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BIBLIOGRAPHY SUPPORT RESOURCE
Here are helpful websites you may use when creating your bibliography: 

• Citation Maker
• EasyBib

• Bibme
• Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting In-Text Citations - this site has in-depth information about citing sources in the text of the essay
  

HOOKS, INTRODUCTIONS, & CONCLUSIONS IN EXPOSITORY & PERSUASIVE ESSAYS & SPEECHES LINK - extremely helpful resource to make reference to when writer's block consumes your brain.


How to help your child write better!!! National Council of Teachers of English: Helping Your Teen to Write Better


Great writing suggestions for parent writing coaches! How to Help your Child be a Better Writer


Need help creating your bibliography- check this out. MLA Bibliography Maker


Typing a Class Assignment MLA Format http://owl.english.purdue.edu/



Typing Practice Typing Practice





U.S. HISTORY LINKS





links for Explorer Research

1. European Explorers in the "New World"
2. Explorers Resource Page for Teachers
3. The Age of Explorers
4. Discoverer's Web
5. Discoverers by the Alphabet
6. Mariner's Museum: The Age of Exploration
7. Viking Explorers
8. Project Leif 2000 
9. Erik the Red's Saga 
10. Viking Discoverers 
11. 1492 Exhibit  
12. The Columbus Navigation Homepage  
13. Columbus's Ships  
14. Columbus MythBusters  
15. Sir Francis Drake  
16. Drake  
17. Francis Drake: The Voyage  
18. Who was John Cabot
19. John Cabot  
20. Half Moon Replica  
21. Henry Hudson Explorer of the Hudson River  
22. Ferdinand Magellan, the Greatest Voyager of Them All  
23. Vitus Bering  
24. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado  
25. Map of Coronado's Journey
26. Coronado
27. LaSalle  
28. Samuel Champlain  
29. Champlain's 1607 Map  
30. Jacques Cartier  
31. de Soto  
32. Spanish Exploration and Conquest 
33. Hernando de Soto
34. James Cook
35. An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
36. The Search for Inca Gold
37. Marco Polo  
38. Marco Polo  
39. Giovanni da Verrazzano  
40. Cabeza de Vaca  

Link for 13 colonies information:

• http://www.netstate.com/

Link for quarter images:

• http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Lists/state-Quarters.html 

Link for colony name origins:

• http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Lists/state_name_origins.html

List of state flags:

• http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Lists/state_flags.html

List of state mottos:

• http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Lists/state_mottos.html

List of statehood dates:

• http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Lists/statehood_order.html

List of Native Tribes in colonies:

• http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h936.html

List of reasons each colony was founded:

• http://quizlet.com/1265376/13-colonies-and-their-reasons-for-founding-flash-cards/

List of Presidents by state:

• http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/presidents-day/president-birth-states.html

COLONY NAMEYEAR FOUNDEDFOUNDED BYBECAME ROYAL COLONY

Virginia 1607London Company
1624 Massachusetts1620Puritans
1691New Hampshire1623John Wheelwright
1679 Maryland1634Lord BaltimoreN/A
Connecticut 1635Thomas HookerN/A
Rhode Island1636Roger WilliamsN/A
Delaware1638Peter Minuit and New Sweden CompanyN/A
North Carolina1653Virginians1729
South Carolina1663Eight Nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II1729
New Jersey1664Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret1702
New York1664Duke of York
1685Pennsylvania1682William PennN/A
Georgia1732James Edward Oglethorpe1752

Colonial Life
"The English Colonies in America" (chapter 3: pages 34-47)
"Life in the Colonies" (chapter 4: pages 48-61)

"Black and White" (Zinn chapter 2: pages 18-33)Zinner chapter 2 guided notes assignment for "Black and White" (Zinn chapter 2: pages 18-33)

"Who Were the Colonists?" (Zinn chapter 3: pages 34-51)
Zinner chapter 2 guided notes assignment for "Who Were the Colonists?" (Zinn chapter 3: pages 34-51)


"The 13 British Colonies" map (labeled)
"The 13 British Colonies" map (not labeled)