L.A. Jr. High Student Resources

This research guide will take you step by step through the process of "doing research" so that you don't get lost along the way.  Here you will find many helpful tips and examples.

Provides a handout of thing you should consider before writing a research paper like who is your audience, what type of references will be needed and ideas for summarizing the topic into sub categories.

The primary goal of this tool is to make it so easy for high school, college, and university students and other researchers to credit information sources, there is virtually no reason not to.

The OWL at Purdue offers online handouts covering writing, research, grammar, and MLA and APA style.  This is a direct link to the MLA Formatting and Style Guide.

The Writing Center

The Writing Center at University of North Carolina Student Resource Handouts can help you at every stage of the writing process, from brainstorming to researching to making sure your commas are correct.  This is a direct link to the MLA Citation handout.

Direct link to MLA Citation examples.

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The Teaching and Learning Center has thousands of creative resources for quality education.

Over 2 dozen databases with thousands of magazines and journals with full-text, hundreds of newspapers from around the U.S., materials for students in the Student Research Center, and other topics including academics, business, careers, literature and biographies just to name a few.

Log in to Holt Online Learning to access the Online Editions of  the 7th and 8th grade textbooks.  Hamilton students, see your teacher for required password to complete assigments.

Interlink Language Centers provide a description and examples of the parts of speech and includes a 10 question Pop Quiz for review of each topic.  These interactive quizzes give immediate feed back with each question answered.

 Created by the British Council for the Learn English program.  Choose from 69 Grammar Games covering topics line compound nouns, future forms, parts of speech, phrasal verbs, prefixes, suffixes, similes, and too vs. enough.

This site has plenty of  rules, definitions  and examples of Grammar and Writing.  Some of the sub topics found are: Word & Sentence, Essay & Research Paper, Paragraph and Ask Grammar, Quizzes and Search Devices. Excellent for a quick review of Grammar guide lines.

The Internet Public Library contains excellent links to resource materials for students of all ages.  TEEN SPACE portion of  The Internet Public Library has put together information especially with teenagers in mind.  Sub topics include Homework Help, A+ Writing, Graphics Novels Guide, Poetry Wiki, Frequently Asked Embarrassing Questions and Procrastinators.

Choose English category and a list of over 900 activities will appear.  To narrow your search use the keyword option (ex. Grammar or Parts of Speech) and a list of activities will appear relating to the keyword. Activities can include matching, flash card, concentration, hang man, jeopardy, battleship and rags to riches. 

Listed below are links to a few of these English activities.

Choose English category and a list of over 900 activities will appear.  To narrow your search use the keyword option (ex. Grammar or Parts of Speech) and a list of activities will appear relating to the keyword. Activities can include matching, flash card, concentration, hang man, jeopardy, battleship and rags to riches. 

Listed below are links to a few of these English activities.