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Louisiana Common Core Standards: Language Arts - Grade 9
LA.CC.RL.9- Reading Standards for Literature
10.
Key Ideas and Details
RL.910.1.
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered in New York in 1955.
On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
Star Wars creator George Lucas was born in 1944.
The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.
Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in 1937.
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Tool
"All Quiet on the Western Front" Assignment
"Beowulf" Translations Handout
"Beowulf": Language and Poetics Quick Reference Sheet
"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
"Dear Teachers"
"Fear"
"Gulliver s Travels" Travelogue
"Gulliver's Travels" Analytical Essay
"Joy"
"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
"Suppose Columbus"
"The Epitaph"
"The Glass Menagerie" Job Placement Assignment
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Luncheon" Comparison Table
"The Luncheon" Teacher Assessment Sheet
"To Kill a Mockingbird" in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's
Shoes
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Courage
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
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'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
'You Kiss by the Book'': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
A Brief, Urgent Message : Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest
Songs
A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in
Schools
A Question of Style
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
Acrostic Poems
Acting Up, A Melodrama
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Adapting a Musical
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Alex Haley, author of "Roots", was born in 1921.
All the News that's Fit to Print
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
American Studies
American Verse Project
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About
Women
Analyzing Character in Hamlet through Epitaphs
Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's ''Those Winter Sundays''
and Theodore Roethke's ''My Papa's Waltz''
Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
April - 2009 - National Poetry Month: American Originals
April 2010 - Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
April is National Poetry Month!
April2010 - National Poetry Month: Celebrating World Poetry
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
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Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Author Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944.
Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
Author Gabriel Garcaa Marquez was born on this day.
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Author Lois Duncan was born on this date in 1934.
Author Scott O'Dell was born on this day.
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
Author of Tuck Everlasting , Natalie Babbitt, was born in 1932.
Avi was born in 1937.
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Basic Character Analysis Questions
Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Beowulf
Beware the Ides of March!
Big Endians and Little Endians Passage from "Gulliver's Travels"
Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events
Birches
Birches, Too
Black Poetry Day is celebrated.
Book Cover Guide
Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in
Drama
Book Report Alternative: Grading Rubric
Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
Broken Worlds
Browning s "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue: Student
Interactive
Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Caldecott Medal-winner Virginia Lee Burton was born on this day in
1909.
Caldecott-winning illustrator Lane Smith was born in 1959.
Carl Sandburg's ''Chicago'': Bringing a Great City Alive
Celebrate Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Celebrate International Literacy Day!
Celebrate author Mary Hoffman's birthday today.
Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Character Analysis Assignment for "The Great Gatsby"
Character Trading Cards
Character Traits Chart
Character Traits: "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Characterization in Literature and Theater
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Charles Baudelaire: Poete Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Children's Book Review Guide
Children's author Dr. Seuss d. 1991
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Circle Plot Diagram
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
Collaborative Style Activity, Part 1
Comic Book Show and Tell
Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in
the Media
Common Visions, Common Voices
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927.
Corridos About the Mexican Revolution
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Creating Characters
Creative Outlining-From Freewriting to Formalizing
Critical Literacy
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Critical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot?
Critical Ways of Seeing ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' in
Context
Cultural Creation Myths
Cultural Relevance Review Guidelines
Dali and Desnos
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's ''To an Athlete Dying Young'' and
Dylan Thomas' ''Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night''
Defining Characterization
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Demonstrating a Way to Analyze Style
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath : A Multigenre
Project
Developing Characterization in Raymond Carver's A Small, Good
Thing
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Diamante Poems
Diamante Poems
Diamante Poems
Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
Digital Dante
Disability Book Sheet
Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems
Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
Discovering a Passion for Poetry With Langston Hughes
Discussion Questions for "We" by Mary Grimm
Doodle Splash
Drama Map
Drama Map
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Drop Me Off in Harlem
EDSITEment
EDSITEment Websites
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Epitaph Rubric
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Esther Forbes, author of "Johnny Tremain", was born in 1891.
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
Explore Your Reading Self
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Irony in the Conclusion of All Quiet on the Western Front
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Exploring Literature through Letter-Writing Groups
Exploring Onomatopoeia
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere,
and Theme
Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
Exploring Women's History
Exploring Zora Neale Hurston's Style
Ezra Jack Keats was born on this day in 1916.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Centenary
F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of "The Great Gatsby", was born in 1896.
Faith Ringgold was born on October 8, 1930.
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Burying Addie's Voice
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Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Concluding the Novel
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Crossing the River
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Family Voices In ''As I Lay Dying''
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Form of a Funeral
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': April Eighth, 1928: Narrating
from an ''Ordered Place''?
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Feature July 2010: Henry David Thoreau
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction
Strategies
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Fractured Fairy Tales
Fractured Families in American Drama
Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of
Allegiance
French author Guy de Maupassant was born on this day in 1850.
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the History behind the
Satire
Gathering Evidence of Cultural Relevance
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare
Readers
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Grading Rubric
Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature Using Graphics
Guantanamera: A Poem and a Song
Gwendolyn Brooks published "Bronzeville Boys and Girls" in 1956.
Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
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Happily Ever After? Exploring Character, Conflict, and Plot in
Dramatic Tragedy
Harrowing Halloween: Spooky, Supernatural, and Suspenseful
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hawthorne in Salem
Hawthorne: Author and Narrator
Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
Historical References in the Endian Passage
History of Jim Crow
Homework Questions for "Blackberry Picking"
How can I help adults and adolescents better understand what they
read?
How to Help a Teen Choose a Book
How to Write a Biopoem
I Have a Dream: Exploring Nonviolence in Young Adult Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat
If a Body Texts a Body: Texting in "The Catcher in the Rye"
Ile en Ile
In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.
In 1847, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula was born.
In 1902, John Steinbeck was born.
In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
In 1931, Toni Morrison was born.
In 1940, Musician and peace activist John Lennon was born.
In Literature, Interpretation is the Thing
Inductive Lesson Rubric
Inductive Lesson: Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
Interactive Genre Selection Chart
Interactive Sonnet Characteristics Chart
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It's All in the Translation
It's winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
J. Alfred Prufrock
J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter celebrate birthdays today.
Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born today.
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki d. 1902
Jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915.
Jesse James robs the Obocock Bank in 1871.
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.
Jonathan Swift was born on this day in 1667.
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
June 14 is Flag Day in the U.S.
June2010 - The Road to Santa Fe: A Virtual Excursion
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
KateChopin.org
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
L. Armstrong - joined F.H. Orchestra
Langston Hughes was born in 1902.
Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Latin Literature
Lessons of the Indian Epic: The ''Ramayana,'' Showing Your Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Letter Exchange Example
Letter Exchange Guidelines
Letter Poem Example
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Emulating Emily Dickinson -- Poetry
Writing
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Responding to Emily Dickinson -Poetic Analysis
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Literary Elements Mapping: Character Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Conflict Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Resolution Map
Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer's Style through Imitation
Live from Antiquity
Looking at Other People's Pledges
Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight 's Edward Cullen
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Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832.
Love of War in Tim O Brien's How to Tell a True War Story
Lyrics to "You're the Top!" (1934) by Cole Porter
Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy
Mountain
Making It Visual for ELL Students: Teaching History Using "Maus"
Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Manipulating Sentences
Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool
March Calendar
Mark Twain and American Humor
Mark Twain in His Times
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
May - 2010 - Jewish American Heritage Month
Metaphor Project Rubric
Metaphors -- Margaret Atwood
Metaphors -- Naomi Shahib Nye
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Odyssey Online
Mis Cositas Resources: Thematic Units
Model Alphabet Poems
Modeling Good Reading Habits With Teens
Modern American Poetry
Modern English "Beowulf" Passage Handout
Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Monsters
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Motivating Teen Readers
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Mural Rubric
Music and Me Project Instructions
Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
Name That Chapter Rubric
Name That Chapter! Discussing Summary and Interpretation Using
Chapter Titles
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
Nature and the Environment
Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
New Deal Network
New Takes on Old Tales
Newbery Medal winner Christopher Paul Curtis was born in 1953.
Noh Theater
Novel News Broadcast Segments Rubric
Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution,
and Setting
Novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day in 1899.
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November is National American Indian Heritage Month.
November's Literary Lions
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
Nursery Rhyme Concrete Poems
Old English "Beowulf" Passage Handout
One Story, Many Tales
Onomatopoeia: A Figurative Language Minilesson
Opening Lines From American Literature
Opening Lines From World Literature
Opening Lines From Young Adult Literature
Opening Lines from British Literature
Opening Lines from Contemporary American Literature
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Passage from Chapter 9 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
Paying Attention to Technology: Exploring a Fictional Technology
Perseus Project
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Picture Book Notes
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With "Persepolis"
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With Persepolis
Picturing U.S. History
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Plot Diagram
Plot Tree Worksheet
Plot of "The Cat in the Hat"
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poe's "The Raven" was published in 1845.
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943.
Poet Robert Burns was born in 1759.
Poet Robert Frost was born in 1874.
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
Poet and author Pat Mora was born on this day in 1942.
Poet/author Edgar Allan Poe d. 1849
Poetic Devices Quiz
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
Poetry Out Loud
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Poetry Reading and Interpretation Through Extensive Modeling
Poetry of The Great War: ''From Darkness to Light''?
Poetry: Sound and Sense
Postreading Analysis Sheet for the Cover of The Great Gatsby
Practical Criticism
Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Put That on the List: Independently Writing a Catalog Poem
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question Guidelines
Quotations on Laura Wingfield's Shyness
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Reaching Across Time: Scaffolded Engagements With a 19th-Century
Text
Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to
Literature
Reader's Guide to Understanding Plot Development
Reading Andrew Marvell s "To His Coy Mistress"
Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare: A Focus on Student-Centered Learning and
Production
Reading a Work of Art: Student Questions for "Death and the Miser"
Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip
Renaissance Humanism in "Hamlet"
Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
Representative Poetry Online
Responding to Tragedy: Then and Now
Review Redux: Introducing Literary Criticism Through Reception
Moments
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Riddle Interactive
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Romantic Circles
Rubric for Graphic Organizer, Literary Theme, and Poetry Presentation
Safe Online Talk
Sample Character-Idea Poems
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Say Hi to Haibun Fun: Student Interactive
Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.
Scotland Yard's 179th anniversary takes place today.
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Seamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939.
Seed Discussion Organizer
Seeing Sense in Photographs and Poems
Semicolons and Swift: Analyzing Punctuation and Meaning
Sequence of Events Chart
Seuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting Points
Seuss/Silverstein Presentation Rubric
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shel Silverstein was born in 1930
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966.
Short Story Fair: Responding to Short Stories in Multiple Media and
Genres
So What Do You Think? Writing a Review
Socratic Seminars
Sonic Patterns: Exploring Poetic Techniques Through Close Reading
Sonnet Characteristics Chart
Sophocles, Socrates, and the Greek Polis
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Speaking Poetry: Exploring Sonic Patterns Through Performance
Specific Disability Picture Book Notes
Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in
Narrative
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Star-Crossed Lovers Online: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age
Stephen Crane s "The Open Boat"
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Story Synopses for Teachers
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Student Self-assessment Sheet
Student-Written Catalog Poems
Style Analysis
Style: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices
Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and
Back Again
Summer Travel--Education on the Road
Summer Vacations
Summertime Favorites 2005
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Take part in the African American Read-In!
Tales of the Supernatural
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Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.
Teacher's Rubric for Journal Assessment
TeacherServe
Teaching Plot Structure through Short Stories
Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
Connections
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The Academy of American Poets
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
The American Civil War
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883.
The Daffodils
The Elements of Fiction
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing
The Language Bank
The Literary Element of Theme
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Pied Piper led the children out of Hamelin in 1376.
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
The Weakness
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
There Are No Small Parts: Minor Characters in David Copperfield
Think-Aloud Predictions for "Young Goodman Brown"
Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's Blackberry
Picking
Thirteen Ways
Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
Thomas Gray Archive
Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: This too is true: Stories can save us
Today is Chris Van Allsburg's birthday.
Today is International Literacy Day
Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.
Today is St. Patrick's Day.
Today is Walt Whitman's birthday.
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Today is World Poetry Day.
Tracking the Ways Writers Develop Heroes and Villains
Tragic Love: Introducing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
U.S. Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Uncle Tom's Cabin; American Culture
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Unlocking the Underlying Symbolism and Themes of a Dramatic Work
Ursula K. LeGuin was born on this day in 1929.
Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore
Characterization and Style
Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's
Night
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Utopian Visions
VRoma
Varying Views of America
Varying Views of America Rubric
Varying Views of America Student Interactive
Walt Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing"
Interactive Chart
Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: I Hear My School Singing
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster
, was born in 1937.
Weaving the Multigenre Web
Weaving the Old into the New: Pairing The Odyssey with
Contemporary Works
What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
What Is It About? A Little Closer Still
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction
When Less IS More Understanding Minimalist Fiction
William Blake Archive
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Shakespeare
Word Maps: Developing Critical and Analytical Thinking About
Literary Characters
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RL.910.2.
World of Dante
Worth Its Weight: Letter Writing with "The Things They Carried"
Writing Fanfiction
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Writing: An Extended Metaphor Assignment
You re the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its
development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is
shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the
text.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered in New York in 1955.
On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
Star Wars creator George Lucas was born in 1944.
The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.
Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in 1937.
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Tool
"All Quiet on the Western Front" Assignment
"Beowulf" Translations Handout
"Beowulf": Language and Poetics Quick Reference Sheet
"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
"Dear Teachers"
"Fear"
"Gulliver s Travels" Travelogue
"Gulliver's Travels" Analytical Essay
"Joy"
"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
"Suppose Columbus"
"The Epitaph"
"The Glass Menagerie" Job Placement Assignment
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Luncheon" Comparison Table
"The Luncheon" Teacher Assessment Sheet
"To Kill a Mockingbird" in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's
Shoes
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"United We Stand": Search the Covers
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Courage
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
'You Kiss by the Book'': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
A Brief, Urgent Message : Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest
Songs
A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in
Schools
A Question of Style
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
Acrostic Poems
Acting Up, A Melodrama
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Adapting a Musical
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Alex Haley, author of "Roots", was born in 1921.
All the News that's Fit to Print
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
American Studies
American Verse Project
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About
Women
Analyzing Character in Hamlet through Epitaphs
Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's ''Those Winter Sundays''
and Theodore Roethke's ''My Papa's Waltz''
Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the Miser
Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
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Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
Anticipation Guide
April - 2009 - National Poetry Month: American Originals
April 2010 - Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
April is National Poetry Month!
April2010 - National Poetry Month: Celebrating World Poetry
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Author Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944.
Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
Author Gabriel Garcaa Marquez was born on this day.
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Author Lois Duncan was born on this date in 1934.
Author Scott O'Dell was born on this day.
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
Author of Tuck Everlasting , Natalie Babbitt, was born in 1932.
Avi was born in 1937.
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Basic Character Analysis Questions
Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Beowulf
Beware the Ides of March!
Big Endians and Little Endians Passage from "Gulliver's Travels"
Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events
Birches
Birches, Too
Black Poetry Day is celebrated.
Book Cover Guide
Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in
Drama
Book Report Alternative: Grading Rubric
Books
Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
Broken Worlds
Browning s "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue: Student
Interactive
Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Caldecott Medal-winner Virginia Lee Burton was born on this day in
1909.
Caldecott-winning illustrator Lane Smith was born in 1959.
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Carl Sandburg's ''Chicago'': Bringing a Great City Alive
Celebrate Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Celebrate International Literacy Day!
Celebrate author Mary Hoffman's birthday today.
Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Character Analysis Assignment for "The Great Gatsby"
Character Trading Cards
Character Traits Chart
Character Traits: "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Characterization in Literature and Theater
Charles Baudelaire: Poete Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight in 1927.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Checklist for Cultural Relevance Reviews
Children's Book Review Guide
Children's author Dr. Seuss d. 1991
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Circle Plot Diagram
Civil War
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
Collaborative Style Activity, Part 1
Comic Book Show and Tell
Comic Creator
Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in
the Media
Common Visions, Common Voices
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Components of a Review
Connecting with Young Adult Authors through Writing
Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927.
Corridos About the Mexican Revolution
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Creating Characters
Creative Outlining-From Freewriting to Formalizing
Critical Literacy
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
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Critical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot?
Critical Ways of Seeing ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' in
Context
Cultural Creation Myths
Dali and Desnos
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's ''To an Athlete Dying Young'' and
Dylan Thomas' ''Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night''
Defining Characterization
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Demonstrating a Way to Analyze Style
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath : A Multigenre
Project
Developing Characterization in Raymond Carver's A Small, Good
Thing
Diamante Poems
Diamante Poems
Diamante Poems
Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
Digital Dante
Disability Book Sheet
Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems
Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
Discovering a Passion for Poetry With Langston Hughes
Discussion Question Guidelines
Discussion Questions for "We" by Mary Grimm
Doodle Splash
Drama Map
Drama Map
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Drop Me Off in Harlem
EDSITEment
EDSITEment Websites
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Episode Analysis Rubric
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Esther Forbes, author of "Johnny Tremain", was born in 1891.
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
Explore Your Reading Self
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Exploring Arthurian Legend
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Exploring Irony in the Conclusion of All Quiet on the Western Front
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Exploring Literature through Letter-Writing Groups
Exploring Onomatopoeia
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere,
and Theme
Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
Exploring Women's History
Exploring Zora Neale Hurston's Style
Ezra Jack Keats was born on this day in 1916.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Centenary
F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of "The Great Gatsby", was born in 1896.
Faith Ringgold was born on October 8, 1930.
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Burying Addie's Voice
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Concluding the Novel
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Crossing the River
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Family Voices In ''As I Lay Dying''
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Form of a Funeral
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': April Eighth, 1928: Narrating
from an ''Ordered Place''?
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Feature July 2010: Henry David Thoreau
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction
Strategies
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Fractured Fairy Tales
Fractured Families in American Drama
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Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of
Allegiance
French author Guy de Maupassant was born on this day in 1850.
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the History behind the
Satire
Gathering Evidence of Cultural Relevance
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare
Readers
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Grading Rubric
Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature Using Graphics
Great Chicago Stories
Guantanamera: A Poem and a Song
Gwendolyn Brooks published "Bronzeville Boys and Girls" in 1956.
Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
Happily Ever After? Exploring Character, Conflict, and Plot in
Dramatic Tragedy
Harrowing Halloween: Spooky, Supernatural, and Suspenseful
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hawthorne in Salem
Hawthorne: Author and Narrator
Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
Historical References in the Endian Passage
History of Jim Crow
Homework Questions for "Blackberry Picking"
How can I help adults and adolescents better understand what they
read?
How can I help my preschool child learn to read?
How to Help a Teen Choose a Book
How to Write a Biopoem
Humanities Articles
I've Got the Literacy Blues
Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat
If a Body Texts a Body: Texting in "The Catcher in the Rye"
Ile en Ile
In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.
In 1847, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula was born.
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In 1902, John Steinbeck was born.
In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
In 1931, Toni Morrison was born.
In 1940, Musician and peace activist John Lennon was born.
In Literature, Interpretation is the Thing
Inductive Lesson Rubric
Inductive Lesson: Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
Interactive Genre Selection Chart
Interactive Sonnet Characteristics Chart
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It's All in the Translation
It's winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
J. Alfred Prufrock
J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter celebrate birthdays today.
Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born today.
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki d. 1902
Jason and the Argonauts
Jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915.
Jesse James robs the Obocock Bank in 1871.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.
Jonathan Swift was born on this day in 1667.
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
June 14 is Flag Day in the U.S.
June2010 - The Road to Santa Fe: A Virtual Excursion
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
KateChopin.org
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
L. Armstrong - joined F.H. Orchestra
Langston Hughes was born in 1902.
Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Latin Literature
Lessons of the Indian Epic: The ''Ramayana,'' Showing Your Dharma
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Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Letter Exchange Example
Letter Exchange Guidelines
Letter Poem Example
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Emulating Emily Dickinson -- Poetry
Writing
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Responding to Emily Dickinson -Poetic Analysis
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Literary Elements Mapping: Character Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Conflict Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Resolution Map
Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer's Style through Imitation
Literature Featuring Propaganda Techniques and Themes
Live from Antiquity
Looking at Other People's Pledges
Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight 's Edward Cullen
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832.
Love of War in Tim O Brien's How to Tell a True War Story
Lyrics to "You're the Top!" (1934) by Cole Porter
Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy
Mountain
Making It Visual for ELL Students: Teaching History Using "Maus"
Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Manipulating Sentences
Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool
March Calendar
Mark Twain and American Humor
Mark Twain in His Times
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
May - 2010 - Jewish American Heritage Month
Metaphor Project Rubric
Metaphors -- Margaret Atwood
Metaphors -- Naomi Shahib Nye
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Odyssey Online
Mis Cositas Resources: Thematic Units
Model Alphabet Poems
Modeling Good Reading Habits With Teens
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Modern American Poetry
Modern English "Beowulf" Passage Handout
Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Monsters
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Motivating Teen Readers
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Mural Rubric
Music and Me Project Instructions
Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
Mystery Cube
Mystery Cube
Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
Name That Chapter
Name That Chapter Rubric
Name That Chapter! Discussing Summary and Interpretation Using
Chapter Titles
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Get Organized Month
Native American Cultures
Nature and the Environment
Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
New Deal Network
New Takes on Old Tales
Newbery Medal winner Christopher Paul Curtis was born in 1953.
Noh Theater
Novel News Broadcast Segments Rubric
Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution,
and Setting
Novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day in 1899.
November is National American Indian Heritage Month.
November's Literary Lions
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
Nursery Rhyme Concrete Poems
Old English "Beowulf" Passage Handout
One Story, Many Tales
Onomatopoeia: A Figurative Language Minilesson
Opening Lines From American Literature
Opening Lines From World Literature
Opening Lines From Young Adult Literature
Opening Lines from British Literature
Opening Lines from Contemporary American Literature
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
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Passage from Chapter 9 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
Paying Attention to Technology: Exploring a Fictional Technology
Perseus Project
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Picture Book Notes
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With "Persepolis"
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With Persepolis
Picturing U.S. History
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Plot Diagram
Plot Graphic Organizer
Plot Tree Worksheet
Plot of "The Cat in the Hat"
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poe's "The Raven" was published in 1845.
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943.
Poet Robert Burns was born in 1759.
Poet Robert Frost was born in 1874.
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
Poet and author Pat Mora was born on this day in 1942.
Poet/author Edgar Allan Poe d. 1849
Poetic Devices Quiz
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
Poetry Out Loud
Poetry Reading and Interpretation Through Extensive Modeling
Poetry of The Great War: ''From Darkness to Light''?
Poetry: Sound and Sense
Postreading Analysis Sheet for the Cover of The Great Gatsby
Practical Criticism
Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Put That on the List: Independently Writing a Catalog Poem
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question Guidelines
Quotations on Laura Wingfield's Shyness
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Rate This Movie! Hold a Viewing Party
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Reaching Across Time: Scaffolded Engagements With a 19th-Century
Text
ReadWriteThink Student Materials Index
Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to
Literature
Reader's Guide to Understanding Plot Development
Reader's Response Assignment
Reading Andrew Marvell s "To His Coy Mistress"
Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare: A Focus on Student-Centered Learning and
Production
Reading a Work of Art in Eight Steps
Reading a Work of Art: Student Questions for "Death and the Miser"
Reading into Action!
Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip
Renaissance Humanism in "Hamlet"
Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
Representative Poetry Online
Responding to Tragedy: Then and Now
Review Redux: Introducing Literary Criticism Through Reception
Moments
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Riddle Interactive
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Romantic Circles
Rubric for Graphic Organizer, Literary Theme, and Poetry Presentation
Safe Online Talk
Sample Character-Idea Poems
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Say Hi to Haibun Fun: Student Interactive
Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.
Scotland Yard's 179th anniversary takes place today.
Seamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939.
Seed Discussion Organizer
Seeing Sense in Photographs and Poems
Semicolons and Swift: Analyzing Punctuation and Meaning
Sequence of Events Chart
Seuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting Points
Seuss/Silverstein Presentation Rubric
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
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Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shel Silverstein was born in 1930
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966.
