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The following sites are not managed by Thompson Junior High School.Language Arts
Research
Website Evaluation Exercise
Impact of Advertising on Youth
Impact of media use on children
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792691/
Children, Adolescents, and Advertising
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/6/2563
Effects of Advertising on Youth
Advertising targets, affects teens
https://www.waterloo.k12.ia.us/schoolsites/thespectator/advertising-targets-affects-teens
How advertising targets our children
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/how-advertising-targets-our-children/?_r=0
The positive effects of advertising
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/positive-effects-advertising-24688.html
Report of the APA Task Force on Advertising and Children
http://www.apa.org/pubs/info/reports/advertising-children.aspx
Television, Commercials, and Your Child
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/media-spotlight/201307/television-commercials-and-your-child
Children as Consumers
http://www.globalissues.org/article/237/children-as-consumers
Child Nutrition
The effects of ads that target kids shown to linger into adulthood
Famous Speeches about Controversial Issues
Abraham Lincoln-Gettysburg Address
https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/gettysburgaddress.htm
President John F. Kennedy- Cuban Missile Crisis speech
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkcubanmissilecrisis.html
Nelson Mandela- I am prepared to die speech
Mahatma Gandhi- Kashmir issue speech
http://www.mkgandhi.org/speeches/kashmir_issue.htm
Malala Yousafzais- United Nations speech
Michelle Obama- Childhood obesity speech
http://www.grubstreet.com/2013/09/michelle-obama-food-marketing-speech.html
Ronald Reagan-Berlin wall speech
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/reagan-tear-down.htm
Martin Luther King, Jr.- I Have a Dream speech
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Malcolm X-The Ballot or the Bullet speech
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html
President George Bush-War against Iraq speech
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/bush-war.htm
Susan B. Anthony-Women’s right to vote
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/anthony.htm
Gerald R. Ford-A war that is finished (Vietnam war) speech
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/ford-tulane.htm
Patrick Henry-Liberty or Death speech
The History Place: Great Speeches CollectionGreek Mythology Project
Color SymbolismGreek Gods/GoddessesMathScienceMr Donovan`s Matter Webquest
Task # 1 - Properties of Matter
Task # 2 - Matter Pre-test
Task # 3 - Intro to Matter
Task # 4 - Fact Monster - Matter
Task # 5 - States of Matter Chart
Task # 6 - States of Matter
Task # 7 - Melting/Heating Experiment
Task # 8 - Physical/ Chemical Changes
Task # 9 - Quiz
When Finished...
Alternative Energy
Elwood-Genetically Engineered Foods
GE Foods Web Quest
Elwood - Fossils
Rocks and Minerals
Genetics
Physics
Science Dictionary
Library Greek and Latin Root Words