King Macbeth of Scotland is slain by the son of King Duncan

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  Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind"

  Shakespeare's preeminence as a dramatist rests in part on his capacity to create vivid metaphors and images that embody simple and powerful human emotions. This lesson is designed to help students understand how Shakespeare's language dramatizes one such emotion: fear.

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  Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil

  Students search an online version of Shakespeare's Macbeth for clues to the motives behind Macbeth's precipitous descent into evil.

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Napoleon Bonaparte is born

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  Lesson 1: President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Brief Overview

  Students will read President Madison's War Message (in either an edited/annotated or full-text version) and be given the opportunity to raise questions about its contents.

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  Lesson 2: President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Documentary Review

  Students examine examples of primary documents (and some secondary accounts) that illuminate key points in President Madison's letter. The lesson identifies 10 statements in the message about which students are likely to have questions, and it provides relevant materials. If students raise questions about other sections of the letter, class members may be able to locate pertinent documents on their own, once they become familiar with some of the sources available in the records of Congress.

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  Lesson 3: President Madison's 1812 War Message: Answers Lead to More Questions

  Students review the contents of the War Message and consider what documents might be useful in making further analyses of the text.

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  Listening to History

  This lesson plan is designed to help students tap oral history by conducting interviews with family members.

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Panama Canal opens