A New Nation

Use this link to look at the different powers of the three branches of government. Win a TQ if you place all the leaves correctly.

http://www.texaslre.org/branches_game/branches_game.html

This is a more advanced form of corkboard.me. Use it to ask questions about today's classes just by clicking anywhere.

Qwiki

Introducing a brand new search engine for your research
www.qwiki.com

This takes 'search' to a whole new level!

Answer Garden - Question

What have you enjoyed the most about 5th grade?... at AnswerGarden.ch.

The most popular answers will be the biggest! (More cloud computing!)It takes a 3-5mins for your answer to show.

Tag Cloud

Follow the link below and copy your finished piece of writing into the box. See your word frequency usage. The biggest words are the ones used the most. What should NOT be big in your cloud?

http://tagcrowd.com/

Verbs Test & American Revolution Paper

Don't forget to use this link to help you find lots of perefect 'showing not telling' phrases for your magazine article
http://thebookshelfmuse.blogspot.com/2008/01/introducing-thesaurus-thursdays.html

Background reading  and further information on the American Revolution
http://www.harlingen.isd.tenet.edu/coakhist/amrev.html
(thanks to Adit for finding this link)

More questions and practice on Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
http://www.grammaruntied.com/verbs/Verbquiz1/Iquizv.html
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/verbs/quiz231.html
http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb061/5.1/9.htm

Make notes on any questions that were wrong and ask me tomorrow if you don't know why.