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… Exploring Local History with Clio Website A More Perfect Union History & … tours that include a selection of historic places, and create their own walking tours to guide other users through … a much wider geographic area. Creating New Entries Create a public Clio entry. This option gives students the chance to …
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… Melville’s Moby Dick: Shifts in Narrative Voice and Literary Genres yes Photo caption … and does not want to be in an authoritative role. Melville creates a character with whom contemporary readers could … Voyage Voyaging in the Wake of the Whalers National Park Service New Bedford Whaling New Bedford Whaling Museum …
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… Alexis de Tocqueville’s Warning: The Tyranny of the Majority … 1812 political cartoon shows the warring Federalists and Republicans planning to attack. National Park Service A French aristocrat visits Jacksonian America In …
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… Connecting the Past and Present with the Immigrant Stories Project October … Hall, U. S. Immigration Station, c. 1902-1909. New York Public Library Elizabeth Venditto, Ph.D., is an immigration … from more than 45 different ethnic groups have already created and shared their digital story about a personal or …
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… World War I and American Art: Part Two January 26, 2017 Joe Phelan … to express both traumatic and mundane aspects of military service. Younger students (grades K-5) can learn more about …
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… Who Was Really Our First President? A Lost Hero yes Photo caption Commemorative stamp, Articles … was Chief Executive (for example, the census and Postal Service). The National Archives offers The Declaration of …
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… Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was… yes Photo … techniques and devices that poets use to help their readers create a mental picture while reading or hearing poems. … via a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed website Internet Public Library. The 1861 version of A Book of Nonsense is …
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… JFK, LBJ, and the Fight for Equal Opportunity in the 1960s yes Photo … John F. Kennedy faced many domestic challenges trying to create what has become known as his "New Frontier" … Civil Rights Act that outlawed racial discrimination in public accommodations. In addition, Johnson promised to wage …
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… Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia? … south to what is now called the Persian Gulf. The empire he created is known as Babylon, while the civilization is often … Civilization , a link from EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library. Designed for high school and college …
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… French and Family yes Photo caption Flag of France Wikimedia … at About.com , a link from the EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library. Use cognates—words similar in form and … repeat the words. As an alternate or additional activity, create a family tree on the classroom bulletin board. Use …
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… William Penn's Peaceable Kingdom yes Photo caption William Penn, … the founding of Pennsylvania and moreover, his efforts to create a successful colony. Students will then read … Settlement in Colonial America from the National Park Service website. William Penn envisioned a more positive and …
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… Australian Aboriginal Art and Storytelling yes Photo caption … dot paintings. Content Standards NCSS.D2.His.1.3-5. Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to … available through the EDSITEment-reviewed website Internet Public Library for yourself, as well as making copies of the …
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… Thomas Edison's Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From "New" to … , accessed through the EDSITEment-reviewed website Internet Public Library Kidspace. Discuss the various aspects of the … draw or use images from the internet and magazines to create colorful pictorial timelines of the evolution of …
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… Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense yes … techniques and devices that poets use to help their readers create a mental picture while reading or hearing poems. In a … on the Edward Lear Home Page . (NOTE: Lear's work is in the public domain.) Select a few limericks and illustrations to …
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… "Cinderella" Folk Tales: Variations in Plot and Setting yes Photo … , a link from the EDSITEment resource The Internet Public Library. Cinderella365 : The Cinderella story can be … 5. A Cinderella of Your Own Now students are ready to create their own Cinderella tales. While keeping in mind the …
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… Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron” yes Photo caption Sarah … Mrs. Tilley doubtfully, in response to this enthusiastic announcement. "Oh no, they're stuffed and preserved, dozens … excerpt? What words and expressions does the author use to create that? This section opens with a passage about the …
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… Lesson 2: The Social Security Act yes Photo caption Franklin D. Roosevelt … by this economic crisis. Improvements in medicine and public health meant people were living longer, yet many … economy. The EDSITEment-reviewed America's Library site created by the Library of Congress provides a brief Great …
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… Lesson 2: "Old Southwest" Humorists and George Washington Harris yes Photo caption Illustration accompanying … maps available at the EDSITEment-reviewed National Parks Service: A Link to the Past United States in 1830 United …
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… The Cuneiform Writing System in Ancient Mesopotamia: Emergence and Evolution yes Photo … practices became more successful, farmers were able to create surpluses. In order to ensure the crop yield, a … available through the EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library. Review all websites and materials students …
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… Then and Now: Life in Early America, 1740–1840 yes Photo caption … in a whole-group setting, work in small groups to create a list of changes, or create a contemporary update of … Williamsburg , a link from the EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library. The activity can be completed online and/or …
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… Thurgood Marshall Before the Court Website History & Social Studies … podcast. According to the podcast, why was desegregation of public schools such a controversial and inflammatory issue? … major civil rights figures? The Miseducation database , created by ProPublica, documents persistent racial …
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… The Olympic Medal: It's All Greek to Us! yes Photo caption Physical Fitness … page available through the EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library. Students are bound to be curious to know … Greek writing means. This lesson plan uses an EDSITEment-created Greek alphabet animation to help students "decode" …
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… Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine yes Photo caption … out to write the novel Jane Eyre , she was determined to create a main character who challenged the notion of the … write for a few minutes in response to the prompt, "How do publications reflect and mirror a time and culture?" Have …
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… Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales yes … through the EDSITEment-reviewed web resource Internet Public Library. The "Preface" provides information on the … Fables website notes: "It has been said that Aesop only created but a few of the Fables, but he is still regarded as …
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… Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech—Know It When You See It yes … Freedom of Speech , they will report on a town meeting and create a collage featuring examples of free speech. …
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… The Jungle, Muckrakers, and Teddy Roosevelt yes Photo caption Teddy Roosevelt … upon journalism as an important tool to raise public awareness of serious societal problems. Investigative … novel, The Jungle , was published in early 1906 and created an international sensation with his expose of the …
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… Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip yes Photo caption American poet ee … through the EDSITEment-reviewed web resource Internet Public Library. Review and bookmark the web pages containing … similes used in poetry by Derricotte, Frost and Wordsworth Create their own similes in order to learn how to apply this …
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… Lesson 1: From Courage to Freedom: The Reality behind the Song yes Photo … of Douglass's life at the EDSITEment-reviewed National Park Service Links to the Past: American Visionaries William L. … WITHOUT the underlining and have them choose the words that create an impact on them. Questions to ask the students …
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… American Icons: The Great Gatsby Audio A More Perfect Union … Period (1920-1939) Content This NEH-funded podcast from Public Radio International explores The Great Gatsby in … parallels does Lauren use to adapt The Great Gatsby to create the movie G ? What is the function of music in the …