Welcome, Mrs. Sewell's 8th Graders!
Charles Dickens - - A Christmas Carol
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His Life and Times...The History
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His Family and Friends
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Working at 12 (Scroll to "Warren's Blacking Factory")
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Thames
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Victorian London
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How Dickens Saved Christmas
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Trivia
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Biographical Animated Video
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Easy to read version of story
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Scrooge's Psychological Profile??
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Dickens' games, puzzles, plus!
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Glossary - - Helpful!!
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ebook
complete text -
Audio of entire novella
BRITISH lady reads WHOLE TEXT to you! -
Some questions answered here!
Who's St. Dunstan? Find out!
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Article from Teen Ink
Allegorical information
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Shmoop's page
More allegorical information
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Thematic study
What are the major themes?
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Mega "Carol" Quiz
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Major Themes in "Carol"
Poetry Corner
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Wildlife & Nature Online Gallery
Thousands of great photos here!
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Another great gallery of photos!
Many more pictures from which to select for your poem writing!
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Historic Photo Gallery
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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Many great photos!
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National Gallery of Art
**Click on the "Collections" tab to view artwork
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Smithsonian Image Gallery
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"The Cremation of Sam McGee" audio/video
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"The Cremation of Sam McGee" text
What do YOU think happens in the end?
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Favorite Poems
Real people present poems that have spoken to them.
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"The Emigrant Irish" -- Steve Murphy
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"Settling" Laura Treadway
disappearing landforms?
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Dictionary of Symbols
Can you find one in your poem?
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Create Simile Poem
Interactive!
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11 hours surf +
sandy surf sound
Grasping Grammar
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Complete Grammar Text
Anything 8th graders should know about grammar is HERE.
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Possessive Nouns -- Khan Academy
This will help you with IXL standards CC3 and CC4.
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Adjectives -- Comparative and Superlative -- Khan Academy
This will help you with IXL standards FF3 and FF4.
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Using Dashes -- Khan Academy
In just over 6 mins, learn how to ace IXL standard E1
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Website help for IXL standards EE3 and EE4
Type in the verb, then press "conjugate," then "full conjugation."
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Using Ellipses -- Khan Academy
Learn how to ace IXL standard F1 in two easy steps!
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Quick Adverb Quiz
Which level can you master?
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Battleship with Adverbs!
If you make a hit, correctly answer the question!
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Interactive Sentence Fragments and Run-On Sentences
Online quizzes to test your know-how!! Good luck.
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Prepositions Review
Click on one of these two games! TRY!
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More Preposition Review
Save the baby kangaroos with these EASY questions!
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Prepostions Quiz
Can you pass this quiz?
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Interactive Grammar Quizzes
See what you know!
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Basic Grammar Games
Play games with nouns, adjectives, and verbs
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Grammar Ninja!!
Find parts of speech and be rewarded!
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Schoolhouse Rock!
Words and Videos -- if you have youtube
The Giver, Gathering Blue
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Full text "The Giver"
Full text online
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Full audio "The Giver"
Listen and follow along!
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Full text "Gathering Blue"
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Full audio "Gathering Blue"
Author Lois Lowry gives us a 3-minute talk about her new heroine, Kara, and the world in which she lives.
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Definition of Utopia
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Utopian community located in Virginia
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A community located in Scotland
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A community located in Missouri
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This site contains futuristic ideas, which you are welcome to use
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Failed utopias
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7 planned utopian communities you can visit
"Dead Poets Society" -- Robin Williams
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"Understanding Poetry -- by J. Evans Pritchard"
You want us to do what with the pages?
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Perspective -- "We must constantly look at things in a different way."
"Come see for yourselves!"
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Allusion to "Road Not Taken"
Take a walk, boys!
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Barbaric YAWP
A poet lives within us all.
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Allusion to "O Captain, My Captain"
Tribute to a legend
Writing Tools
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Cite Your Sources video
point form
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Why do I cite sources? Video
Should I steal work? "NO!"
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RSU 29 Library
Find articles here to use in your essays!
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NoodleTools Express --CHOOSE MLA
Citations page -- copy and paste!!
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Persuasion Map
Interactive visual to help you plan your writing prompt
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Notecard mini tutorial
How do I create a notecard?
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10 Tips for Taking Notes
Helpful hints for a SUPERB research paper!
