Welcome!
Saturday, March 20th 2010
Come, say Hello!
portaportal
is now on Facebook!
Authors
Jean Craighead George
Carl Hiaasen
Louis Sachar
D. J. McHale -- Pendragon
J.K. Rowling
Meg Cabot
Cathy Hopkins
Rosemary Clement-Moore
Kathryn Reiss
Gordon Korman
Darren Shan
Jerry Spinelli
Stephenie Meyer
all things Twilight
Scott Westerfeld
Laurel Snyder
Libba Bray
John Marsden
Jay Asher
Lisi Harrison
Gary Paulsen
Christopher Paul Curtis
Mary Downing Hahn
Folk Literature
Folk Tale Library
Japanese Folktales
eight Japanese folktales
Tales of Wonder
tales from around the world
Mythweb
Fun Stuff
Free Rice
improve your vocabulary; feed the world
Candystand
games galore
Quotes for every occasion
Immigration
Ellis Island
US Immigration 1851-1900
Chinese Immigration
Irish Immigration
Emma Lazarus
Liberty State Park/ Emma Lazarus
National Park Service/Statue of Liberty
Digital History -- follow immigration links
Immigration timeline
Immigration at Scholastic
From one life to another
World climates
Immigration: the living mosaic
Greece: facts old and new
Jamaican photo album
Causes of Jamaican immigration
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Journey to America - what it was like on ship
Irish Life, 1800's
Hungarian Culture
Jewish holidays
Russian holidays
more Russian holidays
Art encyclopedia
Chinese clothing
more Chinese clothing
Food timeline
Italian cuisine
Poetry
R&J Webquest
Questions 1-7
Shakespeare timeline
Questions 8-10
Elizabethan marriage customs
Question 11
Elizabethan food
Question12
Elizabethan food
Question 13
Elizabethan food
Questions 14-15
Elizabethan language
Question 16
Elizabethan language
Questions 17-20
Shakespearean theatre
Question 21
Shakespearean insults
Sleuth Clues
Study Helpers
Study Island
great SOL practice
Survival
The Holocaust
Writing
Write It!
Writing Fix . . . prompts etc.
Dictionary.com