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For your article, read the article and do as many of the following as you can.

	Write a question for the author: About Your experience in the ouija boar, Do you think that it can connect the present with the spirits?
2	Draw an exclamation point ! next to something you thought was surprising “Communicating with the dead was common, it wasn’t seen as bizarre or weird,” explains Murch. “It’s hard to imagine that now, we look at that and think, ‘Why are you opening the gates of hell?’” OHHHHHH!!!!!! :O Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Strange-and-Mysterious-History-of-the-Ouija-Board-229532101.html#ixzz2j9vh4QpM Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter
3	Circle a word you don’t know-look it up and write the definition and a sentence TENDED I tended the blanket in your bed.
4	Draw a J next to something that you though was funny and made you smile. "In 1941, a 23-year-old gas station attendant from New Jersey told The New York Times that he joined the Army because the Ouija board told him to." :)
5	Underline a sentence that was confusing and put a question mark ?
6	Draw a sad or angry face L next to something that made you sad or angry "In 1921, The New York Times reported that a Chicago woman being sent to a psychiatric hospital tried to explain to doctors that she wasn’t suffering from mania, but that Ouija spirits had told her to leave her mother’s dead body in the living room for 15 days before burying her in the backyard" :(.
7	Find something the author should have said and tell the author what he/she forgot to say
8	Draw a star « next to something you already knew. a link “between the known and unknown, the material and immaterial.
9	Draw a Box around the main idea "The real history of the Ouija board is just about as mysterious as how the “game” works. Ouija historian Robert Murch has been researching the story of the board since 1992; when he started his research, he says, no one really knew anything about its origins, which struck him as odd: “For such an iconic thing that strikes both fear and wonder in American culture, how can no one know where it came from?"
10	Draw a O next to something that the whole world needs to know about "The board’s instant and now, more than 120 years later, prolonged success showed that it had tapped into a weird place in American culture. It was marketed as both mystical oracle and as family entertainment, fun with an element of other-worldly excitement."
11	Write and answer the 5 W questions in the margin; who, what, where, why, when, how What is this article talking about? Ouija Board. Who write the article? Linda Rodriguez McRobbie When was the article published? October 28/2013
12	Draw a picture to help you understand something in the text
13	Write a specific comment about what you found interesting. Explain why you thought it was interesting: Is interesting that spiritualism had grown in American Culture, because i never hear anything about that. Although is interesting too that the news papers have published ad. about ouija board.
14	Draw a (telephone for something you want to call and tell a friend about
15	Say thank you to the author and be specific about what you are thanking him for. Thanks Linda for tell us more about history of the Ouija Board. Now we know a little beat more about it introduce in the American Culture.
16	Draw glasses $ next to something you want to look at more closely and reserchary It’s quite logical then the board would find its greatest popularity in uncertain times, when people hold fast to belief and look for answers from just about anywhere, especially cheap, DIY oracles. The 1910s and ’20s, with the devastations of World War I and the manic years of the Jazz Age and prohibition, witnessed a surge in Ouija popularity.
17	Is there a word that is hard to pronounce? Write it phonetically.