Contact(T) 4
Unit 1
Roger McGough
http://www.uktouring.org.uk/rogermcgough/
Poem Hunter: Roger McGough
http://www.poemhunter.com/p/t/poet.asp?poet=6667&p=1
Port Townsend High School
http://www.ptsd.wednet.edu/highschool/default.html
PT guide (City Guide Port Townsend)
http://www.ptguide.com/
Port Townsend, Washington
http://kevinmillerrealestate.com/home.asp
Experience Washington
http://www.experiencewa.com/
Go Northwest! Washington
http://www.gonorthwest.com/Washington/Washington.htm
Washington Tourist
http://www.washingtontourist.com/
Access Washington State government information and services
http://access.wa.gov/
Washington, a world web travel guide
http://www.washingtonstate.worldweb.com/
Mount St. Helens national volcanic monument
http://www.fs.usda.gov/mountsthelens/
Narrative of Mount St. Helens
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/volcanoes/vnarrative1.html
The best of British
http://www.effingpot.com/
Introduction to American English
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/us1.html
American vs British English: basic differences and influences of change.
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/usgbintr.html
Differences between American and British English
http://esl.about.com/od/toeflieltscambridge/a/dif_ambrit.htm
The Education System
http://www.intense.co.uk/doc-pic/system/frameset.htm
Independent schools in the UK and Ireland
http://www.intense.co.uk/doc-pic/schools/frameset.htm
UK education system
http://www.educationuk.org/pls/hot_bc/page_pls_user_advice?b=advice&d=brit_edu_sys
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools
Wycliffe online
http://www.wycliffe.co.uk/
Eton College
http://www.etoncollege.com/
Harrow School
http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/
Benenden School
http://www.benenden.kent.sch.uk/Pages/Index.aspx
Rugby School
http://www.rugbyschool.net/
Repton School
http://www.repton.org.uk/
Roald Dahl Fans.com
http://www.roalddahlfans.com/index.php
Teacher ideas
http://www.roalddahlfans.com/teachers.php
Dahl, Roald
http://www.biography.com/people/roald-dahl-9264648
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/roald-dahl/
Audio interviews: Roald Dahl
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/dahlr1.shtml
Roald Dahl & Sociology
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall98/royer.html
Trivia and quizzes: Roald Dahl
http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/for_children/kid_lit_authors_a_-_k/roald_dahl.html
Boy by Roald Dahl
http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?id=122986&origin=4179
Unit 2
Dealing with Peer Pressure
http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/friend/peer_pressure.html
You can ignore your peers
http://www.bygpub.com/books/tg2rw/chap4excerpt.htm
Social pressure and teens
http://www.smith.edu/ourhealthourfutures/socialpress.html
Peer pressure and choices
http://www.doitnow.org/pages/163.html
What’s “cool”? (What’s hot and what’s not)
http://www.fenichel.com/Cool.shtml
Put a positive spin on peer pressure
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/classroom-management/peer-counseling/4737.html
Personality type determines response to peer pressure
http://www.ur.umich.edu/9293/Mar29_93/25.htm
The big five personality test
http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/
What’s your personality type?
