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… “Cotton Candy” by Edward Hirsch no Photo caption Edward Hirsch Academy of American Poets A young boy walks over a … place older people, as bridges to personal and community history, hold in our lives. This lesson plan provides a …
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… William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Narrating the Compson Family Decline and … South? Define Faulkner's place in American literary history Describe Faulkner's "South" in the context of the …
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… The Olympic Medal: It's All Greek to Us! yes Photo caption Physical Fitness Sokol 5-cent U.S. … called epinicia. Briefly state Greece's role in Olympic history. How can familiarity with the Greek alphabet help us …
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… Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal! yes Photo caption Southern Arabia, Alabaster (gypsum). Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel … ghazal form to make connections to culture, language, and history. What is a ghazal, how did it evolve, and why has …
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… A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery ‘Alice’ yes Photo caption Illustration from Alice in Wonderland. … detailing the background, social context, and cultural history surrounding the publication of Lewis Carroll's Alice …
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… Lesson 1: Mark Twain and American Humor yes Photo caption Mark Twain, perhaps the most renowned … American humorists What place does Mark Twain have in the history of American literary humor? How does "The Celebrated …
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… Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" yes Photo caption A dinghy like the one here figures in … biography and contextualize him in American literary history, using the biographies and other information …
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… Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's “To Build a Fire” yes Photo caption Bound for the Klondike … to Jack London's biography and place him in literary history, using the biographies and other information …
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… Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech—Know It When You See It yes Photo caption Norman … First Amendment evident in everyday local community life? History & Social Studies Civics Art & Culture Painting 6-8 …
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… Lesson 2: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Benjy's Sense of Time and … reader is asked to grapple with questions of perception, history, and chronology. Background This lesson, part of a …
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… Death in Poetry: A.E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go … the Academy of American Poets and Poems for Funerals for a history of death in poetry. Preparation Review the lesson …
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… Tanka: Japanese Poetry yes Photo caption Mantoku-ji in Obama, Fukui prefecture, … characteristics of tanka? What can we learn about Japanese history and culture by reading and composing tanka? …
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… Sor Juana, la poetisa: Los sonetos yes Photo caption … A Vision of Puerto Rico, National Museum of American History Un rosario : Aunque creado en el siglo XX en …
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… Esperanza renace: Aprendiendo a no temer el comenzar de nuevo … las maneras en que entendemos e interactuamos con el mundo? History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language …
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… Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome yes Photo caption … of the realist and naturalist periods of American literary history. Wharton was claimed by the older generation of …
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… Lesson 3: Repetition in the Visual Arts yes Photo caption … arts, and how does it affect works of art? Art & Culture History Painting Literature & Language Arts Viewing …
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… "Cinderella" Folk Tales: Variations in Plot and Setting yes Photo caption Émile Bertrand's … Sur La Lune Fairy Tales' Cinderella Page provides a history of the story, as well as illustrations from various …
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… The Inner Chapters of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath: The Inner Chapters yes … the worst manmade ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the “Great …
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… Hamlet and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film yes Photo caption A detail of the engraving of Daniel Maclise's 1842 painting The Play-scene in Hamlet , portraying … information on Hamlet as a character and on the stage history of the play as well. A VCR and monitor are needed in …
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… Lascaux: La Vie en Caverne! yes Photo caption Animal painting, Lascaux Cave, France. The … pattern and have students tell you facts regarding the pre-history you've constructed using the French vocabulary. In …
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… Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe yes Photo … treatment of Whitman by Emory Holloway from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature . Click in the …
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… The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You yes Photo caption Portrait … , including a list of exhibitions and links to "Today in History" featuring African Americans. Activity 4. "The …