English 10 blog
http://msalger.pbworks.com/
Titles Most Frequently Challenged 2004-2011
Source: National Council of English Teachers
http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/TitlesChallenged2004-2011.pdf
Cornell Notes -- Make copies of the form
http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/frenchie/Cornell_Notes_Template.pdf
The Owl at Purdue
Detailed writing lab with everything you could ever need to know about MLA format and just about everything else about formal writing
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01
Poetry from 12 famous poets
http://www.poetry.org/famous.htm
Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for Schools
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180
Grammar Bytes is a great site for grammar usage.
If you're not sure, check here.
http://www.chompchomp.com/
CAHSEE (exit exam) study guide
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/elaguide.asp
Word of the Day
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
CNN News for Students
http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/
Today in History
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
Daily cartoon
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/zits/about.htm
State standards for English classes
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/enggrades9-10.asp
State-recommended literature
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll
Isaac Asimov's I, Robot
http://www.ttu.ee/public/m/mart-murdvee/Techno-Psy/Isaac_Asimov_-_I_Robot.pdf
Post-apocalyptic literature
Childhood's End, Against the Fall of Night, and City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke (everything else by him is great, but his books aren’t solely post-apocalyptic)
Ender's Game and related books by Orson Scott Card
Anything written by Philip Dick
Friday and The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
“By the Water of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet (a short story in our textbook)
Nightfall and The Foundation trilogy (and anything else by him) by Issac Asimov
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Vampire Earth series by E.E. Knight
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Giver quartet by Lois Lowry (dystopian more than post-apocalytic)
Wool 1-5 (a series) by Hugh Howey
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Bouille
The Stand by Stephen King
Strongly recommended, but I haven't read them.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (read it so long ago, I don't remember a thing)
Cool graphic about young adult dystopian literature from the Lawrence, Kansas public library:
http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2012/07/if-you-liked-the-hunger-games-3/
Poetry links
National Poetry Out Loud website
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/
California Poetry Out Loud website
http://www.cac.ca.gov/poetryoutloud/2011/index.php
Pictures
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson246/capemay.jpg
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson246/catinNZ.jpg
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson246/clematis.jpg
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson246/copleyhouse.jpg
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson246/horseswing.jpg
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson246/snowy.jpghttp://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson246/springtree.jpg
One-sentence poems
William Carlos Williams http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537
Edgar Allan Poe http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/tomd.htm
John Keats http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16229
Linda Pastan http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/7/pastan7.htm
Emily Dickinsonhttp://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Dickinson/i-like-to-see-it-lap
Elegies
"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman. Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSAymj4hp7Y
NY Times "Portraits of Grief"
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/sept-11-reckoning/portraits-of-grief.html
AP "Images of Sept. 11"
http://www.newburyportnews.com/v?vid=ndn-23526168&sid=Editors%20Picks&widget=ndnplayer&site=newburyportnews§ion=real_estate_news
Sixth period links
Photo composition
http://nofilmschool.com/2015/09/9-composition-techniques-make-images-eye-catching-biological-level
10 photo questions
http://digital-photography-school.com/10-questions/
Photo composition
http://digital-photography-school.com/digital-photography-composition-tips/
Free websites for photoshop textures
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-websites-finding-free-photoshop-textures/
Learn Adobe Illustrator
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/teach-adobe-illustrator-free/
Learn depth of field for photography
http://nofilmschool.com/2015/03/learn-power-depth-field-free-online-simulator
An Idiot's Guide to Photoshop
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/an-idiots-guide-to-photoshop/
School of Photoshop. Links to several tutorials
http://www.tutorial9.net/search/?search=school+of+photoshop
Retouch and healing tools
http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/retouch-and-healing-tools/
Layers
http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/working-with-layers-in-photoshop/
The toolbox
http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/photoshops-basic-tools/
How to cut out backgrounds
http://jrogers78.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/photoshop-crop-background.pdf
Type on paths
http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/how-to-use-type-on-paths-and-shapes-in-photoshop/
How to add selective color
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Selective-Coloring-in-Photoshop
Ten websites to learn Photoshop (ignore the ads at the top)
http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/how-to-use-type-on-paths-and-shapes-in-photoshop/
Links to numerous tutorials
http://www.austincc.edu/pauler/resources.html
30 Essential photo manipulations (good to know, but most are not for use in newspaper or yearbook)
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/30-essential-photo-manipulation-photoshop-tutorials-for-beginners/
Airbrushing scandals
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/2010/unattainable-beauty.html
Acknowledgements: Thanks to Jim Burke of englishcompanion.com for the links to the various daily items.
And thanks to Marilee Reyes of Beaver High School in Utah for everything I learned in the 2010 Silver State AP Institute.