http://www.personalitytype.com/career_quiz
Personality profile test
http://www.angelfire.com/ego/personality/profile_test.html
Personality tests
http://www.davideck.com/cgi-bin/tests/tests.cgi?action=personality
Online tests of IQ and personality
http://www.amby.com/go_ghoti/on-line_tests.html
Unit 3
The phobia list
http://phobialist.com/
Useful information on phobias and panic
http://www.hoptechno.com/book48.htm
National phobics society
http://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/
Anxiety disorders
http://www.adaa.org/
Afraid of the dark
http://www.bluesuitmom.com/health/pediatrician/afraidofdark.html
Strategies for overcoming fears of darkness
http://www.bluesuitmom.com/health/pediatrician/dark.html
Virtual reality vs arachnophobia
http://www.ntnu.no/gemini/1996-04/4.html
Overcoming your worst fears, virtually
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/07/5553
The needle phobia page
http://www.futurescience.com/needles.html
Dracula’s homepage
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/
Bram Stoker, Elizabeth Bathory and Dracula
http://bathory.org/miller02.html
The literature network: Bram Stoker
http://www.online-literature.com/stoker/
The historical Dracula
http://www.eskimo.com/~mwirkk/castle/vlad/vladhist.html
Vlad’s interesting yet educational page
http://hamsterrepublic.com/html/vladhistory.html
The Dracula page
http://www3.telus.net/gmbaxter/dracula.html
Transylvania today
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/06/transylvania-today/4684/
Travel to Transylvania
http://www.transylvaniancastle.com/intro_en.html
Dracula’s castle
http://www.draculascastle.com/index3.html
Sparknotes: Dracula
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/
Classicnote on Dracula (GradeSaver)
http://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/
Bookrags: Dracula by Bram Stoker
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/dra/PART1.html
Dracula, Bram Stoker (Online Literature Library)
http://www.literature.org/authors/stoker-bram/dracula/
Internet Movie Database: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=dracula&s=all
Internet Movie Database: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Werner Herzog)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079641/
Nosferatu, the vampyre
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue08/reviews/nosferatu/text.htm
Transylvania Press
http://www.transylvania.com/
Saki
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/saki.htm
http://www.subir.com/saki/index.html
Saki (H.H. Munro)
http://www.storybites.com/author-biographies/saki-h-h-munro.php
Biography
http://www.subir.com/saki/bio.html
Unit 4
Safety tips for Halloween trick-or-treaters
http://www.kidsource.com/CPSC/halloween.tips.html
Halloween safety tips for pets and pet owners
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content3/news3/aspca.halloween.event.html
Safety tips and ideas to make the most of your Halloween
http://www.halloween-safety.com/
Halloween: the fantasy and folklore of All Hallows
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/halloween.html
How Halloween works
http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays/halloween.htm
The history of Halloween
http://www.history.com/topics/halloween
Halloween online
http://www.halloween-online.com/
Halloween on the net
http://www.holidays.net/halloween/index.htm
Dia de los muertos (day of the dead)
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/
Day of the Dead / Dia de los muertos
http://www.mexconnect.com/tags/day-of-the-dead
Treacle toffee
http://www.bonfirenight.net/recipes.php
The gunpowder plot: FAQs
http://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-commons-faqs/gunpowder-plot/
GPS (the Gunpowder plot Society)
http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/
Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder plot and Bonfire Night
http://www.bonfirenight.net/index.php
Time Traveller’s guide to Stuart England
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/tags/history
The Gunpowder plot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/
http://britannia.com/history/kaboom.html
The Gunpowder plot game
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/
Popham’s Pop Quiz
http://fawkes.tripod.com/game18.htm
Transcriptions of the trials
http://www.armitstead.com/gunpowder/trial.html
The First Thanksgiving (Scholastic)
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/
Plimoth-on-web
http://www.plimoth.org//
The story of the Pilgrims
http://www.plimoth.org//what-see-do/17th-century-english-village
The American Thanksgiving Tradition
http://www.plimoth.org/learn/MRL/read/thanksgiving-history
Caleb Johnson’s Mayflower web pages
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/
The 1621 Thanksgiving
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/thanksgiving.php
Biography of Tisquantum (“Squanto”)
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/BiographyTisquantum.php
The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony 1620
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mosmd/
Sail 1620
http://www.sail1620.org/
Education planet: Thanksgiving
http://www.lessonplanet.com/lesson-plans/thanksgiving
Jamestown rediscovery
http://apva.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=1
The holiday zone
http://www.theholidayzone.com/
Unit 5
Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans
http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hemans/biography.html
British castles, stately homes and houses
http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/castles.html
The treasure houses of England
http://www.treasurehouses.co.uk/goto.php?sess=+A5E514619+F59+F18435A52&id=17
Stately Homes
http://www.stately-homes.com/
Castle Howard
http://www.castlehoward.co.uk/
Longleat
http://www.longleat.co.uk/
Tadpole Lane productions
http://www.tadpolelane.co.uk/
Woburn Safari Park
