Language Arts

Bridge to Terabithia	The Adventures of Ulysses	Tuck Everlasting
The Egypt Game	My Side of the Mountain	Larger View 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan

• Weekly Reading Log
  Here is a link to your Weekly Reading Log. It is to be handed in complete every Friday.

• Persuasion Map
  This is an interactive graphic organizer that helps students to arrange their thoughts before writing an essay. ALERT! Work on the Persuasion Map cannot be saved, so be sure to print out at the end of your session.

• Ceate a Comic!
  Here's a link to the same people that created the online "Persuasion Map that we've used in school, as well as the "Acrostic" site listed below. We used it to retell the Tell-Tale Heart

• Acrostic
  Try this Acrostic, too!

• Learn 2 Type
  Use this site to help improve your typing skills.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  This is the homepage to the museum where Percy Jackson had his first "monster encounter" while on a field trip. See is you can find the frieze that Mrs. Dodds was standing in front of when she transformed.

• Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  This is a similar art museum, but one we went to on our field trip last year. There are a lot of artifacts from Greece that may have interested a boy like Percy Jackson!

• Rick Riordan's Website
  here is the official website for Rick Riordan, author of The Lightning Thief! Check out his other books, and learn how he was inspired to write this series.

• Jules Verne info
  The Wikipedia entry on Jules Verne.

• The History of Submarines
  From 1580-2000, a really comprehensive look at how humans have attempted to explore the deep.

• Robert Frost Bio
  Here is some additional information about Robert Frost.

• Zilpha Keatley Snyder Official Website
  Here is the official website of the author of "The Egypt Game".

• Poe
  Here is a great site about author Edgar Allan Poe. This week I read "The Raven", "Tell-Tale Heart", and "The Pit and the Pendulum" aloud to the class.

• Katherine Patterson
  Here's the website of Katherine Patterson, author or Bridge to Teabithia.

• Jean Craighead George Official Website
  Here is the official website for Jean Craighead George, author of "My Side of the Mountain", the first novel the class read this year.

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