Egypt Fun!

Try these links for some Egyptian fun!  (hopefully they'll cooperate with your computer)

Mummy Maker

Ancient Egypt Site

Tour the Pyramids

Explore Ancient Egypt

Egypt Fun!

Verbs Pretest

To see how ready you are for the verbs unit, please take this very challenging pretest.  Take the pretest only once.  Raise your hand when you are done so a teacher can see your score.

Try this site when you've been checked off to see how you measure up against some more verbs test.:
http://englishteststore.net

Click on Grammar Tests, then Basic Grammar (on the left), then Verbs (on the left, scroll down)

Election Day!

Check out past elections at www.270towin.com or www.cnn.com to check out information on today's elections.

Egyptian Pyramids

Take a virtual tour of an Egyptian pyramid!  As you are 'walking' through the pyramid, look at your activity page and answer the questions.  Enjoy!

What party are you?

Take this short quiz to help determine what political party you are.

What happened to the Iceman?

Complete your assignment using this website of the Tyrol Museum in Italyhttp://www.iceman.it/en/node/226.

Information can be found on lists on the left and right side of the web page.

Welcome to Franklin Survey!

Welcome to Franklin Middle School!  We will be doing a lot to get to know you better in the upcoming days and weeks to make you feel as comfortable and safe as possible in school.  One thing I'd like you to complete is a survey.  Click on this link and take the survey-only the teachers will see the results, so please be honest!  Most questions have a red asterisk next to them, which means it's a required question to answer.

Visiting a Medieval Peasant

If you could ask someone from the Middle Ages a question, what would you want to know?  Use some of the information you found today for ideas.

Pourquoi

A pourquoi is a how and why story. It explains why things in nature are the way they are, similar to a myth. Many began in Native American culture. Click below to learn a little about pourquoi.

What is a pourquoi?

Let's analyze a couple of pourquoi stories before we try to write our own:

Why a Possum's Tail is Bare

Why the Sea is Salty

March Madness research

Find your team here: sports.yahoo.com/ncaab

The River Test

Try your logic skills! Copy and paste this link.

robmathiowetz.com