| 27 October 2008
I have asked students to no longer call me at home. Some students were
calling me three and four times a night, and after eight p.m. when I had
specifically asked them not to call me after eight. However, if parents need
to contact me, or want to contact me for their child, I will accept those
phone calls. My phone number is 582-5272.
Great website for resource materials and books to read on-line:
teens.erslibrary.org
username: luuc.student
password: spartan
Please scroll down for other announcements and valubable information if you
have not already done so.
7 October 2008
Late work will no longer be accepted for this grading period (parent
conferences) after this Friday, 10 October.
Mrs. Salgado
Great website for resource materials and books to read on-line:
teens.erslibrary.org
username: luuc.student
password: spartan
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AVID Speakers Needed
If you would like to share information about your career with my
AVID students, please contact me at 924-6890.
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NEED TO FIND A BOOK - READ THIS TO FIND OUT HOW
Which students do better in school and on the SAT? Readers! They have
better vocabularies, stronger reading comprehension skills, and the ability
to soak up information from books.
SUGGESTIONS:
Get on the Internet. Check out www.teenreads.com for book reviews,
author interviews, and tips on what other teens are reading. Go to
www.barnesandnoble.com, for recommendations. Join on-line book clubs and
chat about your favorites books.
Use the web to find books similar to ones you like. Go to Google
and type in the name of a book, add “readalikes” (ex. “Maniac Magee
readalikes”.
Subscribe to special interest magazines, buy or check out from the
library the different genres of literature and non-fiction. With your
parents permission check out their personal book collection.
Listen to books on tape while on long distance trips. Discuss it
with your family. Try books that are part of a series; listen to some, read
the others.
Is your child planning on attending college after high school? If so,
please check out the "Links" page. There you will find two web sites to
help students and their families prepare for college.
Unfortunately bullying is becoming an all to common occurence in our society
today. I have added some websites to "links" to provide you with
information about how to deal with this all too pervasive problem.
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Suggested Book Titles: also check out the "Links" page for teacher,
librarian, and student suggestions and book reviews.
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The BFG by Raold Dahl
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater and Florence Atwater
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Challenge at Second Base by Matt Christopher
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Complete Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Me, Mop & the Moondance Kid by Walter Dean Myers
Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Last Summer with Maizon by Jacqueline Woodson
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Secret School by Avi
In the Shade of the Nispero Tree by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac
Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone
Tomorrowland by Michael Cart
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Fatality by Caroline Cooney
Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Takeoffs and Landings by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Witness by Karen Hesse
Following Fake Man by Barbara Ware Holmes
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence
Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Fair Weather by Richard Peck
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Tru Confessions by Janet Tashjian
A Sailor Returns by Theodore Taylor
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
Non-Fiction
The Way Things Never Were by Norman Finkelstein
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
Seven Habits of Highly EffectiveTeens by Sean Covey
The Greatest: Muhammed Ali
The Illustrated Book of Myths by Neil Philip
In the Line of Fire: President's Lives at Stake by Judith St. George
Suggested Authors:
Avi
Caroline B. Cooney
Sharon Creech
Cynthia DeFelice
Lois Duncan
Will Hobbs
Lois Lowry
Walter Dean Myers
Phyllis R. Naylor
Joan Lowery Nixon
Gary Paulsen
Richard Peck
Philip Pullman
Ann Rinaldi
J.K. Rowling
Jerry Spinelli
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lawrence Yep
Suggested Series:
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce
Sammy Keyes by Wendelin VanDraanen
DK Classics
Royal Diaries by Meg Cabot
My America
Island by Gordon Korman
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