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July 17, 1936

Lesson Plan / Literature & Language Arts
"Three Shots": Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams
In this lesson, students study issues related to independence and notions of manliness in Ernest Hemingway’s “Three Shots” as they conduct in-depth literary character analysis, consider the significance of environment to growing up and investigate Hemingway’s Nobel Prize-winning, unique prose style. In addition, they will have the opportunity to write and revise a short story based on their own childhood experiences and together create a short story collection.

July 17, 1453

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Witnesses to Joan of Arc and The Hundred Years' War
Joan of Arc is likely one of France's most famous historical figures, and has been mythologized in popular lore, literature, and film. She is also an exceptionally well-documented historical figure. Through such firsthand accounts students can trace Joan's history from childhood, through her death, and on to her nullification trial.

Jul 17 1945

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Lesson 1: Sources of Discord, 1945–1946
The fact that the United States and the Soviet Union successfully cooperated in defeating the Axis Powers did not necessarily mean that the two countries would continue to get along in the postwar world. This lesson will examine the U.S.–Soviet disagreements regarding Germany and Eastern Europe.

July 17, 1959

Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Australian Aboriginal Art and Storytelling
Australian Aboriginal art is one of the oldest continuing art traditions in the world. Much of the most important knowledge of aboriginal society was conveyed through different kinds of storytelling.
Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
Explore the controversy sparked by the discovery of a prehistoric skeleton in Washington State.
Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Lascaux: La Vie en Caverne!
In this French language lesson, elementary-school students learn about the ways that early humans communicated through art by exploring cave paintings of France and creating their own wall artwork.