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… that poets use to help their readers create a mental picture while reading or hearing poems. In a related lesson, … Extensions Selected EDSITEment Websites The Academy of American Poets Edward Lear Internet Public Library Edward …
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… is to design travel brochures, advertising with words and pictures (drawings or images they have downloaded) the …
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… written in early 1886 Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) was an American writer who hailed from South Berwick, Maine. Born … of “A White Heron”: There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its …
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… The second grievance echoes a familiar cry from the American Revolution, "No taxation without representation." … 1, is from 1869. According to Roland Marchand, it is a picture of various types of dangerous feminists. It includes …
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… Arras Hotel de Ville . What level of destruction do these pictures indicate? What are some emotions evoked when … Conference to be represented include: United States of America Great Britain France Italy Portugal Spain Japan …
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… Mansa Moussa and scroll down the left column to the third picture. The streets are covered with a layer of sand. You …
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… have been able to use the chart to examine the "big picture" of As I Lay Dying , the form of the novel might be … in terms of a shift from Realism/Naturalism to Modernism in American fiction, where an objective or even scientific …
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… differ from other forms of poetry? How does a haiku paint a picture or create an image with just a few words? What makes …
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… China to Hormuz. Then have them indicate (with words or pictures) on the map some of the important products …
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… to achieve objectives that would not only protect the American nation from aggression but also would permanently … . Further information on FDR's presidency as well as many pictures can be found at The New Deal Network , focused on …
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… which two young white women wrongfully accused nine African American youths of rape illustrate through fact what Harper … Inform students these details are small parts of a larger picture. They will provide a basis to begin the overall …
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… Great Depression have affected the lives of working class Americans? How may the Great Depression have affected older … mid-wives photo How are the people represented in this picture different than those in the three Social Security … minutes 11:20 to 14:50 of Francis Perkins' statements from America's Town Meeting of the Air , "Should We Plan for …
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… BackStory: To Be a Citizen? The History of Becoming American Audio History & Social Studies U.S. History Related … Need to Know About Immigration History Lesson Plan African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd … and lived experience, has changed over time. Consider the picture on this page, which is part of a stereo card …
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… the black-and-white version from 1963; the color motion picture from 1990; and a 2013 low-budget film created by …
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… recognized (alongside Walt Whitman) as among the first American poetic voices, published only a handful of poems in … personages in Emily’s circle. Illustrated with photos and pictures, Dickinson's Family Tree , A Timeline of Emily …
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… in your classroom, you might ask students to search for pictures of the animals they need, or they can simply have …
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… periods from Elizabethan England to Twentieth Century America, and drawn from a diverse group of well- and … effects of these two styles of reading. Did anyone picture the scene being described? How can we understand and …
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… as he explicitly sought to become a great, widely read American writer. London's famous Klondike tale The Call of … the images and share what they think is happening in the pictures. Images of gold nuggets (from the public domain) …
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… global violence." —from the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets “ The Modernist Revolution: Make It New ” … ‘Make It New!’ ” from the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets website. Read the T.S. Eliot biography from … write a character sketch of J. Alfred Prufrock. How do they picture him, and why? How would they describe his …
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… by Nathaniel Hawthorne and, as part of a curriculum unit on American literary humor, compare it to other American literary humorists in order to gain perspective on … away the dust, the skeleton had rattled in its closet, the picture of the young lady had stepped one foot upon the …
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… such remnants of ancient civilizations to piece together a picture of the past. But in Egypt there are clues to the …
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… did child slaves live? Background Childhood slavery in the American South encompassed a variety of experiences and … Keckly). Review “‘ I was Born a Slave:’ Two African American Women Relate their Childhood Years and the Growing … make inferences and draw generalizations about the “big picture” of what happened in the past. In order to make …
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… painting, Sacrifice of Isaac (Uffizi) or Rembrandt’s print pictured above. What do you notice? On what do Caravaggio or …
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… Our Town is often referred to as the quintessential work of American theater. In 1938 it earned Thornton Wilder the … world attests to its being something much greater than an American play: it is a play that captures the universal … telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or …
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… (New York: Macmillan, 1922), 63–78. (Available through the American Libraries Collection , Internet Archive. This … especially in a gradual or subtle way caricature — a picture of a person in which certain major characteristics …
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… about the image they have selected explaining what the picture shows, and connecting it to what they have learned …
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… for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, Chronicling America contains over 15 million pages of local and state … set of newspaper articles drawn from the Chronicling America website. They will determine the right each article …
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… Tocqueville, oil on canvas. Wikimedia Commons Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville is universally regarded as one of the most influential books ever written about America. While historians have viewed Democracy as a rich …
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… literature, and even moral guidance. While this is an American publication, the themes in the articles do have … beginning with the line "We have said that this was the picture of a natural heart" (or use Edit and Find to search …
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… actually recapitulates episodes in the history of Latin America through the story of real and fantastical events … himself defended the latter view when he articulated Latin America’s “outsized reality” in his Nobel Prize in …