Cross-Curricular Connections

In The Phantom Tollbooth, Milo visits Dictionopolis, a place where words are even more important than they are in our own world. In Dictionopolis, it helps to have a big vocabulary. Click on the link below to access the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s Word of the Day and build your own vocabulary.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl

The Phantom Tollbooth was originally a novel. It was later adapted into the play that is in your textbook. Click on the link below to read excerpts of Norton Juster’s book.

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~bcohen/phantom_tollbooth/excerpts.html