Mrs. Gordon's MUR: Speech Writing!

Please use the following information to help you write your speech:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/speech/index.htm

Recommended Links

Gifted Education

For more information on gifted education please visit The Center for Gifted Education: www.cfge.wm.edu/ orhttp://www.davidsongifted.org/

Recommended Reading: The Gifted Kids Survival Guides and When Gifted Kids Don't Have All The Answers by: Judy Galbraith.

Catherine Called Birdy

Website activities: Click Here

The Westing Game

A fun website about the Book: Click Here

A Christmas Carol Unit

A Great website about Victorian England: Click Here

See if you can Survive Dickens London: Click Here

Dragonwings Unit

Much of our novel is focused on kites, dragons and the Wright Brothers. Here are some links to extension activities and information regarding these things.

http://how2makeakite.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-make-simple-chinese-kite.html

http://china.mrdonn.org/dragons.html

http://pbskids.org/wayback/flight/feature_wright.html

Propaganda Unit

A great PBS website promoting media literacey.

http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/

Merchants of Cool- A frontline report on media marketing aimed at teenagers.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/

Ad Dissection - unit on effect of advertising on students based on the PBS production above.

http://website.education.wisc.edu/rla/ADSITE/indes.htm

Mystery Unit

A great website to further emmerse your child in the world of detective work is the FBI kids page: www.fbi.gov/fun-games/kids/kids

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