Welcome to Project Bridging Cultures!
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The Senior Year Preparation Guide. This guide provides information about jobs, colleges, SAT prep, and the SPHS senior project. If you are an incoming senior, be sure to read this guide!
Student writing samples:
What makes a home? Students write about their experiences of home.
Read the stories from Lost No More: Immigrant Teenagers Tell Their Stories and Youth On the Move: Immigrant Autobiographies.
Welcome to Project Bridging Cultures! We are a program based at South Philadelphia High School. |
We work with students who come from all over the world. Our main countries of origin are the United States, China, Vietnam, Mexico, Burma, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast.
Visit us in Room 217B at South Philadelphia High School. We are open from Monday to Thursday from 9 am to 5 pm and on Friday from 9 am to 1:30 pm. All South Philadelphia HIgh School students are welcome to visit our classroom.
Our goal is to help students succeed in school, learn English, and make plans for college and careers. We can help students:
Do homework
Research projects
Study for tests
Learn English
Use computers and e-mail
Join clubs
Make new friends
Learn about and apply for college
Find money for college
Apply for jobs
Learn about careers
Learn about life in the United States
Graduate from high school
Plan for the future
Here are some websites you may find useful:
Google (http://www.google.com) Search for any topic on the Internet.
Google Maps (http://maps.google.com) Get a map of any place in the world.
Yahoo! Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com) Get a free e-mail address.
Philly.com (http://www.philly.com) Read news from the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News.
SEPTA (http://www.septa.org) Find maps and schedules for Philadelphia's trains, buses, and trolleys.
Free Library of Philadelphia (http://library.phila.gov) Learn about what the library offers.
School District of Philadelphia (http://www.phila.k12.pa.us) Get information about public schools in Philadelphia.
Dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com) Find the meaning of a word in English.
College Board (http://www.collegeboard.com) Register for and get information about the SAT.
FAFSA (http://www.fafsa.ed.gov) Apply for financial aid from the government.
Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org) Find thousands of articles about different topics. Be careful about using Wikipedia; always use other sources to check the information you find.
| Project Bridging Cultures is a program of the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians. For more information about Project Bridging Cultures, please contact manager Jennifer Chiu at 215-557-2589 or jennifer@welcomingcenter.org. |
