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… Through Film yes Photo caption Image of a screenplay for a film. Library of Congress In this lesson, students … with a visit to the Cinema exhibit at the Annenberg Learner website, accessible through EDSITEment. Here students can … and social milieu for their films. The EDSITEment websites listed below can provide a starting-point for this …
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… activities that build upon one another and should, therefore, be used sequentially. The first set of activities … you will need. If desired, you can bookmark specific web pages so that students can access relevant online … at the searchable Smithsonian site.) Selected EDSITEment Websites National Geographic Xpeditions Odyssey Online Africa …
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… in History and Literature yes Photo caption Sheet Music for Paul Revere's Ride By Webb Miller, 1884. Library of Congress In his account of his … Locate and bookmark suggested materials and other useful websites. Download and print out selected documents and …
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… talent, Anne remains today an extraordinary "symbol for the lost promise of the children who died in the … EDSITEment-reviewed United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, Teaching about the Holocaust: A Resource Book for … II in Europe and/or the Holocaust. Selected EDSITEment Websites United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Anne Frank …
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… Commons "Even the land keeps a respectful silence before those men who don’t smile. … They have nothing, they … Elect Good Men”: Woodrow Wilson and Latin America Featured Websites PBS film The Storm that Swept Mexico ArtsEdge, The …
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… and answer questions about Shaw and the 54th Regiment, pose for a photograph like the men in the sculpture, and then … and its historical background see the National Park Service Web page for the memorial . For further views on the … shapes. Preparation Review the lesson plan and the websites used throughout. Locate and bookmark suggested …
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… have been known to complain at times. (So have their teachers.) Even the Founding Fathers of our country indulged … in America after 1763 by requiring Americans to buy stamps for newspapers, legal documents, mortgages, liquor licenses, … the Educator Resources section of the National Archives website, to guide them as they review primary source …
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… Transcontinental Railroad yes Photo caption The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, … Includes links to photos, maps and other railroad-related sites. History of Railroads and Maps — A detailed look at … on railroads and the West from the EDSITEment-reviewed website American Memory : The first two paragraphs of the …
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… opportunities to produce new scenes in graphic or comic form, a newly imagined script based on primary source … Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement Reference Websites " Let America Be America Again " (The Academy of …
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… English colony of Pennsylvania, had an enlightened attitude for his time in regards to religious tolerance and in his … to the new colony, despite the risks. Some of the following websites offer the teacher information on William Penn, his …
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… to read To Kill A Mockingbird carefully with an eye for all instances and manifestations of courage, but … Locate and bookmark suggested materials and other useful websites. Download and print out documents you will use and …
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… of how African Americans have used music as a vehicle for communicating beliefs, aspirations, observations, joys, … the Nineteenth Century " at the National Humanities Center website. (For the posting, click "TeacherServe@" on the … Institute: The Most Southern Place on Earth Reference Websites American Memory Project Closer Reading Jazz Beyond …
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… Walt Whitman sought to create a new and distinctly American form of poetry. As he declared in Democratic Vistas , … Locate and bookmark suggested materials and other useful websites. Download and print out documents you will use and …
The Dust Bowl examines the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history documenting its causes, impact, and lessons as well as personal stories of survival and human endurance.
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… "Yellow oriole," his minister counters, matching color for color, animal for animal. "Blue heron spears a fish," … poems are all available through the EDSITEment reviewed web resource Asia for Educators . Ballad of the Army Carts … significance. Lesson Extensions Selected EDSITEment Websites Asia for Educators Literature . . . China . . . …
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… will create picture books about their own dreams of freedom for Americans today. For background information on the … EDSITEment-reviewed Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project website. Content Standards NCSS. D1.2.3-5. Identify … context. You and your students can visit historic sites relevant to the life of Dr. King through the …
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… the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I would desire you would Remember the … of the First Ladies available through the White House website, a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed National First … particular First Lady affect her? Selected EDSITEment Websites American Memory The American President National …
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… and subsequently executed. Wikimedia Commons The hunt for Communists in the United States clearly reached the … more on the Venona Project, see " Venona ," located at the website of the National Security Agency . Preparation Review … suggested materials and links from EDSITEment-reviewed websites used in this lesson. Download and print out selected …
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… the concept of the on , or Japanese sound unit. Japanese forms often demand a specific number of on , characters or … resource Academy of American Poets . Between that and the website for Tanka Splendor , also available through the … select the samples from the Tanka Splendor 2000 and 2001 sites, both available through the EDSITEment-reviewed …
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… Polo: From Hormuz to Venice yes Photo caption "Embarking for Home," from Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures , … Learn about the Hagia Sophia by visiting the following websites (available through Labyrinth ): Byzantine Architecture …
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… the Mediterranean Area Maps. Follow the instructions below for accessing the illustrations on Maecenas: Images of … the General Contents page . Scroll down to Greece and sites outside of Greece with Greek architecture . Choose … well. Also remind them that Latin was an important language for a very long time throughout the whole area they see on …
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… of works of art. This lesson plan will provide a guide for gathering clues embedded in works of art, as well as an … Degas and Pieter Bruegel the Elder are available from the EDSITEment-reviewed web resource The Metropolitan Museum of Art . Lesson …
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… Polo: From Venice to Hormuz yes Photo caption "Embarking for Home," from Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures , … about the terrain of this region by accessing the following websites: Elevation map of Iran available through Ask Asia. …
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… What happened in a Europe already beginning to transform? In this lesson, students analyze maps, firsthand … through a link from the EDSITEment resource Decameron Web . NEH-funded Professor Monica Green (Arizona State … Medicine . The home page of Health also offers links to web sites with further information. If desired, students can …
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… modernism (specifically, modernist poetry) is important for students before they analyze modernist texts themselves. … Locate and bookmark suggested materials and other useful websites. Download and print out documents you will use and …
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… it ravished or compelled the abandonment of others. What for some was progress, for others was decline, and what … responses. Background Visit the National Gallery of Art website for a short biography of Edward Hopper. Then read … Poets site. Preparation Review the lesson plan and the websites used throughout. Locate and bookmark suggested …
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… Polo: Marco Polo in China yes Photo caption "Embarking for Home," from Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures , … Public Library. Lesson Extensions Selected EDSITEment Websites Asia Source Emperor of China The Silk Road Mongol …
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… Crossing the Deserts of China yes Photo caption "Embarking for Home," from Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures , … camels—the “ships of the desert.” Access the following sites about camels and study the texts and images: Bactrian … or the Gobi—and then make a poster, referring to the websites visited in this lesson. The posters can be …
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… and civil rights–and at other times, they have had to push for equal treatment. Either way, Jewish Americans have … 1790, the newly-inaugurated President George Washington visited Newport, Rhode Island. During the visit, Moses Seixas, … Religion Closer Reading Jewish American Heritage Month Teacher's Guide The History of Antisemitism and the Holocaust …
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… distance from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles, California—and incorporated more than 12 million people speaking … languages. For background on the empire, consult the EDSITEment-reviewed site Conquistadors ; read the pages on … context by going to the map site on the EDSITEment-reviewed website National Geographic's Xpeditions . On the world map, …