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July 6, 1962

Lesson Plan / Literature & Language Arts
Lesson 1: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Images of Faulkner and the South
Students learn more about Faulkner's life and the culture of the South while exploring the use of multiple voices in narration.
Lesson Plan / Literature & Language Arts
Lesson 1: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Introduction
Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury is often referred to as William Faulkner's first work of genius. Faulkner's style is characterized by frequent time shifts, narrator shifts, unconventional punctuation and sentence structure, as well as a stream-of-consciousness technique that reveals the inner thoughts of characters to the reader. This curriculum unit will examine narrative structure and time, narrative voice/point of view, and symbolism throughout The Sound and the Fury.

July 6, 1935

Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and karma in the Jataka Tales
Many English speakers are familiar with the Sanskrit word karma, which made its way into the language during the first half of the nineteenth century. It is often used in English to encapsulate the idea that “what goes around comes around.” This lesson plan is designed to bring the meaning of karma and the related concept of samsara to life through the reading of the Jataka Tales.
Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Morality "Tails" East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales
Fables, such as those attributed to Aesop, are short narratives populated by animals who behave like humans, and which convey lessons to the listener. Jataka Tales are often short narratives which tell the stories of the lives of the Buddha before he reached Enlightenment. In this lesson students will be introduced to both Aesop’s fables and to a few of the Jataka Tales, and through these stories will gain an understanding of one genre of storytelling: morality tales.

July 6, 1942

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands
Drawing upon the online archives of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, this lesson helps students to put the events described by Anne Frank into historical perspective, and also serves as a broad overview of the Nazi conquest of Europe during World War II. After surveying the experiences of various countries under Nazi occupation, the lesson ends with activities related specifically to the Netherlands and Anne Frank.
Lesson Plan / Foreign Language
Anne Frank: Writer
This lesson concentrates on Anne Frank as a writer. After a look at Anne Frank the adolescent, and a consideration of how the experiences of growing up shaped her composition of the Diary, students explore some of the writing techniques Anne invented for herself and practice those techniques with material drawn from their own lives.