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My plan is to use the Iowa High School Battle of Books and Iowa Teen Awards....http://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?lid=4005 and   http://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?lid=4255 in my English 9 classroom. (Will need to make sure books are at their reading level)   I will start by having the students look through both lists and pick at least 4 novels from the list that they find interesting.  They will then fill out a short form to show that they investigated the novel and author.  They will do this for the 4 books that they picked from the list.  I will then have them pick one of the books and use that as their independent reading novel.   Students will finish up their independent reading unit with a presentation of their novel and of their author.  They can use this AEA as an resource.  

Another site I plan on using is Teen Health and Wellness.  My Sophomore class will be doing a short research paper and I plan on having them use one of the topics from this site.  It gives them many valuable resources to use to aid them in writing their paper.

Another site I plan on using for my Mass Media is this video on blogging.   http://www.learn360.com/Search.aspx?d=13863516&ActiveId=All&standardname=common&Correlation=27199552&SearchCorrelationPath=true

My students in Mass Media will then start a blog for the class.