Silver Lake Reads
Summer 2009
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@Suggested Websites

Author Information

Nathaniel Philbrick
http://www.nathanielphilbrick.com/

Rodman Philbrick
http://www.rodmanphilbrick.com/

Novelinks   Revenge of the Whale
Links created by Janelle Butler
http://english.byu.edu/novelinks/Novel%20Pages/Revenge%20of%20the%20Whale.htm

Reading and Discussion Guide
http://www.massbook.org/reading_guides/in_heart_sea_guide.pdf


Fishing
Massachusetts Fish and Wildlife
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/education/aep/aep_calendar.htm

Stelleagon Bank National Fish Sanctuary
http://stellwagen.noaa.gov/visit/fishingrec/fishingrec.html

Maritime History
http://stellwagen.noaa.gov/maritime/maritimehistory.html

Nautical Games
http://games.noaa.gov/welcome.html

Navigation

The New American Paractical Navigator-1801
written by Nathaniel Bowditch

Nantucket
Voage of the Odyssey  Nantucket and Whaling
http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/class/nantucket.html

Nantucket History
http://www.nantucketchamber.org/visitor/trivia.html

History of Nantucket from the Golden Basket Innh
http://thegoldenbasket.com/nantucket_history.htm

Quakers

History of Quakerism on Nantucket Island
http://www.nha.org/library/faq/quakers.html

Shipbuilding

Kingston Shipbuilding History written by Carrie Elliott
http://www.kingstonmass.org/content/37/71/default.aspx

Essex Shipbuilding Museum
http://www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org/shipbldg.html

History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
http://books.google.com/books?id=lgsWDUXvU2QC

Maritime History of Massachusetts-National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/maritime/ships.htm

New England Aquarium Whale Watch Log
http://www.neaq.org/visit_planning/whale_watch/log/index.php

Weather
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
http://www.noaa.gov/

Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com

Whales and Other Ocean Animals

Dolphin and Whaling Conservation Society (Plymouth Office)
http://www.wdcs-na.org/

New England Aquarium Whale Watch Log
http://www.neaq.org/visit_planning/whale_watch/log/index.php

Right Whale Identification Game
http://www.neaq.org/education_and_activities/games_and_activities/online_games/right_whale_identification_games.php

North American Right Whale
http://www.neaq.org/animals_and_exhibits/animals/northern_right_whale/index.php

Whale Center of New England
http://www.whalecenter.org/

Whaling  History

Account of the Ship Essex Sinking, 1819-1821
http://www.galapagos.to/TEXTS/NICKERSON.HTM

Mass Moments-The Sinking of the Whaleship Essex
http://massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=334

Modelling the past and future of whales and whaling
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/TREE.pdf

Nantucket Historical Association
http://www.nha.org/sites/index.html

The History of Whaling on Nantucket, produced by the Nantucket Whaling Museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OilyLVdTow

Voyage of the Odyssey  Nantucket and Whaling
http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/class/nantucket.html

Whaleship Essex History

Whale Craft
A Brief Summary of Capturing and Processing a Whale in the American Whale Fisheries
http://www.whalecraft.net/Processing.html

Harpoons
http://www.whalecraft.net/Harpoons.html

The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A671492


Whaling  Today
Green Peace
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling

Humane Society of the United States
http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/what_are_the_issues/whaling/

Other Links

Song  “Nantucket Sleigh Ride”
http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/mountain/nantucket_sleighride_for_owen_coffin-lyrics-221565.html

Nantucket Sleigh Ride (song performed by Mountain)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0JrV86EKCs

Voyage of the Odyssey: Moby Dick
http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/class/mobydick.html

Woods Hole Ocean Links
http://www.slrsd.org/slrhs/library/whscience.html

Calendar of Events

Information

Silver Lake Regional High School Library - Silver Lake Regional Middle School Library

Halifax Public Library - Kingston Public Library - Plympton Public Library

Jones River Landing -Reporter Newspapers

Town of Halifax--Town of Kingston--Town of Plympton

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May 15 , 2009 Silver Lake Reads