Class handouts and other materials

Parts of speech review

Sentence fragments and the passive voice

The mummy handouts

Coherence and transition (mummies revisited)

A Wrinkle in Time 5-paragraph essay assignment

Jane-Emily 5-paragraph essay assignment

The Legend of Sleeepy Hollow--read and look up ten vocabulary words for 24 October

Sleepy Hollow essay assignment

The Fall of the House of Usher (plus vocabulary words)

House of Usher essay assignment

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

The Red-Headed League

Useful and fun links

Tips for Proper English

The Elements of Style online

Plato's Allegory of the Cave --this one is ON HOLD until further notice. Don't read it yet.

Five paragraph essay outline

A biography of Edgar Allan Poe

Class handouts

The Declaration of Independence

Constitution chart

Burke and Hamilton

The Bank of the United States

Joseph Story on freedom of expression

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Marbury v. Madison

McCulloch v. Maryland

Gibbons v. Ogden

The Constitution and Slavery

State v. Mann

The South Carolina Exposition and Protest (make sure you re-read the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions before reading this)

Barron v. Baltimore (note: Also read the Bill of Rights)

The Dred Scott Case

Useful and fun links

An outline of the Constitution

A copy of the Constitution--If you don't have one already, print this and bring it to class!

A chart of the electoral college

Chess links

Download Nova Chess (I haven't checked this for viruses or spyware--download at your own risk)

A Chess site for parents and kids

Checkmate . . .

. . . and stalemate

Another Chess site

Music links

Download Notecard (I haven't checked this for viruses or spyware--download at your own risk)

Erik Satie, Gymnopedies--These are three compositions that are really beautiful on piano and fairly simple to play. Play them slowly, like it's a lazy summer afternoon. (I don't know how they'll sound on organ.)

No. 1

No. 2

No. 3 (My favorite)

About hammered dulcimers

Vicious Pit Bull attacking a little girl

The FIRE!!!

Another picture of The FIRE!!!

Building a computer

Vicious Pit Bull attacking a little boy

The Incredible Headless Boy (shortly after vicious Pit Bull attack)

Kay practices with her new pen . . .

While Courtney practices organ

Vicious Pit Bull attacking another little girl

Still building that computer . . .

The Amazing Tae Kwan Do organist

Vicious Pit Bull attacking the Tae Kwan Do Organist

This kid is gonna be in SO much trouble . . . .

Vicious Pit Bull attacking a . . . well, you get the idea