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Review the features of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Review the features of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
By 1900, there were more than 29 million people in the American workforce including men, women, and children. Americans worked an average of 59 hours per week and usually received Saturday afternoons and Sundays off. Many companies provided unpaid leave to their employees. How do you think Americans might have spent their leisure time a century ago?
Students examine the relationship of poetic form and content, shaped by alliteration, consonance, repetition, and rhythm, in two poems about fatherhood: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz."
This Launchpad guides students through Henry David Thoreau's classic political essay, "On Civil Disobedience."