all of the material covered in the textbook.

Grammar Quizzes (Wadsworth)

Purdue OnLine Writing Lab Punctuation Exercises

Bedford Handbook

Little Brown Handbook

Exercise Central (Bedford)

Free Rice Quizzes on Grammar and Vocabulary

Towson Grammar practice for Writing class

Commas/The Blue Book

SAT Scoring Rubric document file

Scoring guide for the SAT essay

The College Board has created this website for students to boost their skills for the SAT and other College Board sponsored exams.

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/index.html

College Board has posted information about the AP exam at the site below.  Follow links on the left column for advice and sample exam questions:

AP English Literature Exam information

Big Future: College Board website for college search

This was a new link sent to us for college search and scholarships that you might find helpful:

http://colleges.fastweb.com/?utm_source=educator&utm_content=collegesearch

If you choose to use one of these citation formatting sites, remember that you are still responsible for checking that the citation is using the current MLA formatting style or APA if you are in a course requiring that format.  Check the created citation against the format rules in the textbook. 

This is a link to the site which gives directions for proper internet resource citation for the Bedford Handbook.

MLA Guidelines  Update for 2009 MLA

APA Guidelines

Using Quotations effectively

APA Citation Guidelines

Citation Builder from UNC Library 

Citation Machine

Easy Bib 

They Say, I Say: This site gives directions and provides templates for integrating resources, quotations, and other source information into your paper.

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University is an outstanding resources for all writing concerns, not only formatting guidelines. Check it out!

OWL

Use this link to access the Brevard County Library. Use your library card ID to place books on hold via the internet.  If you wish to use the Databases, select the first box, Gale Group Link.  These will be valuable, reliable resources for research.

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/fl_breva

Brevard County Library

Use the following link for access to Britannica Encyclopedia

A Virtual Earned Scholarly Average from Wartburg College, Vogel Library.

Use this link to give a score to the website you wish to use for your research. For my classes, submit the score sheet with the preliminary bibliography entry for your source.  You will need to  printout the score sheet and include the name of the website and your name on it when you turn it in.

http://library.wartburg.edu/RE101tutor/VESA2009.pdf

Free online books

Julius Caesar : No Fear Shakespeare

The Elements of Style by William Strunk & E. B. White

1.        http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

2.       http://www.bartleby.com/

GoGoogle Books

C   Coupon for discount on AP Test Prep book from Princeton Review

3.

Bulfinch's Mythology

Encyclopedia Mythica

Dictionary of Mythology

Data sheet for AP Literature

Writing exercise:

Distill a novel or your life into six words.  See this web site for examples.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18768430

Style analysis guidelines

Stapless book directions:

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/stapleless/

Review literary terms, compliments of April Vivino:

This  is the link for the Quizlet set of 79 literary terms I created: http://quizlet.com/8369837/ap-lit-terms-flash-cards/
To access it people need to have a Quizlet account which is free and then they have to go type my username in the search box which is 12aprvi, then they'll see the set I created called AP Lit Terms, Attached is a pdf of the terms but if you have a Quizlet account you can play games among other things to learn the words. April Vivino

Vocabulary/ Grammar practice:

free rice website will earn rice for the hungry.

http://www.freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1531

Where the rice goes:

http://donate.wfp.org/supporter/freeform.do?n=gbss&sid=35301&lmid=1146407&d=w&ivid=1545158