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Pocantico Hills School: "Charlotte's Web"
This site, created by a second grade class at Pocantico Hills School, provides a very brief review of "Charlotte's Web," including very brief chapter summaries, and a game identifying quotations from the book. There are some helpful...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: Huguenot Church
Gothic Revival church built in 1844; designed by architect E. B. White.
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Charlotte's Web: Pick the Perfect Word Game
Word games with Wilbur! This site contains an interactive game based on E.B White's book "Charlotte's Web." The student can drag words into the barn to find correct nouns, verbs, adjectives, synonyms, and more! A fun way to assess...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Langston Hughes
This resource focuses on the works of famous African-American author, Langston Hughes.
Black Past
Black Past: Historically Black Colleges and Universities of Atlanta
This interesting encyclopedia article gives information about theblack universities that were founded in Atlanta after the Civil War. Later several joined together to make a consortium called the Atlanta University System.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Breaking Racial Barriers
Exhibition of portraits, accompanied by brief biographical sketches, of prominent African Americans, whose contributions to science, the arts, business, and politics have enriched and enlivened the public good in the United States:...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Portraits of Texas Governors
Explore the lives of Texas' governors. This site organizes the governors into six eras: Early Statehood (1846-1861); War, Ruin, and Reconstruction (1861-1874); The Wild West (1874-1887); Texas Rising (1887-1915); The Politics of...
The Book Report
Kids reads.com: Authors
Click on the children's author link to view an article with biographical information, book titles, and the like.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Lucy: The First Hominid Skeleton
Read about the archaeologists who discovered the first Hominid skeleton and other ancestors of humans.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: College of Charleston
Historic and attractive campus center; Main Building, the Library, and Gate Lodge completed by 1856, designed by William Strickland, Edward Brickell White, and George E. Walker.