Short Story Fair: Responding to Short Stories in Multiple Media and
Genres
So What Do You Think? Writing a Review
Socratic Seminars
Sonic Patterns: Exploring Poetic Techniques Through Close Reading
Sonnet Characteristics Chart
Sophocles, Socrates, and the Greek Polis
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Speaking Poetry: Exploring Sonic Patterns Through Performance
Specific Disability Picture Book Notes
Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in
Narrative
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Star-Crossed Lovers Online: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age
Stephen Crane s "The Open Boat"
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Story Synopses for Teachers
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Student Self-assessment Sheet
Student-Written Catalog Poems
Style Analysis
Style: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices
Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and
Back Again
Summer Travel--Education on the Road
Summer Vacations
Summertime Favorites 2005
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Take part in the African American Read-In!
Tales of the Supernatural
Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.
Teacher's Rubric for Journal Assessment
TeacherServe
Teaching Plot Structure through Short Stories
Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
Connections
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
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Texts With A Sense of Place
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The Academy of American Poets
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
The American Civil War
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883.
The Daffodils
The Elements of Fiction
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing
The Language Bank
The Literary Element of Theme
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Pied Piper led the children out of Hamelin in 1376.
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
The Weakness
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
There Are No Small Parts: Minor Characters in David Copperfield
Think-Aloud Predictions for "Young Goodman Brown"
Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's Blackberry
Picking
Thirteen Ways
Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
Thomas Gray Archive
Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: This too is true: Stories can save us
Today is Chris Van Allsburg's birthday.
Today is International Literacy Day
Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.
Today is St. Patrick's Day.
Today is Walt Whitman's birthday.
Today is World Poetry Day.
Tragic Love: Introducing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
U.S. Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology
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Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Uncle Tom's Cabin; American Culture
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Unlocking the Underlying Symbolism and Themes of a Dramatic Work
Ursula K. LeGuin was born on this day in 1929.
Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore
Characterization and Style
Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's
Night
Utopian Visions
VRoma
Varying Views of America
Varying Views of America Rubric
Varying Views of America Student Interactive
Walt Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing"
Interactive Chart
Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: I Hear My School Singing
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster
, was born in 1937.
Weaving the Multigenre Web
Weaving the Old into the New: Pairing The Odyssey with
Contemporary Works
What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
What Is It About? A Little Closer Still
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction
What is a Genre?
When Less IS More Understanding Minimalist Fiction
William Blake Archive
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Shakespeare
Word Maps: Developing Critical and Analytical Thinking About
Literary Characters
World of Dante
Worth Its Weight: Letter Writing with "The Things They Carried"
Writing Fanfiction
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing a Review Checklist
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Writing: An Extended Metaphor Assignment
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RL.910.3.
Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
You re the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting
motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters,
and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Worksheet
"The Glass Menagerie" Job Placement Assignment
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Luncheon" Comparison Table
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Courage
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'You Kiss by the Book'': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
A Dancer's Journal: Martha Graham
A Question of Style
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
ARTSEDGE: Lessons
Acting Up, A Melodrama
Adapting a Musical
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
An Evening with Stephen Schwartz
An Exploration of "The Crucible" through Seventeenth-Century
Portraits
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing "Gas" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Hotel Room" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Hotel Window" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Morning Sun" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "New York Movie" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "People in the Sun" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Room in Brooklyn" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Sunday" by Edward Hopper
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Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About
Women
Analyzing Character in Hamlet through Epitaphs
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Animals
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
Audio Dramatization Rubric
Author Raymond Chandler b. 1888
Basic Character Analysis Questions
Become a Character
Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events
Book Cover Guide
Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in
Drama
Book Report Alternative: Grading Rubric
Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
Broken Worlds
Browning s "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue: Student
Interactive
Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Character Analysis Assignment for "The Great Gatsby"
Character Analysis Rubric
Character Trading Cards
Character Traits Chart
Character Traits: "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Characterization in Literature and Theater
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Checklist for Cultural Relevance Reviews
Children's Book Review Guide
Children's author Dr. Seuss d. 1991
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Client Preparation Rubric
Comic Vocabulary
Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography
and Literature
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Components of Your Cultural Relevance Review
Components of a Review
Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
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Creating Psychological Profiles of Characters in "To Kill a
Mockingbird"
Creating Character Blogs
Creating Characters
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Crossword Puzzles
Cultural Relevance Rubric
Cultural Relevance Rubric
DanteWords
Defining Characterization
Defining Style
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Developing Characterization in Raymond Carver's A Small, Good
Thing
Disability Book Sheet
Discussion Questions for the "Love and Friendship" Vignette from "The
Mystery of Love"
Doodle Splash
Drama Map
Drama Map
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics
Episode Analysis Rubric
Epitaph Assignment
Epitaph Peer Review Form
Epitaph Rubric
Essay Map
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere,
and Theme
Exploring Women's History
Ezra Jack Keats was born on this day in 1916.
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Burying Addie's Voice
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Concluding the Novel
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Crossing the River
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Family Voices In ''As I Lay Dying''
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Form of a Funeral
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
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Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
Five Easy Drama Games for the Early Elementary Classroom
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Fractured Fairy Tales
Fractured Families in American Drama
French author Guy de Maupassant was born on this day in 1850.
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
Gathering Evidence of Cultural Relevance
Grading Rubric
Great Composers
Happily Ever After? Exploring Character, Conflict, and Plot in
Dramatic Tragedy
Harrowing Halloween: Spooky, Supernatural, and Suspenseful
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hawthorne: Author and Narrator
Historic Heroes
How can I help my preschool child learn to read?
Hypertext Response Project
I Have a Dream: Exploring Nonviolence in Young Adult Texts
I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It: Scaffolding
Students' Engagement With Complex Texts
Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat
Identifying the Characteristics of a Dystopian Protagonist
In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.
Inquiry Questions Guide
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It's All in the Translation
It's winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
Job Placement Assignment
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
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Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Knuffle Bunny: Page to Stage
Lessons of the Indian Epic: The ''Ramayana,'' Showing Your Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Life Cycles
Literary Elements Map
Literary Elements Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Character Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Resolution Map
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Live from Antiquity
Looking at Other People's Pledges
Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight 's Edward Cullen
Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool
Mark Twain and American Humor
Mark Twain in His Times
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Monsters
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Music in Movies: You Pick the Soundtrack
Mystery Cube
Mystery Cube
Myths and Heroes
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Arts and Humanities Month
Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution,
and Setting
Novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day in 1899.
November's Literary Lions
One Story, Many Tales
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Playing with Shadows: An Introduction to Shadow Puppets
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Plot Graphic Organizer
Plot of "The Cat in the Hat"
Preparing a Character for a New Job: Character Analysis through Job
Placement
Profile Publisher
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Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question Guidelines
Questions for Exploring an Edward Hopper Painting
Quotations on Laura Wingfield's Shyness
Rate This Movie! Hold a Viewing Party
Reader's Guide to Understanding Plot Development
Reading Through the Arts
Reading a Work of Art
Reading a Work of Art in Eight Steps
Reading a Work of Art: Student Questions for "Death and the Miser"
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
Recording Family Stories
Resume Component Checklist
Rubric for Character Analysis Assignment
Science fiction - Hugo Gernsback born
Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.
Script Preparation Guidelines
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Setting the Story
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966.
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Specific Disability Picture Book Notes
Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in
Narrative
Stephen Crane s "The Open Boat"
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Stories and Folktales
Story Map
Story Mapping
Student Examples of Epitaphs
Students' Ascriptions of Gender to Seven Characters - Years 1987 and
1997
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.
Teacher's Rubric for Journal Assessment
TeacherServe
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
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Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The American Civil War
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Elements of Fiction
The Literary Element of Theme
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Skeleton of a Scary Story
There Are No Small Parts: Minor Characters in David Copperfield
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Through the Eyes of the Director
Today is St. Patrick's Day.
Tracking the Ways Writers Develop Heroes and Villains
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Unlocking the Underlying Symbolism and Themes of a Dramatic Work
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore
Characterization and Style
Walt Disney was born in 1901.
Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster
, was born in 1937.
Weaving the Old into the New: Pairing The Odyssey with
Contemporary Works
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
Word Maps: Developing Critical and Analytical Thinking About
Literary Characters
Writing Fanfiction
Writing a Review Checklist
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
Craft and Structure
RL.910.4.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text,
including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact
of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a
sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
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The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Tool
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'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
'You Kiss by the Book'': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
A Brief, Urgent Message : Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's ''Those Winter Sundays''
and Theodore Roethke's ''My Papa's Waltz''
Analyzing a Visual Message
Analyzing a World War II Poster
Art Explication: "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli
Author Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944.
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Basic Qualities of Minimalist Fiction
Beowulf
Brief, Urgent Messages
Brochure Investigation Sheet
Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Carl Sandburg's ''Chicago'': Bringing a Great City Alive
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Children's Book Review Guide
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
Collaborative Style Activity, Part 1
Components of a Review
Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
Creating Characters
Cultural Change
Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's ''To an Athlete Dying Young'' and
Dylan Thomas' ''Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night''
Defining Characterization
Defining Style
Demonstrating a Way to Analyze Style
Discussion Questions for "We" by Mary Grimm
Document Analysis for Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda
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Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere,
and Theme
Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
Exploring Zora Neale Hurston's Style
Families in Bondage
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
From Courage to Freedom: The Reality Behind the Song
Gathering Evidence of Cultural Relevance
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Harrowing Halloween: Spooky, Supernatural, and Suspenseful
Imperialism and the Open Door
In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.
In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
In 1931, Toni Morrison was born.
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inductive Lesson Rubric
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
J. Alfred Prufrock
Jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915.
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Korzybski general semantics b. 1879
Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Emulating Emily Dickinson -- Poetry
Writing
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Responding to Emily Dickinson -Poetic Analysis
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Lyrics Analysis Chart
Manipulating Sentences
Mark Twain and American Humor
Multiple Ownership of the Past
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure"
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure
Novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day in 1899.
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
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Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Picture Book Notes
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Poe's "The Raven" was published in 1845.
Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943.
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
Poetic Devices Quiz
Poetry of The Great War: ''From Darkness to Light''?
Poetry: Sound and Sense
Practical Criticism
Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
Profile Publisher
Profile Publisher
Profile Publisher
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study
Reading a Work of Art
Reading a Work of Art in Eight Steps
Reading a Work of Art: Student Questions for "Death and the Miser"
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
Responding to Tragedy: Then and Now
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Say Hi to Haibun Fun: Student Interactive
Seamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939.
Seeing Sense in Photographs and Poems
Setting the Story
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Speech Analysis Questions
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Style Analysis
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Tales of the Supernatural
The American Civil War
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Literary Element of Theme
The Poetics of Hip Hop
Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's Blackberry
Picking
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RL.910.5.
Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
Today is World Poetry Day.
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Varying Views of America Student Interactive
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
Word Matrix
Word Matrix Interactive Tool
Writing a Review Checklist
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order
events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing,
flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
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On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
"All Quiet on the Western Front" Assignment
"Gulliver's Travels" Essay Rubric
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Luncheon" Comparison Table
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
A Question of Style
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
ARTSEDGE: Lessons
Acting Up, A Melodrama
Adapting a Musical
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
An Evening with Stephen Schwartz
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the Miser
Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
April - 2009 - National Poetry Month: American Originals
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Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
Audio Dramatization Rubric
Author Gabriel Garcaa Marquez was born on this day.
Author Raymond Chandler b. 1888
Basic Character Analysis Questions
Beowulf
Book Cover Guide
Book Report Alternative: Grading Rubric
Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Caldecott Medal-winner Virginia Lee Burton was born on this day in
1909.
Carl Sandburg's ''Chicago'': Bringing a Great City Alive
Character Trading Cards
Characterization in Literature and Theater
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Checklist for Cultural Relevance Reviews
Children's author Dr. Seuss d. 1991
Collaborative Style Activity, Part 1
Components of Your Cultural Relevance Review
Components of a Review
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Crossword Puzzles
Cultural Relevance Rubric
Cultural Relevance Rubric
Defining Style
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Demonstrating a Way to Analyze Style
Discussion Questions for "Coming Home, Again"
Doodle Splash
Drama Map
Drama Map
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Essay Map
Essay of Place
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere,
and Theme
Exploring Zora Neale Hurston's Style
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': April Eighth, 1928: Narrating
from an ''Ordered Place''?
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
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Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Fractured Fairy Tales
French author Guy de Maupassant was born on this day in 1850.
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
Gathering Evidence of Cultural Relevance
George Washington: The Living Symbol
Grading Rubric
Great Composers
Happily Ever After? Exploring Character, Conflict, and Plot in
Dramatic Tragedy
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.
Hypertext Response Project
Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat
In 1931, Toni Morrison was born.
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inquiry Questions Guide
Interactive Circle Plot Diagram
Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
J. Alfred Prufrock
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lessons of the Indian Epic: The ''Ramayana,'' Showing Your Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Emulating Emily Dickinson -- Poetry
Writing
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Responding to Emily Dickinson -Poetic Analysis
Literary Elements Map
Literary Elements Map
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Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer's Style through Imitation
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Live from Antiquity
Mark Twain and American Humor
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Music in Movies: You Pick the Soundtrack
Mystery Cube
Mystery Cube
Novel News Broadcast Segments Rubric
Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution,
and Setting
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Playing with Shadows: An Introduction to Shadow Puppets
Plot Diagram
Plot Diagram
Plot Graphic Organizer
Plot Tree Worksheet
Plot of "The Cat in the Hat"
Plotting the Story
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question Guidelines
Rate This Movie! Hold a Viewing Party
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Reader's Guide to Understanding Plot Development
Reading Through the Arts
Reading a Work of Art in Eight Steps
Reading a Work of Art: Student Questions for "Death and the Miser"
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
Reading into Action!
Reenactment Criteria Guide
Rubric for "All Quiet on the Western Front" Assignment
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Seeing Sense in Photographs and Poems
Setting the Story
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
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RL.910.6.
Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
Stories and Folktales
Story Map
Story Mapping
Style Analysis
Style: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices
Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and
Back Again
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Tales of the Supernatural
Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories
Teaching Plot Structure through Short Stories
Technology Autobiography Assignment
Technology Profile
The American Civil War
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Elements of Fiction
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Literary Element of Theme
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Skeleton of a Scary Story
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Thirteen Ways
Through the Eyes of the Director
Today is St. Patrick's Day.
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore
Characterization and Style
What is a Genre?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
Writing Fanfiction
Writing a Review Checklist
Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
Writing for the Real World
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of
literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world
literature.
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Literary Graffiti
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Opening Lines From World Literature
Representative Poetry Online
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RL.910.7.
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic
mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g.,
Auden's ''Musee des Beaux Arts'' and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of
Icarus).
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"The Luncheon" Comparison Table
"You Gotta BE the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Courage
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
ARTSEDGE
ARTSEDGE: Lessons
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About
Women
Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's ''Those Winter Sundays''
and Theodore Roethke's ''My Papa's Waltz''
Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the Miser
Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
Ancient Empires
April - 2009 - National Poetry Month: American Originals
April2010 - National Poetry Month: Celebrating World Poetry
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Artfully Speaking
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Arts Education: Making the Case With Legislators
Author Gabriel Garcaa Marquez was born on this day.
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Author Raymond Chandler b. 1888
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Broken Worlds
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Charles Baudelaire: Poete Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Common Visions, Common Voices
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Critical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot?
Dali and Desnos
Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's ''To an Athlete Dying Young'' and
Dylan Thomas' ''Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night''
Differentiation in the Classroom
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Ekphrasis: Using Art to Inspire Poetry
Espanol
Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere,
and Theme
Fractured Families in American Drama
From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the History behind the
Satire
Gathering Evidence of Cultural Relevance
Genre List
Going Bohemian: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean It
Going Public
Going to the Principal's Office
Harlem Renaissance Web Sites
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Homeland Afghanistan
How Parents Can Support Arts Education
In 1931, Toni Morrison was born.
In Literature, Interpretation is the Thing
Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
Inventors and Explorers
It's All in the Translation
Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born today.
Jason and the Argonauts
Jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915.
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Korzybski general semantics b. 1879
Myths and Heroes
Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
New Paths to Learning
News channel MSNBC launched in 1996
Novel/Poem Compare and Contrast Frame
Novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day in 1899.
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November's Literary Lions
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pakistan: The Gift of the Indus
Poet and author Pat Mora was born on this day in 1942.
Poet/author Edgar Allan Poe d. 1849
Poetry of The Great War: ''From Darkness to Light''?
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question Guidelines
Reading Through the Arts
Reading a Work of Art: Student Questions for "Death and the Miser"
Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Rubric for Graphic Organizer, Literary Theme, and Poetry Presentation
Short Story Fair Projects
Slam: KC
Slam: KC - The Journey
Slam: KC - The Poets
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Speak Up for the Arts
Start the Conversation about Arts Education
Stories and Folktales
Student Interactives
Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and
Back Again
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Take a Leading Role in your Child s Education
Tales of the Supernatural
Teaching Plot Structure through Short Stories
The American Civil War
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883.
The Kennedy Center Concert Hall
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Pied Piper led the children out of Hamelin in 1376.
The Poetics of Hip Hop
Thinkfinity Today in History Calendar
Thirteen Ways
Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
Today is St. Patrick's Day.
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Understanding the Context of Modernism
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RL.910.9.
Varying Views of America Student Interactive
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
What's in Your Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit?
When Less IS More Understanding Minimalist Fiction
Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the
English Classroom
World Music
You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents (2nd edition)
Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific
work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or
how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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Folger Shakespeare Library
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
RL.910.10.
By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories,
dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with
scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered in New York in 1955.
On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
Star Wars creator George Lucas was born in 1944.
The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.
Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in 1937.
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Tool
"All Quiet on the Western Front" Assignment
"Beowulf" Translations Handout
"Beowulf": Language and Poetics Quick Reference Sheet
"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
"Dear Teachers"
"Fear"
"Gulliver s Travels" Travelogue
"Gulliver's Travels" Analytical Essay
"Joy"
"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
"Suppose Columbus"
"The Epitaph"
"The Glass Menagerie" Job Placement Assignment
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"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Luncheon" Comparison Table
"The Luncheon" Teacher Assessment Sheet
"The Mysteries of Harris Burdick": Using Illustrations to Guide Writing
"To Kill a Mockingbird" in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's
Shoes
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
"You Gotta BE the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Courage
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
'You Kiss by the Book'': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
5 Ways to Bring Music into Your Daily Teaching
A Brief, Urgent Message : Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest
Songs
A Dancer's Journal: Martha Graham
A Few of Our Favorite Things...
A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in
Schools
A Question of Style
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
ARTSEDGE: Lessons
Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry
Acrostic Poems
Acting Up, A Melodrama
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Adapting a Musical
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
African-American History
Alan Stanford: The Power of Theater
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Alex Haley, author of "Roots", was born in 1921.
All the News that's Fit to Print
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
American Masters
American Studies
American Verse Project
An Evening with Stephen Schwartz
An Exploration of "The Crucible" through Seventeenth-Century
Portraits
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About
Women
Analyzing Character in Hamlet through Epitaphs
Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's ''Those Winter Sundays''
and Theodore Roethke's ''My Papa's Waltz''
Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the Miser
Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Ancient Empires
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
Animals
April - 2009 - National Poetry Month: American Originals
April 2010 - Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
April Calendar
April is National Poetry Month!
April2010 - National Poetry Month: Celebrating World Poetry
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Asia
Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
August Calendar
August Wilson: The Power of Theater
Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Author Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944.
Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
Author Gabriel Garcaa Marquez was born on this day.
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Author Lois Duncan was born on this date in 1934.
Author Scott O'Dell was born on this day.
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
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Author of Tuck Everlasting , Natalie Babbitt, was born in 1932.
Avi was born in 1937.
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Basic Character Analysis Questions
Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Beowulf
Beware the Ides of March!
Big Endians and Little Endians Passage from "Gulliver's Travels"
Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events
Birches
Birches, Too
Black History Month
Black Poetry Day is celebrated.
Book Cover Guide
Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in
Drama
Book Report Alternative: Grading Rubric
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
Brief, Urgent Messages
Broken Worlds
Browning s "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue: Student
Interactive
Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page,
Panel by Panel
Caldecott Medal-winner Virginia Lee Burton was born on this day in
1909.
Caldecott-winning illustrator Lane Smith was born in 1959.
Carl Sandburg's ''Chicago'': Bringing a Great City Alive
Celebrate Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Celebrate International Literacy Day!
Celebrate author Mary Hoffman's birthday today.
Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
Celebrate the 100th day of school!
Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Character Analysis Assignment for "The Great Gatsby"
Character Trading Cards
Character Traits Chart
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Character Traits: "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Characterization in Literature and Theater
Charles Baudelaire: Poete Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Children's Book Review Guide
Children's author Dr. Seuss d. 1991
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Circle Plot Diagram
City Dionysia: The Ancient Roots of Modern Theater
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
Collaborative Style Activity, Part 1
Comic Book Show and Tell
Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in
the Media
Common Visions, Common Voices
Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography
and Literature
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927.
Corridos About the Mexican Revolution
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Creating Psychological Profiles of Characters in "To Kill a
Mockingbird"
Creating Characters
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Creative Outlining-From Freewriting to Formalizing
Critical Literacy
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Critical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot?
Critical Ways of Seeing ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' in
Context
Crossing Boundaries Through Bilingual, Spoken-Word Poetry
Cultural Creation Myths
Dali and Desnos
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
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Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's ''To an Athlete Dying Young'' and
Dylan Thomas' ''Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night''
Defining Characterization
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Demonstrating a Way to Analyze Style
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath : A Multigenre
Project
Developing Characterization in Raymond Carver's A Small, Good
Thing
Diamante Poems
Diamante Poems
Diamante Poems
Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
Digital Dante
Disability Book Sheet
Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems
Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
Discovering a Passion for Poetry With Langston Hughes
Discussion Questions for "We" by Mary Grimm
Doodle Splash
Drama Map
Drama Map
Dramatic Dos and Don'ts
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Drop Me Off in Harlem
EDSITEment
EDSITEment Websites
EDSITEment's Recommended Reading List for College-Bound
Students
Earth, Wind and Water
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Esther Forbes, author of "Johnny Tremain", was born in 1891.
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
Explication Essay Checklist
Explore Thomas Cole
Explore Your Reading Self
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Irony in the Conclusion of All Quiet on the Western Front
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
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Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Exploring Literature through Letter-Writing Groups
Exploring Onomatopoeia
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere,
and Theme
Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
Exploring Women's History
Exploring Zora Neale Hurston's Style
Ezra Jack Keats was born on this day in 1916.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Centenary
F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of "The Great Gatsby", was born in 1896.
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with The Piano Lesson
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with "The Piano Lesson"
Faith Ringgold was born on October 8, 1930.
Family and Community
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Burying Addie's Voice
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Concluding the Novel
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Crossing the River
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Family Voices In ''As I Lay Dying''
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Form of a Funeral
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': April Eighth, 1928: Narrating
from an ''Ordered Place''?
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Feature April 2010: National Poetry Month
Feature July 2010: Henry David Thoreau
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2010: STEM
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Five Easy Drama Games for the Early Elementary Classroom
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction
Strategies
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Fractured Fairy Tales
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Fractured Families in American Drama
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of
Allegiance
French author Guy de Maupassant was born on this day in 1850.
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the History behind the
Satire
Gathering Evidence of Cultural Relevance
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare
Readers
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Grading Rubric
Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature Using Graphics
Graphic Map
Graphic Map
Graphic Map
Great Chicago Stories
Great Composers
Guampedia
Guantanamera: A Poem and a Song
Gwendolyn Brooks published "Bronzeville Boys and Girls" in 1956.
Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
Happily Ever After? Exploring Character, Conflict, and Plot in
Dramatic Tragedy
Harrowing Halloween: Spooky, Supernatural, and Suspenseful
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hawthorne in Salem
Hawthorne: Author and Narrator
Help Wanted: Writing Professional Resumes
Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
Historic Heroes
Historical References in the Endian Passage
History of Jim Crow
Homework Questions for "Blackberry Picking"
How can I help adults and adolescents better understand what they
read?
