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7th
& 8th Grade - American History:
- Classzone-
Main website for the book used in American History. (no password
needed) Choose the chapter you would like to study.
- Look
at the animated history to get an illustrated description.
- Choose
from a variety of maps and resources.
- Take
an interactive review: the quizes allows you two chances
for each question and gives you an explanation for the
correct answer (excellent to print out & use as
a study guide), or go to the games and activities
to access flip cards and cross word puzzles, also available
is online graphic organizers and study notes!
- Access
research and writing tools: notetaking wizard, web research
guide, writing models, and links to websites containing
additional information and materials on the chapter or
subject your studying.
- A
complete online version of the book is available.
Note: A student account is required
to gain access to the text book, (you will need the ISBN number
located on the back of your book) once the account is setup
you will just have to sign in each time you visit.
- The
online book gives you tools which allows you to highlight
and write notes directly on the text, search for a keyword
or topic, and glossary. You also have the ability to listen
to the text read to you, (the words are not highlighted
with this option) click on the speaker (if you don't hear
anything; right click, go to settings and select "allow").
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A PDF version of the book is also available, by choosing
the "Accessible version" (tab is at the top
of the window). Any part can be copied and pasted
into any text-to-speech program (Most of which will highlight
as they read to make it easier to follow along).
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9th
Grade - World History - SS21:
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Classzone-
main web site for the book used in World History class,
World History , Patterns of Interaction. (no password
needed) Choose the chapter you would like to study.
- Try
using the flip cards to practice the important terms from
each chapter
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Do the online crossword puzzle for even more practice
- Take
the online chapter quiz. It’s multiple choice, and
when you click on the “submit answers” button
it will grade it and give you an explanation for each answer,
right or wrong. You can print this to study from, and you
can take the quiz as many times as you’d like. The
quiz can be copied and pasted into any text-to-speech program.
No one but you will know your score.
To
listen to whole sections of the book, you can
ask your teacher to borrow the computer CD.
Each page of the book is on the CD. If you need
help learning how to do this or installing the
free software you will need, ask your resource
teacher for help.
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Any part can be copied and pasted into any
text-to-speech program (Most of which will
highlight as they read to make it easier to
follow along).
• The pages of the book are done in
Adobe Acrobat. If you are using version 7,
you can also listen to it right from Acrobat
reader, without having to copy and paste.
Just type shift, control, and V all at the
same time to hear the page read to you. [Note:
use control +K to adjust the voice, or to
make other adjustments like the size and color
of the text.] The text is not highlighted
when you do it this way.
Do
you want to learn more? Wish you could read
the information from the book explained in a
little different way? Select a chapter below,
to access a variety of sites that were chosen
because they provide short, easy to understand
reviews of the topics in the book. Most have
photos, maps, videos, or other features to aid
in understanding. All of the text passages can
be copied into any of the free text-to-speech
software programs listed elsewhere on this web
site, so you can listen to the information even
if you don’t have the CD for the book.
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