Welcome, Jennie F. Snapp Middle School Students!
Databases
Student Websites
7th Grade
7th & 8th Grade Music: Rock & Roll Artists/Groups
7th Grade Family & Consumer Science: Careers
7th Grade Health: Drugs
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Above the Influence: Drug Facts
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National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for Teens: Facts on Drugs
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Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Alcohol
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Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Caffeine
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Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Inhalants (Gases, Glues and Aerosols)
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Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Marijuana
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Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Smoking and Tobacco
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Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Steroids
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TeensHealth: Drugs & Alcohol
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The Cool Spot
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Too Smart to Start: Tweens - Facts about Alcohol
7th Grade Science: General
7th Grade Science: Leaf Identification
7th Grade Social Studies: Colonial Times
7th Grade Social Studies: Enslaved People Images
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Bing Videos: Harriet Tubman
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National Geographic: The Underground Railroad - Time Line
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NPS: Nile of the New World - African Americans in Slavery
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PBS: African American World
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PBS: African American World - Timeline (Early Days & Slavery, 1400s-1865)
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PBS: Slavery and the Making of America
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PBS: Slavery and the Making of America - Time and Place
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The Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Reading Room - Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom
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The Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Reading Room - Union and liberty! And union and slavery!
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YouTube: All Night Forever (Slavery in America)
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YouTube: The Alphabet of Slavery
7th Grade Social Studies: Iroquois People
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Academic Kids: Iroquois - The Haudenosaunee
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Eastern Woodland Indians
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Iroquois (people)
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Friends of Ganondagan
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Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Indian Fact Sheet
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Iroquois Indian Museum
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Iroquois Webquest
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NativeTech: Virtual Wampum Belt
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Peace 4 Turtle Island: The Longhouse
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Royal Ontario Museum: Iroquoian Longhouse
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The Iroquois Confederacy Map
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The Iroquois of the Northeast: Sovereign People
7th Grade Social Studies: Slavery Stations
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A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie - Spoken Narrative
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Bio.com: Harriet Tubman Biography
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Owen Sound's Black History: Songs of Freedom
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Owen Sound's Black History: Songs of Freedom - Following the Drinking Gourd
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Owen Sound's Black History: Songs of Freedom - Swing Low Sweet Chariot
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Owen Sound's Black History: Songs of Freedom - The Gospel Train's A'Comin'
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Owen Sound's Black History: Songs of Freedom - Wade in the Water
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Pathways to Freedowm: Following the Footsteps
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PBS: Africans in America - Harriet Tubman
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The Library of Congress: American Memory
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The Soul Review: Coded Slave Songs
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YouTube: "Wade in the Water" (Natalie Baillargeon)
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YouTube: Wade in the Water
7th Grade Social Studies: Westward Expansion
7th Grade Spanish: Spanish-Speaking Countries
8th Grade
8th Grade English: Author Study
Additional Databases
Documents
Individuals
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Alice Walker
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Amy Tan
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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C.S. Lewis
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Charles Dickens
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Charlotte Bronte
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Emily Dickinson
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Ernest Hemingway
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Gary Paulsen
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George Orwell
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H.H. Munro
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Herman Melville
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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Jack London
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Jane Austen
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John Steinbeck
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Julia Alvarez
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Langston Hughes
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Lois Lowry
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Louisa May Alcott
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Louise Erdrich
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Mark Twain
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Maya Angelou
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Naomi Shihab Nye
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Nathanial Hawthorne
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Ray Bradbury
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Robert Frost
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Sandra Cisneros
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Sherman Alexie
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Steven Crane
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Ursula LeGuin
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Victor Hugo
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Walt Whitman
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Walter Dean Myers
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William Shakespeare
8th Grade Family & Consumer Science: Cultural Foods
8th Grade Health: Family Relationships
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APA Help Center: Families - Making Stepfamilies Work
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APA Help Center: Families - Single Parenting and Today's Family
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Child Welfare Information Gateway: Foster Parents Considering Adoption - A Factsheet for Families
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How Stuff Works: Understanding Family Structures and Dynamics
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Kids Health: A Kid's Guide to Divorce
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Kids Health: Being Adopted
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Kids Health: Foster Familes
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Kids Health: Living with a Single Parent
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Kids Health: Living with Grandparents
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Kids Health: Living with Stepparents
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Kids' Health: Adoption
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Kids' Health: Divorce - When Parents Want to Split
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Kids' Health: Families - There are Many Kinds
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Kids' Health: Foster Families
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Kids' Health: Single Parent Families
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Kids' Health: Stepfamilies
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National Stepfamily Resource Center
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Teen Health: Adoption
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Teen Health: Step-Families
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Teens Health: Adoption
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Teens Health: Dealing with Divorce
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Teens Health: Stepparents
8th Grade Health: Medical Careers
8th Grade Social Studies: The Roaring Twenties
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Alice Paul Institute: Biography
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Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum: Biography
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Appleton Public Library: Harry Houdini
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Biography.com: Clara Bow
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Biography.com: Greta Garbo
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Biography.com: Howard Hughes
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Charles Lindbergh, Am American Aviator: Biography
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Charlie Chaplin.com: Biography - Overview of His Life
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Chicago History Museum: Al Capone
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Digital History: The Ku Klux Klan
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Encyclopedia of World Biography: Babe Ruth
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Encyclopedia of World Biography: Sinclair Lewis
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Famous Sports Stars: Tennis - Bill Tilden
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Famous Sports Stars: Tennis - Helen Wills
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Gale Cengage Learning: Black History Month - Biographies - Bessie Coleman
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How Stuff Works: Bobby Jones
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Jewish Women's Archive: Fanny Brice
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Just Disney.com: Walt Disney - A Short Biography
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National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection: Carrie Chapman Catt
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National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame: Red Grange
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NobelPrize.org: Sir Alexander Fleming
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Ohio History Central: Clarence S. Darrow
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Ohio History Central: Eliot Ness
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PBS: American Experience - Mary Pickford - People & Events - Douglas Fairbanks
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PBS: American Experience - Mary Pickford - People & Events - Mary Pickford
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PBS: American Experience - Monkey Trial - People & Events - John Scopes
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PBS: American Storytellers - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Sensible Thing - Biographies - F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
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PBS: Jazz - Biographies - Bessie Smith
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PBS: Jazz - Biographies - Duke Ellington
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PBS: Jazz - Biographies - Jelly Roll Morton
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PBS: Jazz - Biographies - Louis Armstrong
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Radio Hall of Fame: Walter Winchell
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Sports Illustrated for Women: Gertrude Ederle
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The Biography Channel: Charles Atlas
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The Biography Channel: Coco Chanel
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project: Mary McLeod Bethune
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The Institute for Intercultural Studies: Margaret Mead
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The Internet Movie Database
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The Literature Network: Willa Cather
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The New York Times: Obituary - Sonja Henie
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The Official Lou Gehrig Website: Biography
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The Official Site of Jack Dempsey: Biography
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The Official Zora Neale Hurston Website: Biography
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The White House: Calvin Coolidge
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The White House: Herbert Hoover
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The White House: Warren G. Harding
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Yahoo! Movies: Rudolph Valentino
Book Trailers
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
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A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Blood Red Horse
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Dork Diaries
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Found
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Gone
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Incarceron
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Love, Stargirl
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Maximum Ride
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Percy Jackson & The Olympians
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Speak
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The Alchemyst
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The Book Thief
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The Clockwork Three
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The Graveyard Book
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The Grimm Legacy
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The Indigo King
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Uglies
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Wicked Lovely
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Wintergirls
Miscellaneous
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