Please be advised that this site, like all GeoCities sites, will be closing in October of this year. I will be moving stuff from here to another location in the weeks to come.

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DESERT SLIDES | CALENDAR | STUDY GUIDE | ARABIC ALPHABET | FIRST FOUR CALIPHS | SHIITES AND SUNNIS | ISLAM: A CLOSER LOOK | ISLAMIC EMPIRE: TABLE OF CONTENTS | WESTERN AFRICA: TABLE OF CONTENTS | WESTERN AFRICA WORD SEARCH | MONGOLS | CHINESE CULTURE | A DEVELOPING NATIONAL CULTURE | TONGAN ALPHABET | MATH PUZZLE | THE QUICK BROWN FOX AND THE LAZY DOGS | MIND READER | PEACE CORPS PICTURES | RECIPES | UP IN THE SKY | MATANGI TONGA


Welcome to My Web Pages

If you are here, chances are that you are a student in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District, where I am a substitute teacher. Perhaps you were one of my students while I was student teaching in 2001-02 with Mrs. Katie Willis at El Dorado Middle School. But even if you are a guest just surfing the net, thanks for coming by!

At this site:

Click here for notes about the Desert Slides viewed on Thursday, October 18, and Friday, October 19, 2001.

Click here for information about the Islamic calendar.

Click here to see Web pages about Western Africa that one of my students developed.

Click here for information about the Study Guide and Geography Activity for Chapter 3, Lesson 1.

Click here for information about the Arabic alphabet, including the variety of forms that a single letter may have, depending on its position in a word.

Click here to learn about the First Four Caliphs.

Click here to learn about the Shiites and Sunnis--as well as the Sufi Muslims.

Click here for the notes about the video "Islam: A Closer Look."

Click here for the ideal organization for the Islam notebooks for the unit my class completed.

Click here for the organization for the Western Africa notebooks for the unit my class completed.

Click here for the Western Africa Word Search.

Click here for the note-taking activity about the Chinese culture during the Tang and Song Dynasties, and click here for the note-taking activity about the Mongols.

Click here for notes about "A Developing National Culture" in Japan.

I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tonga from 1992 to 1994. Click here for some pictures from Tonga, or here for the Tongan alphabet.

Here is a math puzzle that I found in The New Book of Knowledge, under "Number Puzzles and Games."

Here is a mind reader exercise that you might enjoy.

Here is a Reading Comprehension exercise based on the sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Here are some recipes written years ago by people in my family that you might enjoy trying.

Here is something that I saw recently when I looked up in the sky.

Links:


IslamiCity
This appears to be a high-quality site presenting information about Islam to Muslims and others.

Islam.Com
Another site similar in quality to IslamiCity above. (A student, Mishayla Hairston, pointed out this link.)

Moonsighting.com
This site provides information on the Islamic calendar--especially how dates and prayer times are determined. It also provides information on how to determine which direction Mecca (Makkah) is from just about anywhere in the world.

Mystery Box
This site, in PDF format, tells you how to make a box in which water goes in the top, but who knows what happens to it before it goes out the bottom?

Petals Around the Rose
Also known as “Bears Around the Ice Hole.” Some say the smarter you are, the harder it is to figure it out.

Email me at dethomas01@@yahoo.com. (Copy and paste the link into your e-mail browser, eliminating the obvious error that I've put in to ward off spam!)

My aunt sent me this article from the Salem, Ore., Statesman-Journal that tells you a bit about Tonga, where I served in the Peace Corps in the early 1990s.




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