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April 30, 1975

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Eyewitness to History
Explore connections between family history and the history of the world around us.
Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and Escalation of the Vietnam War
In August 1964, a small military engagement off the coast of North Vietnam helped escalate the involvement of the United States in Vietnam; the Vietnam War would become the longest military engagement in American history prior to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

April 30, 1996

Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Cinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Plot and Setting
This lesson plan compares the plot and setting characteristics of several versions of the Cinderella tale to teach students about universal and culturally specific literary elements.
Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World
The following lesson introduces children to folk tales through a literary approach that emphasizes genre categories and definitions. In this unit, students will become familiar with fables and trickster tales from different cultural traditions and will see how stories change when transferred orally between generations and cultures.
Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Fairy Tales Around the World
In this lesson plan, students read and learn to understand fairy tales in order to recognize their universal literary structures and themes. They compare similar fairy tales from different cultural and geographic regions of the world to see over-arching plots featuring conflicts between good and evil and imagery and motifs that are repeated across many cultures and time periods.