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Grade 9 Integrated Media-Language Arts

Grade 9 Google Calendar | Reading Interest Inventory -- Grade 9 | Blogging Survey -- Grade 9


MoHS Library Website
Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2009 | discoverybuzz.com
Great resources for all your research needs!

KC3: Kids Create Community Content
Issues facing Hawaii's ocean environment
Hawaii-Environmental Alliance
Environment Hawaii
Sierra Club Hawaii
Our Website Drafts
Portfolio Links
Writing Portfolios Class of 2015
Post parent conference responses in the individual student blogs
Maurice Berbano Alex Brown Christian Casinas
Kaitlyn Dacoscos Austin Debina-Bautista Taira Guzman
Rachel Inabata Joy Kurosawa Skylar Manuel
Kaitlyn Matsuda Dior Motas Lina Nguyen
Dustin Palea Branden Pascual Adara Pineda
Ryan Souza Taylor Takahashi Joshua Villanueva
Brooke Yoshida Eryn Yuasa


Roots and Recipes: Oral History, Research, and the Story of Our Lives and Identities

Rice-the Grain That Feeds the Planet


Sense of Place: Querencia

Digital Storytelling: City Stories

Resource Links -- Grammar & Vocabulary Exercises

Exercises at Grammar Bytes
Parallel Structure at Grammar Bytes
Big Dog's Grammar
SAT Vocabulary
Free Rice.Com
now, put your SAT smarts to work...get the words right and donate rice to the United Nations World Food Program!
Resource Links on Hawaiian Issues: Environment, History, Culture
a starting point for your research
  • NEW! CNN: Planet in Peril
  • Rare Hawaii
  • Iolani Palace
    the only official state residence of royalty in the United States
  • Hawaii's Plantation Village
    an outdoor museum that showcases the lifestyles and experience of Hawaii's plantation workers.
  • Hawaii's Endangered Species
    Hawaii is the Endangered Species Capital of the World....there are more endangered species per square mile on these islands than any other place on the planet
  • Loko i'a Hawaiina Fishponds
    Only in Hawai'i was there such an intensive effort to utilize practically every body of water, from seashore to upland forests, as a source of food, for either agriculture or aquaculture (Apple & Kikuchi, 1975).
  • Hawaiian Food Then and Now
    The Hawaiian word for health is ola. It also means life. Thus, the word health and life was one and same. Hawaiians obviously believed you could not have health without life, nor life without health.

Sample Group Website, PowerPoints, & Surveys -- Spring, 2009
Interdependence -- How do you figure in your interdependence quotient?
Green Living
Ideas...green hair and skin care...green recipes...even green pet care!
Your Ecological Footprint
About the Ecological Footprint
Take the Ecological Footprint Quiz and complete the following in a Word document. When you have completed the assignment, print out the document and also post your reflection on the "Ecological Footprint" forum in our Media Central online forum, under science fiction.
  1. Click on the USA map and select English. Then answer the questions to the best of your ability. Be sure to answer in complete sentences.
  2. What is your total ecological footprint? How much larger is it than the number of bilogically productive acres per person on Earth?
  3. How many Earths would it take to sustain our population if everyone lived like you?
  4. Click on Take Action! to make your pledge for reducing your ecological footprint. Record your total footprint reduction and explain how you would be able to achieve it.
  5. Read the "What You Can Do" section. If you lose the link, click on the Word document and read it here. Describe some of the ideas from the document that you think you or your family would be able to implement to reduce their ecological footprints.
  6. Click on the Care 2 Make a Difference site to see what else is going on in our world to make a difference in our environment. Describe ideas for activism there that you could take to make a difference for yourself.

Our Brainy Flix Videos on SchoolTube!
check out the vocabulary prowess of the MeneMAC Class of 2012!
Brainy Flix Video Contest!
Brainy Flix Word List!

click on the links below to see the completed videos, courtesy of MeneMAC 2013!
Words from MeneMAC c/o 2012
  1. abhor: Amber & Cynthia
  2. aloof and serendipity: Angela, Niki, Austin
  3. altercation: Desha & Marissa
  4. cognizantCynthia & Kirsten
  5. collusion: Micah & Kaimi
  6. concede: Michelle & Samara
  7. juvenile: Justin & Cody
  8. melancholy: Alexis & Kellyann
  9. mimic: Raena & Daryenne
  10. tranquil: Destrie & Thea
  11. vivacious: Charina & Daphne
Words from MeneMAC c/o 2013
  1. abdicate: Kiana & Alex
  2. abduct: CJ, Joseph, Jarrett
  3. audacious: Jordie & Darian
  4. benign: Shaneika & Maddie
  5. beseech: Desiree & Traci
  6. diminutive: Czarina & Kristen
  7. fastidious: Jody, Kiyo, & Kai
  8. fortuitous: Isabelle & Janelle
  9. locquacious: Kevin & Brittany
  10. prescient: Rebekah & Korie
  11. sophomoric: Leo & Angela
  12. vex: Shannel & Sharmaine
and More Words from MeneMAC '12
  1. apathy: Charina & Daphne
  2. harry: Daryenne & Kelly
  3. negligence: Kelvin, Jonas, Kaimi
  4. appease: Kirsten & Kiara
  5. copious: Cody & Justin
  6. gregarious: Destrie & Michelle
  7. irsacible: Ciarah & Amber
  8. incognito: Cynthai & Kiana
  9. banter: Jisel & Thea
  10. collaborate: Marissa & Desha
  11. demur: Samara & Austin
  12. cliche: Niki & Lexi
  13. avid: Micah & Raena
  14. motley: Angela & Arleen