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… for the assignment. This lesson may be taught in language arts classes, social studies classes, or both. You can … how did McCullough know the quality of the light on that particular day? Through the writing of one of the …
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… education to design a Learning Lab collection on Art and WWI that offers students opportunities to analyze … the elites, and in order to make money, many catered to a particular group of readers. These newspapers are tremendous …
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… a domestic servant for wealthy Boston families in a seven-part oral history available through EDSITEment at the … the narrative itself. The framework below can provide a starting-point. Visualizing the Scene What did it look like …
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… The Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional? yes Photo caption Poem honoring the Boston Tea Party, Dec. 1773. Library of Congress In an 1884 article … EDSITEment-reviewed website American Memory . The article starts near the top of page 261 and continues on the …
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… limits on communication and transportation, events on a particular date may not be reacted to until quite a bit … always be required to prepare evidence showing how any particular document connects to an event. If your students …
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… and circumstances: and yet you blame me. The whole earth belongs to the kings descended from Manu and therefore … brother Bharata. He is the supreme monarch of the whole earth: and I derive my mandate from him, to ensure that all … documents you will be using in class, such as the guiding charts for reading the Ramayana text and elements of the Epic …
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… man (John Ulrich) discussing and reading "We Real Cool" as part of the EDSITEment reviewed Library of Congress Favorite … of John Ulrich discussing and reading "We Real Cool" as part of the EDSITEment-reviewed Library of Congress Favorite … the poem's sound, pace, and theme? Literature & Language Arts Poetry 9-12 1 The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Quiz …
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… to home, scientific developments such as cloning, robotics, artificial intelligence, and genetic engineering seem to be … that working together in a spirit of harmony and open-heartedness combined with scientific methods can lead to a … are introduced and developed). Literature & Language Arts Reading 9-12 12/12/14 Formatted Title Dostoevsky’s …
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… Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. yes Photo caption Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of … History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language Arts Listening K-5 3 09/28/10 Editor EDSITEment team …
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… created "a model of cooperative statesmanship and the art of compromise" (From America's Founding Documents at the … download contains three handouts used in this lesson: "Chart of Various Plans (Blank)" and "Chart of Various State Plans." Print out and make an …
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… public, 'Mark Twain' became a kind of mythic hero." Part of this mythos involves his humorous anecdotes, flowing … his wardrobe, added in 1906. The following New York Times article , written in 1906, details the first time Mark Twain … of students to perform it as a skit. Have students assign parts and consider the roles that need to be filled. They …
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… they are learning about in their social studies or language arts class, current events, or even things around your … of My Slavery Days with Emphasis on Resistance (or some part of it), paying close attention to the ways that …
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… of the opinion that what faith produces is not a work of art, that it is coarse and common work, only for the more … and rationally absurd. Ultimately, Kierkegaard articulates a highly existential understanding of the self … Kierkegaard defines faith as “paradox” by which “the particular is higher than the universal.” This paradox leads …
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… maintained the upkeep of the plantation. In his Narrative —particularly chapters 1 and 2— Douglass quickly distinguishes … in the pre-Civil War period. These works were an important part of the abolitionist movement’s strategy of appealing to … want to be viewed by the reader? Refer to specific parts of the text. What the reality of a slave’s life is as …
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… as a prerequisite. Record the responses on blackboard/flipchart. Ask students: How are you literate? Do you value your … History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language Arts Poetry 6-8 1-2 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s “Learning …
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… as (and detailed in our EDSITEment lesson on) the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights. The above video on … against taxation without consent from the Magna Carta , written five hundred and fifty years earlier, in … Digital Studios on How to Argue provides an analysis of the art of persuasion and how to construct an argument. The …
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… every twist and turn are a mark of Shakespeare's mature art and one of the reasons he is considered the great … tragic hero in Shakespeare: only Macbeth knows from the start that what he does is unequivocally evil and only Macbeth … option for searching Shakespeare's plays is available from Bartleby.com , a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed Internet …
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… rules about how she would compose a particular entry--with material from their own lives. A free … the entire resource book go to the page " For Teachers ." Part III lets teachers receive, at no charge, an introductory … & Social Studies World History Literature & Language Arts Reading 6-8 3 Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands: …
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… knew how to do that, he elevated the task to that of an art. Many historians, critics as well as supporters, credit … response to FDR's voice and speeches can be gauged in part through the letters Americans wrote him. Some of these … Chats at EDSITEment-reviewed History Matters . Editorial cartoons responding to FDR and his programs are available on …
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… advertisements, advice literature, and political cartoons to criticize women's changing roles. This lesson plan, the first part of a two-part lesson, helps to set the historical, … History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language Arts Reading Writing 9-12 1-2 Activity 1 - Group 1 Web …
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… hearing you shout, and for the blind you draw large and startling figures." — Flannery O'Connor [From the Flannery … evil, morality and immorality, faith and doubt, and the particularly Southern "binaries" of black and white and … from the EDSITEment-reviewed Center for the Liberal Arts website. The discussion of O'Connor's themes and …
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… rules about how she would compose a particular entry—with material from their own lives. A free … book go to the page, " Lessons and Curricular Resources ." Part III lets teachers receive, at no charge, an introductory … "A Little Bundle of Contradictions" (ASSIGNMENT: Compose a warts-and-all self-portrait.) Review one or more of the …
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… throughout The Grapes of Wrath came from a constellation of artistic, social and intellectual sources so varied no … in Steinbeck’s The Harvest Gypsies series of news articles which served as a seedbed for The Grapes of Wrath. … History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language Arts Reading 9-12 1-2 Steinbeck verbal pictures graphic …
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… Camp. Aware of the criticism the novel’s passion and partisanship were likely to arouse, Steinbeck noted in his … researching and publishing Harvest Gypsies , a seven-part San Francisco News series about the plight of … of the novel’s authenticity? Literature & Language Arts Reading 9-12 2 Steinbeck Border Patrol Download File …
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… is a large book in two volumes (published five years apart, in 1835 and 1840). Volume One describes and analyzes … democratic revolution” is inevitable and irresistible. Part of A Long Tradition Alexis de Tocqueville is part of a … ). The class can have two, or if there is time, three parts. The most important part is the second activity below …
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… by automobiles and highways, as well as housing. WikiArt "This is the new suburbia, the packaged villages that … areas that ringed the urban core. Cities, long the heart of urban society and culture, lost jobs and population. … and the countryside alike, spurring the growth of suburbs farther and farther away from the central cities. Suburban …
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… a heightened sense of realism while setting the work apart from war stories written essentially as tributes or … of the EDSITEment-reviewed website American Memory . Part II of "Keenan's Charge" describes an assault that took … a link from the EDSITEment resource Center for the Liberal Arts Section 3 of the "Editor's Preface" to the Red Badge …
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… empire waists gave way to tiny-waisted corsets, and tea parties grew in popularity, it might seem incongruous that … the same societal limitations as her literary counterparts, but her raw narrative voice never fails to expose her …
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… succumb? Was recovery from the plague even possible? Which particular groups (priests, doctors, merchants, urban versus … a link from EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library), starting with the words, "Some said that this pestilence …" …
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… Photo caption Hans Christian Andersen, watercolor by Carl Hartmann, 1845. Wikimedia Commons The Little Mermaid, the … Andersen persevered with almost desperate devotion to his art and ultimately became known throughout the world as a … name) for example, looks forward to being decorated as part of the Christmas celebration and feels sad when her …