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Holocaust

• 1940's music, art and literature
• Holocaust Resource Center
• US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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• Extensive Holocaust Links
  
• Women of the Holocaust
• The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy
• The Holocaust Chronicle
• Never Again, Always and Forever: (NAAF) Holocaust Project
• Events occuring in Europe and other parts of the world 1940-1944

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• White House: First Ladies
• National First Ladies Library
• First Ladies About Famous People
• Grolier's reference
  Scroll down for information on: M. Washington, D. Madison, M.T. Lincoln, E. Roosevelt, J. Kennedy
• Wives of American Presidents: 1789 - 1829 (M. Washington - L. Adams)
• Wives of American Presidents: 1829 - 1901 (R. Jackson - F. Cleveland)
• Wives of American Presidents: E. Roosevelt - M. Eisenhower
• Wives of American Presidents: 1961 - 1981 (J. Kennedy - R. Carter)
• Wives of American Presidents: 1981 - 2001 (N. Reagan - H.R. Clinton)
• First Lady Images
• Virtualology.com
• First Lady Portraits

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• Retracing the Route: National Parks
• National UGRR Network to Freedom Program
• The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• National Geographic's Freedom Trail simulation
• Underground Railroad from UC Davis
  this site is no longer maintained - but has good information
• Special Resource Study: Taking the train to freedom
• The Underground Railroad Museum
• The Underground Railroad Illinois
• Ohio Underground Railroad Association Friends of Freedom Society
• Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Register Travel Itinerary
  
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• INDIA
  • Festival of colors
  • Festivals: Names of festivals, month of celebration, state and regions, descriptions
  • Bawarchi.com: descriptions with links to various sites
  • Holi and Dhuleti
• JAPAN
  • Tanabata
  • IZU: Japanese National Holidays
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    Shogatsu, Coming of Age, Girls Festival, Equinox, Golden Week, etc.
  • Japan Guide
• MEXICO
  • Cinco de Mayo
  • Dias de los Muertos - Day of the Dead
    choice 1 ; choice 2 ; choice 3
• MULTIPLE
  • Festivals by continent: Use interactive clickable map search. Site gives listing and descriptions
  • Journey Mart: gives listing of dates and celebration/festival name
  • Holidays on the Net: Source for Holdiay Celebrations
  • Global Calendar 2006
  • Celebrating Diversity: University of Kansas
  • Culture Quest: World tour
    Discover other cultures through fun stories and games. Find out about the games people, the holidays they celebrate, the recipes used to prepare ethnic dishes, and the folktales told to children.Contains info for Australia, Kenya, Mexico, and Japan.
  • Holiday and Celebrations around the World: Holiday and country indexes
  • German Celebrations:
    Background on Advent, St. Nick, Christmas, Easter
• Miscellaneous
  • The story of Africa: Christianity
  • Images of Colonial Africa

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• Official site: 2006 Olympic Winter Games
• Olympics Through Time:
  focuses on the ancient Greeks and the origins of the Olympics
• Olympics Virtual Museum
• US Olympic Committee - 2006 Winter Games
• Olympic/Paralympic Games
• Olympic museum
• MSNBC - Winter Olympics
• US Sports Academy
• International Olympic Committee
• Sports Illustrated Olympic coverage   
• 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

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• Career click
• Illinois: intro to careers
• Career Zone
• Occupational Handbook
• Dictionary of occupations
  Gives job descriptions - Scroll down and click on appropriate letter
• Career Development : Goddard Space Flight Center
  Extensive job description for limited fields (technical, clerical, business management)
• Customized information for the following industry/professions:
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  Choose profession from box on left. Then use menu at top right to explore career resources of that profession (professions, question and answers, career options, etc.)
• Career Key: an Inventory
• Career Zone
  GREAT SITE!! Choose from Arts and Humanities, Business and Information Systems, Engineering and Technology, Health Services, Human and Public Services, and Natural and Agricultural Sciences Clusters
• Animal Related Careers
• The Veterinary Profession

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• Heart
• Muscles
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• Web Anatomy
• Anatomy Education -- exercise demos
• The Virtual Body
  Spanish option
• Human Anatomy Online
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• Interactive Body
• Skeletal Diagram & Bone Match Game
• The Skeletal System
• Real Skeleton Photographs with Quizzes
• Gross and Cool Body
• Health and Nutrition Games for Teens