http://www.woburn.co.uk/safari/
Woburn Abbey
http://www.aboutbritain.com/woburnabbey.htm
http://www.woburn.co.uk/abbey/
http://www.camelotintl.com/heritage/historichouses/south_east/woburn/index.html
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engbdf/woburnabbey.html
http://www.stately-homes.com/woburn-abbey
http://clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/emerson00/pid_woburn_abbey.html
The heritage trail: Woburn Abbey
http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/stately%20homes/Woburn%20Abbey.htm
Unit 6
Teaching the world about wolves
http://www.wolf.org/wolves/
Wolf Country
http://www.wolfcountry.net/
Wolf facts: communication
http://www.wolfweb.com/facts-communication.html
Twosocks
http://www.twosocks.com/
How a wolf communicates through its tail and body postures
http://www.timberwolfinformation.org/kidsonly/posture/postures.htm
Whale dreams
http://www.abc.net.au/oceans/whale/default.htm
Whale song
http://www.abc.net.au/oceans/whale/song.htm
Beluga whales: communication and echolocation
http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Beluga/becommunication.html
Sounding out the science of whale song
http://www.nature.com/news/1998/991111/full/news991111-1.html
Honeybee communication
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/B/BeeDances.html
Look who’s dancing (bee behaviour)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_14_155/ai_54419464/
Dancing under a polarized sky
http://www.polarization.com/bees/bees.html
Amazing bees
http://www.polarization.com/bees/bees2.html
Dances with bees
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/dances.html
The Honeybee waggle dance
http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/mes/notes/entnote22.html
In honeybee dance, direction is key
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=in-honeybee-dance-directi
What the buzz is all about
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/publications/zoogoer/1995/6/buzzabout.cfm
The senory basis of the honeybee’s dance language
http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/us/bee_dance_2.htm
Ant communication
http://www.pulseplanet.com/dailyprogram/dailies.php?POP=2800
Ant trails
http://schoolipm.ifas.ufl.edu/tp1.htm
Myrmecology: the scientific study of ants
http://www3.myrmecology.org/
The language research centre, Georgia State University
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwlrc/
A talk on the Wild Side
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/savage-rumbaugh/
Chimp talk debate: Is it really language?
http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~johnson/articles.chimp.html
Language competence in NHPs
http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/nhplanguage/ftpaper.html
Gorilla foundation
http://www.koko.org/foundation/
Koko’s world
http://www.koko.org/world/
Koko’s bio
http://www.koko.org/world/teok.html
Learn to sign with Koko
http://www.koko.org/world/signlanguage.html
The Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute
http://www.cwu.edu/~cwuchci/
The Chantek foundation
http://www.chantek.org/
Novel analysis: Animal Farm (Novelguide.com)
http://www.novelguide.com/animalfarm/index.html
Classic Note on Animal farm (GradeSaver)
http://www.gradesaver.com/animal-farm/
Sparknotes: Animal Farm
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/
Bookrags notes: Animal Farm
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/af/PART1.html
George Orwell: Animal Farm
http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/summaries/animf.html
George Orwell 1903-1950
http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/index.html
Charles’ George Orwell links
http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
George-Orwell-Essay.com
http://george-orwell-essays.com/orwell_list00.html
Lesson plans: Animal farm (Teachervision.com)
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/animals/activity/3307.html
Learning guide to Animal farm (Teach with videos)
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/animal-farm.html
Ian McEwan.com
http://www.ianmcewan.com/
Ian McEwan: enduring talent
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1550355.stm
Ian McEwan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/12/ian.mcewan
http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1298/mcewan/interview.html
Life was clearly too interesting in the war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/jan/03/fiction.ianmcewan
An interview with Ian McEwan
http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0398/mcewan/interview.html
Unit 8
Discovering wedding customs and traditions of the past
http://www.ourmarriage.com/html/discovering_the_past.html
UK weddings: wedding traditions
http://www.weddingguideuk.com/articles/planning/traditions.asp
Wedding customs and superstitions
http://www.weddings.co.uk/info/tradsupe.htm
Worldwide traditions
http://www.weddingdetails.com/lore/
Weddings from around the world
http://www.topics-mag.com/edition10/wedding-page.htm
Ways of being romantic
http://www.topics-mag.com/edition9/romance.htm
Gretna Green, gateway to Scotland
http://www.gretnagreen.com/
The world famous old Blacksmith Shop Centre
http://www.aboutbritain.com/WorldFamousOldBlacksmith.htm
Gretna Green wedding services
http://www.gretna-green-wedding-services.co.uk/
http://www.gretnaweddings.com/
Gretna Green
http://www.anvilhall.com/index.html
Gretna Wedding Cars
http://www.gretnaweddingcars.co.uk/
Las Vegas Tourist Bureau
http://www.lvtb.com/
Las Vegas Weddings
http://www.lasvegasweddings.com/
http://weddinginvegas.com/
Viva Las Vegas
http://www.vivalasvegasweddings.com/
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/parker/
Dorothy Parker
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAparker.htm
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/parker.htm
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/parker/parker.htm