Homework Help

Hot Homework Info

During the school year we put resources for school projects on our Homework Shelf and here on our website.

To view our Homework Help Brochure, Click Here.

School Homework Pages

District 181 elementary schools:

• D181 Home

For homework information, click on your school. Then visit the “Staff” page to see if your teacher has a website.

Hinsdale Middle School:

• 6th Grade
• 7th Grade
• 8th Grade

Clarendon Hills Middle School:

• All Grades

Hinsdale Central High School:

• Hinsdale Central High School Departments
• Hinsdale Central High School Library

Textbooks and Reading Lists

We have the District 181 and St. Isaac Jogues elementary and middle school textbooks on our Homework Shelf, available for you to use in the Library or to photocopy.

We also have the books on Hinsdale schools’ reading lists set aside behind the Youth Services Desk for easy access and check out. If you are reading because it is required or if you just want a great read, click on the links below to see the full list.

• Rebecca Caudill Readers’ Choice Award
• Bluestem Readers’ Choice Award
• Monarch Readers’ Choice Award
• Elementary School Battle of the Books
• Mock Newbery
  

Research Help

Looking for information online? Don’t just use an Internet search. Our online databases give you quality articles, primary sources, and websites that are reviewed and updated regularly. We would be happy to show you more about these databases at the Library. Two of our favorites are World Book Advanced and Encyclopaedia Britannica!

Also try BibMe, a bibliography generator that supports MLA, APA, and Chicago formatting.

You’d still like to use the web? Try these search engines for students:

Sweet Search searches only the sites that have been reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and research experts.

KidRex is a new kid-safe search engine powered by Google custom search.

Famhoo draws on results from all the major search engines but provides a stricter family filter.

Ask Kids is the kid friendly, kid safe version of the popular search engine Ask.com.

Other Homework Sites

Join us on delicious, an online bookmarking site. We’ve bookmarked many sites that we think are excellent to help students with homework on our delicious account: HinsdaleYS. You can click on the tags below to see some of the great sites we’ve found.

Test Prep Guides

The Library has ISAT Coach practice books and teachers guides for in-library use only.

For more ISAT prep:

• Interactive ISAT Sample Questions
• ISAT Sample Books

For the ACT EXPLORE Test:

Sample EXPLORE Questions