BibMe

bibme

Where was this when we were in high school?   BibMe is a website which takes all of your sources for a paper and creates a bibliography for you.    BibMe is an automated citation creator and bibliography generator. It can save you loads of time building and formatting your references, time that is understandably valuable and would be better served working on your paper.

BibMe allows you to search for books, websites, films, magazines, journals and newspapers from a database of millions of entries to find your source and autofill in the information. BibMe also allows manual entry where you enter all the necessary information yourself instead of choosing from BibMe.




BibMe offers resources to help you cite your work properly in the “Citation Guide” section. You can find information on the different formats for references your sources, using MLA, APA, and Chicago.



To create a bibliography, you’ll need to register for the service, you can save up to 10 bibliographies to your account for future use. Once you have saved a bibliography to your account, you can open it up at a later time to edit by clicking “Open”. The bibliography you open will replace your current bibliography in the “My Bibliography” pane. Or if you would like, you can permanently delete a bibliography by clicking “Delete.” You can also download your bibliography in either the MLA, APA, or Chicago formats and include it in your paper.

BibMe is a great service for free, visit http://bibme.org/ and try it for yourself.

Crytoquote

Crytoquote

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to uncover the mystery quotation by cracking the secret code. The quote has been encoded using single letter substitution - this means that each letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a different letter or a number. For examples and more information on how to crack these sorts of codes, click on 'INSTRUCTIONS' while playing the game.

Each week, all the encoded quotes will be from a single author or work. Type who or what you think that author or work is in the input box above for a place on the weekly chart.

Visual Dictionary Online

 Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary Online

 
I have a visual learner.    I can explain it all day, but until he sees what I am talking about he just can't understand.    My son is blessed with my Daddy's photographic memory.    When he sees things and reads them, he remembers them.   What a gift!   It is one that I did not receive.   

We love their games of the week.    Play by associating words with images. It’s a great way to build your vocabulary or test your knowledge.  Here is an example of a recent game:

Poetry 180

Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year.  Each poem was selected with high school students in mind.   Mr. Billy Collins, developer of Poetry 180 says, "The point is to expose students to some of the fresh voices in contemporary poetry; it is not necessary that all schools read the same poem every day. Also, you may skip a poem for any reason. The poems have been chosen with high school age students in mind, but if you feel a certain poem is inappropriate, skip it."

You can subscribe to Poetry 180 and have it sent to your email daily.  

We chose day 25 as a sample for you:
 
Domestic Work, 1937

Natasha Trethewey

All week she's cleaned
someone else's house,
stared down her own face
in the shine of copper-
bottomed pots, polished
wood, toilets she'd pull
the lid to--that look saying

Let's make a change, girl.

But Sunday mornings are hers--
church clothes starched
and hanging, a record spinning
on the console, the whole house
dancing. She raises the shades,
washes the rooms in light,
buckets of water, Octagon soap.

Cleanliness is next to godliness ...

Windows and doors flung wide,
curtains two-stepping
forward and back, neck bones
bumping in the pot, a choir
of clothes clapping on the line.

Nearer my God to Thee ...

She beats time on the rugs,
blows dust from the broom
like dandelion spores, each one
a wish for something better.

from Domestic Work, 1999
Graywolf Press, St. Paul, Minn.

Acrostic Poetry

Acrostic Poems

In this online tool, students can learn about and write acrostic poems. An acrostic poem uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word. As part of the online tool, students brainstorm words to help write their poems and can save their work-in-progress to revise and edit, reinforcing elements of the writing process. Students can also print their finished acrostic poems or proudly show off their work by e-mailing it to a friend.

The Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln, Grant and Mississippi

The Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln, Grant, and Mississippi

DATE: 9/11/2012 
TIME: 12:00 PM

CITY: Jackson, MS  

LOCATION: Old Capitol Museum

PHONE: 601.576.6920

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Dr. Edna Greene Medford from Howard University will offer remarks on this monumental event in American history. Lecture to be followed by panel discussion and light reception. This free event is funded by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Foundation. Free.

Directions

Cars

• Take the Pearl St. exit (96A) off I-55.
• Turn right onto State St.
• Turn right onto Amite St.
• Turn right into parking lot behind Old Capitol
• Walk around south side of building to enter through the front

Buses

• Park along Amite Street, next to War Memorial Building
• Visitors walk along sidewalk to the front of the building

Book Review: Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O'Keefe Painted What She Pleased

Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O’Keeffe Painted What She Pleased

Written by Amy Novesky and Illustrated by Yuyi Morales

Published by Harcourt in 2012, ISBN 978-0-15-205420-5

Grades 1 – 6

Book Review

“Georgia painted waterfalls and green pleated mountains, lava hardened into fantastic shapes, and delicate, feathered fishhooks that she collected like seashells.” 

But she did not paint a pineapple. A new picture book biography of Georgia O’Keeffe by Amy Novesky captures the passion, intensity and determination of the iconic American artist by focusing on a lesser-known event in her life. In February of 1939 Georgia O’Keeffe traveled to Hawaii, having been commissioned by the Dole Pineapple company to “create two paintings to promote the delights of pineapple juice.” Conflict arose when O’Keefe was told by company owners that she could not be housed next to the pineapple fields. Denied the opportunity to paint pineapples in their natural environment, the artist refused to paint one. Instead, she traveled throughout Hawaii, immersing herself in the natural wonders of the island and creating twenty paintings. Novesky’s concise, yet expressive, text evokes a vivid portrait of the artist, her strength of character, her passion for beauty, and ultimately, her rationality. Yuyi Morales’s digitally compiled acrylic paintings capture the lushness of the Hawaii and pay tribute to O’Keeffe’s artistic style. Double page spreads immerse the reader in luminous landscapes saturated with vivid color. One spread forefronts a canvas with an image of the same seashore that serves as background, while O’Keefe is pictured off to the side, gathering treasures at the shoreline. The turquoise endpapers include captioned images of the native flowers that appear in Georgia’s paintings. A powerful tribute to the artistic spirit, this title will forever change the way you view a pineapple. 

Curriculum Links:

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/

Georgia O’Keefe Museum: Chronology

http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/chronology.html

National Gallery of Art

https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html (search for O’Keeffe)

http://www.nga.gov/kids/scoop-okeeffe.pdf

Whitney Museum for Kids

http://whitney.org/ForKids/Search?query=georgia+o%27keeffe

Honolulu Museum of Art

http://www.honoluluacademy.org/art/collections/5398-new-20th-century

San Francisco Chronicle: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Visit to Hawaii

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/16/georgia_okeeffe_hawaii.DTL&ao=all

Honolulu Academy of Arts: Arts of Hawaii

http://www.honoluluacademy.org/art/collections/5467-new-arts-of-hawaii

MFA Educators Online: Fishook From Hawaii No. 2

http://educators.mfa.org/objects/detail/9745?related_people_text=Georgia+O%27Keeffe

Dole Pineapple Plantation

http://www.dole-plantation.com/