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The Story of Ferdinand

Poetry Assignment

Dictionary and Thesaurus Sites

Persuasive Writing Links

Advertising and Marketing Toward Teenagers

Quotations

Links to Foster Care

Other Good Links

Links for Holes by Louis Sachar

Links to Multiple Intelligences

Links to Poetry

Do You Know Your States and Capitals?

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Links to Good Study Habits

 

The Story of Ferdinand
http://www.smart-central.com/ferdinand/Ferdinand.htm
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Poetry Assignment
First go to http://www.psalm40.org/bobfrost.html read the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
Rewrite these questions over in Microsoft Word and answer them.
What is the tone in the poem?
What is the form in the poem?
What is the imagery in the poem?

Next go to http://www.gigglepoetry.com/index.cfm and click on favorite poems.  Copy and paste the poem you like best into Microsoft Word.  Be sure to add the poets name and the URL to your paper.  Then write why you chose this poem as the one you liked best.  Give specific examples using lines from the poem.
Be sure to print and hand in your paper to me!
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Dictionary and Thesaurus Sites
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp
www.wordcentral.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
http://www.encarda.com/
www.wordsmyth.net
http://www.m-w.com/
http://www.freetranslation.com/
http://www.kplay.cc/reference.html

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html


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For help creating a bibliography, aka Works Cited
www.easybib.com/
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Persuasive Writing Links
http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Champaign/grdlvl/5/fprompts.html
http://www.u2networks.com/library/articles/howto_write_persuasively.htm
http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/handouts/logic.html
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Advertising and Marketing Toward Teenagers
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/
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Quotations
Gunnar's Phrases 
Quoteland 
Dictionary of Quotations 
Famous Quotations 
Quotation Page
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Links to Foster Care
http://www.fosterclub.com/
http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/home_family/foster_families_p4.html
http://ssw.unc.edu/fcrp/fp/fp_vol2no2/kids_pages_vol2no2.htm
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Other Good Links
http://www.noodletools.com/ NoodleTools is a free suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with their online research. From selecting a search engine and finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources in MLA style, NoodleTools makes online research easier!
www.bookadventure.org  Summer is here and it's time to get busy - reading. Book Adventure has prepared lots of resources for you and your family in their summer reading section. Be sure to check it out!
www.teenreads.com  Book recommendations, word of the day, quote of the day, question of the week and much more just for teens.
www.dictionary.com  Look up words in a dictionary and a thesaurus.
www.timeout.com/currency/gbp.html  Are you going to be traveling anywhere around the world.  Well if you do, check out the currency converter to see how much the U.S. dollar is worth where you are going.
www.mapquest.com  Where to go and how to get there.  Get driving directions by simply putting in your destination address and where your coming from.
www.puzzlemaker.com Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Build your own maze or print our specialty hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom topics.
http://www.rinkworks.com/brainfood/ Puzzles For the Brain To Gnaw On Give your mind a work out on our devious collection of puzzles. There are hundreds, ranging from word games to logic problems to riddles. Some are tricky. Some require innovation. All require thinking power.  Good luck.
http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/  From Discovery.com - Discover something new everyday.
http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/words/hangman/ Hangman puzzles!
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html  Produces children's educational web sites and games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment.
http://www.brainpop.com/  The company creates original animated movies to explain concepts in a voice and visual style that is accessible, educational and entertaining for both children and adults.
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/index.html  It's a big world, especially to kids, and Time For Kids -- from the creators of TIME magazine -- brings the latest news of the world to you (so you don't have to circle the globe looking for it yourself!).
http://www.kidsbookshelf.com/   To encourage creativity and imagination in children through reading, writing, and drawing. Read and talk about children's literature.
http://www.iln.net/  An Internet service that helps students to learn math and science interactively, as though a personal tutor were teaching them step-by-step.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy/ Identify countries, continents, states and more.
http://edheads.org/index.php Explore and identify over 50 different Simple Machines, from the super simple to the hideously hard!
http://www.flamingtext.com/fonts/  Design a project with a heading or a paper with a title with this cool site!
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                     Links for Holes by Louis Sachar  http://www.edupaperback.org/authorbios/Sachar_Louis.html
http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/ authorstudies/authorhome.jhtml?authorID=85&collateralID= 5278&displayName=Biography
More books Louis Sachar has written http://www.kidsreads.com/features/010314-more-sachar.asp  Desert Life. Stanley had to deal with life in the desert, including lack of water and harmful creatures.  http://eduscapes.com/42explore/deserts.htmInformation about Homeless kids http://nch.ari.net/youth.html HOLES Trivia Quiz  http://www.kidsreads.com/funstuff/trivia/holes-triv1.asp
Ten more questions based on Holes http://teacher.scholastic.com/bookclubs/getquizzy/holes_quiz.asp
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Links to Multiple Intelligences
www.angelfire.com/oh/themidas/eachmi.html
www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov/curric/weather/adptcty/multint.html
www.multi-intell.com/mi_overview.htm
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Links to Poetry  
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Lights/4192/dickinson.html  Various Poems written by Emily Dickinson.
www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/hughes.html#dreamdeferred The Poetry of Langston Hughes.
www.internal.org/list_poems.phtml?authorID=7 About Robert Frost and his poetry. 
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Do You Know Your States and Capitals?  Check out your Knowledge on these websites!
www.eduplace.com/geonet/index.html
www.scottforesman.com/resources/statescapitals/index.html
www.weeklyreader.com/home/states/searchst.html
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Links to Good Study Habits
http://www.waunakee.k12.wi.us/midlschl/guidance/studenttips.htm
http://www.studygs.net/attmot4.htm
http://www.sms.k12.nf.ca/study.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~bmgei/educate/docs/students/studhabt.htm
http://trumbullps.org/mms/study.htm#study
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