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Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. His father, Sir William Wilde, was an important surgeon, and his mother was an Irish nationalist poet. He studied at…

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Name: Rudyard Kipling Born: 30 December 1865 in Bombay, India First book of short stories: Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) Most famous book: The Jungle Book (1894) Other books: The Second Jungle Book…

Learn about water

Resource designed to help us learn about water. We study the water cycle, uses of water and water sports. We match words to pictures.

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Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on 30 November 1835 in Florida, Missouri, but when he was four years old, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, a town on…

All about Thanksgiving

This SMART notebook lesson is an overview of Thanksgiving. There are links to the "Scholastic.com" website about Thanksgiving.

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Other alternative energy sources Solar power and wind power are not the only sources of alternative energy. Geothermal energy This energy uses the heat from inside the Earth to produce electricity. The…

Think about it. Respiration

Remember what you have studied in this section and answer the questions: Which types of animals do not depend on a circulatory system for respiration? The total surface area of gas exchange in human…

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William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, a town in central England, on or near 23 April (we are not sure of the date, but we celebrate his birthday on the 23rd). His father, John…

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Robert Louis Stevenson wrote* two of the most famous books in English: Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He also wrote many other popular stories, such as Kidnapped and…