How can I help my preschool child learn to read?
How to Help a Teen Choose a Book
How to Write a Biopoem
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Human Language
I Have a Dream: Exploring Nonviolence in Young Adult Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat
If a Body Texts a Body: Texting in "The Catcher in the Rye"
Ile en Ile
In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.
In 1847, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula was born.
In 1902, John Steinbeck was born.
In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
In 1931, Toni Morrison was born.
In 1940, Musician and peace activist John Lennon was born.
In Literature, Interpretation is the Thing
Inductive Lesson Rubric
Inductive Lesson: Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
Interactive Genre Selection Chart
Interactive Sonnet Characteristics Chart
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Inventors and Explorers
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It's All in the Translation
It's winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
J. Alfred Prufrock
J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter celebrate birthdays today.
Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born today.
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
January Calendar
Japan/Amer. poet Yamada b. 1923
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki d. 1902
Jason and the Argonauts
Jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915.
Jazz's Jelly Roll Morton d. 1941
Jesse James robs the Obocock Bank in 1871.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.
Jonathan Swift was born on this day in 1667.
Joseph Bruchac: The Flute and the Drum
Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
July Calendar
June 14 is Flag Day in the U.S.
June Calendar
June2010 - The Road to Santa Fe: A Virtual Excursion
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Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
KateChopin.org
Know LA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
L. Armstrong - joined F.H. Orchestra
Langston Hughes was born in 1902.
Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Latin Literature
Latino Poetry Blog: Blogging as a Forum for Open Discussion
Lessons of the Indian Epic: The ''Ramayana,'' Showing Your Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Letter Exchange Example
Letter Exchange Guidelines
Letter Poem Example
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Emulating Emily Dickinson -- Poetry
Writing
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Responding to Emily Dickinson -Poetic Analysis
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Literary Elements Mapping: Character Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Conflict Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Resolution Map
Literary Graffiti
Literary Parodies Assessment
Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer's Style through Imitation
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Literature Featuring Propaganda Techniques and Themes
Live from Antiquity
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Looking at Other People's Pledges
Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight 's Edward Cullen
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832.
Love of War in Tim O Brien's How to Tell a True War Story
Lyrics to "You're the Top!" (1934) by Cole Porter
Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy
Mountain
Making It Visual for ELL Students: Teaching History Using "Maus"
Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Manipulating Sentences
Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool
March Calendar
Mark Twain and American Humor
Mark Twain in His Times
Mark Twain, An American Icon
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
May - 2010 - Jewish American Heritage Month
May Calendar
Metaphor Project Rubric
Metaphors -- Margaret Atwood
Metaphors -- Naomi Shahib Nye
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Odyssey Online
Miguel de Cervantes was b. 1547
Mis Cositas Resources: Thematic Units
Model Alphabet Poems
Modeling Good Reading Habits With Teens
Modern American Poetry
Modern English "Beowulf" Passage Handout
Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Monsters
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Motivating Teen Readers
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Multigenre Mapper
Multigenre Mapper
Mural Rubric
Music and Me Project Instructions
Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
Myths and Heroes
Name That Chapter! Discussing Summary and Interpretation Using
Chapter Titles
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
Native American Cultures
Nature and the Environment
Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
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New Deal Network
New Georgia Encyclopedia
New Takes on Old Tales
Newbery Medal winner Christopher Paul Curtis was born in 1953.
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure"
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure
Nobody's Perfect: Page to Stage
Noh Theater
Novel News Broadcast Segments Rubric
Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution,
and Setting
Novel/Poem Compare and Contrast Frame
Novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day in 1899.
November is National American Indian Heritage Month.
November's Literary Lions
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
Nursery Rhyme Concrete Poems
Observations About Poetry Sheet
October Calendar
Old English "Beowulf" Passage Handout
One Story, Many Tales
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Onomatopoeia: A Figurative Language Minilesson
Opening Lines From American Literature
Opening Lines From World Literature
Opening Lines From Young Adult Literature
Opening Lines from British Literature
Opening Lines from Contemporary American Literature
Oregon Encyclopedia
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pakistan: The Gift of the Indus
Passage from Chapter 9 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
Paying Attention to Technology: Exploring a Fictional Technology
Perseus Project
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Picture Book Notes
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With "Persepolis"
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With Persepolis
Picturing U.S. History
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Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Plants and Seasons
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Plot Tree Worksheet
Plot of "The Cat in the Hat"
Plotting the Story
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poe's "The Raven" was published in 1845.
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943.
Poet Robert Burns was born in 1759.
Poet Robert Frost was born in 1874.
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
Poet and author Pat Mora was born on this day in 1942.
Poet/author Edgar Allan Poe d. 1849
Poetic Devices Quiz
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
Poetry Out Loud
Poetry Reading and Interpretation Through Extensive Modeling
Poetry of The Great War: ''From Darkness to Light''?
Poetry: Sound and Sense
Postreading Analysis Sheet for the Cover of The Great Gatsby
Practical Criticism
Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
Put That on the List: Independently Writing a Catalog Poem
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question Guidelines
Quotations on Laura Wingfield's Shyness
Raymond Carver in the Classroom: "A Small, Good Thing"
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Reaching Across Time: Scaffolded Engagements With a 19th-Century
Text
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to
Literature
Reader's Guide to Understanding Plot Development
Reading Andrew Marvell s "To His Coy Mistress"
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Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study
Reading Record Chart
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare: A Focus on Student-Centered Learning and
Production
Reading Through the Arts
Reading a Work of Art: Student Questions for "Death and the Miser"
Reading into Action!
Real-World Geography: Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip
Recording Readers Theatre: Developing Comprehension and Fluency
With Audio Texts
Renaissance Humanism in "Hamlet"
Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
Representative Poetry Online
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Responding to Tragedy: Then and Now
Review Redux: Introducing Literary Criticism Through Reception
Moments
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Riddle Interactive
Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School
Students
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Romantic Circles
Rubric for Graphic Organizer, Literary Theme, and Poetry Presentation
Safe Online Talk
Sample Character-Idea Poems
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Say Hi to Haibun Fun: Student Interactive
Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.
Scotland Yard's 179th anniversary takes place today.
Scribbling Women
Seamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939.
Seed Discussion Organizer
Seeing Sense in Photographs and Poems
Semicolons and Swift: Analyzing Punctuation and Meaning
Sequence of Events Chart
Setting the Story
Seuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting Points
Seuss/Silverstein Presentation Rubric
Shakespeare in Love
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Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shel Silverstein was born in 1930
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966.
Short Story Fair: Responding to Short Stories in Multiple Media and
Genres
Smithsonian Education
So What Do You Think? Writing a Review
Socratic Seminars
Sonic Patterns: Exploring Poetic Techniques Through Close Reading
Sonnet 18
Sonnet Characteristics Chart
Sophocles, Socrates, and the Greek Polis
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Speaking Poetry: Exploring Sonic Patterns Through Performance
Specific Disability Picture Book Notes
Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in
Narrative
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Star-Crossed Lovers Online: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age
Stephen Crane s "The Open Boat"
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Stories Brought to Life
Stories and Folktales
Story Synopses for Teachers
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Student Self-assessment Sheet
Student-Written Catalog Poems
Studying Literature: New Approaches to Poetry and Fiction
Style Analysis
Style: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices
Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and
Back Again
Summer Travel--Education on the Road
Summer Vacations
Summertime Favorites 2005
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Take part in the African American Read-In!
Tales of the Supernatural
Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.
Teacher's Rubric for Journal Assessment
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TeacherServe
Teaching Plot Structure through Short Stories
Teaching Poetry in High School
Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
Connections
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
Texts to Inspire Discussion about Feminist Issues
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The Academy of American Poets
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
The American Civil War
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883.
The Daffodils
The Elements of Fiction
The End of Europe's Middle Ages
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing
The Language Bank
The Literary Element of Theme
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Nineteenth Century in Print -- The Making of America in Books
and Periodicals
The Online Library of Liberty
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Pied Piper led the children out of Hamelin in 1376.
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Power of Theater
The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
Homepage
The Story Behind the Song: Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
The Story Behind the Song: God Bless America
The Story Behind the Song: The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Story Behind the Song: The Marine's Hymn
The Story Behind the Song: The Star-Spangled Banner
The Ten-Minute Play: Encouraging Original Response to Challenging
Texts
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
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The Victorian Web
The We the People Bookshelf: Pursuit of Happiness
The Weakness
Theater Conversations
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
There Are No Small Parts: Minor Characters in David Copperfield
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Think-Aloud Predictions for "Young Goodman Brown"
Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's Blackberry
Picking
Thirteen Ways
Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
Thomas Gray Archive
Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: This too is true: Stories can save us
Today is Chris Van Allsburg's birthday.
Today is International Literacy Day
Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.
Today is St. Patrick's Day.
Today is Walt Whitman's birthday.
Today is World Poetry Day.
Tragic Love: Introducing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
U.S. Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Uncle Tom's Cabin; American Culture
Understanding the Context of Modernism
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Unlocking the Underlying Symbolism and Themes of a Dramatic Work
Ursula K. LeGuin was born on this day in 1929.
Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore
Characterization and Style
Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's
Night
Utopian Visions
VRoma
Varying Views of America
Varying Views of America Rubric
Varying Views of America Student Interactive
Walk with Light: Guiding Students through the Conventions of Literary
Analysis
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LA.CC.RI.910.
Walt Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing"
Interactive Chart
Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: I Hear My School Singing
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster
, was born in 1937.
Weaving the Multigenre Web
Weaving the Old into the New: Pairing The Odyssey with
Contemporary Works
What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
What Is It About? A Little Closer Still
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction
When Less IS More Understanding Minimalist Fiction
William Blake Archive
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Shakespeare
Wired for Books
Word Maps: Developing Critical and Analytical Thinking About
Literary Characters
Word Wizard
World Music
World of Dante
Worth Its Weight: Letter Writing with "The Things They Carried"
Writing Fanfiction
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Writing: An Extended Metaphor Assignment
You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents (2nd edition)
You re the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
Zora Neale Hurston, novel published
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
Reading Standards for Informational Text
Key Ideas and Details
RI.9-10.1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
The New York Times used the slogan "All the News That's Fit to
Print."
"Beowulf": Language and Poetics Quick Reference Sheet
"Coming Home Again"
"Death and the Miser" Deconstructed
"Finding Common Ground" Hypothetical Scenario
"Gulliver s Travels" Travelogue
"It's Our World Too": Socially Responsive Learners in Middle School
Language Arts
"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"To Kill a Mockingbird" in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's
Shoes
"United We Stand" Homepage
"United We Stand": Behind the Designs
"United We Stand": Magazine Cover Gallery
"United We Stand": Search the Covers
"United We Stand": The Campaign
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
"War of the Worlds" Worksheet
"You Gotta BE the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents
'Common Sense'': The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Courage
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
1492: Columbus Enterprise of Indies
1790: 1st census count in the U.S.
1792: Cornerstone White House laid
1796: birth of the metric system
1846: Congress charted Smithsonian
1858: Darwin theory of evolution
1884: Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's
1904: 1st rapid transit subway, NYC
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1911: Bingham discovered Incan ruin
1922: First radio commercial aired
1939: The Wizard of Oz Premiered
1945: U.S. Gov. ended shoe rationing
1945: United Nations commenced
1946: 1st Cannes Film Festival held
1952: 1st open-heart surgery
1958: Nat. Aeronautics/Space Admin.
1960: U.S. halted exports to Cuba
1966: Extended minimum wage law
1968 Exhibit
1969: Neil Armstrong 1st walk moon
1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial - D.C.
1988: Germany's Graf, won US Open
1990: East & West Germany reunified
1990: Nepal adopted a constitution
1996: Netscape released Navigator 3.0
1998: Hackers redirected AOL emails
1999: Earth population reached 6 B
1st drive-in banking services, 1946
2,000/yr old Terracotta Army dug up
2001: Islamist terrorists attack
2004 Political Web Sites
300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae: Herodotus' ''Real'' History
622: Islamic calendar - Muhammad
A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest
Songs
A Failure of the Imagination
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Letter From George Washington
A Question of Style
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
A Vision of Puerto Rico
A Vision of Puerto Rico: The Teodoro Vidal Collection Homepage
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
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AD 79: Mt Vesuvius erupted
AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed, 1987
About Us
Abraham Lincoln and Wartime Politics
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life Homepage
Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
Adapting a Musical
Adolescent Literacy and the Effect of Standards
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
African Voices
African-American Women On-line Archival Collections
Afropop Worldwide NPR
Al-Mizan
All the News that's Fit to Print
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Alternative Book Reports
Alternative Book Reports
Amelia Earhart completed her solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland in
1935.
America celebrates Thanksgiving Day today.
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
America's Voting Patchwork
American Centuries: View from New England
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Icons: A Radio Series from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
American Masters
American Memory Project: Main Index Page
American Studies
American Verse Project
American Writers
An EDSITEment Tour of the National Mall
An Introduction to Psychoanalytical Criticism
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Analysis Sheet for "A View of Toledo"
Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Opinions on Music Downloads
Analyzing a Political Cartoon: "Settin on a Rail"
Analyzing a Visual Message
Analyzing a World War II Poster
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
And the Question Is... Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
Andy Warhol b. 1928
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
Answering the Call 1917-1945
Anthrax spores mailed to Senators
Anthropology Collection, AMNH
April - 2009 - National Poetry Month: American Originals
April 2010 - Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
April 2010 Feature: Ker-Splash
April 2010 Feature: Verizon Thinkfinity Launches New Site
April Calendar
April2010 - National Poetry Month: Celebrating World Poetry
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Arctic Studies Center
Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda?
Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Analyzing World War II Posters
Art Algorithms
Art Explication: "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli
Art History Resources
Art Safari
Art andamp; Life in Africa Online
Art collector Peg Guggenheim b 1898
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Artificial Anatomy Homepage
Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
Arts Education and the Business Community
Arts Education: Making the Case With Legislators
Arts of the Gilded Age
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is in May!
Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
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Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a
Text
Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
At Home in the Heartland Online
At the Crossroads of Expertise: The Risky Business of Teaching
Popular Culture
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
August - 2008 - Electing America's President
August - 2009 - Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's
Introduction August Calendar
Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
Author Raymond Chandler b. 1888
Author Scott O'Dell was born on this day.
Author Stephen Crane b. 1871
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
Authoring With Video
Aviation History Month
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Azor: Vodou Jazz
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Baby Name Books
Background Information on the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Baltimore Museum of Art
Battle of the Bulge: Americans Respond to a German Surprise
Becoming An American Citizen
Beguiling Billboards: Finding Inspiration along the Road
Behaim, creator of the oldest globe
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
Benin became independent in 1960
Beowulf
Bethlehem Digital History Project
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Beyond What I Did on Vacation : Exploring the Genre of Travel
Writing
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Biography Project Discussion Questions
Biography of Paul Langan
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Birth of Cleveland in White House
Black History Month
Black Sea ancient remains found
Black Ships; Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Bluford, 1st Afr. Amer. astronaut
Bon Appetite! Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
Book Cover Guide
Books
Botanist Morison, plant classify.
Botanist Morison, plant classify.
Both Art and Craft: Teaching Ideas That Spark Learning
Bouncing Babies
Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Tragic End
Brain to Brain Interface
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
Bright Stars and Broad Stripes Classroom Videos
Bright Stars and Broad Stripes Teacher Guide for the Classroom Videos
Bringing Grammar to Life
British Academy
Broadway librettist Hammerstein II
Brochure Investigation Sheet
Broken Worlds
Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Browsing Music
Building Big
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page,
Panel by Panel
Building Suburbia: Highways and Housing in Postwar America
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
But Will It Work with Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching
Secondary English Language Arts
C.B. Darrow, inventor of Monopoly
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Carl Sandburg's ''Chicago'': Bringing a Great City Alive
Celebrate Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Celebrate Earth Day!
Celebrate International Literacy Day!
Celebrate Juneteenth!
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
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Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
Changing Gender Roles on the World War II Home Front
Chapman - Johnny Appleseed b. 1775
Characterization in Literature and Theater
Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854
Charles Baudelaire: Poete Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight in 1927.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Checklist for Cultural Relevance Reviews
Chef Emeril Lagasse b. 1959
Children's author Dr. Seuss d. 1991
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Circus/trainer Gunther d. 2001
Citizenship: New Citizenship Test
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
Clocking T. rex
Co-Authoring in the Classroom: Creating an Environment for Effective
Collaboration
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Comedian/actor Dennis Miller b 1953
Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in
the Media
Commercial ice cream is first sold in the U.S. in 1786.
Common Myths about the Gettysburg Address
Common Visions, Common Voices
Communicating the Presidency
Community tour
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Components of Your Cultural Relevance Review
Components of a Review
Conflicting Voices of the Mexican War
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
Connecting with Young Adult Authors through Writing
Conversations with History
Copyright Clarity: What Every English Teacher Needs to Know
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Copyright Clarity: Can My Students Use Images in their Writing?
Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927.
Corridos About the Mexican Revolution
Cortes captured MX City from Aztecs
Cracking the Genetic Code
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Crayola Crayons
Create a Career Blog
Creating Classroom Discussion About Reviews
Creating a Persuasive Podcast
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Creating a Scavenger Hunt Question
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Critical Literacies and Graphic Novels for English-Language Learners:
Teaching "Maus"
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Critical Ways of Seeing ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' in
Context
Crittenden-Johnson Resolution
Cultural Change
Cultural Creation Myths
Cultural Relevance Review Guidelines
César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
Dali and Desnos
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Davy Crockett was born in 1786.
Debate Over Downloading Music Links
Debating Music Downloads
December Calendar
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's 1984
Commercial
Deep Diver
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Defining Literacy in a Digital World: Student Interactive
Defining Style
Defining the Presidency
Dem. W.J. Bryan gave notable speech
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Demonstrating a Way to Analyze Style
Designer Coco Chanel b. 1883
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath : A Multigenre
Project
Designing Writing Assignments
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Detective Allan Pinkerton b. 1819
Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of
Multiple Intelligence Activities
Diamante Poem Rubric
Diamante Poem Writing Assignment
Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
Differentiated Assessment and Grading: Fair Isn't Always Equal
Differentiating Instruction
Differentiating Instruction for Shakespeare
Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
Digital Dante
Digital Karnak Project
Digital Roman Forum
Digital Scriptorium
Discussion Question Guidelines
Discussion Questions for "Coming Home, Again"
Discussion Questions for "Mother Tongue"
Disneyland's Virtual Geography
Do Tell: Giving Feedback to Your Students
Document Analysis for Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda
Documentary photo. Dorothea Lange
Documenting African American History
Documenting the American South
Dollar chosen as unit of currency
Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine, was born in 1914.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Drawing Political Cartoons
Driving Music
Drop Me Off in Harlem
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers
Dystopian Film Clip Guide
Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics
EDSITEment
EDSITEment Websites
EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War
and Reconstruction
Easing Your Transition to Teaching Writing Online
Economist Milton Friedman b. 1912
Ecosystems
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Education News
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s
Electing America's President
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928.
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a MD degree in
1849.
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Eng. mathematician John Wallis d.
Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
Engaging the Disengaged: Using Learning Clubs to Motivate
Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Espanol
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing
Classroom
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Examining Transcendentalism Through Popular Culture: Final Project
Examining the U.S. Pledge
Examples for the United States
Exit Slips
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Explore Thomas Cole
Explore Your Reading Self
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Cross-Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
Exploring Cultural Connotations of Color
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Exploring Women's History
Exploring Zora Neale Hurston's Style
Exploring the Gettysburg Address
Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through
Diamante Poetry
Extending our Reach: Promoting Better Reading through Think Alouds,
Visualization and Action Strategies with Technology
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Centenary
Families in Bondage
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Crossing the River
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Form of a Funeral
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
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Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': April Eighth, 1928: Narrating
from an ''Ordered Place''?
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Feature April 2010: 2010 IRA Convention
Feature April 2010: Digital Nation
Feature April 2010: National Poetry Month
Feature April 2010: The Object of History
Feature Archive
Feature August 2011: 9/11 Anniversary
Feature August 2011: Conflict in Libya
Feature August 2011: Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Feature August 2011: Punctuation Lessons
Feature August 2011: Wonderopolis
Feature July 2010: Best in Tech Award
Feature July 2010: Henry David Thoreau
Feature July 2010: Space Exploration
Feature July 2010: Symbols of July 4th
Feature July 2011: Back to School
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
Feature July 2011: Healthy Habits
Feature July 2011: Hurricanes
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature July 2011: New Save Capabilities
Feature June 2010: Flag Day
Feature June 2010: National Zoo & Aquarium Month
Feature March 2010: Michelle Obama Fights Childhood Obesity
Feature March 2010: NAACP Historical Interactive Timeline
Feature May 2010: All About Skin Cancer
Feature May 2010: Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Feature May 2010: Become a Plant Hunter
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Feature May 2010: Memorial Day
Feature May 2010: Oil Spill Resources
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2010: ELL
Feature September 2010: Global Connections
Feature September 2010: Hispanic Heritage Month
Feature September 2010: Literacy Week
Feature September 2010: Math
Feature September 2010: STEM
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Feature September 2010: Web 2.0 Tools
Feature September 2011: Constitution Day
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Feature September 2011: Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: Supporting Literacy
Feature September 2011: Thinkfinity Education Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: iCivics Challenge
Felina Backer
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Filipino Hip-Hop
Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the
English Language Arts Classroom
Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
First Ladies at the Smithsonian Homepage
Fisheries Sustainability
Fishing For a Living 1840-1920
Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution
Five Arty Activities for the Car and Grocery
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Flip-A-Chip to Build Vocabulary
Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction
Strategies
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Follow-up Reflections Sheet
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil
Rights
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Fossils of a new species of dinosaur, Jobaria Tiguidensis, were
discovered in 1997
Four Freedoms for the Fourth
Fractured Families in American Drama
Framework for 21st Century Learning
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
Free Speech and the Pledge
Freedom Riders
Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of
Allegiance
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
French Connections
French Ministry of Culture
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
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Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
From ''Picturing America'': Norman Rockwell, Freedom of SpeechKnow It When You See It
From Courage to Freedom
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
From Courage to Freedom: Slavery's Dehumanizing Effects
From Courage to Freedom: Student Interactive
From Courage to Freedom: The Reality Behind the Song
From Revolution to Reconstruction...and What Happened Afterwards
From Sheryl Crow to Homer Simpson: Literature and Composition
through Pop Culture
Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis : A WebQuest
on Iran
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas
Garvey, Black Nationalist, b. 1887
Gecko Feet
Gendered Fictions
Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Geography in Fiction
Geologist Florence Bascom b. 1862
George Washington: The Living Symbol
Get Connected
Get ready for Bullying Awareness Week!
Get ready to celebrate Banned Books Week!
Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Giving Feedback: Food for Thought for Parents
Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
Going Bohemian: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean It
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Going the Distance
Going to the Principal's Office
Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories
Gold was discovered in California in 1848.
Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
Grammar for Teachers: Perspectives and Definitions
Gramophone was patented in 1887
Grandma Atkinson
Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom and School Libraries
Great Books, Great Art
Great Chicago Stories
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
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Great Films and How to Teach Them
Groovin' to Jazz (ages 12-15)
Guampedia
Guantanamera: A Poem and a Song
Guggenheim Museum
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
Harbor High
Harpweek: Explore History
Harvest Some Autumn Learning
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hawaii became 50th state in 1959
Hawthorne in Salem
Heart Transplant
Helen Keller was born in 1880.
Help! What Is Wrong With These Literature Circles and How Can We
Fix Them?
Helping a Teen Plan and Conduct an Interview
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.
Hero's Journey
Hero's Journey
Hillary Clinton elected Senate - NY
Hints about Print
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic St. Augustine
Historical References in the Endian Passage
History fiction novelist Renault b.
