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… for October 13, 16 and 21 for descriptions of the Native Americans Columbus encountered. What seemed of particular … damaging to the people of the New World. Native Americans Encountered by Columbus —Columbus only met peoples …
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… links to descriptions A general review of Literature in the American South is available through the EDSITEment-reviewed website Documenting the American South. While not specific to As I Lay Dying …
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… and responsibilities should go hand in hand in society. American citizens have the right to vote, therefore, they … meaning of the word and then create a class list of rights Americans have as citizens. Discuss what responsibilities …
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… were deteriorating. President John Adams wanted to preserve American neutrality in conflicts between Britain and France. … for Talleyrand himself, and a large loan for France. The American people were incensed. War with France seemed …
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… the past. Preparation The above excerpt from the PBS American Experience series "The Abolionists" includes … National Park Service Links to the Past: American Visionaries William L. Andrews' " An Introduction …
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… The Things They Carried as one of the finest examples in American literature of writing about war. O’Brien served in … carried ghosts.” In World War II, the average age of an American soldier was the mid-twenties, while that of …
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… is WWI poetry , which provides access to poems written by American soldiers. Poems offer a great opportunity to give … to Light'? World War One and America World War One and American Art, Part One World War One and American Art, Part …
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… Writers' Project 1936-1940 (examples are available in the American Memory collection); they might compare Owens's … on a road that hates arrogance." The moving story of Native American athlete Jim Thorpe is recounted on America's Story …
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… MacDonald. Carpenter. Underwood. Green. These are typical American names that reflect a family's British origins—but … other specialists. Lesson 4: Non-British Surnames Modern American society is known for its ethnic diversity, and …
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… includes access to newspapers published by African American presses across the U.S. during the 19th and 20th … Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and African Americans' responses to it. …
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… Public Library. For an overview of his life, look through American Masters: Ernest Hemingway from PBS.org . Browse … your students to Ernest Hemingway and contextualize him in American literary history using the biographies and other …
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… livelihood. You will explore a 1850 issue of the American publication Godey's Lady Book and consider the questions below. Keep in mind that while this is an American publication, rather than British, it does present …
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… is a hero. Students will then view portraits of heroes from American history, and glean a bit of background information … Oregon in 1840. He was from the Nez Perce group of Native Americans. His Native American name was …
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… America's cultural consciousness. They observe, "for most Americans the episode ranks in familiarity somewhere between …
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… Oral Histories yes Photo caption The Smithsonian's National American Museum of American History, Washington DC. Wikimedia Commons In this …
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… through the EDSITEment-reviewed resource Academy of American Poets . Between that and the website for Tanka Splendor , also available through the Academy of American Poets , you can experience such a variety of tanka …
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… the sun (Sonnet 130) ," via EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets, which will serve as the sample text for this … sonnet is being used. Ask students to visit the Academy of American Poets website , which details the various forms of …
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… of a particular group of people, such as women, African Americans, Native Americans, or immigrants; a particular kind of landmark, …
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… LBJ Presidential Library Civil Rights (1945-1970) African American Constitution/Law Content This episode of BackStory … provisions were in the Civil Rights Act to protect African Americans from violence? Why? What were some of the problems …
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… countries using the following EDSITEment resources: American Association of Teachers of French Bibliography of … to bowling, available through the EDSITEment-reviewed American Association of Teachers of French and through …
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… in the United States, and the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee, may have generated big … with an eye to understanding how his efforts brought American anticommunism to fever pitch, and then into …
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… documents, all available on the EDSITEment resource American Memory : Read the brief declaration and the chart … an army can be raised when one is needed? Keep in mind the American distaste for standing armies. In the Declaration of …
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… atrocities? a study of the wartime experience of African American soldiers? a review of teenage life in the … the fire's significance as a landmark event in 19th-century American history. Have students note also in their reports …
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… one of Crane's best works and a wonderful example of American literary naturalism. In this lesson, students will … to Stephen Crane's biography and contextualize him in American literary history, using the biographies and other …
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… can be found on Literary Metamorphoses as well as on American Academy of Poets Web site. The influence of his … Pound and T.S. Eliot. Baudelaire also paved the way for Americans William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, and Allen …
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… against cliché and conventional wisdom. Heitman notes that American Ralph Waldo Emerson was also an admirer of … his “empathy with unassuming but intellectually ambitious Americans.” Literature & Language Arts Writing Essay …
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… Wikimedia Commons Civil Rights (1945-1970) Africa African American Content The W.E.B. Du Bois papers , containing … which ignored the critical role played by Black Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction. For Du …
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… This resource is a product of Claiming Freedom in the Revolutionary Era – a partnership of the National … are certainly reliable: articles published in the American Historical Review and the Journal of African …
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… the mind of man." Wikimedia Commons "The people rule the American political world as God rules the universe. They are … “Tyranny of the Majority” Download File (PDF) 10/14/15 Revolutionary Era (1765-1790) Early Republic (1790-1820) …
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… James Joyce and T.S. Eliot. Among them were 20th-century American writers who questioned widely-accepted beliefs. … works. In the 1920s, expressionism found an outlet on the American stage through experimentalists from the Theatre …