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• Fitness Fundamentals
• Physical Fitness and Physical Activity
• Components of Fitness: Survival IQ
• Health and Fitness Calculators
• Kids Health - Teen Fitness
• Fitness Components
• The 5 Health-Related Fitness Components
• The Benefits of Fitness
• Training Heart Rate Calculator
• Exercises-An Historical Perspective

  PowerPoints
  USING THE E600 HEARTRATE MONITOR	Use the right arrow on your keyboard to advance to the next slide.
  Finding Pulse and Heart Rates (RHR)

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• Presidential factoids
• American Presidents: Life portraits
  Choose from dropdown menu
• National Portrait Gallery: Hall of Presidents
• George Bush:
  White house site
• The American Experience:
  features sites on the Presidents: Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Reagan
• The American Presidency:
  an exclusive history of presidents, the presidency, politics and related subjects
• Inaugural Addresses
• Presidents of the United States:
  US Presidents facts, presidential trivia, biographies, campaign slogans, museums, scandals, speeches and more research and information sources.
• Presidential libraries and museums: Hoover, Kennedy, Carter, F. Roosevelt, L. Johnson, Reagan, Truman, Nixon, G. Bush, Eisenhower, Ford, Clinton-Gore Archive
• The American Presidents: a comprehensive guide
• American President Web sources

• A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries
• This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics
• Pangaea: The Continent
• Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker: You try it!
• Volcanoes Online: Your ultimate guide to volcanoes
• Plate Tectonics: Encarta
• Volcanoes
• Paleomap Project: Illustrates the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents
• Geography World
• Planetary Dynamics: Earth and Environmental Science Division - Los Alamos
• Intro to Plate Tectonics

• City - Stage General
  • Ancient Greek Cities
  • History for Kids
• Corinth
  • Hellenic Ministry of Culture
  • History of Ancient Corinth
  • Ancient Corinth: Acrocorinth
• Athens
  • The Ancient City of Athens
  • Ancient Greek Civilizations
• Sparta
• Olympia
• Delphi

• Dr. Fizzix: construction ideas, also see tips and ideas
• Mousetrap info: also links to calculations and award winners
• Mousetrap cars: Pictures
• Car Designs
• Designing Cars: go to helpful hints area

• White House Historical Association
• The White House
• National Archives and Records Administration
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• Timeline, overview, causes & cures
• Stock Market Crash
• Depression Myths
• Causes of the Depression
• 1930's Newspaper
• Teenage stories
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Editorial cartoons about FDR
• Depression, New Deal, and personal accounts
• Migrant Workers

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• Teen Ink - Poetry by Teens
• Poet's Corner - a list organized by the poet's last name
• Poet's Corner - a list organized by the title of the poem
• Poems for Every Occasion - holidays, birthdays, love, friendship, families, sports, 4 seasons, animals, war.....
• Another list of poems organized by the poet's last name
• Haiku poetry from the World Haiku Organization - a list organized by the poet's last name
• Passions in Poetry - a site with lists of poems by topic

• Scholastic Network
• Encyclopedia Britanica
• Electronic Library

• APA Style of Citation
• Guide for Citing Electronic Inforamtion
• Electronic Library

• Divided over dams
• Hydroelectric Dams: Design Issues and Problems
• Aswan High dam
  • History, pros, cons
  • Short overview
  • Ecosystems revisited:
    30 years after the construction of the Aswan High Dam
  • Environmental effects
  • Success or Failure
    links to several sites that address both sides of the issue
• Hoover dam
  • The Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful
  • Comprehensive information
  • History, timeline also: discussion of dams in general
  • History, common questions, misc. facts
  • Pictorial tour
  • the Bypass Project: Environmental impact study
• Grand Coulee dam
  • World commission to study Grand Coulee Dam conflicts 
  • History, info, photos
  • Top 10 facts
  • US Grand Coulee Study
• Three Gorges
  • Online Newsletter: Three Gorges Dam
  • Major problems  
  • Éarth Story Page
  • Three Gorges Campaign
  • Resettlement issues
• Itaipu
  • Basic information
  • ENR history: 1991
  • Information & pics
  • Additional Information choose english html
  • OTOMI Case: Itaipu dam and environment