History of Jim Crow
Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and
Evaluation
Holocaust and Resistance
Homeland Afghanistan
How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
How Parents Can Support Arts Education
How can I help adults and adolescents better understand what they
read?
How to Be Safe Online
How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
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How to Help a Teen Choose a Book
How to Record Podcasts
How to Revise and Edit
How to Start a Blog
How to Start a Writer's Notebook
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Share Your Story
Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927.
Hurricane Carol hit northeastern
Hypercard, hypertext program, used
I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It: Scaffolding
Students' Engagement With Complex Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
I-Search in the Age of Information
IRA Government Relations Workshop
Ice cream sundae invented in 1881
Ideas Plus: Book 14
Ideas Plus: Book 17
Ideas for Connecting all Students to Literacy: Focusing on the Brain
Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
Ile en Ile
Image of the Izumizaki Family, California, circa 1900
Imperialism and the Open Door
In 1870, the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
In 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this day.
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall.
In 1952, Paul Fleischman was born on this day.
In 1969, the first human walked on the moon.
In Old Pompeii
In Old Pompeii
In The Middle
In the Middle
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inland Waterways 1820-1940
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Interactive Flag
Interactive Gettysburg Address
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Interactive Verb Observation Chart
Interactive: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
International Puzzle Day
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
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Introduction to Vote: The Machinery of Democracy
Inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
It's All in the Translation
It's Independence Day! Or is it?
It's Not All Black and White: Postmodern Picture Books and New
Literacies
J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter celebrate birthdays today.
JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement
JFK, LBJ, and the Fight for Equal Opportunity in the 1960s
Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
January - 2010 - I Have a Dream: Celebrating the Vision of Martin
Luther King, Jr
January Calendar
Japan/Amer. poet Yamada b. 1923
Japanese Woodblock Prints
Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki d. 1902
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 1 - Immigration
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 2 - Removal
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 3 - Internment
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 4 - Loyalty
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 5 - Service
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 6 - Justice
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, a Catalyst for Victory
Jazz's Jelly Roll Morton d. 1941
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
Jesse James robs the Obocock Bank in 1871.
Jimmy Chin's Extreme Photography: Both Sides of the Lens
John Quincy Adams b. 1767
Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
July - 2009 - Eakins Vision of American Recreation - In the good old
summer time
July 1942: United We Stand Campaign
July Calendar
June Calendar
June2010 - The Road to Santa Fe: A Virtual Excursion
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
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Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
KateChopin.org
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
Know LA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
Know the Score
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Korzybski general semantics b. 1879
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
L. Armstrong - joined F.H. Orchestra
La Red de Radioifusoras y Televisoras Educativas y Culturales de
Mexico A.C.
Lady Liberty
Landscape Painting
Language Learners in the English Classroom
Lascaux cave paintings in France
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Latin Literature
Learner.org
Learning From Lyrics
Learning the Blues
Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary
Classroom
Letter Generator
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Responding to Emily Dickinson -Poetic Analysis
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Lewis-Clark hire Sacagawea-Charbon.
LiTgloss
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de PRIMERO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA- Educacion Artistica
Life Online
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Life and Death in the White House
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Limits of Presidential Power
Lincoln Goes to War
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln, Race and the American Presidency Lecture Video
Lincoln, the Smithsonian, and Science Lecture Video
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Literacy
Literacy Remix: Bridging Adolescents' In and Out of School Literacies
Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature Circles: Focusing on Differentiated Instruction
Live Voyage - Great Pyramid of Giza
Live from Antiquity
Living in the Atlantic World 1450-1800
Looking Deeper at Informational Texts
Looking at Other People's Pledges
Lost and Found Sound (NPR's All Things Considered)
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832.
Louisa May Alcott: Magazine Publications
Louisiana Digital Library
Louvre Museum
Love of War in Tim O Brien's How to Tell a True War Story
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
MX Pres. Fox addressed US Congress
MX women can run for office & vote
Making of America
Making the Wright Connection
Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James
Bible
Manjiro Nakanohama's Rescue and Voyage
Mapping Up the Spill
Mar. Prot./Research/Sanctuaries Act
March Calendar
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March is National Women's History Month.
March2010 - Exploring Women's History
Marine Mammal Protection Act, 1972
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Maritime Nation 1800-1850
Mark Twain and American Humor
Mark Twain in His Times
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Master Work: Alvin Ailey and "Revelations"
Math - Johann Bernoulli b. 1667
Math - John Fields, (Medal) d. 1932
Math - Julia Bowman Robinson d. 1985
Math - Sir Roger Penrose b. 1931
Math/science/TV Jacob Bronowski d.
Math/statesman Paul Painleve
May - 2009 - Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
May - 2010 - Jewish American Heritage Month
May Calendar
May2010 - Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
Media Center
Meeting w/Fuminaro, PM of JP, Pres. Roosevelt
Menu Magic!
Menu Magic!
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast
Mexican's El Dia de los Muertos
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Odyssey Online
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
Miguel de Cervantes was b. 1547
Military leader Xueliang d. age 100
Mis Cositas Resources: Thematic Units
Mobilizing Minds: Teaching Science and Math in the Age of Sputnik
Model Autobiographical Story
Modeling Good Reading Habits With Teens
Modern American Poetry
Modern Maritime America 1950-Present
Mona Lisa's Smile
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Monarch Migration Mystery
Monsters
Montezuma Castle and Well
Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog in 1872.
Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
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Motivating Teen Readers
Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks: Real Writers, Real
Audiences, Real Purposes
Mourning Picture
Mozart Forum
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Multigenre Museum Exhibits for "The Grapes of Wrath"
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multiple Ownership of the Past
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Museo Nacional del Prado
Museo Nacional del Prado Audio Guides
Museum Exhibit Planning
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
Museum of the Moving Image
Music & IQ
Music & Intelligence
MyTube: Make a Video Public Service Announcement
Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
NCTE Position Statement on Reading
NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African-Americans
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Engineering Week Teaching Resources
National Gallery, UK
National Get Organized Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Law Enforcement Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.
Nature and the Environment
Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
New Deal Network
New Georgia Encyclopedia
New Literacies and 21st-Century Technologies
New Paths to Learning
New Perspectives on the West
New Takes on Old Tales
Newest Resources
News Reporting Sheet
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News channel MSNBC launched in 1996
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
Night at the Museum Movie
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure"
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure
No Singer is an Island
Noh Theater
Not Just Halloween: Festivals of the Dead from Around the World
November Calendar
November's Literary Lions
November2009 - Celebrate We Shall Remain for Native American
Heritage Month 2009
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
Objection and Answer
Ocean Crossings 1870-1969
October - 2009 - National Hispanic Heritage Month
October Calendar
On the Eve of War: North vs. South
On the Water Collection Search
On the Water: Stories from Maritime America
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
On this day in 1800, Congress approved the purchase of books to start
the Library of Congress.
On this day in 1907, Rachel Carson was born.
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
On this day in 1935, Elvis Presley was born.
One Story, Many Tales
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Online Persona Options
Online Profile Tips
Online Safety
Online Writing Course Focuses on Writing, and Isn't That What We've
Been Aiming For?
Opening Lines From American Literature
Opening Lines From World Literature
Opening Lines from British Literature
Opening Lines from Contemporary American Literature
Oregon Encyclopedia
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
PBS MASTERPIECE celebrates their 40th anniversary today.
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PBS: The Buddha
Paint By Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950's
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Paper Ballots
Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy
Parasites and Disease
Pathways for 21st Century Literacies
Pathways for Advancing Adolescent Literacy
Patriot Day is celebrated today on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of 2001.
Paying Attention to Technology: Reviewing a Technology
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
Pearl S. Buck: ''On Discovering America''
Pedro Albizu Campos leads the Puerto Rican Independence movement.
Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Perception of Place
Perseus Project
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
PhillyHistory.org
Photograph of Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre
Photograph of a Blue Ash Tree
Photographer George Eastman b. 1854
Photography and the National Park Service
Pi Approximation Day
Picturing America on Screen
Picturing U.S. History
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Pioneer aviatrix B. Markham b. 1902
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Planning a Read-Aloud Event for Families
Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poet/author Edgar Allan Poe d. 1849
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Poetry Reading and Interpretation Through Extensive Modeling
Poetry of The Great War: ''From Darkness to Light''?
Political Cartoon Analysis Assignment
Pompeii Forum Project
Pompeii and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
Portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper
Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes: Investigating Genre in the
Visual Arts
Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
Power Notes
Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
Pres. Clinton signed 2000 farm bill
Pres. Johnson - $1 B for anti-poverty
Pres. Ronald Reagan, Alzheimer's
Pres. Roosevelt, Social Sec. Act
Pres. Thomas Jefferson d. 1826
President Barack Obama was born today in 1961.
Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold Winter's Day
Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Protecting the Ocean
Psychologist Carl Jung b. 1875
Public Art In The Bronx
Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
Quagga became extinct in 1883
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question the Author (QtA)
Radical Change and Wikis: Teaching New Literacies
Radio Compass guides plane in 1920
Ragamala Dance
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
Ray Kroc, McDonald's chain, b. 1902
Raymond Carver in the Classroom: "A Small, Good Thing"
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
Re-seeing (Dis)Ability: Teaching Students with Disabilities - and
Learning from Them
Reaching Out to School Board Members
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
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ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Student Materials Index
Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent
Literacy
Reading Between the Lines
Reading Online
Reading Shakespeare Film-First
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare: A Focus on Student-Centered Learning and
Production
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading in the Content Areas
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Real-World Geography: Andrew Carroll
Real-World Geography: Donald Buraglio
Real-World Geography: Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin
Real-World Geography: Dr. Michael Wesch
Real-World Geography: Eric Berkenpas
Real-World Geography: Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Real-World Geography: Ken Banks
Real-World Geography: Murray Fisher
Real-World Geography: Nathaniel Kelso
Real-World Geography: Ryan McInnis
Real-World Geography: Steve Vogel
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Reasons for the Development and Continued Popularity of Minimalism
Reciprocal Teaching Guidelines
Reciprocal Teaching Notes
Recording Family Stories
Reflections on the Harlem Renaissance
Reginald Policard: Jazz and Kompa
Religion and the Argument for American Independence
Renaissance Humanism
Report on assassination of Kennedy
Rereadings and Literacy: How Students' Second Readings Might Open
Third Spaces
Research Implications of My Diary
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Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Project: The Year I Was Born
Research-Based Practices for Effective Writing Instruction: Strategies
for the Secondary Classroom
Resilient Robots
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Revision: How to Teach it, Learn it, Love it!
Revolution '67
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Rhythm and Raga
Richard Wright was born in 1908.
Riddle Interactive
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School
Students
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Romantic Circles
Roots and Branches: A Resource of Native American Literature
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Russian Composer Tchaikovsky d. 1893
S. Bowser, inventor - 1st gas pump
Sample Draft Letters
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Scene-by-Scene Summary of the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Science fiction - Hugo Gernsback born
Scotland Yard's 179th anniversary takes place today.
Scribbling Women
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Sculpture With Richard Serra
Second-Language Literacy Instruction
Seed Discussion Organizer
Self-portrait of a Reading Experience
Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Homepage
September - 2009 - Chronicling America
September - 2009 - The Constitution of the United States of America
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
September Calendar
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Sequence of Events Chart
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shaquille O'Neal - huge NBA contract
Shared Writing
Shel Silverstein was born in 1930
Show-Me Sentences
Simon Schama's Power of Art
Skeleton of 9,000-yr-old man in WA
Skin Deep Project
Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Slavery and the American Founding: The Inconsistency not to be
excused
Slavery s Dehumanizing Effects
Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Online Education Conference: Problem Solving with
Smithsonian Experts
Snake Migration
Snapshots in Time
So What Do You Think? Writing a Review
So You Want to be a Singer?
Socratic Seminars
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Sophocles, Socrates, and the Greek Polis
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Sor Juana, la poetisa: Los sonetos
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Spanish Civil War began 1936
Spark!Lab Inventor Profiles
Spark!Lab Inventor's Notebook
Speak Up for the Arts
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Specialized Baby Name Books
Speech Analysis Questions
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Spirituals
Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
Spreading the Message
Standards for the English Language Arts
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Standards in Practice, Grades 3-5
Start the Conversation about Arts Education
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary
English Classroom
Student Example of a Book Review
Student Interactives
Students Response to 9/11: A Documentary Report
Studying Literature: New Approaches to Poetry and Fiction
Summarization in any Subject with Rick Wormelli
Summer Travel--Education on the Road
Summer Vacations
Summertime Favorites 2005
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Supporting Contributors
Supporting Reading Comprehension: The role of talk, text, task
Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Supremes - 1st females w #1 album
Surfer Lisa Anderson-Walk of Fame
Surviving School Chorus
Susan B. Anthony voted on this date in 1872, leading to her arrest.
Sweet Secret
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Take part in the African American Read-In!
Taking America to Lunch
Tales of the Supernatural
Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Tall Trees
Tate Online
Teacher's Film Clip Guide: The Matrix
TeacherServe
Teaching (and Learning) about Japan
Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories
Teaching Poetry in High School
Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
Connections
Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
Teaching With Blogs
Teaching With Glogster: Using Virtual Posters in the Classroom
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
Teaching With Podcasts
Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
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Teaching the Middle East
Teaching with Technology
Technology Profile
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
Tell a Migration Story...with Photos
Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
Text Analysis Chart
Textmasters: Bringing literature circles to textbook reading across the
curriculum
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
The Gettysburg Address Homepage
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The "Ramayana" Paintings
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The Academy of American Poets
The American Civil War
The American Civil War: A Terrible Swift Sword
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Battles of the Civil War
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Bill of Rights
The Birth of an American Empire
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Booker T. Washington Papers
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Brass Letters of Citizenship: Lincoln, African Americans and
Military Service
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Cave of Lascaux
The Centennial of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-2010
The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 'Great Rebuilding'
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Commemorative Coin Act of 1996
The Cosmos in Miniature: The Remarkable Star Map of Simeon De
Witt
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The Crystal Palace hosted the first display of life-size dinosaur replicas
in 1854.
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Detroit Institute of Arts
The Electoral College
The Elements of Fiction
The End of Europe's Middle Ages
The Essential Questions Worksheet
The Feature Story Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
The Fight for the Right to Vote
The Filipino American Story
The Flag in World War II
The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights
The Gear & Lever Voting Machine
The Getty
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Gold Nugget
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Ins and Outs of Trying Out
The Internet Public Library
The Kennedy Administration and the Civil Rights Movement
The Language Bank
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference: Processes and Perspectives for
Effective Coaching
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
The Many Faces of Freedom
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Matter of the Philippines
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Mississippi: River of Song
The Mona Lisa stolen by Apollinaire
The National Portrait Gallery
The New Americans
The New York Botanical Garden
The Nineteenth Century in Print -- The Making of America in Books
and Periodicals
The Online Library of Liberty
The Pas De Deux: It Takes Two
The Past in the Present
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Phyllis Diller Gag File
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The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The President s Job
The Presidential Campaign Trail
The Price of Freedom: Learning Resources
The RMS "Titanic" sank on this day in 1912.
The Real Life of a Singer
The Scopes Trial began today in 1925.
The Socially Networked English Classroom: Web 2.0 in the English
Classroom
The Soldier's Experience- Vietnam versus World War I
The Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded in 1986.
The Spanish American War
The Spanish American War
The Spanish American War
The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937.
The Spread of Buddhism
The Statute of Anne, an influential copyright law, went into effect in
1710.
The Valley of the Shadow
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
The Victorian Web
The Vision of Women Artists
The Women's Declaration of Independence, July 1848
The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're
All Hard Parts)
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiography Project
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.
The first picture of Earth was taken by the U.S. satellite "Explorer VI"
in 1959.
The first typewriter patent was awarded in 1868.
The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas in
2005.
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
Think-Aloud Predictions for "Young Goodman Brown"
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Thomas Gray Archive
Thomas Nast was born on this day in 1840.
Thoreau Reader
Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Three-Voice Narrative by Leah Wright
Three-Voice Narrative by Yukiko Ikeda
Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967.
Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: This too is true: Stories can save us
Timeline of American History
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
Today is Halloween
Today is International Literacy Day
Today is World Hello Day!
Today is autumnal equinox
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Today, the American Library Association announces its annual book
award winners.
Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two Ancient Cities
Two famous Smiths share this birthday.
Ty Beanie Baby, was born in 1997
U.S. Constitution signed in 1787
U.S. Dep. of Energy formed in 1977
U.S. Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology
U.S. Senate
Ukiyo-e Prints
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Uncle Tom's Cabin; American Culture
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Uneasy Partners: Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, LBJ and Martin
Luther King Jr. Lecture Video
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
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United States Entry into World War I: Some Hypotheses About U.S.
Entry
United States Entry into World War I: Two Diametrically Opposed
Views
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United We Stand: Behind the Designs
Universal Human Rights Month
Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Online
University of Massachusetts Amerherst
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Using Grading and Assessment to Maximize the Online Writing Course
Experience--Without Burning Out
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Utopian Visions
VRoma
Van Valen's Gold Rush Journey
Verizon Foundation
Verizon Thinkfinity
Video Portal Test Record
Vietnam Scavenger Hunt
Vietnam War Resources
Virtual Jamestown
Visualizing Cultures
Voiceover Text from the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
Voices of Democracy
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Homepage
Voting in Congress: More than "Yea" or "Nay"
Voting: Design for Democracy
Voting: Florida 2000
Voting: Punch Card Democracy
Voting: The Acme of Reform
Voting: The Present and Future Ballot
WWI flying ace Rickenbacker b. 1890
Walk with Light: Guiding Students through the Conventions of Literary
Analysis
Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade
Classroom
Walt Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
Walters Art Museum
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Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
Water Wows
Web Site Evaluation Form
Web de Anza
Western History: The Photography Collection
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing?
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What It Takes to Become a Professional Singer
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
What Portraits Reveal
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction
What Research Really Says about Teaching and Learning to Read
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
What is a Genre?
What s in a Name?
What's In a Picture: An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts
What's in Your Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit?
When Worlds Collide
When the Games Were Held at Olympia
Who Was Cinque?
Wild Things
William Blake Archive
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Shakespeare
William the Conqueror raids England
Wired for Books
Women in Africa: Tradition and Change
Wonderworld
Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the
English Classroom
World of Dante
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs
Write Alouds
Write letters that make things happen!
Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture
Writing Technical Instructions
Writing a Review Checklist
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
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Writing for the Real World
Writing with Love
Writing with Voice
Writing with Voice
You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents (2nd edition)
Youth Vote
Zora Neale Hurston, novel published
b. Lorimer editor - Sat. Evening Post
diet
e-Reading and e-Responding: New Tools for the Next Generation of
Readers
food
food staple
iAzucar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
tide
yurt
RI.9-10.2. Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course
of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific
details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
The New York Times used the slogan "All the News That's Fit to
Print."
"Beowulf": Language and Poetics Quick Reference Sheet
"Coming Home Again"
"Death and the Miser" Deconstructed
"Finding Common Ground" Hypothetical Scenario
"Gulliver s Travels" Travelogue
"It's Our World Too": Socially Responsive Learners in Middle School
Language Arts
"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"To Kill a Mockingbird" in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's
Shoes
"United We Stand" Homepage
"United We Stand": Behind the Designs
"United We Stand": Magazine Cover Gallery
"United We Stand": Search the Covers
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"United We Stand": The Campaign
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
"War of the Worlds" Worksheet
"You Gotta BE the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents
'Common Sense'': The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Courage
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
1492: Columbus Enterprise of Indies
1790: 1st census count in the U.S.
1792: Cornerstone White House laid
1796: birth of the metric system
1846: Congress charted Smithsonian
1858: Darwin theory of evolution
1884: Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's
1904: 1st rapid transit subway, NYC
1911: Bingham discovered Incan ruin
1922: First radio commercial aired
1939: The Wizard of Oz Premiered
1945: U.S. Gov. ended shoe rationing
1945: United Nations commenced
1946: 1st Cannes Film Festival held
1952: 1st open-heart surgery
1958: Nat. Aeronautics/Space Admin.
1960: U.S. halted exports to Cuba
1966: Extended minimum wage law
1968 Exhibit
1969: Neil Armstrong 1st walk moon
1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial - D.C.
1988: Germany's Graf, won US Open
1990: East & West Germany reunified
1990: Nepal adopted a constitution
1996: Netscape released Navigator 3.0
1998: Hackers redirected AOL emails
1999: Earth population reached 6 B
1st drive-in banking services, 1946
2,000/yr old Terracotta Army dug up
2001: Islamist terrorists attack
2004 Political Web Sites
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300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae: Herodotus' ''Real'' History
622: Islamic calendar - Muhammad
A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest
Songs
A Failure of the Imagination
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Letter From George Washington
A Question of Style
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
A Vision of Puerto Rico
A Vision of Puerto Rico: The Teodoro Vidal Collection Homepage
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
AD 79: Mt Vesuvius erupted
AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed, 1987
About Us
Abraham Lincoln and Wartime Politics
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life Homepage
Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
Adapting a Musical
Adolescent Literacy and the Effect of Standards
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
African Voices
African-American Women On-line Archival Collections
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Afropop Worldwide NPR
Al-Mizan
All the News that's Fit to Print
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Alternative Book Reports
Alternative Book Reports
Amelia Earhart completed her solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland in
1935.
America celebrates Thanksgiving Day today.
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
America's Voting Patchwork
American Centuries: View from New England
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Icons: A Radio Series from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
American Masters
American Memory Project: Main Index Page
American Studies
American Verse Project
American Writers
An EDSITEment Tour of the National Mall
An Introduction to Psychoanalytical Criticism
Analysis Sheet for "A View of Toledo"
Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Opinions on Music Downloads
Analyzing a Political Cartoon: "Settin on a Rail"
Analyzing a Visual Message
Analyzing a World War II Poster
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
And the Question Is... Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
Andy Warhol b. 1928
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
Answering the Call 1917-1945
Anthrax spores mailed to Senators
Anthropology Collection, AMNH
April - 2009 - National Poetry Month: American Originals
April 2010 - Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
April 2010 Feature: Ker-Splash
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April 2010 Feature: Verizon Thinkfinity Launches New Site
April Calendar
April2010 - National Poetry Month: Celebrating World Poetry
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Arctic Studies Center
Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda?
Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Analyzing World War II Posters
Art Algorithms
Art Explication: "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli
Art History Resources
Art andamp; Life in Africa Online
Art collector Peg Guggenheim b 1898
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Artificial Anatomy Homepage
Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
Arts Education and the Business Community
Arts Education: Making the Case With Legislators
Arts of the Gilded Age
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is in May!
Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a
Text
Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
At Home in the Heartland Online
At the Crossroads of Expertise: The Risky Business of Teaching
Popular Culture
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
August - 2008 - Electing America's President
August - 2009 - Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's
Introduction August Calendar
Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
Author Raymond Chandler b. 1888
Author Scott O'Dell was born on this day.
Author Stephen Crane b. 1871
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
Authoring With Video
Aviation History Month
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Azor: Vodou Jazz
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Baby Name Books
Background Information on the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
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Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Baltimore Museum of Art
Battle of the Bulge: Americans Respond to a German Surprise
Becoming An American Citizen
Beguiling Billboards: Finding Inspiration along the Road
Behaim, creator of the oldest globe
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
Benin became independent in 1960
Beowulf
Bethlehem Digital History Project
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Beyond What I Did on Vacation : Exploring the Genre of Travel
Writing
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Biography Project Discussion Questions
Biography of Paul Langan
Birth of Cleveland in White House
Black History Month
Black Sea ancient remains found
Black Ships; Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Bluford, 1st Afr. Amer. astronaut
Bon Appetite! Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
Book Cover Guide
Books
Botanist Morison, plant classify.
Botanist Morison, plant classify.
