Extra Help, Links, Resources

Extra Help, Links, and Resources

As the Beetles told us, sometimes we all need "A little help from our friends."

You can ask for help. You can search for help. You can use these resources to get extra help. There's also the RTS Cheat Sheets which are filled with ways to work smarter not harder. And don't forget the SKILLS Videos that have been made to help you when you are home and struggling to remember how to do stuff.

And if you can't find what you need here ... please use the Contact Form and ask me directly for help. Just remember I'm old, and probably am in bed early. But I may be able to get you an answer first thing in the morning ...

Grammar Help

Have you tried looking in the RTS Cheat Sheets yet?

High School Grammar Link

By the way ... there is a good free website for you called chompchomp.com.

This site has all kinds of extra help when to comes to the basics of grammar. And we sometimes borrow their worksheets for use in class. Get thee hence for more info about Pronouns or Verbs or Clauses or whatever.

Other Help

There is more help for grammar and especially for all things MLA -- that means how to add quotations, add citations, and create a Works Cited page at the end of your paper. You'll find all this helpful stuff at the Purdue University site called the Purdue Owl. Try this link for MLA help.

Or try this link for grammar help also from the fine folk over at Purdue OWL.

For Reading

Students are encouraged to visit any of the many online student help sites when reading a book. Remember, though, you can visit, but you can't copy ideas or quotes from these websites without adding citations! That's cheating and you get no credit for that at all.

But it's not cheating to get help reading your texts. That's Research, and you get extra credit for that! That means whatever you are reading, you can check out what you can find from these websites:

Enotes.com Sparknotes.com

Shmoop.com literary-devices.com

Cliffnotes.com

Writing Help

Here are some extra bits to help you with

"Hugging Quotes" -- that is, with adding quotes

into the essays you write. It's not just getting

a citation added, but knowing how to add a

quote, and what to do before and after it.

Check out your extra help for hugging here:

Need some help with a Thesis Statement or

with connecting your paragraphs together with

your introduction? Try some of these on for size:

Making connections (TT/TS/TW) often requires being able to see things in perspective. Here's a chart to help you understand "Point of View" or "Perspective" in writing. See below:

Teachers love it when students use Transition words within paragraphs and between paragraphs. Get some extra help on transitional words here:

Justice High School Library Link

https://justicehs-fcps.libguides.com/library

It's in the book?

There are a lot of other places you can look for help with writing, reading, essays, grammar, and even ... punctuation.

if you would like more help than can be found here, just let me know, and I can suggest some extra things you could look through for whatever it is you need help with.

Or Listen Along ...

There are also great audio courses in, available free from the Fairfax County Public Library, written by Michael Drout called A Way with Words -- and this comes in three different sets. There is also an effective writing course called Building Great Sentences also free at the library!

Fairfax County Public Library Links

You can access Fairfax county Public Library here:

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/