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Parenthetical Citations
How to write citations correctly within your text
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"How to" video for writing a compare/contrast paragraph
again, watch!
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Venn Diagram
...to help you with compare/contrast writing
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Persuasive Writing Video
Persuasive writing is everywhere!
ELA class items with literature book
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Full text "Old Ben"
Read about an unusual snake
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"Charles" full text
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Mini Biography Langston Hughes
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"Thank You, M'am" song #2 version
I LOVE THIS ONE!!! Blue Suede shoes for the troops 1956
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"Thank You, M'am" song
Elvis Presley "Blue Suede Shoes"
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Full text "The Storyteller"
Full text online
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Audio of "The Storyteller"
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"Storyteller" -- train scene Harry, Ron, Hermoine
Harry Potter!
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"Storyteller" -- another train scene with a comic
Mr. Bean!
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Mini Biography Edgar Allan Poe
New -- about 4 mins
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Film "Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
Actor portrayal -- 10 mins
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1953 Animated Verson "Tell-Tale Heart"
Creepy cartoon -- 7 1/2 mins
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Tell-Tale Heart live version -- newer version
27 mins. "Freak Daddy Productions"
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Documentary Edgar Allan Poe
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Audio of "The Adventures of the Speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pure audio joy!
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Full length movie "Adventures of Speckled Band"
What happened to Julia Stoner?
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"John Henry"
audio
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Emily Dickinson Bio Video -- 10 minutes
Learn about the famous poet's life
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Mini Bio Robert Frost -- 3 1/2 mins
A fascinating American poet who knew JFK
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"Road Not Taken" audio -- 2 1/2 mins
One of the most well-known poems in America
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"Road Less Traveled" song by Lauren Aliana
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Mini Bio Walt Whitman -- 3 mins
Learn about this famous New England poet
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"O Captain, My Captain"
audio only
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"Why Leaves Turn Color"
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Argumentative Topics 1
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Argumentative Topics 2
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Full text "Baker Heater League"
SAT Vocabulary
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Quizlet
Mrs. Sewell's Quizlet Page
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HHS Moodle Page
Find "Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Sewell" for flashcard help and more!
Scary Stuff!!
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Scary PODCASTS
Turn off the lights and be very scared...
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American Folklore -- Ghost Stories
Several short spooky tales
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Haynesville Woods, Part I
Heard about the Haynesville Woods? It's in our back yard...
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Haynesville Woods, Part II
There's a second story here.
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Plot Generator
...in case you're stuck for a story idea
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Houlton Student Podcasts -- Scary stories come to life!
Podcasts from the last few years of kids' work
Number the Stars
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Online full text Number the Stars
Need to review? Here's the book in full!
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Simple Map of Denmark
Setting for our novel
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Fish shoes
historical piece
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King Christian X rides through town
during Nazi occupation
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King Christian X
portrait
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Carousel at Tivoli Gardens
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Tivoli Gardens
Diary of Anne Frank
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"Diary of Anne Frank" full text of play
Full text of play
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The Annex
INCREDIBLE interactive website!
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Nuremberg Trials
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Adolf Hitler
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Hitler's Remains
WW II and the Holocaust
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Children of the Holocaust
Stories of children caught up in the Holocaust
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Map Operation Overlord
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Map Europe WW II -- 1944
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Map of Normandy, France
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WW2 Map Allies/Axis Countries (p. 3/4)
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Timeline Jr. Scholastic WWII
Fun with Dr. Seuss!
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"Yertle the Turtle" full text
Read an allegory by beloved Dr. Seuss
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"Yertle the Turtle" audio (6:35)
Listen to the allegory as you follow along with the text
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"Yertle the Turtle" musical video (4:24)
A different spin to the Dr. Seuss allegory
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Slide show presentation explaining "Yertle the Turtle" allegory
HOW is this an ALLEGORY?
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Storybook Maker
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Concentration Game!
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Quotation Game!
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"The Lorax" movie
1972 cartoon
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"The Sneetches" game!
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Catch a Thing game!
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"Oh the Places" game!
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Color "Grinch" pages
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The Politics of Dr. Seuss
Really?? He wrote with theme in mind? (Yes!)
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LORAX quest -- Save the Trees!!
collect coins...good luck!