U.N. adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights

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  Lesson 5: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s

  This lesson asks students to explore the various roles that Eleanor Roosevelt a key figure in several of the most important social reform movements of the twentieth century took on, among them: First Lady, political activist for civil rights, newspaper columnist and author, and representative to the United Nations.

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Spanish–American War ends

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  Lesson 2: The Spanish-American War

  On April 11, 1898, two months after the battleship U.S.S. Maine was destroyed by an explosion in Havana harbor, President McKinley sent a message to Congress requesting authority to use the U.S. armed forces to end a brutal civil war in the Spanish colony of Cuba. This lesson plan, through the use of primary sources and a WebQuest Interactive, will focus on the causes of the war and the political debate in the United States over the advisability of intervening militarily in the affairs of countries.

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  The Spanish American War: WebQuest

  On April 11, 1898, two months after the battleship U.S.S. Maine was destroyed by an explosion in Havana harbor, President McKinley sent a message to Congress requesting authority to use the U.S. armed forces to end a brutal civil war in the Spanish colony of Cuba.

American poet Emily Dickinson born

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  Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, plashless"

  Emily Dickinson's poetry often reveals a child-like fascination with the natural world.  She writes perceptively of butterflies, birds, and bats and uses lucid metaphors to describe the sky and the sea.

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  Lesson 1: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words: Letters and Poems

  Reading Emily Dickinson’s letters alongside her poems helps students to better appreciate a remarkable voice in American literature, grasp how Dickinson perceived herself and her poetry, and—perhaps most relevant to their own endeavors—consider the ways in which a writer constructs a “supposed person.”

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Faulkner receives Nobel Prize for Literature

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  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.

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  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.

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American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison born

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  Lesson 2: Slavery's Opponents and Defenders

  This lesson plan will explore the wide-ranging debate over American slavery by presenting the lives of its leading opponents and defenders and the views they held about America's "peculiar institution."

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