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Friday, March 2, 2012

Mr. Brown's Economics Class:
The Stock Market Game!   http://www.stockmarketgame.org/
log in with your team log-in and password
Other sites to use for information on stocks and investing:
http://www.stockwatch.com/  provides information without any ads
http://money.cnn.com/    massive amounts of information on all aspects of the markets
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/contents.html  online version of the investment magazine
http://finance.yahoo.com/  free stock quotes, up to date news, portfolio management resources

Monday, February 27, 2012

Access this URL for Mr. Devine's/Ms. Maine's class:

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Online Southwestern High School library catalog:
Alexandria Researcher

Friday, February 10, 2012

Ms. Beichner's To Kill A Mockingbird newspaper project
These are some recommended sites to use for locating the information you need:


http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/exinterv.html  The Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s recorded more than 10,000 life stories of men and woman from a variety of occupations and ethnic groups. This site is a sampling of these interviews.

http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/girl.html  Interview: Growing Up White in the South in the 1930s

The Great Depression and the New Deal http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/intro01.html
Read about the Federal Works Progress Administration started by the federal government during the Depression.

Pictures from the American Memory Collection:  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/


SWHS databases: teachingbooks.net, General OneFile, World Book Advanced



Thursday, February 2, 2012

Click this link if you are taking the Accuplacer tests in the Computer Lab this week:
Mrs. Maines or your teacher will give you the login information after you get to the home page.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Mrs. Eimiller's ELA students:
In addition to using Opposing Viewpointsw (link from the Online data base page)
**http://www.debatepedia.org
and
**http://www.procon.org