I found a good site which will help students prepare for college by strategically and a efficiently studying vocabulary words and spelling words. It is found @ LearnATest.com

You can make your own crossword puzzles @ armouredpenguin.com. I made one about the Klondike Gold Rush. You can even solve them online.

Here’s a site which has the Gettysburg Address. This is a very famous speech given by one of the most famous presidents. Study the questions and take the quiz which follows.

I found a site called Embracing the Child in which you have links to many different Language Arts websites.

Here’s a site that contains thorough lesson plans to teach students to pass the GED. It has been made available through the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Alaska’s capital is Juneau
Name:
The name “Alaska” was used by the Russians to refer only to the peninsula. This name was used by the United States to refer, first to the entire territory, and then, to the State after its purchase in 1867.
The name “Alaska” is taken from the Aleut word “aláxsxaq” that refers to an object to which the sea is directed, in this case the Alaska peninsula and mainland. This is sometimes loosely translated as “great land.”

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Here’s an interesting article about a teenager who helped out her mom . . . a little bit!
She’s now a teen millionaire. I found her story @ Yahoo’s People of the Web.

Here’s a site, JackLondons.net, that has the story by Jack London called Up The Slide.
Here’s a vocabulary activity:
Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word and then write its definition.
zigzag
perpendicular
chasm
herculean
buttressed
barren
balked
perilous
gully
felled
basin
ventured
1. Twenty feet of nearly _______________ climbing would bring him to where a slide sloped more gently in.
2. A few strokes of the ax _______________ it into the _______________ and peeping over the edge, he indulged in a laugh at the startled dogs.
3. Time and again he _______________ upon the slide, and time and again he was ____________ when he came to the grasses.
4. It was a _______________ task, but it was the only way out of the predicament.
5. This constant numbing of his fingers made his progress very slow; but the zigzag came to an end, finally, where the side of the slide was _______________ by perpendicular rock, and he turned back and upward again.
6. Each step became more difficult and _______________, and he was faint from exertion and from lack of Swanson’s dinner.
7. The _______________ opened out into a miniature _______________, in which a floor of soil had been deposited, out of which, in turn, a tiny grove of pines had sprung.
Answers

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California’s capital is Sacramento
Name:
It’s thought that the name California comes from a sixteenth century novel, Las Sergas de Esplandian by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo. Spanish explorers Hernando Cortez and Ortuno Ximenez were familiar with the work of Montalvo and probably named the territory after the gold laden island described in the novel.
Washington’s capital is Olympia
Name:
You guessed it! The Washington Territory established in 1853 was named to honor the first President of the United States, George Washington.

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