• Nervous System Abnormalities
• National Center for the Blind
• Autism Sites
• NADS Down Syndrome Resources
• Multiple Sclerosis Information
• Cystic Fibrosis: Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
• Dyslexia Resources
• Cerebral Palsy Resources
• Tourettes Syndrome or About tourettes
• Stroke: Hope Through Research
• Epilepsy Foundation
• Arthritis Foundation
• Visual Handicaps: Diabetic Retinopathy, Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration

• Asia Travel Info
• Southern Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan
• Currency Exchange
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• CIA Fact Book
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• Travel Warnings: US State Department
• Lonely Planet Destinations: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• Himalayas: Where the Earth Meets the Sky - THINKQUEST PROJECT
• Discover India
• Nepal: Travel Information and Reference
• Official Pakistan Page
• World Travel Guide Online: Alphabetical Index
• Look Smart: Exploring World Travel/Vacation (Altavista)
• Bhutan: The Land of the Peaceful Thunder Dragon

• Holocaust Maytyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• L, Chaim: A Holocaust Web Project
• Rescuers and Rescues: Of the Holocaust
• Children of the Holocaust
• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• The Holocaust History Homepage
• Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre of Toronto
• The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy THINKQUEST PROJECT
• The Holocaust in Gombin
• Teaching the Holocaust

• Mr. Foster's research site
• Lonely Planet Destinations: Choose areas and countries
• Discover India
• World Travel Guide: Select your destination
• LookSmart Travel Destinations: Arranged by continent
• Island Studies: Bahamas, Barbados, Fiji, Hong Kong, Iceland, Jamaica, Philippines, Puerto Rico
• Library of Congress: Table of Contents of Country Studies
• State Department: Country Background Notes
• UNICEF: Statistical Data
• KidsClick! Geography/History/Biography of Countries

• Celebrating Women' History
  Biographies
• Distinguished Women of Past and Fresent
  This site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others.
• National Women's History Project Biography Links
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians
• Distinguidshed Women: Past and Present
• Women in Sports
  Listed according to sport
• Notable Women:
  Links to sites dealing with famous women in sports, politics, history, art, literature, music and science and math
• Women Veterans
• Women in World History:
  Asian and Time of the Crusades
• 1st ladies: bios and pictures
• Educated women of the past:
  focuses on Ancient Greek, Egyptian, and Italian women
• Women in Computing
• 4000 years of women in science
• World history of women's suffrage
• Female Women Prize Laureats
• National Women's Hall of Fame
• Biographies by Name:
  includes suffragists, scientists, mathematicians, and others

• Wikipedia - search for a biography - (enter a name in the search box on left side of page)
• Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
• Black History Hotlist: Scroll down this page to find links for Jackie Robinson, Malcom X, Fredrick Douglass, African American soldiers and the military, W.E.B. DuBois, and Sojourner Truth as well as other famous African Amercians.
• Black Inventors A to Z - scroll down the list to find links for Benjamin Banneker, Dr. Charles Drew, and Madam C.J. Walker and many others.
• Contemporary African-American History Makers: A. Ashe, C. Mosely Braun, B. Carson, M. Jemison, Bishop L. Kelly, R. Maynard, T. Morrison, Colin Powell, C. Sharton, L.W. Wilder  and others.
• Biographies of African Americans - Gale Research - biographies for Malcom X, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Mohammed Ali, Thurgood Marshall, Maya Angelou, Rosa Parks, W.E.B. Dubois, Alice Walker, Denmark Vesey, Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm, Sojourner Truth, Oprah Winfrey, Jackie Joyner Kersey, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama and many others.
• African American History Resources
• Black Facts Online - What happened today (or any date) in African American history?
• Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
  Presents profiles on over 40 African American biochemists, chemists, physicists, engineers, inventors, and zoologists.
• Stamp on Black History:
  depicts African-Americans profiled on United States postage stamps. It highlights the contributions they made to our life and culture.
• HARLEM RENAISSANCE
  • Harlem: 1900- 19040:An African American Community
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Art of the Harlem Renaissance
• Black Panther Party
• Ku Klux Klan
• Underground Railroad
• Condoleezza Rice
• Colin Powell
• George Washington Carver
• Jesse Jackson
• Jesse Owens
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Hank Aaron
• Bill Cosby
• Tiger Woods
• African Americans in the Sports Arena - links for Michael Jordan and Paul Robeson
• Black Baseball’s Negro Baseball Leagues
• African American Military History