Both Art and Craft: Teaching Ideas That Spark Learning
Bouncing Babies
Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Tragic End
Brain to Brain Interface
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
Bright Stars and Broad Stripes Classroom Videos
Bright Stars and Broad Stripes Teacher Guide for the Classroom Videos
Bringing Grammar to Life
British Academy
Broadway librettist Hammerstein II
Brochure Investigation Sheet
Broken Worlds
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Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Browsing Music
Building Big
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page,
Panel by Panel
Building Suburbia: Highways and Housing in Postwar America
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
But Will It Work with Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching
Secondary English Language Arts
C.B. Darrow, inventor of Monopoly
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Carl Sandburg's ''Chicago'': Bringing a Great City Alive
Celebrate Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Celebrate Earth Day!
Celebrate International Literacy Day!
Celebrate Juneteenth!
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
Changing Gender Roles on the World War II Home Front
Chapman - Johnny Appleseed b. 1775
Characterization in Literature and Theater
Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854
Charles Baudelaire: Poete Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight in 1927.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Checklist for Cultural Relevance Reviews
Chef Emeril Lagasse b. 1959
Children's author Dr. Seuss d. 1991
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Circus/trainer Gunther d. 2001
Citizenship: New Citizenship Test
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
Clocking T. rex
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Co-Authoring in the Classroom: Creating an Environment for Effective
Collaboration
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Comedian/actor Dennis Miller b 1953
Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in
the Media
Commercial ice cream is first sold in the U.S. in 1786.
Common Myths about the Gettysburg Address
Common Visions, Common Voices
Communicating the Presidency
Community tour
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Components of Your Cultural Relevance Review
Components of a Review
Conflicting Voices of the Mexican War
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
Connecting with Young Adult Authors through Writing
Conversations with History
Copyright Clarity: What Every English Teacher Needs to Know
Copyright Clarity: Can My Students Use Images in their Writing?
Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927.
Corridos About the Mexican Revolution
Cortes captured MX City from Aztecs
Cracking the Genetic Code
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Crayola Crayons
Create a Career Blog
Creating Classroom Discussion About Reviews
Creating a Persuasive Podcast
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Creating a Scavenger Hunt Question
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Critical Literacies and Graphic Novels for English-Language Learners:
Teaching "Maus"
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Critical Ways of Seeing ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' in
Context
Crittenden-Johnson Resolution
Cultural Change
Cultural Creation Myths
Cultural Relevance Review Guidelines
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Culture Connect
César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
Dali and Desnos
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Davy Crockett was born in 1786.
Debate Over Downloading Music Links
Debating Music Downloads
December Calendar
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's 1984
Commercial
Deep Diver
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Defining Literacy in a Digital World: Student Interactive
Defining Style
Defining the Presidency
Dem. W.J. Bryan gave notable speech
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Demonstrating a Way to Analyze Style
Designer Coco Chanel b. 1883
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath : A Multigenre
Project
Designing Writing Assignments
Detective Allan Pinkerton b. 1819
Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of
Multiple Intelligence Activities
Diamante Poem Rubric
Diamante Poem Writing Assignment
Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
Differentiated Assessment and Grading: Fair Isn't Always Equal
Differentiating Instruction
Differentiating Instruction for Shakespeare
Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
Digital Dante
Digital Karnak Project
Digital Roman Forum
Digital Scriptorium
Discussion Question Guidelines
Discussion Questions for "Coming Home, Again"
Discussion Questions for "Mother Tongue"
Disneyland's Virtual Geography
Do Tell: Giving Feedback to Your Students
Document Analysis for Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda
Documentary photo. Dorothea Lange
Documenting African American History
Documenting the American South
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Dollar chosen as unit of currency
Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine, was born in 1914.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Drawing Political Cartoons
Driving Music
Drop Me Off in Harlem
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers
Dystopian Film Clip Guide
Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics
EDSITEment
EDSITEment Websites
EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War
and Reconstruction
Easing Your Transition to Teaching Writing Online
Economist Milton Friedman b. 1912
Ecosystems
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Education News
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s
Electing America's President
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928.
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a MD degree in
1849.
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Eng. mathematician John Wallis d.
Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
Engaging the Disengaged: Using Learning Clubs to Motivate
Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Espanol
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing
Classroom
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Examining Transcendentalism Through Popular Culture: Final Project
Examining the U.S. Pledge
Examples for the United States
Exit Slips
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Explore Thomas Cole
Explore Your Reading Self
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Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Cross-Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
Exploring Cultural Connotations of Color
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Exploring Women's History
Exploring Zora Neale Hurston's Style
Exploring the Gettysburg Address
Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through
Diamante Poetry
Extending our Reach: Promoting Better Reading through Think Alouds,
Visualization and Action Strategies with Technology
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Centenary
Families in Bondage
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Crossing the River
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Form of a Funeral
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': April Eighth, 1928: Narrating
from an ''Ordered Place''?
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Feature April 2010: 2010 IRA Convention
Feature April 2010: Digital Nation
Feature April 2010: National Poetry Month
Feature April 2010: The Object of History
Feature Archive
Feature August 2011: 9/11 Anniversary
Feature August 2011: Conflict in Libya
Feature August 2011: Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Feature August 2011: Punctuation Lessons
Feature August 2011: Wonderopolis
Feature July 2010: Best in Tech Award
Feature July 2010: Henry David Thoreau
Feature July 2010: Space Exploration
Feature July 2010: Symbols of July 4th
Feature July 2011: Back to School
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Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
Feature July 2011: Healthy Habits
Feature July 2011: Hurricanes
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature July 2011: New Save Capabilities
Feature June 2010: Flag Day
Feature June 2010: National Zoo & Aquarium Month
Feature March 2010: Michelle Obama Fights Childhood Obesity
Feature March 2010: NAACP Historical Interactive Timeline
Feature May 2010: All About Skin Cancer
Feature May 2010: Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Feature May 2010: Become a Plant Hunter
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Feature May 2010: Memorial Day
Feature May 2010: Oil Spill Resources
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2010: ELL
Feature September 2010: Global Connections
Feature September 2010: Hispanic Heritage Month
Feature September 2010: Literacy Week
Feature September 2010: Math
Feature September 2010: STEM
Feature September 2010: Web 2.0 Tools
Feature September 2011: Constitution Day
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Feature September 2011: Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: Supporting Literacy
Feature September 2011: Thinkfinity Education Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: iCivics Challenge
Felina Backer
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Filipino Hip-Hop
Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the
English Language Arts Classroom
Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
First Ladies at the Smithsonian Homepage
Fisheries Sustainability
Fishing For a Living 1840-1920
Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution
Five Arty Activities for the Car and Grocery
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Flip-A-Chip to Build Vocabulary
Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction
Strategies
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Folger Shakespeare Library
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Follow-up Reflections Sheet
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil
Rights
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Fossils of a new species of dinosaur, Jobaria Tiguidensis, were
discovered in 1997
Four Freedoms for the Fourth
Fractured Families in American Drama
Framework for 21st Century Learning
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
Free Speech and the Pledge
Freedom Riders
Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of
Allegiance
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
French Connections
French Ministry of Culture
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
From ''Picturing America'': Norman Rockwell, Freedom of SpeechKnow It When You See It
From Courage to Freedom
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
From Courage to Freedom: Slavery's Dehumanizing Effects
From Courage to Freedom: Student Interactive
From Courage to Freedom: The Reality Behind the Song
From Revolution to Reconstruction...and What Happened Afterwards
From Sheryl Crow to Homer Simpson: Literature and Composition
through Pop Culture
Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis : A WebQuest
on Iran
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas
Garvey, Black Nationalist, b. 1887
Gecko Feet
Gendered Fictions
Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Geography in Fiction
Geologist Florence Bascom b. 1862
George Washington: The Living Symbol
Get Connected
Get ready for Bullying Awareness Week!
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Get ready to celebrate Banned Books Week!
Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Giving Feedback: Food for Thought for Parents
Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
Going Bohemian: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean It
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Going the Distance
Going to the Principal's Office
Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories
Gold was discovered in California in 1848.
Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
Grammar for Teachers: Perspectives and Definitions
Gramophone was patented in 1887
Grandma Atkinson
Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom and School Libraries
Great Books, Great Art
Great Chicago Stories
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Great Films and How to Teach Them
Groovin' to Jazz (ages 12-15)
Guampedia
Guantanamera: A Poem and a Song
Guggenheim Museum
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Harbor High
Harpweek: Explore History
Harvest Some Autumn Learning
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hawaii became 50th state in 1959
Hawthorne in Salem
Heart Transplant
Helen Keller was born in 1880.
Help! What Is Wrong With These Literature Circles and How Can We
Fix Them?
Helping a Teen Plan and Conduct an Interview
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.
Hero's Journey
Hero's Journey
Hillary Clinton elected Senate - NY
Hints about Print
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Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic St. Augustine
Historical References in the Endian Passage
History fiction novelist Renault b.
History of Jim Crow
Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and
Evaluation
Holocaust and Resistance
Homeland Afghanistan
How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
How Parents Can Support Arts Education
How can I help adults and adolescents better understand what they
read?
How to Be Safe Online
How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
How to Help a Teen Choose a Book
How to Record Podcasts
How to Revise and Edit
How to Start a Blog
How to Start a Writer's Notebook
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Share Your Story
Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927.
Hurricane Carol hit northeastern
Hypercard, hypertext program, used
I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It: Scaffolding
Students' Engagement With Complex Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
I-Search in the Age of Information
IRA Government Relations Workshop
Ice cream sundae invented in 1881
Ideas Plus: Book 14
Ideas Plus: Book 17
Ideas for Connecting all Students to Literacy: Focusing on the Brain
Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
Ile en Ile
Image of the Izumizaki Family, California, circa 1900
Imperialism and the Open Door
In 1870, the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
In 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this day.
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In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall.
In 1952, Paul Fleischman was born on this day.
In 1969, the first human walked on the moon.
In Old Pompeii
In Old Pompeii
In The Middle
In the Middle
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inland Waterways 1820-1940
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Interactive Flag
Interactive Gettysburg Address
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Interactive Verb Observation Chart
Interactive: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
International Puzzle Day
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
Introduction to Vote: The Machinery of Democracy
Inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
It's All in the Translation
It's Independence Day! Or is it?
It's Not All Black and White: Postmodern Picture Books and New
Literacies
J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter celebrate birthdays today.
JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement
JFK, LBJ, and the Fight for Equal Opportunity in the 1960s
Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
January - 2010 - I Have a Dream: Celebrating the Vision of Martin
Luther King, Jr
January Calendar
Japan/Amer. poet Yamada b. 1923
Japanese Woodblock Prints
Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki d. 1902
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 1 - Immigration
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 2 - Removal
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 3 - Internment
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 4 - Loyalty
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 5 - Service
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Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 6 - Justice
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, a Catalyst for Victory
Jazz's Jelly Roll Morton d. 1941
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
Jesse James robs the Obocock Bank in 1871.
Jimmy Chin's Extreme Photography: Both Sides of the Lens
John Quincy Adams b. 1767
Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
July - 2009 - Eakins Vision of American Recreation - In the good old
summer time
July 1942: United We Stand Campaign
July Calendar
June Calendar
June2010 - The Road to Santa Fe: A Virtual Excursion
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
KateChopin.org
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
Know LA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
Know the Score
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Korzybski general semantics b. 1879
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
L. Armstrong - joined F.H. Orchestra
La Red de Radioifusoras y Televisoras Educativas y Culturales de
Mexico A.C.
Lady Liberty
Landscape Painting
Language Learners in the English Classroom
Lascaux cave paintings in France
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Latin Literature
Learner.org
Learning From Lyrics
Learning the Blues
Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
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Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary
Classroom
Letter Generator
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Responding to Emily Dickinson -Poetic Analysis
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Lewis-Clark hire Sacagawea-Charbon.
LiTgloss
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de PRIMERO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA- Educacion Artistica
Life Online
Life and Death in the White House
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Limits of Presidential Power
Lincoln Goes to War
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln, Race and the American Presidency Lecture Video
Lincoln, the Smithsonian, and Science Lecture Video
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Literacy
Literacy Remix: Bridging Adolescents' In and Out of School Literacies
Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature Circles: Focusing on Differentiated Instruction
Live Voyage - Great Pyramid of Giza
Live from Antiquity
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Living in the Atlantic World 1450-1800
Logical Fallacy Project
Looking Deeper at Informational Texts
Looking at Other People's Pledges
Lost and Found Sound (NPR's All Things Considered)
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832.
Louisa May Alcott: Magazine Publications
Louisiana Digital Library
Louvre Museum
Love of War in Tim O Brien's How to Tell a True War Story
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
MX Pres. Fox addressed US Congress
MX women can run for office & vote
Making of America
Making the Wright Connection
Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James
Bible
Manjiro Nakanohama's Rescue and Voyage
Mapping Up the Spill
Mar. Prot./Research/Sanctuaries Act
March Calendar
March is National Women's History Month.
March2010 - Exploring Women's History
Marine Mammal Protection Act, 1972
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Maritime Nation 1800-1850
Mark Twain and American Humor
Mark Twain in His Times
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Master Work: Alvin Ailey and "Revelations"
Math - Johann Bernoulli b. 1667
Math - John Fields, (Medal) d. 1932
Math - Julia Bowman Robinson d. 1985
Math - Sir Roger Penrose b. 1931
Math/science/TV Jacob Bronowski d.
Math/statesman Paul Painleve
May - 2009 - Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
May - 2010 - Jewish American Heritage Month
May Calendar
May2010 - Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
Media Center
Meeting w/Fuminaro, PM of JP, Pres. Roosevelt
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Menu Magic!
Menu Magic!
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast
Mexican's El Dia de los Muertos
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Odyssey Online
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
Miguel de Cervantes was b. 1547
Military leader Xueliang d. age 100
Mis Cositas Resources: Thematic Units
Mobilizing Minds: Teaching Science and Math in the Age of Sputnik
Model Autobiographical Story
Modeling Good Reading Habits With Teens
Modern American Poetry
Modern Maritime America 1950-Present
Mona Lisa's Smile
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Monarch Migration Mystery
Monsters
Montezuma Castle and Well
Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog in 1872.
Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Motivating Teen Readers
Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks: Real Writers, Real
Audiences, Real Purposes
Mourning Picture
Mozart Forum
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Multigenre Museum Exhibits for "The Grapes of Wrath"
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multiple Ownership of the Past
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Museo Nacional del Prado
Museo Nacional del Prado Audio Guides
Museum Exhibit Planning
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
Museum of the Moving Image
Music & IQ
Music & Intelligence
MyTube: Make a Video Public Service Announcement
Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
NCTE Position Statement on Reading
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NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African-Americans
Name That Chapter
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Engineering Week Teaching Resources
National Gallery, UK
National Get Organized Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Law Enforcement Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.
Nature and the Environment
Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
New Deal Network
New Georgia Encyclopedia
New Literacies and 21st-Century Technologies
New Paths to Learning
New Perspectives on the West
New Takes on Old Tales
Newest Resources
News Reporting Sheet
News channel MSNBC launched in 1996
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
Night at the Museum Movie
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure"
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure
No Singer is an Island
Noh Theater
Not Just Halloween: Festivals of the Dead from Around the World
November Calendar
November's Literary Lions
November2009 - Celebrate We Shall Remain for Native American
Heritage Month 2009
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
Objection and Answer
Ocean Crossings 1870-1969
October - 2009 - National Hispanic Heritage Month
October Calendar
On the Eve of War: North vs. South
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On the Water Collection Search
On the Water: Stories from Maritime America
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
On this day in 1800, Congress approved the purchase of books to start
the Library of Congress.
On this day in 1907, Rachel Carson was born.
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
On this day in 1935, Elvis Presley was born.
One Story, Many Tales
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Online Persona Options
Online Profile Tips
Online Safety
Online Writing Course Focuses on Writing, and Isn't That What We've
Been Aiming For?
Opening Lines From American Literature
Opening Lines From World Literature
Opening Lines from British Literature
Opening Lines from Contemporary American Literature
Oregon Encyclopedia
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
PBS MASTERPIECE celebrates their 40th anniversary today.
PBS: The Buddha
Paint By Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950's
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Paper Ballots
Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy
Parasites and Disease
Pathways for 21st Century Literacies
Pathways for Advancing Adolescent Literacy
Patriot Day is celebrated today on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of 2001.
Paying Attention to Technology: Reviewing a Technology
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
Pearl S. Buck: ''On Discovering America''
Pedro Albizu Campos leads the Puerto Rican Independence movement.
Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Perception of Place
Perseus Project
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Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
PhillyHistory.org
Photograph of Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre
Photograph of a Blue Ash Tree
Photographer George Eastman b. 1854
Photography and the National Park Service
Pi Approximation Day
Picturing America on Screen
Picturing U.S. History
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Pioneer aviatrix B. Markham b. 1902
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Planning a Read-Aloud Event for Families
Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poet/author Edgar Allan Poe d. 1849
Poetry Reading and Interpretation Through Extensive Modeling
Poetry of The Great War: ''From Darkness to Light''?
Pompeii Forum Project
Pompeii and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
Portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper
Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes: Investigating Genre in the
Visual Arts
Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
Power Notes
Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
Pres. Clinton signed 2000 farm bill
Pres. Johnson - $1 B for anti-poverty
Pres. Ronald Reagan, Alzheimer's
Pres. Roosevelt, Social Sec. Act
Pres. Thomas Jefferson d. 1826
President Barack Obama was born today in 1961.
Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold Winter's Day
Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
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Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Protecting the Ocean
Psychologist Carl Jung b. 1875
Public Art In The Bronx
Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
Quagga became extinct in 1883
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question the Author (QtA)
Radical Change and Wikis: Teaching New Literacies
Radio Compass guides plane in 1920
Ragamala Dance
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
Ray Kroc, McDonald's chain, b. 1902
Raymond Carver in the Classroom: "A Small, Good Thing"
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
Re-seeing (Dis)Ability: Teaching Students with Disabilities - and
Learning from Them
Reaching Out to School Board Members
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Student Materials Index
Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent
Literacy
Reading Between the Lines
Reading Online
Reading Shakespeare Film-First
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare: A Focus on Student-Centered Learning and
Production
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading in the Content Areas
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Real-World Geography: Andrew Carroll
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Real-World Geography: Donald Buraglio
Real-World Geography: Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin
Real-World Geography: Dr. Michael Wesch
Real-World Geography: Eric Berkenpas
Real-World Geography: Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Real-World Geography: Ken Banks
Real-World Geography: Murray Fisher
Real-World Geography: Nathaniel Kelso
Real-World Geography: Ryan McInnis
Real-World Geography: Steve Vogel
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Reasons for the Development and Continued Popularity of Minimalism
Reciprocal Teaching Guidelines
Reciprocal Teaching Notes
Recording Family Stories
Reflections on the Harlem Renaissance
Reginald Policard: Jazz and Kompa
Religion and the Argument for American Independence
Renaissance Humanism
Report on assassination of Kennedy
Rereadings and Literacy: How Students' Second Readings Might Open
Third Spaces
Research Implications of My Diary
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Project: The Year I Was Born
Research-Based Practices for Effective Writing Instruction: Strategies
for the Secondary Classroom
Resilient Robots
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Revision: How to Teach it, Learn it, Love it!
Revolution '67
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Rhythm and Raga
Richard Wright was born in 1908.
Riddle Interactive
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School
Students
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Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Romantic Circles
Roots and Branches: A Resource of Native American Literature
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Russian Composer Tchaikovsky d. 1893
S. Bowser, inventor - 1st gas pump
Sample Draft Letters
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Scene-by-Scene Summary of the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Science fiction - Hugo Gernsback born
Scotland Yard's 179th anniversary takes place today.
Scribbling Women
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Sculpture With Richard Serra
Second-Language Literacy Instruction
Seed Discussion Organizer
Self-portrait of a Reading Experience
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Homepage
September - 2009 - Chronicling America
September - 2009 - The Constitution of the United States of America
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
September Calendar
Sequence of Events Chart
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shaquille O'Neal - huge NBA contract
Shared Writing
Shel Silverstein was born in 1930
Show-Me Sentences
Simon Schama's Power of Art
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Skeleton of 9,000-yr-old man in WA
Skin Deep Project
Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Slavery and the American Founding: The Inconsistency not to be
excused
Slavery s Dehumanizing Effects
Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Online Education Conference: Problem Solving with
Smithsonian Experts
Snake Migration
Snapshots in Time
So What Do You Think? Writing a Review
So You Want to be a Singer?
Socratic Seminars
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Sophocles, Socrates, and the Greek Polis
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Sor Juana, la poetisa: Los sonetos
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Spanish Civil War began 1936
Spark!Lab Inventor Profiles
Spark!Lab Inventor's Notebook
Speak Up for the Arts
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Specialized Baby Name Books
Speech Analysis Questions
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Spirituals
Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
Spreading the Message
Standards for the English Language Arts
Standards in Practice, Grades 3-5
Start the Conversation about Arts Education
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary
English Classroom
Student Example of a Book Review
Student Interactives
Students Response to 9/11: A Documentary Report
Studying Literature: New Approaches to Poetry and Fiction
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Summarization in any Subject with Rick Wormelli
Summer Travel--Education on the Road
Summer Vacations
Summertime Favorites 2005
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Supporting Contributors
Supporting Reading Comprehension: The role of talk, text, task
Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Supremes - 1st females w #1 album
Surfer Lisa Anderson-Walk of Fame
Surviving School Chorus
Susan B. Anthony voted on this date in 1872, leading to her arrest.
Sweet Secret
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Take part in the African American Read-In!
Taking America to Lunch
Tales of the Supernatural
Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Tall Trees
Tate Online
Teacher's Film Clip Guide: The Matrix
TeacherServe
Teaching (and Learning) about Japan
Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories
Teaching Poetry in High School
Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
Connections
Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
Teaching With Blogs
Teaching With Glogster: Using Virtual Posters in the Classroom
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
Teaching With Podcasts
Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
Teaching the Middle East
Teaching with Technology
Technology Profile
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
Tell a Migration Story...with Photos
Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
Text Analysis Chart
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Textmasters: Bringing literature circles to textbook reading across the
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That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
The Gettysburg Address Homepage
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The "Ramayana" Paintings
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The Academy of American Poets
The American Civil War
The American Civil War: A Terrible Swift Sword
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Battles of the Civil War
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Bill of Rights
The Birth of an American Empire
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Booker T. Washington Papers
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Brass Letters of Citizenship: Lincoln, African Americans and
Military Service
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Cave of Lascaux
The Centennial of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-2010
The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 'Great Rebuilding'
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Commemorative Coin Act of 1996
The Cosmos in Miniature: The Remarkable Star Map of Simeon De
Witt
The Crystal Palace hosted the first display of life-size dinosaur replicas
in 1854.
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Detroit Institute of Arts
The Electoral College
The Elements of Fiction
The End of Europe's Middle Ages
The Essential Questions Worksheet
The Feature Story Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
The Fight for the Right to Vote
The Filipino American Story
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The Flag in World War II
The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights
The Gear & Lever Voting Machine
The Getty
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Gold Nugget
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Ins and Outs of Trying Out
The Internet Public Library
The Kennedy Administration and the Civil Rights Movement
The Language Bank
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference: Processes and Perspectives for
Effective Coaching
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
The Many Faces of Freedom
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Matter of the Philippines
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Mississippi: River of Song
The Mona Lisa stolen by Apollinaire
The National Portrait Gallery
The New Americans
The New York Botanical Garden
The Nineteenth Century in Print -- The Making of America in Books
and Periodicals
The Online Library of Liberty
The Pas De Deux: It Takes Two
The Past in the Present
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Phyllis Diller Gag File
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The President s Job
The Presidential Campaign Trail
The Price of Freedom: Learning Resources
The RMS "Titanic" sank on this day in 1912.
The Real Life of a Singer
The Scopes Trial began today in 1925.
The Socially Networked English Classroom: Web 2.0 in the English
Classroom
The Soldier's Experience- Vietnam versus World War I
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The Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded in 1986.
The Spanish American War
The Spanish American War
The Spanish American War
The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937.
The Spread of Buddhism
The Statute of Anne, an influential copyright law, went into effect in
1710.
The Valley of the Shadow
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
The Victorian Web
The Vision of Women Artists
The Women's Declaration of Independence, July 1848
The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're
All Hard Parts)
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiography Project
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.
The first picture of Earth was taken by the U.S. satellite "Explorer VI"
in 1959.
