Vocabulary Websites

We will work a lot on building your academic vocabulary.  The AWL (Academic Word List) website below has the complete list in addition to numerous helpful vocabulary exercises for you to work on. 

http://www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/


The thesaurus website below will be very helpful in paraphrasing, something we will be working on all quarter.

http://thesaurus.com/Roget-Alpha-Index.html         

1st Newspaper Article

Welcome to CB6!  Fall 2012 should be an exciting time to be learning more about American culture.  Because of the presidential election, there is a lot of discussion about who we Americans are as a country and what is important to us.  Our class will read newspaper and magazine articles to find out more about all of this.  The link to the first article is below.  I will also give you a hard copy this time, in addition to a homework handout, due Monday, October 1.  

I hope you all had a great summer and read a little English if you went back home! 
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2018993917_cvnnation26.html