American author John Updike born

Parliament repeals Stamp Act

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  Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution

  Drawing on the resources of the Library of Congress's Printed Ephemera Collection, this lesson helps students experience the news as the colonists heard it: by means of broadsides, notices written on disposable, single sheets of paper that addressed virtually every aspect of the American Revolution.

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  Colonial Broadsides: A Student-Created Play

  In this lesson, student groups create a short, simple play based on their study of broadsides written just before the American Revolution. By analyzing the attitudes and political positions are revealed in the broadsides, students learn about the sequence of events that led to the Revolution

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  Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence

  Help your students see the development of the Declaration as both an historical process and a writing process through the use of role play and creative writing.

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Wilfred Owen, British poet and WWI soldier, is born

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  Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?

  The historian and literary critic Paul Fussell has noted in The Great War and Modern Memory that, "Dawn has never recovered from what the Great War did to it." With dawn as a common symbol in poetry, it is no wonder that, like a new understanding of dawn itself, a comprehensive body of "World War I Poetry" emerged from the trenches as well.

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