• American Council for Drug Education / ACDE - 6th Grade PE
• Connecticut Clearinghouse Drug Fact Sheet
• Drug Free America
• Independent website featuring information on drug and alcohol addiction and treatment (click the drop down arrow to find drug info)
• VA (Virginia) Alcohol and drug information
• Midwest HIDTA: Frequently asked questions - meth.
• Marijuana: Facts for Teens
• Smoking and Tobacco Facts
• Drug Facts and Figures
• Caffeine
• Methamphetamine
• Crack and Cocaine
• Drug Facts from the National Institute of Drug Abuse
• www.streetdrugs.org
• www.stopdrugs.org
• www.drugfreeamerica.org
• steroid use information

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• Authors and Illustrators (alphabetical) - Random House: Contemporary
• Author's Study: Kay Vandergrift - 600 links to sites
• Contemporary Authors (youth)
  J. Blume, J. Brett, E. Carle, B. Cleary, L. and D. Dillon, S. Engdahl, V. Hamilton D. Hopkinson, M. L'Engle, L. Leuck, W. Dean Meyers, P. Polacco, M. Sendak, R. L. Stine
• Favorite Authors and Illustrators
  The Scoop presents brief conversations, background information, and insights from authors and illustrators including L. Alexander, L. Cherry, E. Bunting, D. Diaz, J. Cannon, L. Ehlert, R. Dahl, D. Fleming, M. Fox, M. Hague, K. Krull, S. Jeffers, M. Mahy, S. Kellogg, B. Martin, Jr., J. Stevens G. McDermott, D. Wood, D. Jo Napoli, J. Scieszka, W. Sleator, T. Taylor
• Author Biographies
  Avi, N. Babbitt, M.Christopher, R. Cormier, L. Lowry, P. Reynolds Naylor, K. Paterson, D. Pinkwater, J. Yolen, C. Zolotow, G. Paulsen, S. Simon
• Crime, Mystery, and Fansaty Author Links
• Yahoo: Author Links
• Avi
• James Fenimore Cooper Society
• Virginia Hamilton
• Brian Jacques
• Paul Jennings
• Mary E. Lyons
• A.A. Milne
• Authors and Illustrators on the Web: Children's Literature Web Guide
• Yahooligans directory of Authors
• Children's and Young Adult Authors
• Emily Dickenson
• Faulkner
• Authors interviewed by Teenreads.com
• The Author corner,
  a place to meet authors and illustrators of children's and young adult books – Mona Kerby. The site also has links to every other author who has won the Margaret A. Edwards award since 1988, when the first award was given to S.E. Hinton.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Mark Twain
• Willa Cather
  • Introduction to the life and writings
  • Additional links found here includes a biography

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Greek Gods and Goddesses

• Greek Gods/Goddesses:
  Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athene, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Hestia, Poseidon, Zeus
• Greek Gods: Titans, Olympians, Lesser Gods
• Mythology of Gods
• Mythweb:  Devoted to the heroes, gods, and monsters of Greek Mythology
• Greek Mythology today
• Classics for Kids:
  Ancient Cultures: art, timelines, mythology, and other resources
• List of Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses and their characteristics

• What's Endangered
• Specific Animals
• Seaworld Endangered Species Profiles: Gorilla. Asian elephant. Black rhinoceros Amazon river dolphin. Hawaiian monkseal. Florida manatee. Black-footed ferret Brown pelican. California condor. Humboldt penguin. Kemp's ridley sea turtle. Chinook salmon.
• EE Link: Endangered Species Homepage Species List, Highlights, Laws and Policy, etc.
• Endangered Species Act
• Endangered Species: US Fish and Wildlife
• The WildOnes: A Children's Education Project of Wildlife Preservation Trust International
• Rolling Hills Refuge Wildlife Conservation Center
• Endangered Species and Habitats: National Wildlife Federation
• Endangered Resources