The first typewriter patent was awarded in 1868.
The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas in
2005.
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
Think-Aloud Predictions for "Young Goodman Brown"
Thinkfinity At Home & Afterschool
Thinkfinity Blog
Thinkfinity Content Partners
Thinkfinity In the Classroom
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Thinkfinity Parents & Kids
Thinkfinity Press Releases
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Thinkfinity Standards Alignment
Thinkfinity Today in History Calendar
Thinkfinity Widget Library
Thinkfinity's Most Popular Resources
Thinkfinity.org Help
Thinkfinty Afterschool
Thomas Gray Archive
Thomas Nast was born on this day in 1840.
Thoreau Reader
Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Three-Voice Narrative by Leah Wright
Three-Voice Narrative by Yukiko Ikeda
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Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967.
Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: This too is true: Stories can save us
Timeline of American History
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
Today is Halloween
Today is International Literacy Day
Today is World Hello Day!
Today is autumnal equinox
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Today, the American Library Association announces its annual book
award winners.
Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two Ancient Cities
Two famous Smiths share this birthday.
Ty Beanie Baby, was born in 1997
U.S. Constitution signed in 1787
U.S. Dep. of Energy formed in 1977
U.S. Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology
U.S. Senate
Ukiyo-e Prints
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Uncle Tom's Cabin; American Culture
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Uneasy Partners: Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, LBJ and Martin
Luther King Jr. Lecture Video
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
United States Entry into World War I: Some Hypotheses About U.S.
Entry
United States Entry into World War I: Two Diametrically Opposed
Views
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United We Stand: Behind the Designs
Universal Human Rights Month
Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Online
University of Massachusetts Amerherst
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
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Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Using Grading and Assessment to Maximize the Online Writing Course
Experience--Without Burning Out
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Utopian Visions
VRoma
Van Valen's Gold Rush Journey
Verizon Foundation
Verizon Thinkfinity
Video Portal Test Record
Vietnam War Resources
Virtual Jamestown
Visualizing Cultures
Voiceover Text from the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
Voices of Democracy
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Homepage
Voting in Congress: More than "Yea" or "Nay"
Voting: Design for Democracy
Voting: Florida 2000
Voting: Punch Card Democracy
Voting: The Acme of Reform
Voting: The Present and Future Ballot
WWI flying ace Rickenbacker b. 1890
Walk with Light: Guiding Students through the Conventions of Literary
Analysis
Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade
Classroom
Walt Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
Walters Art Museum
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
Water Wows
Web Site Evaluation Form
Web de Anza
Western History: The Photography Collection
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing?
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What It Takes to Become a Professional Singer
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What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
What Portraits Reveal
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction
What Research Really Says about Teaching and Learning to Read
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
What is a Genre?
What s in a Name?
What's In a Picture: An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts
What's in Your Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit?
When Worlds Collide
When the Games Were Held at Olympia
Who Was Cinque?
Wild Things
William Blake Archive
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Shakespeare
William the Conqueror raids England
Wired for Books
Women in Africa: Tradition and Change
Wonderworld
Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the
English Classroom
World of Dante
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs
Write Alouds
Write letters that make things happen!
Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture
Writing Technical Instructions
Writing a Review Checklist
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
Writing for the Real World
Writing with Love
Writing with Voice
Writing with Voice
You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents (2nd edition)
Youth Vote
Zora Neale Hurston, novel published
b. Lorimer editor - Sat. Evening Post
diet
e-Reading and e-Responding: New Tools for the Next Generation of
Readers
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food
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iAzucar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
tide
yurt
RI.9-10.3. Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events,
including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and
developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
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Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Brochure Investigation Sheet
Self-portrait of a Reading Experience
Sequence of Events Chart
Speech Analysis Questions
Craft and Structure
RI.9-10.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the
cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the
language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
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1968 Exhibit
A Nation Goes to War
A Question of Style
A Window into the White House
Afropop Worldwide NPR
Al-Mizan
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Masters
American Writers
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
Anthropology Collection, AMNH
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Art History Resources
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Baltimore Museum of Art
Black Ships; Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
British Academy
Broken Worlds
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Comic Vocabulary
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Comic Vocabulary Definitions and Examples: Angles
Comic Vocabulary Definitions and Examples: Layout & Design
Comic Vocabulary Definitions and Examples: Text Containers
Concept of Definition Map
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Crossword Puzzles
Crossword Puzzles
Crossword Puzzles
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's 1984
Commercial
Deep Diver
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Digital Karnak Project
Digital Roman Forum
Digital Scriptorium
Disneyland's Virtual Geography
Dystopian Film Clip Guide
Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics
EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War
and Reconstruction
Earth, Wind and Water
Ecosystems
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Examining the U.S. Pledge
Explore Thomas Cole
Feature August 2011: Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Feature July 2011: Hurricanes
Feature September 2011: Constitution Day
Feature September 2011: iCivics Challenge
Filipino Hip-Hop
Fisheries Sustainability
Flip-A-Chip to Build Vocabulary
Gear: The Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Geography in Fiction
Great Books, Great Art
Guampedia
Harbor High
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hip Hop To Da Head
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History of Jim Crow
Homeland Afghanistan
In Old Pompeii
Interactive Timeline
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
KateChopin.org
Know LA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Live from Antiquity
Louisiana Digital Library
Louvre Museum
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
Making of America
Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James
Bible
Mapping Up the Spill
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Monarch Migration Mystery
Montezuma Castle and Well
Myths and Heroes
National Gallery, UK
National Museum of the American Indian
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English
Language in 1828.
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Oregon Encyclopedia
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PBS: The Buddha
Parasites and Disease
Patriot Day is celebrated today on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of 2001.
Picturing America on Screen
Poetry
Political Cartoon Analysis Assignment
Political Cartoon Analysis Rubric
Political Cartoon Comparison Sheet
Possible List of Technologies and Technology Terms
Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
Public Art In The Bronx
Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading in the Content Areas
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Real-World Geography: Andrew Carroll
Real-World Geography: Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin
Real-World Geography: Dr. Michael Wesch
Real-World Geography: Eric Berkenpas
Real-World Geography: Ken Banks
Real-World Geography: Murray Fisher
Real-World Geography: Nathaniel Kelso
Real-World Geography: Ryan McInnis
Real-World Geography: Steve Vogel
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Rhythm and Raga
Safe Online Talk
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Seed Discussion Organizer
Shakespeare in Love
Snake Migration
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Spreading the Message
Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Sweet Secret
Tall Trees
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Teacher's Film Clip Guide: The Matrix
Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
Teaching the Middle East
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Birth of an American Empire
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 'Great Rebuilding'
The Far Reaches of Greek Culture
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Past in the Present
The Phyllis Diller Gag File
Vocabulary Organizer
Walters Art Museum
Water Wows
What Is "College-Level" Writing?
When Worlds Collide
Wild Things
World of Dante
diet
food
food staple
tide
yurt
RI.9-10.5. Analyze in detail how an author's ideas or claims are developed and refined by
particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or
chapter).
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On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
The New York Times used the slogan "All the News That's Fit to
Print."
"Beowulf": Language and Poetics Quick Reference Sheet
"Coming Home Again"
"Death and the Miser" Deconstructed
"Finding Common Ground" Hypothetical Scenario
"Gulliver s Travels" Travelogue
"It's Our World Too": Socially Responsive Learners in Middle School
Language Arts
"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
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"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"To Kill a Mockingbird" in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's
Shoes
"United We Stand" Homepage
"United We Stand": Behind the Designs
"United We Stand": Magazine Cover Gallery
"United We Stand": Search the Covers
"United We Stand": The Campaign
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
"War of the Worlds" Worksheet
"You Gotta BE the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents
'Common Sense'': The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Courage
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
1492: Columbus Enterprise of Indies
1790: 1st census count in the U.S.
1792: Cornerstone White House laid
1796: birth of the metric system
1846: Congress charted Smithsonian
1858: Darwin theory of evolution
1884: Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's
1904: 1st rapid transit subway, NYC
1911: Bingham discovered Incan ruin
1922: First radio commercial aired
1939: The Wizard of Oz Premiered
1945: U.S. Gov. ended shoe rationing
1945: United Nations commenced
1946: 1st Cannes Film Festival held
1952: 1st open-heart surgery
1958: Nat. Aeronautics/Space Admin.
1960: U.S. halted exports to Cuba
1966: Extended minimum wage law
1968 Exhibit
1969: Neil Armstrong 1st walk moon
1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial - D.C.
1988: Germany's Graf, won US Open
1990: East & West Germany reunified
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1990: Nepal adopted a constitution
1996: Netscape released Navigator 3.0
1998: Hackers redirected AOL emails
1999: Earth population reached 6 B
1st drive-in banking services, 1946
2,000/yr old Terracotta Army dug up
2001: Islamist terrorists attack
2004 Political Web Sites
300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae: Herodotus' ''Real'' History
622: Islamic calendar - Muhammad
A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest
Songs
A Failure of the Imagination
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Letter From George Washington
A Question of Style
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
A Vision of Puerto Rico
A Vision of Puerto Rico: The Teodoro Vidal Collection Homepage
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
AD 79: Mt Vesuvius erupted
AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed, 1987
About Us
Abraham Lincoln and Wartime Politics
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life Homepage
Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
Adapting a Musical
Adolescent Literacy and the Effect of Standards
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
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Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
African Voices
African-American Women On-line Archival Collections
Afropop Worldwide NPR
Al-Mizan
All the News that's Fit to Print
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Alternative Book Reports
Alternative Book Reports
Amelia Earhart completed her solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland in
1935.
America celebrates Thanksgiving Day today.
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
America's Voting Patchwork
American Centuries: View from New England
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Icons: A Radio Series from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
American Masters
American Memory Project: Main Index Page
American Studies
American Verse Project
American Writers
An EDSITEment Tour of the National Mall
An Introduction to Psychoanalytical Criticism
Analysis Sheet for "A View of Toledo"
Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Opinions on Music Downloads
Analyzing a Political Cartoon: "Settin on a Rail"
Analyzing a Visual Message
Analyzing a World War II Poster
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
And the Question Is... Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
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Andy Warhol b. 1928
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
Answering the Call 1917-1945
Anthrax spores mailed to Senators
Anthropology Collection, AMNH
April - 2009 - National Poetry Month: American Originals
April 2010 - Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
April 2010 Feature: Ker-Splash
April 2010 Feature: Verizon Thinkfinity Launches New Site
April Calendar
April2010 - National Poetry Month: Celebrating World Poetry
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Arctic Studies Center
Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda?
Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Analyzing World War II Posters
Art Algorithms
Art Explication: "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli
Art History Resources
Art andamp; Life in Africa Online
Art collector Peg Guggenheim b 1898
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Artificial Anatomy Homepage
Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
Arts Education and the Business Community
Arts Education: Making the Case With Legislators
Arts of the Gilded Age
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is in May!
Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a
Text
Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
At Home in the Heartland Online
At the Crossroads of Expertise: The Risky Business of Teaching
Popular Culture
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
August - 2008 - Electing America's President
August - 2009 - Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's
Introduction August Calendar
Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
Author Raymond Chandler b. 1888
Author Scott O'Dell was born on this day.
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Author Stephen Crane b. 1871
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
Authoring With Video
Aviation History Month
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Azor: Vodou Jazz
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Baby Name Books
Background Information on the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Baltimore Museum of Art
Battle of the Bulge: Americans Respond to a German Surprise
Becoming An American Citizen
Beguiling Billboards: Finding Inspiration along the Road
Behaim, creator of the oldest globe
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
Benin became independent in 1960
Beowulf
Bethlehem Digital History Project
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Beyond What I Did on Vacation : Exploring the Genre of Travel
Writing
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Biography Project Discussion Questions
Biography of Paul Langan
Birth of Cleveland in White House
Black History Month
Black Sea ancient remains found
Black Ships; Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Bluford, 1st Afr. Amer. astronaut
Bon Appetite! Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
Book Cover Guide
Books
Botanist Morison, plant classify.
Botanist Morison, plant classify.
Both Art and Craft: Teaching Ideas That Spark Learning
Bouncing Babies
Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Tragic End
Brain to Brain Interface
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
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Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
Bright Stars and Broad Stripes Classroom Videos
Bright Stars and Broad Stripes Teacher Guide for the Classroom Videos
Bringing Grammar to Life
British Academy
Broadway librettist Hammerstein II
Brochure Investigation Sheet
Broken Worlds
Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Browsing Music
Building Big
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page,
Panel by Panel
Building Suburbia: Highways and Housing in Postwar America
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
But Will It Work with Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching
Secondary English Language Arts
C.B. Darrow, inventor of Monopoly
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Carl Sandburg's ''Chicago'': Bringing a Great City Alive
Celebrate Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Celebrate Earth Day!
Celebrate International Literacy Day!
Celebrate Juneteenth!
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
Changing Gender Roles on the World War II Home Front
Chapman - Johnny Appleseed b. 1775
Characterization in Literature and Theater
Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854
Charles Baudelaire: Poete Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight in 1927.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Checklist for Cultural Relevance Reviews
Chef Emeril Lagasse b. 1959
Children's author Dr. Seuss d. 1991
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Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Circus/trainer Gunther d. 2001
Citizenship: New Citizenship Test
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
Clocking T. rex
Co-Authoring in the Classroom: Creating an Environment for Effective
Collaboration
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Comedian/actor Dennis Miller b 1953
Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in
the Media
Commercial ice cream is first sold in the U.S. in 1786.
Common Myths about the Gettysburg Address
Common Visions, Common Voices
Communicating the Presidency
Community tour
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Components of Your Cultural Relevance Review
Components of a Review
Conflicting Voices of the Mexican War
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
Connecting with Young Adult Authors through Writing
Conversations with History
Copyright Clarity: What Every English Teacher Needs to Know
Copyright Clarity: Can My Students Use Images in their Writing?
Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927.
Corridos About the Mexican Revolution
Cortes captured MX City from Aztecs
Cracking the Genetic Code
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Crayola Crayons
Create a Career Blog
Creating Classroom Discussion About Reviews
Creating a Persuasive Podcast
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Creating a Scavenger Hunt Question
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
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Critical Literacies and Graphic Novels for English-Language Learners:
Teaching "Maus"
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Critical Ways of Seeing ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' in
Context
Crittenden-Johnson Resolution
Cultural Change
Cultural Creation Myths
Cultural Relevance Review Guidelines
César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
Dali and Desnos
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Davy Crockett was born in 1786.
Debate Over Downloading Music Links
Debating Music Downloads
December Calendar
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's 1984
Commercial
Deep Diver
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Defining Literacy in a Digital World: Student Interactive
Defining Style
Defining the Presidency
Dem. W.J. Bryan gave notable speech
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Demonstrating a Way to Analyze Style
Designer Coco Chanel b. 1883
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath : A Multigenre
Project
Designing Writing Assignments
Detective Allan Pinkerton b. 1819
Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of
Multiple Intelligence Activities
Diamante Poem Rubric
Diamante Poem Writing Assignment
Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
Differentiated Assessment and Grading: Fair Isn't Always Equal
Differentiating Instruction
Differentiating Instruction for Shakespeare
Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
Digital Dante
Digital Karnak Project
Digital Roman Forum
Digital Scriptorium
Discussion Question Guidelines
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Discussion Questions for "Coming Home, Again"
Discussion Questions for "Mother Tongue"
Disneyland's Virtual Geography
Do Tell: Giving Feedback to Your Students
Document Analysis for Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda
Documentary photo. Dorothea Lange
Documenting African American History
Documenting the American South
Dollar chosen as unit of currency
Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine, was born in 1914.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Drawing Political Cartoons
Driving Music
Drop Me Off in Harlem
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers
Dystopian Film Clip Guide
Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics
EDSITEment
EDSITEment Websites
EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War
and Reconstruction
Easing Your Transition to Teaching Writing Online
Economist Milton Friedman b. 1912
Ecosystems
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Education News
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s
Electing America's President
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928.
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a MD degree in
1849.
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Eng. mathematician John Wallis d.
Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
Engaging the Disengaged: Using Learning Clubs to Motivate
Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Espanol
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing
Classroom
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
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Examining Transcendentalism Through Popular Culture: Final Project
Examining the U.S. Pledge
Examples for the United States
Exit Slips
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Explore Thomas Cole
Explore Your Reading Self
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Cross-Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
Exploring Cultural Connotations of Color
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Exploring Women's History
Exploring Zora Neale Hurston's Style
Exploring the Gettysburg Address
Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through
Diamante Poetry
Extending our Reach: Promoting Better Reading through Think Alouds,
Visualization and Action Strategies with Technology
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Centenary
Families in Bondage
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Crossing the River
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Form of a Funeral
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': April Eighth, 1928: Narrating
from an ''Ordered Place''?
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Feature April 2010: 2010 IRA Convention
Feature April 2010: Digital Nation
Feature April 2010: National Poetry Month
Feature April 2010: The Object of History
Feature Archive
Feature August 2011: 9/11 Anniversary
Feature August 2011: Conflict in Libya
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Feature August 2011: Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Feature August 2011: Punctuation Lessons
Feature August 2011: Wonderopolis
Feature July 2010: Best in Tech Award
Feature July 2010: Henry David Thoreau
Feature July 2010: Space Exploration
Feature July 2010: Symbols of July 4th
Feature July 2011: Back to School
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
Feature July 2011: Healthy Habits
Feature July 2011: Hurricanes
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature July 2011: New Save Capabilities
Feature June 2010: Flag Day
Feature June 2010: National Zoo & Aquarium Month
Feature March 2010: Michelle Obama Fights Childhood Obesity
Feature March 2010: NAACP Historical Interactive Timeline
Feature May 2010: All About Skin Cancer
Feature May 2010: Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Feature May 2010: Become a Plant Hunter
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Feature May 2010: Memorial Day
Feature May 2010: Oil Spill Resources
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2010: ELL
Feature September 2010: Global Connections
Feature September 2010: Hispanic Heritage Month
Feature September 2010: Literacy Week
Feature September 2010: Math
Feature September 2010: STEM
Feature September 2010: Web 2.0 Tools
Feature September 2011: Constitution Day
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Feature September 2011: Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: Supporting Literacy
Feature September 2011: Thinkfinity Education Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: iCivics Challenge
Felina Backer
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Filipino Hip-Hop
Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the
English Language Arts Classroom
Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
First Ladies at the Smithsonian Homepage
Fisheries Sustainability
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Fishing For a Living 1840-1920
Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution
Five Arty Activities for the Car and Grocery
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Flip-A-Chip to Build Vocabulary
Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction
Strategies
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Follow-up Reflections Sheet
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil
Rights
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Fossils of a new species of dinosaur, Jobaria Tiguidensis, were
discovered in 1997
Four Freedoms for the Fourth
Fractured Families in American Drama
Framework for 21st Century Learning
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
Free Speech and the Pledge
Freedom Riders
Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of
Allegiance
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
French Connections
French Ministry of Culture
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
From ''Picturing America'': Norman Rockwell, Freedom of SpeechKnow It When You See It
From Courage to Freedom
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
From Courage to Freedom: Slavery's Dehumanizing Effects
From Courage to Freedom: Student Interactive
From Courage to Freedom: The Reality Behind the Song
From Revolution to Reconstruction...and What Happened Afterwards
From Sheryl Crow to Homer Simpson: Literature and Composition
through Pop Culture
Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis : A WebQuest
on Iran
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas
Garvey, Black Nationalist, b. 1887
Gecko Feet
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Gendered Fictions
Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Geography in Fiction
Geologist Florence Bascom b. 1862
George Washington: The Living Symbol
Get Connected
Get ready for Bullying Awareness Week!
Get ready to celebrate Banned Books Week!
Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Giving Feedback: Food for Thought for Parents
Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
Going Bohemian: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean It
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Going the Distance
Going to the Principal's Office
Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories
Gold was discovered in California in 1848.
Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
Grammar for Teachers: Perspectives and Definitions
Gramophone was patented in 1887
Grandma Atkinson
Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom and School Libraries
Great Books, Great Art
Great Chicago Stories
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Great Films and How to Teach Them
Groovin' to Jazz (ages 12-15)
Guampedia
Guantanamera: A Poem and a Song
Guggenheim Museum
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Harbor High
Harpweek: Explore History
Harvest Some Autumn Learning
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hawaii became 50th state in 1959
Hawthorne in Salem
Heart Transplant
Helen Keller was born in 1880.
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Help! What Is Wrong With These Literature Circles and How Can We
Fix Them?
Helping a Teen Plan and Conduct an Interview
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.
Hero's Journey
Hero's Journey
Hillary Clinton elected Senate - NY
Hints about Print
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic St. Augustine
Historical References in the Endian Passage
History fiction novelist Renault b.
History of Jim Crow
Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and
Evaluation
Holocaust and Resistance
Homeland Afghanistan
How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
How Parents Can Support Arts Education
How can I help adults and adolescents better understand what they
read?
How to Be Safe Online
How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
How to Help a Teen Choose a Book
How to Record Podcasts
How to Revise and Edit
How to Start a Blog
How to Start a Writer's Notebook
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Share Your Story
Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927.
Hurricane Carol hit northeastern
Hypercard, hypertext program, used
I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It: Scaffolding
Students' Engagement With Complex Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
I-Search in the Age of Information
IRA Government Relations Workshop
Ice cream sundae invented in 1881
Ideas Plus: Book 14
Ideas Plus: Book 17
Ideas for Connecting all Students to Literacy: Focusing on the Brain
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Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
Ile en Ile
Image of the Izumizaki Family, California, circa 1900
Imperialism and the Open Door
In 1870, the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
In 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this day.
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall.
In 1952, Paul Fleischman was born on this day.
In 1969, the first human walked on the moon.
In Old Pompeii
In Old Pompeii
In The Middle
In the Middle
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inland Waterways 1820-1940
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Interactive Flag
Interactive Gettysburg Address
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Interactive Verb Observation Chart
Interactive: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
International Puzzle Day
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
Introduction to Vote: The Machinery of Democracy
Inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
It's All in the Translation
It's Independence Day! Or is it?
It's Not All Black and White: Postmodern Picture Books and New
Literacies
J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter celebrate birthdays today.
JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement
JFK, LBJ, and the Fight for Equal Opportunity in the 1960s
Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
January - 2010 - I Have a Dream: Celebrating the Vision of Martin
Luther King, Jr
January Calendar
Japan/Amer. poet Yamada b. 1923
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Japanese Woodblock Prints
Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki d. 1902
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 1 - Immigration
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 2 - Removal
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 3 - Internment
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 4 - Loyalty
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 5 - Service
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 6 - Justice
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, a Catalyst for Victory
Jazz's Jelly Roll Morton d. 1941
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
Jesse James robs the Obocock Bank in 1871.
Jimmy Chin's Extreme Photography: Both Sides of the Lens
John Quincy Adams b. 1767
Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
July - 2009 - Eakins Vision of American Recreation - In the good old
summer time
July 1942: United We Stand Campaign
July Calendar
June Calendar
June2010 - The Road to Santa Fe: A Virtual Excursion
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
KateChopin.org
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
Know LA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
Know the Score
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Korzybski general semantics b. 1879
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
L. Armstrong - joined F.H. Orchestra
La Red de Radioifusoras y Televisoras Educativas y Culturales de
Mexico A.C.
Lady Liberty
Landscape Painting
Language Learners in the English Classroom
Lascaux cave paintings in France
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Latin Literature
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Learner.org
Learning From Lyrics
Learning the Blues
Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary
Classroom
Letter Generator
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Responding to Emily Dickinson -Poetic Analysis
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Lewis-Clark hire Sacagawea-Charbon.
LiTgloss
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de PRIMERO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA- Educacion Artistica
Life Online
Life and Death in the White House
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Limits of Presidential Power
Lincoln Goes to War
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln, Race and the American Presidency Lecture Video
Lincoln, the Smithsonian, and Science Lecture Video
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Literacy
Literacy Remix: Bridging Adolescents' In and Out of School Literacies
Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
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Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature Circles: Focusing on Differentiated Instruction
Live Voyage - Great Pyramid of Giza
Live from Antiquity
Living in the Atlantic World 1450-1800
Looking Deeper at Informational Texts
Looking at Other People's Pledges
Lost and Found Sound (NPR's All Things Considered)
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832.
