Park Street School

This article is a description of the current lives of refugee children and youth as a result of the Civil War in Syria.

Vivid photos of Syrian refugees and camps as a result of the Civil War in Syria. Lynsey Addario is a photojournalist with the New York Times. She engages in an interview with Charlie Rose.

mistakes and failures are normal parts of learning - not reasons to quit

Topics include: Slavery and African Americans in Antebellum America, Causes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Literature of the Civil War, Reconstruction and After in Art and Culture

Bookmark text: Vocabulary Strategies 1. Reread the sentence or read ahead and use context clues. 2. Use clues from a picture or another text feature. 3. Look for parts you know- root, prefix, suffix. Ex: Celebratory has the root celebrate 4. Make a connection to another word you know. Ex: jest and jester 5. Substitute a synonym. 6. Look the word up in the glossary or a dictionary.

"All the World's a Stage"-use for helping students determine the meaning of unknown words

Vimeo site for the International Reading Association. Includes short videos by leading literacy authorities.

Ken Burns GA video. Includes reading of the GA. (~6 min.)

4 min. overview of the speech. Includes recitation of it.

2 min. video that discusses the context for the GA.

Historical maps laid over Google Maps. 

The site offers bibliographic information and digital facsimiles for selected collections of manuscript codices, texts, documents, papers, and leaves held by Penn's Rare Book & Manuscript Library as well as those privately owned by Lawrence J. Schoenberg (C'53, WG'56). Penn holds over 2,000 Western manuscripts produced before the 19th century; medieval and Renaissance manuscripts comprise approximately 900 items, the earliest dating from 1000 A.D. Its holdings of Indic manuscripts is the largest in the Western hemisphere with more than 3,000 items. The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection emphasizes secular topics, especially science and mathematics, and includes tablets from the 21st to 18th centuries B.C.