• Exploring Ancient World Cultures
• Ancient Greek Architecture: various buildings
• Classics for Kids:
  Ancient Cultures: art, timelines, mythology, and other resources sites on the WWW
• Ancient Greece Site

• King Ramses II
• Ancient Egypt: A Brief History
• Life in ancient Egypt: Carnegie Museum of Natural History
• Art History: Egypt
• Ancient Egypt: Yahooligans
• Ancient Egypt for Kids
• Egyptian Mythology
  • Site 1
  • Site 2

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• Compares energy sources used in the U.S.
  also describes the types of renewable energy resources and technologies.
• Consumer Energy Information Factsheets
• Comprehensive National Energy Strategy
• Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy
• Alternative Fuels Data Center
• BioPower Power Program
• Bioenergy
• Geothermal Energy Program
• Hydropower misssion facts, systems, research
• Office of Power Technologies:
  Harnessing Renewable Power, Promoting Clean Power and Delivering Electricity
• Ocean Thermal Energy Technology
• Photovoltaics
  • US Department of Energy Program: About, news and information
  • Nationa Center for Photovoltaics
• Solar Buildings
  • EREN
  • Solar Case Studies
• Solar Thermal Program
  • Concentrating Solar Power
  • Sunlab: A Virtual Laboratory
  • National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)
• Wind Energy
• Green Power Network
• Clean Energy Basics: Renewable Energy
• Fossil Energy Program
• Nuclear Energy Programs

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• Composers' Biographies and their works
• Great Composers
  Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Liszt, Mozart, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi
• Beethoven Page
  Classical, Rennaisance, Baroque, Romantic, 20th Century, etc.
• J.S.Bach
• Classical Composer Database
  Click on the first letter of the composer you are looking for.
• 20th Century Composers
• Richard Wagner Site
• Johannes Brahms
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Classical composers
  Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert
• Classical romantic composers
  Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Dvorak, Strauss, Tchaikovdky, Verdi, Wagner

• John Williams
  • John Williams Homepage
  • John Williams Movie Score Information
  • Williams on Williams: The Classic Spielberg Scores
• William Grant Sill: The dean of African-American composers
• John Philip Sousa: Marching Music
• Leonard Bernstein: additional site
• Hornpipe: A Folk Music in the Southern Regions
• Duke Ellington: choice 1: choice 2
• Jazz music archive
• History of the Beatles
• Phil Collins
• Elton John
• Elvis
• Aretha Franklin
• KingSingers
• LLoyd-Webber: A Musical Theater Composer: choice 1
• the Monkees
  
• Phantom of the Opera
• Rolling Stones
• Diana Ross
• Carlos Santana: choice 1, choice 2
• Selena
• Will Smith
• Sonny and Cher
• John Tesh
• Van Halen
• A composer of Movie Scores: J. Williams
  
• Weird Al Yankovich

• Excite: Celebrities - Musicians
• Various Artists: Search by Name
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Inductees
• Various Artists: Type their name in the KEYWORD search box
• Ultimate Band List: Search by artist
• iMusic various artists
• Search Sony Music Artist List: L. Bernstein, Dixie Chicks, Dylan, Estefan, Billy Joel, M. Carey

• Pigman and Me: Paul Zindel (memoir)
  • Journey to meet the Pigman
  • Analysis and Reviews
  • Pigman Activities
• Mowgli's Brothers: Rudyard Kipling (story)
  • Kipling biography
• Greyling: Jane Yolen (short story)
  • Interview
  • Bio and FAQ
• Dragon, dragon: John Gardner (short story)
  • John Gardner Appreciation Page
  • Biographical Information
• Emperor's New Clothes: Hans Christian Anderson (folk literature)
  • Chronological List of Works with Links
  • Biographic information
• Zlateh the Goat: Isaac Bashevis Singer (story)
  • 1978 Nobel Laureate in Literature
  
  DRAMA
  
• Phantom Tollbooth: Norton Juster(author) Susan Nanus(scriptwriter)
  • Phantom Tollbooth Page
• Arthur Miller (drama)
  • Arthur Miller
  