Louisa May Alcott: Magazine Publications
Louisiana Digital Library
Louvre Museum
Love of War in Tim O Brien's How to Tell a True War Story
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
MX Pres. Fox addressed US Congress
MX women can run for office & vote
Making of America
Making the Wright Connection
Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James
Bible
Manjiro Nakanohama's Rescue and Voyage
Mapping Up the Spill
Mar. Prot./Research/Sanctuaries Act
March Calendar
March is National Women's History Month.
March2010 - Exploring Women's History
Marine Mammal Protection Act, 1972
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Maritime Nation 1800-1850
Mark Twain and American Humor
Mark Twain in His Times
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Master Work: Alvin Ailey and "Revelations"
Math - Johann Bernoulli b. 1667
Math - John Fields, (Medal) d. 1932
Math - Julia Bowman Robinson d. 1985
Math - Sir Roger Penrose b. 1931
Math/science/TV Jacob Bronowski d.
Math/statesman Paul Painleve
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May - 2009 - Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
May - 2010 - Jewish American Heritage Month
May Calendar
May2010 - Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
Media Center
Meeting w/Fuminaro, PM of JP, Pres. Roosevelt
Menu Magic!
Menu Magic!
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast
Mexican's El Dia de los Muertos
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Odyssey Online
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
Miguel de Cervantes was b. 1547
Military leader Xueliang d. age 100
Mis Cositas Resources: Thematic Units
Mobilizing Minds: Teaching Science and Math in the Age of Sputnik
Model Autobiographical Story
Modeling Good Reading Habits With Teens
Modern American Poetry
Modern Maritime America 1950-Present
Mona Lisa's Smile
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Monarch Migration Mystery
Monsters
Montezuma Castle and Well
Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog in 1872.
Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Motivating Teen Readers
Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks: Real Writers, Real
Audiences, Real Purposes
Mourning Picture
Mozart Forum
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Multigenre Museum Exhibits for "The Grapes of Wrath"
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multiple Ownership of the Past
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Museo Nacional del Prado
Museo Nacional del Prado Audio Guides
Museum Exhibit Planning
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
Museum of the Moving Image
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Music & IQ
Music & Intelligence
MyTube: Make a Video Public Service Announcement
Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
NCTE Position Statement on Reading
NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African-Americans
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Engineering Week Teaching Resources
National Gallery, UK
National Get Organized Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Law Enforcement Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.
Nature and the Environment
Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
New Deal Network
New Georgia Encyclopedia
New Literacies and 21st-Century Technologies
New Paths to Learning
New Perspectives on the West
New Takes on Old Tales
Newest Resources
News Reporting Sheet
News channel MSNBC launched in 1996
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
Night at the Museum Movie
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure"
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure
No Singer is an Island
Noh Theater
Not Just Halloween: Festivals of the Dead from Around the World
November Calendar
November's Literary Lions
November2009 - Celebrate We Shall Remain for Native American
Heritage Month 2009
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
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Objection and Answer
Ocean Crossings 1870-1969
October - 2009 - National Hispanic Heritage Month
October Calendar
On the Eve of War: North vs. South
On the Water Collection Search
On the Water: Stories from Maritime America
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
On this day in 1800, Congress approved the purchase of books to start
the Library of Congress.
On this day in 1907, Rachel Carson was born.
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
On this day in 1935, Elvis Presley was born.
One Story, Many Tales
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Online Persona Options
Online Profile Tips
Online Safety
Online Writing Course Focuses on Writing, and Isn't That What We've
Been Aiming For?
Opening Lines From American Literature
Opening Lines From World Literature
Opening Lines from British Literature
Opening Lines from Contemporary American Literature
Oregon Encyclopedia
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
PBS MASTERPIECE celebrates their 40th anniversary today.
PBS: The Buddha
Paint By Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950's
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Paper Ballots
Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy
Parasites and Disease
Pathways for 21st Century Literacies
Pathways for Advancing Adolescent Literacy
Patriot Day is celebrated today on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of 2001.
Paying Attention to Technology: Reviewing a Technology
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
Pearl S. Buck: ''On Discovering America''
Pedro Albizu Campos leads the Puerto Rican Independence movement.
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Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Perception of Place
Perseus Project
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
PhillyHistory.org
Photograph of Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre
Photograph of a Blue Ash Tree
Photographer George Eastman b. 1854
Photography and the National Park Service
Pi Approximation Day
Picturing America on Screen
Picturing U.S. History
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Pioneer aviatrix B. Markham b. 1902
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Planning a Read-Aloud Event for Families
Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poet/author Edgar Allan Poe d. 1849
Poetry Reading and Interpretation Through Extensive Modeling
Poetry of The Great War: ''From Darkness to Light''?
Pompeii Forum Project
Pompeii and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
Portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper
Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes: Investigating Genre in the
Visual Arts
Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
Power Notes
Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
Pres. Clinton signed 2000 farm bill
Pres. Johnson - $1 B for anti-poverty
Pres. Ronald Reagan, Alzheimer's
Pres. Roosevelt, Social Sec. Act
Pres. Thomas Jefferson d. 1826
President Barack Obama was born today in 1961.
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Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold Winter's Day
Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Protecting the Ocean
Psychologist Carl Jung b. 1875
Public Art In The Bronx
Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
Quagga became extinct in 1883
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question the Author (QtA)
Radical Change and Wikis: Teaching New Literacies
Radio Compass guides plane in 1920
Ragamala Dance
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
Ray Kroc, McDonald's chain, b. 1902
Raymond Carver in the Classroom: "A Small, Good Thing"
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
Re-seeing (Dis)Ability: Teaching Students with Disabilities - and
Learning from Them
Reaching Out to School Board Members
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Student Materials Index
Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent
Literacy
Reading Between the Lines
Reading Online
Reading Shakespeare Film-First
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare: A Focus on Student-Centered Learning and
Production
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
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Reading in the Content Areas
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Real-World Geography: Andrew Carroll
Real-World Geography: Donald Buraglio
Real-World Geography: Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin
Real-World Geography: Dr. Michael Wesch
Real-World Geography: Eric Berkenpas
Real-World Geography: Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Real-World Geography: Ken Banks
Real-World Geography: Murray Fisher
Real-World Geography: Nathaniel Kelso
Real-World Geography: Ryan McInnis
Real-World Geography: Steve Vogel
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Reasons for the Development and Continued Popularity of Minimalism
Reciprocal Teaching Guidelines
Reciprocal Teaching Notes
Recording Family Stories
Reflections on the Harlem Renaissance
Reginald Policard: Jazz and Kompa
Religion and the Argument for American Independence
Renaissance Humanism
Report on assassination of Kennedy
Rereadings and Literacy: How Students' Second Readings Might Open
Third Spaces
Research Implications of My Diary
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Project: The Year I Was Born
Research-Based Practices for Effective Writing Instruction: Strategies
for the Secondary Classroom
Resilient Robots
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Revision: How to Teach it, Learn it, Love it!
Revolution '67
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
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Rhythm and Raga
Richard Wright was born in 1908.
Riddle Interactive
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School
Students
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Romantic Circles
Roots and Branches: A Resource of Native American Literature
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Russian Composer Tchaikovsky d. 1893
S. Bowser, inventor - 1st gas pump
Sample Draft Letters
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Scene-by-Scene Summary of the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Science fiction - Hugo Gernsback born
Scotland Yard's 179th anniversary takes place today.
Scribbling Women
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Sculpture With Richard Serra
Second-Language Literacy Instruction
Seed Discussion Organizer
Self-portrait of a Reading Experience
Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Homepage
September - 2009 - Chronicling America
September - 2009 - The Constitution of the United States of America
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
September Calendar
Sequence of Events Chart
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shaquille O'Neal - huge NBA contract
Shared Writing
Shel Silverstein was born in 1930
Show-Me Sentences
Simon Schama's Power of Art
Skeleton of 9,000-yr-old man in WA
Skin Deep Project
Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Slavery and the American Founding: The Inconsistency not to be
excused
Slavery s Dehumanizing Effects
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Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Online Education Conference: Problem Solving with
Smithsonian Experts
Snake Migration
Snapshots in Time
So What Do You Think? Writing a Review
So You Want to be a Singer?
Socratic Seminars
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Sophocles, Socrates, and the Greek Polis
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Spanish Civil War began 1936
Spark!Lab Inventor Profiles
Spark!Lab Inventor's Notebook
Speak Up for the Arts
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Specialized Baby Name Books
Speech Analysis Questions
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Spirituals
Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
Spreading the Message
Standards for the English Language Arts
Standards in Practice, Grades 3-5
Start the Conversation about Arts Education
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary
English Classroom
Student Example of a Book Review
Student Interactives
Students Response to 9/11: A Documentary Report
Studying Literature: New Approaches to Poetry and Fiction
Summarization in any Subject with Rick Wormelli
Summer Travel--Education on the Road
Summer Vacations
Summertime Favorites 2005
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Supporting Contributors
Supporting Reading Comprehension: The role of talk, text, task
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Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Supremes - 1st females w #1 album
Surfer Lisa Anderson-Walk of Fame
Surviving School Chorus
Susan B. Anthony voted on this date in 1872, leading to her arrest.
Sweet Secret
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Take part in the African American Read-In!
Taking America to Lunch
Tales of the Supernatural
Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Tall Trees
Tate Online
Teacher's Film Clip Guide: The Matrix
TeacherServe
Teaching (and Learning) about Japan
Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories
Teaching Poetry in High School
Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
Connections
Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
Teaching With Blogs
Teaching With Glogster: Using Virtual Posters in the Classroom
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
Teaching With Podcasts
Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
Teaching the Middle East
Teaching with Technology
Technology Profile
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
Tell a Migration Story...with Photos
Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
Text Analysis Chart
Textmasters: Bringing literature circles to textbook reading across the
curriculum
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
The Gettysburg Address Homepage
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The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The "Ramayana" Paintings
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The Academy of American Poets
The American Civil War
The American Civil War: A Terrible Swift Sword
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Battles of the Civil War
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Bill of Rights
The Birth of an American Empire
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Booker T. Washington Papers
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Brass Letters of Citizenship: Lincoln, African Americans and
Military Service
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Cave of Lascaux
The Centennial of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-2010
The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 'Great Rebuilding'
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Commemorative Coin Act of 1996
The Cosmos in Miniature: The Remarkable Star Map of Simeon De
Witt
The Crystal Palace hosted the first display of life-size dinosaur replicas
in 1854.
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Detroit Institute of Arts
The Electoral College
The Elements of Fiction
The End of Europe's Middle Ages
The Essential Questions Worksheet
The Feature Story Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
The Fight for the Right to Vote
The Filipino American Story
The Flag in World War II
The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights
The Gear & Lever Voting Machine
The Getty
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Gold Nugget
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The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Ins and Outs of Trying Out
The Internet Public Library
The Kennedy Administration and the Civil Rights Movement
The Language Bank
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference: Processes and Perspectives for
Effective Coaching
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
The Many Faces of Freedom
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Matter of the Philippines
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Mississippi: River of Song
The Mona Lisa stolen by Apollinaire
The National Portrait Gallery
The New Americans
The New York Botanical Garden
The Nineteenth Century in Print -- The Making of America in Books
and Periodicals
The Online Library of Liberty
The Pas De Deux: It Takes Two
The Past in the Present
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Phyllis Diller Gag File
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The President s Job
The Presidential Campaign Trail
The Price of Freedom: Learning Resources
The RMS "Titanic" sank on this day in 1912.
The Real Life of a Singer
The Scopes Trial began today in 1925.
The Socially Networked English Classroom: Web 2.0 in the English
Classroom
The Soldier's Experience- Vietnam versus World War I
The Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded in 1986.
The Spanish American War
The Spanish American War
The Spanish American War
The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937.
The Spread of Buddhism
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The Statute of Anne, an influential copyright law, went into effect in
1710.
The Valley of the Shadow
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
The Victorian Web
The Vision of Women Artists
The Women's Declaration of Independence, July 1848
The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're
All Hard Parts)
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiography Project
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.
The first picture of Earth was taken by the U.S. satellite "Explorer VI"
in 1959.
The first typewriter patent was awarded in 1868.
The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas in
2005.
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
Think-Aloud Predictions for "Young Goodman Brown"
Thinkfinity At Home & Afterschool
Thinkfinity Blog
Thinkfinity Content Partners
Thinkfinity In the Classroom
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Thinkfinity Parents & Kids
Thinkfinity Press Releases
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Thinkfinity Today in History Calendar
Thinkfinity Widget Library
Thinkfinity's Most Popular Resources
Thinkfinity.org Help
Thinkfinty Afterschool
Thomas Gray Archive
Thomas Nast was born on this day in 1840.
Thoreau Reader
Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Three-Voice Narrative by Leah Wright
Three-Voice Narrative by Yukiko Ikeda
Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967.
Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: This too is true: Stories can save us
Timeline of American History
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
Today is Halloween
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Today is International Literacy Day
Today is World Hello Day!
Today is autumnal equinox
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Today, the American Library Association announces its annual book
award winners.
Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two Ancient Cities
Two famous Smiths share this birthday.
Ty Beanie Baby, was born in 1997
U.S. Constitution signed in 1787
U.S. Dep. of Energy formed in 1977
U.S. Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology
U.S. Senate
Ukiyo-e Prints
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Uncle Tom's Cabin; American Culture
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Uneasy Partners: Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, LBJ and Martin
Luther King Jr. Lecture Video
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
United States Entry into World War I: Some Hypotheses About U.S.
Entry
United States Entry into World War I: Two Diametrically Opposed
Views
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United We Stand: Behind the Designs
Universal Human Rights Month
Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Online
University of Massachusetts Amerherst
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Using Grading and Assessment to Maximize the Online Writing Course
Experience--Without Burning Out
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
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Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Utopian Visions
VRoma
Van Valen's Gold Rush Journey
Verizon Foundation
Verizon Thinkfinity
Video Portal Test Record
Vietnam War Resources
Virtual Jamestown
Visualizing Cultures
Voiceover Text from the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
Voices of Democracy
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Homepage
Voting in Congress: More than "Yea" or "Nay"
Voting: Design for Democracy
Voting: Florida 2000
Voting: Punch Card Democracy
Voting: The Acme of Reform
Voting: The Present and Future Ballot
WWI flying ace Rickenbacker b. 1890
Walk with Light: Guiding Students through the Conventions of Literary
Analysis
Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade
Classroom
Walt Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
Walters Art Museum
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
Water Wows
Web Site Evaluation Form
Web de Anza
Western History: The Photography Collection
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing?
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What It Takes to Become a Professional Singer
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
What Portraits Reveal
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction
What Research Really Says about Teaching and Learning to Read
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
What is a Genre?
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What s in a Name?
What's In a Picture: An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts
What's in Your Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit?
When Worlds Collide
When the Games Were Held at Olympia
Who Was Cinque?
Wild Things
William Blake Archive
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Shakespeare
William the Conqueror raids England
Wired for Books
Women in Africa: Tradition and Change
Wonderworld
Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the
English Classroom
World of Dante
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs
Write Alouds
Write letters that make things happen!
Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture
Writing Technical Instructions
Writing a Review Checklist
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
Writing for the Real World
Writing with Love
Writing with Voice
Writing with Voice
You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents (2nd edition)
Youth Vote
Zora Neale Hurston, novel published
b. Lorimer editor - Sat. Evening Post
diet
e-Reading and e-Responding: New Tools for the Next Generation of
Readers
food
food staple
iAzucar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
tide
yurt
RI.9-10.6. Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an
author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
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The New York Times used the slogan "All the News That's Fit to
Print."
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
Analyzing Opinions on Music Downloads
Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
Brochure Investigation Sheet
Discussion Question Guidelines
Document Analysis for Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda
Editorial Cartoon Analysis
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
Perception of Place
Question the Author (QtA)
Reading Between the Lines
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Reflections on the Harlem Renaissance
Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Speech Analysis Questions
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Text Analysis Chart
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded in 1986.
Three-Voice Narrative by Leah Wright
Three-Voice Narrative by Yukiko Ikeda
Today is World Hello Day!
Web Site Evaluation Form
Who Was Cinque?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RI.9-10.7. Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a
person's life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are
emphasized in each account.
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The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.
"Gulliver s Travels" Travelogue
"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
"To Kill a Mockingbird" in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's
Shoes
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
1946: 1st Cannes Film Festival held
A Brief, Urgent Message : Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
An Evening with Stephen Schwartz
An Exploration of "The Crucible" through Seventeenth-Century
Portraits
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar Wilde
April - 2009 - National Poetry Month: American Originals
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is in May!
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
Author Scott O'Dell was born on this day.
Author of Tuck Everlasting , Natalie Babbitt, was born in 1932.
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Biography Project Discussion Questions
Charles Baudelaire: Poete Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography
and Literature
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's ''To an Athlete Dying Young'' and
Dylan Thomas' ''Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night''
Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Explication Essay Checklist
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Concluding the Novel
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Great Composers
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Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
Harrowing Halloween: Spooky, Supernatural, and Suspenseful
Historical References for Part I of "Gulliver's Travels," "A Voyage to
Lilliput"
Historical References in the Endian Passage
I Have a Dream: Exploring Nonviolence in Young Adult Texts
In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.
In Old Pompeii
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
Jason and the Argonauts
Jazz's Jelly Roll Morton d. 1941
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.
L. Armstrong - joined F.H. Orchestra
Lessons of the Indian Epic: The ''Ramayana,'' Showing Your Dharma
Love of War in Tim O Brien's How to Tell a True War Story
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Motivating Teen Readers
Music and Me Project Instructions
Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
November's Literary Lions
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
Outline of Intercalary Chapters in "The Grapes of Wrath"
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
Plants and Seasons
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Reading Shakespeare Film-First
Reflection Sheet
Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Science fiction - Hugo Gernsback born
Seeing Sense in Photographs and Poems
Stories and Folktales
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Tales of the Supernatural
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
The American Civil War
The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
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Utopian Visions
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
What Is It About? A Little Closer Still
Who Was Cinque?
RI.9-10.8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing
whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient;
identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.
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On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
The New York Times used the slogan "All the News That's Fit to
Print."
"Beowulf": Language and Poetics Quick Reference Sheet
"Coming Home Again"
"Death and the Miser" Deconstructed
"Finding Common Ground" Hypothetical Scenario
"Gulliver s Travels" Travelogue
"It's Our World Too": Socially Responsive Learners in Middle School
Language Arts
"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"To Kill a Mockingbird" in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's
Shoes
"United We Stand" Homepage
"United We Stand": Behind the Designs
"United We Stand": Magazine Cover Gallery
"United We Stand": Search the Covers
"United We Stand": The Campaign
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
"War of the Worlds" Worksheet
"You Gotta BE the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents
'Common Sense'': The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Courage
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'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
1492: Columbus Enterprise of Indies
1790: 1st census count in the U.S.
1792: Cornerstone White House laid
1796: birth of the metric system
1846: Congress charted Smithsonian
1858: Darwin theory of evolution
1884: Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's
1904: 1st rapid transit subway, NYC
1911: Bingham discovered Incan ruin
1922: First radio commercial aired
1939: The Wizard of Oz Premiered
1945: U.S. Gov. ended shoe rationing
1945: United Nations commenced
1946: 1st Cannes Film Festival held
1952: 1st open-heart surgery
1958: Nat. Aeronautics/Space Admin.
1960: U.S. halted exports to Cuba
1966: Extended minimum wage law
1968 Exhibit
1969: Neil Armstrong 1st walk moon
1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial - D.C.
1988: Germany's Graf, won US Open
1990: East & West Germany reunified
1990: Nepal adopted a constitution
1996: Netscape released Navigator 3.0
1998: Hackers redirected AOL emails
1999: Earth population reached 6 B
1st drive-in banking services, 1946
2,000/yr old Terracotta Army dug up
2001: Islamist terrorists attack
2004 Political Web Sites
300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae: Herodotus' ''Real'' History
622: Islamic calendar - Muhammad
A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest
Songs
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A Failure of the Imagination
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Letter From George Washington
A Question of Style
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
A Vision of Puerto Rico
A Vision of Puerto Rico: The Teodoro Vidal Collection Homepage
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
AD 79: Mt Vesuvius erupted
AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed, 1987
About Us
Abraham Lincoln and Wartime Politics
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life Homepage
Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
Adapting a Musical
Adolescent Literacy and the Effect of Standards
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
African Voices
African-American Women On-line Archival Collections
Afropop Worldwide NPR
Al-Mizan
All the News that's Fit to Print
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Alternative Book Reports
Alternative Book Reports
Amelia Earhart completed her solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland in
1935.
America celebrates Thanksgiving Day today.
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
America's Voting Patchwork
American Centuries: View from New England
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American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Icons: A Radio Series from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
American Masters
American Memory Project: Main Index Page
American Studies
American Verse Project
American Writers
An EDSITEment Tour of the National Mall
An Introduction to Psychoanalytical Criticism
Analysis Sheet for "A View of Toledo"
Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Opinions on Music Downloads
Analyzing a Political Cartoon: "Settin on a Rail"
Analyzing a Visual Message
Analyzing a World War II Poster
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
And the Question Is... Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
Andy Warhol b. 1928
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
Answering the Call 1917-1945
Anthrax spores mailed to Senators
Anthropology Collection, AMNH
April - 2009 - National Poetry Month: American Originals
April 2010 - Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
April 2010 Feature: Ker-Splash
April 2010 Feature: Verizon Thinkfinity Launches New Site
April Calendar
April2010 - National Poetry Month: Celebrating World Poetry
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Arctic Studies Center
Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda?
Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Analyzing World War II Posters
Art Algorithms
Art Explication: "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli
Art History Resources
Art andamp; Life in Africa Online
Art collector Peg Guggenheim b 1898
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Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Artificial Anatomy Homepage
Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
Arts Education and the Business Community
Arts Education: Making the Case With Legislators
Arts of the Gilded Age
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is in May!
Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a
Text
Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
At Home in the Heartland Online
At the Crossroads of Expertise: The Risky Business of Teaching
Popular Culture
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
August - 2008 - Electing America's President
August - 2009 - Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's
Introduction August Calendar
Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
Author Raymond Chandler b. 1888
Author Scott O'Dell was born on this day.
Author Stephen Crane b. 1871
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
Authoring With Video
Aviation History Month
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Azor: Vodou Jazz
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Baby Name Books
Background Information on the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Baltimore Museum of Art
Battle of the Bulge: Americans Respond to a German Surprise
Becoming An American Citizen
Beguiling Billboards: Finding Inspiration along the Road
Behaim, creator of the oldest globe
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
Benin became independent in 1960
Beowulf
Bethlehem Digital History Project
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
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Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Beyond What I Did on Vacation : Exploring the Genre of Travel
Writing
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Biography Project Discussion Questions
Biography of Paul Langan
Birth of Cleveland in White House
Black History Month
Black Sea ancient remains found
Black Ships; Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Bluford, 1st Afr. Amer. astronaut
Bon Appetite! Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
Book Cover Guide
Books
Botanist Morison, plant classify.
Botanist Morison, plant classify.
Both Art and Craft: Teaching Ideas That Spark Learning
Bouncing Babies
Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Tragic End
Brain to Brain Interface
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
Bright Stars and Broad Stripes Classroom Videos
Bright Stars and Broad Stripes Teacher Guide for the Classroom Videos
Bringing Grammar to Life
British Academy
Broadway librettist Hammerstein II
Brochure Investigation Sheet
Broken Worlds
Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Browsing Music
Building Big
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page,
Panel by Panel
Building Suburbia: Highways and Housing in Postwar America
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
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But Will It Work with Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching
Secondary English Language Arts
C.B. Darrow, inventor of Monopoly
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Carl Sandburg's ''Chicago'': Bringing a Great City Alive
Celebrate Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Celebrate Earth Day!
Celebrate International Literacy Day!
Celebrate Juneteenth!
