Web Sites

Note: The sites listed below are not maintained by the Center for Distance and Independent Study or the University of Missouri. These links are intended only as additional sources of information about the topics covered in this course. The progress evaluations and examinations will cover only the material contained in the textbook and the lesson commentaries.

Links to these sites should not be construed as an endorsement, either implicit or explicit, of their content by the course author, the Center for Distance and Independent Study, or the University of Missouri.

Course Web Links & Resources

The sites included have been reviewed for grade and age appropriateness, but contents of links change continuously. You may find other sites on the Internet that are useful to you, but have your parent/teacher review these sites. Remember that just because something is on the Internet does not mean that it is credible.

Thesauruses

• Merriam-Webster Online (includes dictionary and thesaurus)
• Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
• Thesaurus.com

Harriet Tubman

• Emancipation Proclamation
• A Proclamation by President Lincoln
• Retracing the Route to Freedom (OR Retracing the Route to Freedom)
• Map and information about the Underground Railroad
• Information about the Underground Railroad: “Freedom’s Road is Long and Hard”
• The Underground Railroad – National Geographic Web site
• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Tubman Biography
• Civil War topics (http://www.42explore2.com/civilwar.htm)

Persuasive Writing

• Persuasive Writing – from Yorba Middle School Academy of the Arts (California)
• Persuasion Map – from ReadWriteThink.org
• The Five Paragraph Essay - Persuasive Essay and Prompts (includes lists of possible topics)

Web Links from Parent Teaching Manual

Lesson 8

• Stapleless Book
• Comic Creator
• Letter or Diary Creator

Lesson 10

• Sentence Diagrams by Eugene R. Moutoux

Note: Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, the links included here may change periodically as sites move or are taken down, and as new sites are created. If you find that one of the sites listed here has moved, please let us know so that we may change the link.