WEB LINKS
My Child's Learning - Social Studies 8
- Project Gutenberg - "Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS, or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats."The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) - A great collection including resources for writing, grammar and mechanics, and styles (MLA, APA, etc).
- Sparknotes - Sparknotes provides reading guides and analysis for many books that we study in class. They are a great source to use to help you understand your reading, but never use them in place of reading the actual book!
- Bitesize - Bitesize is an educational website that was created by the BBC to help students in the U.K. meet their learning objectives. There are many language arts games on this site.
- Mortifying Monday - This is a fun, choose your own adventure story created by PBS.
- Make Beliefs Comix - Get creative and make your own comic strips with images and text.
- Online Rhyming Dictionary - Never be caught without the write rhyming word when writing your own poetry or your own rap songs. Just type in a word and you'll get a list of rhyming words with links to definitions.
- Learn Out Loud - Access free audio books of classic works of literature. Available as streaming pod-casts or as downloadable files.
- Learning Games for Kids - Word games to help build vocabulary based on classic literature such as David Copperfield and Huckleberry Fin.
- Midlink Magazine - An online magazine highlighting exemplary student work from the most creative classrooms around the globe.