Susan Meissner

I have found a new Christian novelist that I just love. Her work is very artistic, and her plots and stories are woven and spun together to beautifully and deeply intertwined that by the end of the story you feel like a part of it! She's simply a great writer.

Anyhow, here is her personal website: http://susanmeissner.blogspot.com/

Lizzie & I have read her Widows & Orphans, and The Shape of Mercy. Both were excellent reads.

I highly recommend them as a other-than-light summer read! She has a lot of neat articles and resources on her website as well.

StudentNewsDaily.com

Here is a link to another great place to visit on the web!

Ever heard of WORLD magazine? They are a Christian-worldview version of TIME and U.S. News & World Report; and they are an excellent place (ont he web or in magainze form) to find news with an unbiased, Christian-Judeo based reporting.

As it just so happens, they have another sister website devoted jsut to 'teens' or young adults interested in following the news and learning mroe about journalism. It's called Student News Daily.com and I highly reccommend it. Here is what they define themselves as:

StudentNewsDaily.com is a non-profit current events website for high school students. Our goal is to build students' knowledge of current events and strengthen their critical thinking skills. This is done by providing comprehension and critical thinking questions along with published news articles and other current events items from established news organizations. We provide resources that will enable students to become informed viewers and readers of the news.


Check it out!

Grammar Bytes

Hey everyone!

It's been a long time since anybody posted on here. I realized that even if the magazine isn't going, we can still use this spot for discussions and sharing of resources. I have found more than a couple great resources related to writing and I'll be posting them , with some reviews, here over the next couple weeks. Keep coming back.

The first is....

A great website for teaching kids grammar usage in a fun way, or for brushing up on your grammar. This is the first website I've seen that actually looks pretty cool, being it's interactive and isn't littered with advertisements all over the pages.

By going to the Exercises page, you can take part in interactive lessons that test you on everything from fragments, to periods, to writing style. Neat stuff!

Go check it out.... www.chompchomp.com