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… Lesson 3: The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American … This lesson will examine the most famous speech in American history to understand how Lincoln turned a perfunctory … found their way into his remarks at Gettysburg four months later. Have students read Lincoln's "Response to a …
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… The Mexican Revolution: November 20th, 1910 March 19, 2012 yes Photo caption Mexican Revolution collage Wikimedia … desperate and poor campesinos ; and the different types of women who joined the struggle. Towards the end of the book, … conquistadores , while also recognizing Mexico’s shared history and culture. The Mexican muralists influenced …
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… The Korean War (1950–1953) yes Photo caption During South Korean evacuation of Suwon … Mao Tse-tung declared China a "People's Republic," and two months later Chiang Kai-shek and his followers fled to … features a set of Document Analysis Worksheets . Finally, History Matters offers helpful pages on " Making Sense of …
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… Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground yes Photo caption … psychological writers of all time, given his own dramatic history of suffering. After being spared from the Tsar’s … she is able to transform quite a few other poor women into educated entrepreneurs. The novel directly …
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… Lesson 2: The Metamorphoses and Modern Poetry: A Comparison of Mythic Characters yes … cruelty of the gods. He also abstained from loving other women for three years.) Put the following question on the …
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… Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington yes Photo caption Martin … his sculpture and a brief chronology of African American history . Content Standards NCAS.VA:Cr.3.1.2a. Discuss and … ladder” to achieve success and recognition in U.S. History (women, Native Americans, disabled Americans, immigrants, …
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… William Penn's Peaceable Kingdom yes Photo caption William Penn, Founder … and spiritual hierarchies, believing that all men and women share an “inner light... He turned an old debt (from … the Free Society of Traders (found on EDSITEment reviewed History Matters ) , published in 1683, has been recognized …
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… Lesson 1: The Road to the Constitutional Convention yes Photo … would eventually lead to deadlock during the first two months of the Convention. For more background information on … to the Constitutional Convention " at TeachingAmericanHistory.org . This website also provides a very good …
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… Lesson 2: The First Inaugural Address (1861)—Defending the … how he would keep that Union together. Exactly one month before Lincoln delivered his First Inaugural Address … (located at the EDSITEment-reviewed site Teaching American History), and answer in their groups the questions that …
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… Lincoln's First Inaugural Address: We Must Not Be Enemies yes Photo … during one of the most tumultuous times in our nation's history. At the time, the United States consisted of 19 free … of the Confederate Congress, secession begins exactly one month before Lincoln is to be sworn in. See the Journals of …
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… Lesson 1: Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry yes … panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history.’.. rejecting nineteenth-century optimism, … Triangle Fire caused the deaths of several young working women and prompted reforms. Ask students to consider the …
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… Being in the Noh: An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays yes Photo caption Three pictures of the same … and appreciation for the genre endures, and both men and women study its conventions. There are today approximately … began to flourish again. You can learn more about the history of Noh Theater by reading this background …
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… Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Fact and Fiction yes Photo … Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"—Writing Women Lesson Plan Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close …
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… Images of the New World yes Photo caption Sebastian Munster's … for emigration, from EDSITEment-reviewed site, Digital History. The EDSITEment-reviewed American Memory Project … about these people based on this image i.e. men and women interact socially, corn hominy may indicate a settled …
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… Schisms and Divisions in Crime and Punishment yes Photo caption … Dostoyevsky’s mid-nineteenth century Russia offered women narrowly circumscribed roles, most often resulting in …
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… The Royal Art of Benin yes Photo caption Queen Mother Pendant Mask - Iyoba. Wikimedia Commons Anyone who lived in the West … refused. This kind of omen might scare ordinary men and women, but not the oba of Benin. He killed the bird and went …
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… Images of the New World yes Photo caption St. Luke's Church, … almost in forme of mattockes or hoes with long handles; the women with short peckers or parers, because they use them … at the Landscape of New England A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History World History K-5 …
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… Lesson 2: President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Documentary … were perceived as more than slights. In March 1812, just months before the declaration of war, President Madison … According to Morris and Morris's Encyclopedia of American History (New York: Harper Collins, 1996): "The British …
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… Lesson 3: Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock yes Photo caption T.S. Eliot, … paralysis, his fear of aging, his self-doubt, his fear of women, and so forth. Assessment Collect each student’s copy …
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… In Old Pompeii yes Photo caption Vesuvius from Portici , c. 1774–1776. Joseph … Have students comment on the way Pliny characterizes the women in his story -- Rectina, who begs Pliny's uncle to … learn about life in Roman times from the ruins of Pompeii? History & Social Studies World History Art & Culture History …
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… Twelve Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution yes Photo caption … Commons "Those who wrote our constitutions knew from history and experience that it was necessary to protect … peers. With a few notable exceptions, African-Americans and women had been systematically excluded from jury duty since …
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… “Their Eyes Were Watching God”: Folk Speech and Figurative Language … mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember … by Zora Neale Hurston , available from EDSITEment-reviewed History Matters Refer to EDSITEment’s Literary Glossary for …
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… On This Day With Lewis and Clark yes Photo caption Lewis and … It's about teamwork and failure and success. It brims with history and science. Looking at historic maps of the West, … Reading level: Ages 9-12 Recommended readings from Women of the West Museum Rowland, Della. The Story of …
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… Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New … Browser , a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed website History Matters . Tips on how to use the Census Browser are … Call on You to Deliver Us from the Tyrant's Chain: Lowell Women Workers Campaign for a Ten-Hour Workday" (circa 1845) …
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… Exploring Arthurian Legend yes Photo caption King Arthur as one of the Nine Worthies, … and fiction becomes blurred. The stories themselves have a history and in their evolving shape carry the imprint of all … war? What does your version tell us about the position of women in the culture? What does your version tell us about …
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… Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma yes Photo … actions Rama and his wife Sita offer examples of what men, women, boys and girls are meant to aspire to in their own …
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… Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy yes Photo caption Photo … treatment of Whitman by Emory Holloway from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature . Click in the … EDSITEment-reviewed website Modern American Poetry .) The Women Who Clean Fish by Erica Funkhouser Shirt by Robert …
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… Lions, Dragons, and Nian: Animals of the Chinese New Year yes … highly trained martial artists though now in some parades women may serve as dancers. Firecrackers are staples of the … Asia available through the Field Museum of Natural History's Mythic Creatures's exhibit (along with a Resource …
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… Fairy Tales Around the World yes Photo caption Poster showing Little … living in the countryside, but from urban middle class women who had heard them from their servants or nurse maids. … illustrations been used to make fairy tales more enjoyable? History & Social Studies World History Literature & Language …
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… Tales of King Arthur yes Photo caption Arthur Draws the Sword … In 1138 Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote the "semi-historical" History of the Kings of Britain , devoting half of his work … to keep his word to all, to be courteous and gentle to women, to defend right against might, and to do or say …