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American Literature Timeline
Find out what happened on this day in the history of reading and writing in America!

http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/timeline/Calendar_January.htm

Media

Finding Faulty Logic
take a quiz

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=4&act=1

Ads from the 1930s

Ripley's Believe it Or Not!

http://www.adclassix.com/ads2/39ripleys.htm
Coca-Cola

http://www.adclassix.com/a3/35cocacola1.htm
Typewriter

http://www.adclassix.com/a3/29coronatypewriter.htm
Telephone

http://www.adclassix.com/a3/29belltelephone.htm
Motor Oil
Shows what cars looked like in the 1930s!

http://www.adclassix.com/ads/33alemiteoil.htm
J.C. Penney Toys
See what toys were popular with kids in the 1930s... and what they cost.

http://www.adclassix.com/ads/28jcpenney.htm

Ads from the 1960s

X-Ray Specs
This ad might have appeared in one of Kenny's comic books!

http://bp2.blogger.com/_TnAcMqiBxug/R9Ub6EDTdSI/AAAAAAAAHLI/EwbMO3fStF4/s1600-h/File0009.jpg
Baby Ruth Candy Bar

http://www.adclassix.com/ads/61babyruth.htm
AMF Bowling Centers

http://www.adclassix.com/ads/60amfbowling.htm
Kenner Toys
See what kind of toys were popular with kids in the 1960s.

http://www.adclassix.com/ads2/62kennertoys.htm
1963 Coca-Cola Contest

http://www.adclassix.com/ads/63cocacolacontest.htm
Telephone
This advertises having multiple phones in the home.

http://www.adclassix.com/ads/63belltelephone.htm
Campbell's Soup

http://www.adclassix.com/ads/63campbellskid.htm
Typewriter

http://www.adclassix.com/a4/57underwoodtypewriter.html

Novels

To Kill a Mockingbird

Dorothea Lange Photography
Possibly the most famous Depression-Era photographer

http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html
Dorothea Lange @ Historyplace
More photos taken by Lange

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html
Photography by Ben Shahn
Shahn portrayed the cotton pickers of the Great Depression in his photos

http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap01.html
Arthur Rothstein's photography
Rothstein documented the life of farmers

http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap05.html
REVIEW GAME - Characters
A Concentration Game on Characterization

http://www.quia.com/cc/142829.html
To Kill a Mockingbird Jeopardy

http://www.quia.com/cb/14437.html
Monroeville, Alabama
Article about author Harper Lee and her hometown

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0601/feature8/index.html

The Watsons Go to Birmingham

Powerful Days: Photography of the 1960s
Moore's photography, showing Dr. King and other images of the Civil Rights movement

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights activists in action are shown in this set of photographs

http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgcoll.htm
Resources for the Birmingham Church Bombing

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htm

Figurative Language

Figurative Language Gamequarium
figurative language games for review

http://www.gamequarium.com/figurativelanguage.html
Mrs. Umphrey's Figurative Language page
games and more

http://www.sturgeon.k12.mo.us/elementary/numphrey/subjectpages/languagearts/figuresofspeech.html

Tools

Alphabet Review Organizer
from ReadWriteThink

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/alphabet/

Writing

Power Proofreading
Practice your proofreading skills.

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/

Figurative Language

Analogies Game
Click on the word that completes the analogy

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/analogies/analogiesx.htm
Awesome Analogies
For One or Two players

http://www.quia.com/cb/7146.html

Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon Coalition

http://www.redribboncoalition.com
Students Against Drunk Driving

http://www.sadd.org
Drug Abuse Resistance Education

http://www.dare-america.com
Safe Youth: Violence Prevention

http://www.safeyouth.org
Drug Free Youth

http://www.imdrugfree.com
Free Vibe

http://www.freevibe.com/
What's Your Anti-Drug?

http://www.whatsyourantidrug.com/
SADD's Red Ribbon Week Campaign
Learn about the purpose and background of Red Ribbon Week

http://www.sadd.org/campaign/ribbon.htm

Poetry

Magnetic Poetry Online
Fun website!

http://www.magneticpoetry.com/kidspoetry/createpoem.cfm?kit=5

Grammar

Compound Subjects and Verb
Quiz

http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/57.asp
Subject-Verb Agreement
FunBrain Game

http://www.funbrain.com/verb/index.html
Prepositions
Practice using the correct preposition.

http://www.smic.be/smic5022/add%20a%20preposition%20(1).htm
Adverb or Adjective?
Choose the grammatically correct form.

http://www.smic.be/smic5022/adverb2.htm
Adjectives
This site will remind you what an adjective is!

http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/pos-adj.html
Using Adjectives
Choose the best adjectives to complete the sentences.

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/adjing.htm
Adverbs Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
the only thing missing is Regis

http://www.quia.com/rr/62022.html
Adverbs Memory
Match the correct adverb to the sentence

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/term/matchgeneric2.asp?filename=msmith5adverbmatch
Adverbs Quiz
Checks your work for you

http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/riversideroses/games/game501.htm
Adverbs Quiz 2
Take Purdue University's adverbs quiz

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/interact/esladjadvEX1.html

Prepositions

Prepositions of Place
Online Quiz

http://www.angelfire.com/on/topfen/testsprepplace3.html
Prepositions of Time
Online Quiz

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/grammar/prepo1.htm
Prepositions Often Confused
Multiple-Choice Quiz on prepositions that can be difficult!

http://a4esl.org/q/j/dt/mc-confusedprep.html

Parts of a Sentence

Simple Subjects
Practice Identifying the Simple Subject

http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/quizzes/grammar/AlphaExer/SimpSub1.htm
Finding the Verb
Practice Identifying the Simple Predicate

http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/quizzes/grammar/AlphaExer/verbs.htm

Word Study and Vocabulary

Word Central
Online Dictionary

http://www.wordcentral.com
Wordsmyth
Online Dictionary

http://wordsmyth.net
Merriam Webster
Online Dictionary and Thesaurus

http://www.merriam-webster.com
Greek Influences on the English Language
Play a Game

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/game.htm
Free Rice Vocabulary Game
For every word for which you choose the correct definition, the site donates rice to needy people!

http://www.freerice.com/index.php