  FOLK TALES
  
• Julius Lester (African); Olivia Coolidge (Greek Myth); Tran My-Van (Vietnamese); Ricardo Alegria (Puerto Rican)
  • About Julius Lester
  • Mythography: Exploring Greek, Roman, Celtic Mythology and Art
  • Vietnamese Folktale Info.
  • Folklore, Myth and Legend
  
  POETRY
  
• Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Biographical Information
  • Native American Authors Project: Additional Resources
• Emily Dickinson
  • Bio and Links
  • National Women's Hall of Fame
• Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • Bio and listing of works
• Robert Louis Stevenson
  • RLS Homepage
• Charlotte Zolotow
  • Bio and Interview
• Walt Whitman
  • Poet at Work - Recovered Notebooks
  • Extensive Bio
• Langston Hughes
  • Today in History: Langston Hughes
  • Poet Laureate of Harlem
  • Poets: Harlem Renaissance
• Carl Sandburg
  • U of I site
• Poets and Writers Online Homepage

  
  NARRATIVE/FACTUAL ACCOUNTS
  

• Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse: Bob Considine (biographical narrative)
  • Lou Gehrig

  
  CONNECTIONS TO TODAY'S WORLD
  

• African American Online Writers Guild
• Composition Patterns - Narrative and Descriptive
• Web Linked Lesson Plans
• Children's authors:
  Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Madeleine L'Engle, Dr. Seuss, Astrid Lindgren (Pippi), Jacques, Brian, Shel Silverstein, Mark Twain, Chris Van Allsburg, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Milne (Pooh)
• 19th Century Authors

• 7th Grade: Gary Soto (short story)
  • Official Gary Soto Website
  • Academy of American Poets - Exhibits
• The Third Level: Jack Finney (story)
  • Short Bio
  • 8th Grader's 1890' Decade Report
• Papa's Parrot: Cynthia Rylant (short story)
  • Short Bio
  • Everything you want to know about parrots
• Stolen Day: Sherwood Anderson (short story)
  • Short Bio
  • Unofficial Homepage
• Rip van Winkle: Wahington Irving (story)
  • Resources
  • Poet's Walk Landscape Park
  • Hudson River Valley Tour
• A Boy and a Man: Ullman; Into Thin Air: Krakauer (story, essay)
  • In the Heart of the Alps: High Mountain Tour
  • Online Outside Magazine: Krakauer Articles
  • Himalayas: Where the Earth Meets Sky - Thinkquest winner
• Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rudyard Kipling (short story)
  • Kipling: Bookworm/BBC Education
  • Cobra Information Site
• Hearache: Anton Chekhov (short story)
  • Chekhov: Quotes, timeline, bio, pictures, short stories
  • Resources: Chekhov's annotated works
  • Short stories online
  • Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy: Thinkquest Project
• Susy and Leah: Jane Yolan (story - diary entries)
  • U.S. Holocaust Museum
  • Yolen: Internet Public Library
  • BookPage Intervies w/ Yolen
  • BJH'S Children of the Holocaust Links
• Amigo Brothers: Piri Thomas (short story)
  • The World of Piri Thomas: Poet, Writer, Storyteller
  • Puerto Rico: 500 Years of Oppression
• After 20 Years: O. Henry (short story)
  • William Sydney Porter's: Life and Work
  • Smithsonian's O. Henry
• Ribbons: Laurence Yep (story)
  • Yep Info
  • Chinese Heritage: Chinese Historical and Cultural Project
• The Treasure of Lemon Brown: Walter Dean Myers (story)
  • Myers Bio
  • African American Children's Literature
  • Learn about the Blues
• Nolan Ryan, Texas Treasure: William Lace (essay)
  • All Aboard the Ryan Express
  • Major League History & Records
• Golden Girls: U.S Women's Hockley Team: Johnette Howard (sports article)
  • Amateur Women's Hockey In Illinois
• Tiger: A Biography of Tiger Woods: John Strege
  • Tiger Woods: Official Website
  • GolfWeb
  
  DRAMA
  
• The Dying Detective: Harwick
  • Profile: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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