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
Changing Gender Roles on the World War II Home Front
Chapman - Johnny Appleseed b. 1775
Characterization in Literature and Theater
Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854
Charles Baudelaire: Poete Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight in 1927.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Checklist for Cultural Relevance Reviews
Chef Emeril Lagasse b. 1959
Children's author Dr. Seuss d. 1991
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Circus/trainer Gunther d. 2001
Citizenship: New Citizenship Test
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
Clocking T. rex
Co-Authoring in the Classroom: Creating an Environment for Effective
Collaboration
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Comedian/actor Dennis Miller b 1953
Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in
the Media
Commercial ice cream is first sold in the U.S. in 1786.
Common Myths about the Gettysburg Address
Common Visions, Common Voices
Communicating the Presidency
Community tour
Comparison and Contrast Guide
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Comparison and Contrast Guide
Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Components of Your Cultural Relevance Review
Components of a Review
Conflicting Voices of the Mexican War
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
Connecting with Young Adult Authors through Writing
Conversations with History
Copyright Clarity: What Every English Teacher Needs to Know
Copyright Clarity: Can My Students Use Images in their Writing?
Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927.
Corridos About the Mexican Revolution
Cortes captured MX City from Aztecs
Cracking the Genetic Code
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Crayola Crayons
Create a Career Blog
Creating Classroom Discussion About Reviews
Creating a Persuasive Podcast
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Creating a Scavenger Hunt Question
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Critical Literacies and Graphic Novels for English-Language Learners:
Teaching "Maus"
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Critical Ways of Seeing ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' in
Context
Crittenden-Johnson Resolution
Cultural Change
Cultural Creation Myths
Cultural Relevance Review Guidelines
César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
Dali and Desnos
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Davy Crockett was born in 1786.
Debate Over Downloading Music Links
Debating Music Downloads
December Calendar
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's 1984
Commercial
Deep Diver
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
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Defining Literacy in a Digital World: Student Interactive
Defining Style
Defining the Presidency
Dem. W.J. Bryan gave notable speech
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Demonstrating a Way to Analyze Style
Designer Coco Chanel b. 1883
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath : A Multigenre
Project
Designing Writing Assignments
Detective Allan Pinkerton b. 1819
Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of
Multiple Intelligence Activities
Diamante Poem Rubric
Diamante Poem Writing Assignment
Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
Differentiated Assessment and Grading: Fair Isn't Always Equal
Differentiating Instruction
Differentiating Instruction for Shakespeare
Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
Digital Dante
Digital Karnak Project
Digital Roman Forum
Digital Scriptorium
Discussion Question Guidelines
Discussion Questions for "Coming Home, Again"
Discussion Questions for "Mother Tongue"
Disneyland's Virtual Geography
Do Tell: Giving Feedback to Your Students
Document Analysis for Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda
Documentary photo. Dorothea Lange
Documenting African American History
Documenting the American South
Dollar chosen as unit of currency
Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine, was born in 1914.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Drawing Political Cartoons
Driving Music
Drop Me Off in Harlem
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers
Dystopian Film Clip Guide
Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics
EDSITEment
EDSITEment Websites
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EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War
and Reconstruction
Easing Your Transition to Teaching Writing Online
Economist Milton Friedman b. 1912
Ecosystems
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Education News
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s
Electing America's President
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928.
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a MD degree in
1849.
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Eng. mathematician John Wallis d.
Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
Engaging the Disengaged: Using Learning Clubs to Motivate
Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Espanol
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing
Classroom
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Examining Transcendentalism Through Popular Culture: Final Project
Examining the U.S. Pledge
Examples for the United States
Exit Slips
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Explore Thomas Cole
Explore Your Reading Self
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Cross-Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
Exploring Cultural Connotations of Color
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Exploring Women's History
Exploring Zora Neale Hurston's Style
Exploring the Gettysburg Address
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Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through
Diamante Poetry
Extending our Reach: Promoting Better Reading through Think Alouds,
Visualization and Action Strategies with Technology
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Centenary
Families in Bondage
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Crossing the River
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Form of a Funeral
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': April Eighth, 1928: Narrating
from an ''Ordered Place''?
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Feature April 2010: 2010 IRA Convention
Feature April 2010: Digital Nation
Feature April 2010: National Poetry Month
Feature April 2010: The Object of History
Feature Archive
Feature August 2011: 9/11 Anniversary
Feature August 2011: Conflict in Libya
Feature August 2011: Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Feature August 2011: Punctuation Lessons
Feature August 2011: Wonderopolis
Feature July 2010: Best in Tech Award
Feature July 2010: Henry David Thoreau
Feature July 2010: Space Exploration
Feature July 2010: Symbols of July 4th
Feature July 2011: Back to School
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
Feature July 2011: Healthy Habits
Feature July 2011: Hurricanes
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature July 2011: New Save Capabilities
Feature June 2010: Flag Day
Feature June 2010: National Zoo & Aquarium Month
Feature March 2010: Michelle Obama Fights Childhood Obesity
Feature March 2010: NAACP Historical Interactive Timeline
Feature May 2010: All About Skin Cancer
Feature May 2010: Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Feature May 2010: Become a Plant Hunter
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
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Feature May 2010: Memorial Day
Feature May 2010: Oil Spill Resources
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2010: ELL
Feature September 2010: Global Connections
Feature September 2010: Hispanic Heritage Month
Feature September 2010: Literacy Week
Feature September 2010: Math
Feature September 2010: STEM
Feature September 2010: Web 2.0 Tools
Feature September 2011: Constitution Day
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Feature September 2011: Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: Supporting Literacy
Feature September 2011: Thinkfinity Education Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: iCivics Challenge
Felina Backer
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Filipino Hip-Hop
Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the
English Language Arts Classroom
Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
First Ladies at the Smithsonian Homepage
Fisheries Sustainability
Fishing For a Living 1840-1920
Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution
Five Arty Activities for the Car and Grocery
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Flip-A-Chip to Build Vocabulary
Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction
Strategies
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Follow-up Reflections Sheet
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil
Rights
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Fossils of a new species of dinosaur, Jobaria Tiguidensis, were
discovered in 1997
Four Freedoms for the Fourth
Fractured Families in American Drama
Framework for 21st Century Learning
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
Free Speech and the Pledge
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Freedom Riders
Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of
Allegiance
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
French Connections
French Ministry of Culture
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What
Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
From ''Picturing America'': Norman Rockwell, Freedom of SpeechKnow It When You See It
From Courage to Freedom
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
From Courage to Freedom: Slavery's Dehumanizing Effects
From Courage to Freedom: Student Interactive
From Courage to Freedom: The Reality Behind the Song
From Revolution to Reconstruction...and What Happened Afterwards
From Sheryl Crow to Homer Simpson: Literature and Composition
through Pop Culture
Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis : A WebQuest
on Iran
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas
Garvey, Black Nationalist, b. 1887
Gecko Feet
Gendered Fictions
Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Geography in Fiction
Geologist Florence Bascom b. 1862
George Washington: The Living Symbol
Get Connected
Get ready for Bullying Awareness Week!
Get ready to celebrate Banned Books Week!
Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Giving Feedback: Food for Thought for Parents
Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
Going Bohemian: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean It
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Going the Distance
Going to the Principal's Office
Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories
Gold was discovered in California in 1848.
Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
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Grammar for Teachers: Perspectives and Definitions
Gramophone was patented in 1887
Grandma Atkinson
Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom and School Libraries
Great Books, Great Art
Great Chicago Stories
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Great Films and How to Teach Them
Groovin' to Jazz (ages 12-15)
Guampedia
Guantanamera: A Poem and a Song
Guggenheim Museum
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Harbor High
Harpweek: Explore History
Harvest Some Autumn Learning
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hawaii became 50th state in 1959
Hawthorne in Salem
Heart Transplant
Helen Keller was born in 1880.
Help! What Is Wrong With These Literature Circles and How Can We
Fix Them?
Helping a Teen Plan and Conduct an Interview
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.
Hero's Journey
Hero's Journey
Hillary Clinton elected Senate - NY
Hints about Print
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic St. Augustine
Historical References in the Endian Passage
History fiction novelist Renault b.
History of Jim Crow
Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and
Evaluation
Holocaust and Resistance
Homeland Afghanistan
How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
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How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
How Parents Can Support Arts Education
How can I help adults and adolescents better understand what they
read?
How to Be Safe Online
How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
How to Help a Teen Choose a Book
How to Record Podcasts
How to Revise and Edit
How to Start a Blog
How to Start a Writer's Notebook
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Share Your Story
Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927.
Hurricane Carol hit northeastern
Hypercard, hypertext program, used
I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It: Scaffolding
Students' Engagement With Complex Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
I-Search in the Age of Information
IRA Government Relations Workshop
Ice cream sundae invented in 1881
Ideas Plus: Book 14
Ideas Plus: Book 17
Ideas for Connecting all Students to Literacy: Focusing on the Brain
Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
Ile en Ile
Image of the Izumizaki Family, California, circa 1900
Imperialism and the Open Door
In 1870, the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
In 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this day.
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall.
In 1952, Paul Fleischman was born on this day.
In 1969, the first human walked on the moon.
In Old Pompeii
In Old Pompeii
In The Middle
In the Middle
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inland Waterways 1820-1940
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Interactive Flag
Interactive Gettysburg Address
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
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Interactive Verb Observation Chart
Interactive: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
International Puzzle Day
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
Introduction to Vote: The Machinery of Democracy
Inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
It's All in the Translation
It's Independence Day! Or is it?
It's Not All Black and White: Postmodern Picture Books and New
Literacies
J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter celebrate birthdays today.
JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement
JFK, LBJ, and the Fight for Equal Opportunity in the 1960s
Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
January - 2010 - I Have a Dream: Celebrating the Vision of Martin
Luther King, Jr
January Calendar
Japan/Amer. poet Yamada b. 1923
Japanese Woodblock Prints
Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki d. 1902
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 1 - Immigration
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 2 - Removal
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 3 - Internment
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 4 - Loyalty
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 5 - Service
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 6 - Justice
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, a Catalyst for Victory
Jazz's Jelly Roll Morton d. 1941
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
Jesse James robs the Obocock Bank in 1871.
Jimmy Chin's Extreme Photography: Both Sides of the Lens
John Quincy Adams b. 1767
Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
July - 2009 - Eakins Vision of American Recreation - In the good old
summer time
July 1942: United We Stand Campaign
July Calendar
June Calendar
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June2010 - The Road to Santa Fe: A Virtual Excursion
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
KateChopin.org
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
Know LA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
Know the Score
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Korzybski general semantics b. 1879
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
L. Armstrong - joined F.H. Orchestra
La Red de Radioifusoras y Televisoras Educativas y Culturales de
Mexico A.C.
Lady Liberty
Landscape Painting
Language Learners in the English Classroom
Lascaux cave paintings in France
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Latin Literature
Learner.org
Learning From Lyrics
Learning the Blues
Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary
Classroom
Letter Generator
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Responding to Emily Dickinson -Poetic Analysis
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Lewis-Clark hire Sacagawea-Charbon.
LiTgloss
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
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Libro de Texto de PRIMERO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA- Educacion Artistica
Life Online
Life and Death in the White House
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Limits of Presidential Power
Lincoln Goes to War
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln, Race and the American Presidency Lecture Video
Lincoln, the Smithsonian, and Science Lecture Video
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Literacy
Literacy Remix: Bridging Adolescents' In and Out of School Literacies
Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature Circles: Focusing on Differentiated Instruction
Live Voyage - Great Pyramid of Giza
Live from Antiquity
Living in the Atlantic World 1450-1800
Looking Deeper at Informational Texts
Looking at Other People's Pledges
Lost and Found Sound (NPR's All Things Considered)
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832.
Louisa May Alcott: Magazine Publications
Louisiana Digital Library
Louvre Museum
Love of War in Tim O Brien's How to Tell a True War Story
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
MX Pres. Fox addressed US Congress
MX women can run for office & vote
Making of America
Making the Wright Connection
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Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James
Bible
Manjiro Nakanohama's Rescue and Voyage
Mapping Up the Spill
Mar. Prot./Research/Sanctuaries Act
March Calendar
March is National Women's History Month.
March2010 - Exploring Women's History
Marine Mammal Protection Act, 1972
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Maritime Nation 1800-1850
Mark Twain and American Humor
Mark Twain in His Times
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Master Work: Alvin Ailey and "Revelations"
Math - Johann Bernoulli b. 1667
Math - John Fields, (Medal) d. 1932
Math - Julia Bowman Robinson d. 1985
Math - Sir Roger Penrose b. 1931
Math/science/TV Jacob Bronowski d.
Math/statesman Paul Painleve
May - 2009 - Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
May - 2010 - Jewish American Heritage Month
May Calendar
May2010 - Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
Media Center
Meeting w/Fuminaro, PM of JP, Pres. Roosevelt
Menu Magic!
Menu Magic!
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast
Mexican's El Dia de los Muertos
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Odyssey Online
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
Miguel de Cervantes was b. 1547
Military leader Xueliang d. age 100
Mis Cositas Resources: Thematic Units
Mobilizing Minds: Teaching Science and Math in the Age of Sputnik
Model Autobiographical Story
Modeling Good Reading Habits With Teens
Modern American Poetry
Modern Maritime America 1950-Present
Mona Lisa's Smile
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Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Monarch Migration Mystery
Monsters
Montezuma Castle and Well
Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog in 1872.
Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Motivating Teen Readers
Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks: Real Writers, Real
Audiences, Real Purposes
Mourning Picture
Mozart Forum
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Multigenre Museum Exhibits for "The Grapes of Wrath"
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multiple Ownership of the Past
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Museo Nacional del Prado
Museo Nacional del Prado Audio Guides
Museum Exhibit Planning
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
Museum of the Moving Image
Music & IQ
Music & Intelligence
MyTube: Make a Video Public Service Announcement
Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
NCTE Position Statement on Reading
NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African-Americans
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Engineering Week Teaching Resources
National Gallery, UK
National Get Organized Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Law Enforcement Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.
Nature and the Environment
Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
New Deal Network
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New Georgia Encyclopedia
New Literacies and 21st-Century Technologies
New Paths to Learning
New Perspectives on the West
New Takes on Old Tales
Newest Resources
News Reporting Sheet
News channel MSNBC launched in 1996
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
Night at the Museum Movie
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure"
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure
No Singer is an Island
Noh Theater
Not Just Halloween: Festivals of the Dead from Around the World
November Calendar
November's Literary Lions
November2009 - Celebrate We Shall Remain for Native American
Heritage Month 2009
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
Objection and Answer
Ocean Crossings 1870-1969
October - 2009 - National Hispanic Heritage Month
October Calendar
On the Eve of War: North vs. South
On the Water Collection Search
On the Water: Stories from Maritime America
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
On this day in 1800, Congress approved the purchase of books to start
the Library of Congress.
On this day in 1907, Rachel Carson was born.
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
On this day in 1935, Elvis Presley was born.
One Story, Many Tales
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Online Persona Options
Online Profile Tips
Online Safety
Online Writing Course Focuses on Writing, and Isn't That What We've
Been Aiming For?
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Opening Lines From American Literature
Opening Lines From World Literature
Opening Lines from British Literature
Opening Lines from Contemporary American Literature
Oregon Encyclopedia
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
PBS MASTERPIECE celebrates their 40th anniversary today.
PBS: The Buddha
Paint By Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950's
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Paper Ballots
Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy
Parasites and Disease
Pathways for 21st Century Literacies
Pathways for Advancing Adolescent Literacy
Patriot Day is celebrated today on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of 2001.
Paying Attention to Technology: Reviewing a Technology
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
Pearl S. Buck: ''On Discovering America''
Pedro Albizu Campos leads the Puerto Rican Independence movement.
Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Perception of Place
Perseus Project
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
PhillyHistory.org
Photograph of Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre
Photograph of a Blue Ash Tree
Photographer George Eastman b. 1854
Photography and the National Park Service
Pi Approximation Day
Picturing America on Screen
Picturing U.S. History
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Pioneer aviatrix B. Markham b. 1902
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
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Planning a Read-Aloud Event for Families
Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poet/author Edgar Allan Poe d. 1849
Poetry Reading and Interpretation Through Extensive Modeling
Poetry of The Great War: ''From Darkness to Light''?
Pompeii Forum Project
Pompeii and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
Portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper
Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes: Investigating Genre in the
Visual Arts
Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
Power Notes
Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
Pres. Clinton signed 2000 farm bill
Pres. Johnson - $1 B for anti-poverty
Pres. Ronald Reagan, Alzheimer's
Pres. Roosevelt, Social Sec. Act
Pres. Thomas Jefferson d. 1826
President Barack Obama was born today in 1961.
Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold Winter's Day
Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Protecting the Ocean
Psychologist Carl Jung b. 1875
Public Art In The Bronx
Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
Quagga became extinct in 1883
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question the Author (QtA)
Radical Change and Wikis: Teaching New Literacies
Radio Compass guides plane in 1920
Ragamala Dance
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
Ray Kroc, McDonald's chain, b. 1902
Raymond Carver in the Classroom: "A Small, Good Thing"
Re-envisioning Research
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Re-envisioning Research
Re-seeing (Dis)Ability: Teaching Students with Disabilities - and
Learning from Them
Reaching Out to School Board Members
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Student Materials Index
Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent
Literacy
Reading Between the Lines
Reading Online
Reading Shakespeare Film-First
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare: A Focus on Student-Centered Learning and
Production
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading in the Content Areas
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Real-World Geography: Andrew Carroll
Real-World Geography: Donald Buraglio
Real-World Geography: Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin
Real-World Geography: Dr. Michael Wesch
Real-World Geography: Eric Berkenpas
Real-World Geography: Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Real-World Geography: Ken Banks
Real-World Geography: Murray Fisher
Real-World Geography: Nathaniel Kelso
Real-World Geography: Ryan McInnis
Real-World Geography: Steve Vogel
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Reasons for the Development and Continued Popularity of Minimalism
Reciprocal Teaching Guidelines
Reciprocal Teaching Notes
Recording Family Stories
Reflections on the Harlem Renaissance
Reginald Policard: Jazz and Kompa
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Religion and the Argument for American Independence
Renaissance Humanism
Report on assassination of Kennedy
Rereadings and Literacy: How Students' Second Readings Might Open
Third Spaces
Research Implications of My Diary
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Project: The Year I Was Born
Research-Based Practices for Effective Writing Instruction: Strategies
for the Secondary Classroom
Resilient Robots
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Revision: How to Teach it, Learn it, Love it!
Revolution '67
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Rhythm and Raga
Richard Wright was born in 1908.
Riddle Interactive
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School
Students
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Romantic Circles
Roots and Branches: A Resource of Native American Literature
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Russian Composer Tchaikovsky d. 1893
S. Bowser, inventor - 1st gas pump
Sample Draft Letters
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Scene-by-Scene Summary of the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Science fiction - Hugo Gernsback born
Scotland Yard's 179th anniversary takes place today.
Scribbling Women
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Sculpture With Richard Serra
Second-Language Literacy Instruction
Seed Discussion Organizer
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Self-portrait of a Reading Experience
Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Homepage
September - 2009 - Chronicling America
September - 2009 - The Constitution of the United States of America
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
September Calendar
Sequence of Events Chart
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shaquille O'Neal - huge NBA contract
Shared Writing
Shel Silverstein was born in 1930
Show-Me Sentences
Simon Schama's Power of Art
Skeleton of 9,000-yr-old man in WA
Skin Deep Project
Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Slavery and the American Founding: The Inconsistency not to be
excused
Slavery s Dehumanizing Effects
Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Online Education Conference: Problem Solving with
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Snake Migration
Snapshots in Time
So What Do You Think? Writing a Review
So You Want to be a Singer?
Socratic Seminars
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Sophocles, Socrates, and the Greek Polis
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Spanish Civil War began 1936
Spark!Lab Inventor Profiles
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Speak Up for the Arts
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Specialized Baby Name Books
Speech Analysis Questions
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
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Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Spirituals
Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
Spreading the Message
Standards for the English Language Arts
Standards in Practice, Grades 3-5
Start the Conversation about Arts Education
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary
English Classroom
Student Example of a Book Review
Student Interactives
Students Response to 9/11: A Documentary Report
Studying Literature: New Approaches to Poetry and Fiction
Summarization in any Subject with Rick Wormelli
Summer Travel--Education on the Road
Summer Vacations
Summertime Favorites 2005
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Supporting Contributors
Supporting Reading Comprehension: The role of talk, text, task
Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Supremes - 1st females w #1 album
Surfer Lisa Anderson-Walk of Fame
Surviving School Chorus
Susan B. Anthony voted on this date in 1872, leading to her arrest.
Sweet Secret
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Take part in the African American Read-In!
Taking America to Lunch
Tales of the Supernatural
Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Tall Trees
Tate Online
Teacher's Film Clip Guide: The Matrix
TeacherServe
Teaching (and Learning) about Japan
Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories
Teaching Poetry in High School
Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
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Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
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Teaching With Glogster: Using Virtual Posters in the Classroom
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
Teaching With Podcasts
Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
Teaching the Middle East
Teaching with Technology
Technology Profile
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
Tell a Migration Story...with Photos
Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
Text Analysis Chart
Textmasters: Bringing literature circles to textbook reading across the
curriculum
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
The Gettysburg Address Homepage
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The "Ramayana" Paintings
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The Academy of American Poets
The American Civil War
The American Civil War: A Terrible Swift Sword
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Battles of the Civil War
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Bill of Rights
The Birth of an American Empire
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Booker T. Washington Papers
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Brass Letters of Citizenship: Lincoln, African Americans and
Military Service
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Cave of Lascaux
The Centennial of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-2010
The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 'Great Rebuilding'
The Chinese New Year starts today.
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The Commemorative Coin Act of 1996
The Cosmos in Miniature: The Remarkable Star Map of Simeon De
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The Crystal Palace hosted the first display of life-size dinosaur replicas
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The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Detroit Institute of Arts
The Electoral College
The Elements of Fiction
The End of Europe's Middle Ages
The Essential Questions Worksheet
The Feature Story Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
The Fight for the Right to Vote
The Filipino American Story
The Flag in World War II
The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights
The Gear & Lever Voting Machine
The Getty
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Gold Nugget
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Ins and Outs of Trying Out
The Internet Public Library
The Kennedy Administration and the Civil Rights Movement
The Language Bank
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference: Processes and Perspectives for
Effective Coaching
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
The Many Faces of Freedom
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Matter of the Philippines
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Mississippi: River of Song
The Mona Lisa stolen by Apollinaire
The National Portrait Gallery
The New Americans
The New York Botanical Garden
The Nineteenth Century in Print -- The Making of America in Books
and Periodicals
The Online Library of Liberty
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The Pas De Deux: It Takes Two
The Past in the Present
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Phyllis Diller Gag File
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The President s Job
The Presidential Campaign Trail
The Price of Freedom: Learning Resources
The RMS "Titanic" sank on this day in 1912.
The Real Life of a Singer
The Scopes Trial began today in 1925.
The Socially Networked English Classroom: Web 2.0 in the English
Classroom
The Soldier's Experience- Vietnam versus World War I
The Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded in 1986.
The Spanish American War
The Spanish American War
The Spanish American War
The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937.
The Spread of Buddhism
The Statute of Anne, an influential copyright law, went into effect in
1710.
The Valley of the Shadow
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
The Victorian Web
The Vision of Women Artists
The Women's Declaration of Independence, July 1848
The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're
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The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiography Project
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.
The first picture of Earth was taken by the U.S. satellite "Explorer VI"
in 1959.
The first typewriter patent was awarded in 1868.
The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas in
2005.
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
Think-Aloud Predictions for "Young Goodman Brown"
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Thoreau Reader
Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Three-Voice Narrative by Leah Wright
Three-Voice Narrative by Yukiko Ikeda
Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967.
Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: This too is true: Stories can save us
Timeline of American History
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
Today is Halloween
Today is International Literacy Day
Today is World Hello Day!
Today is autumnal equinox
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Today, the American Library Association announces its annual book
award winners.
Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two Ancient Cities
Two famous Smiths share this birthday.
Ty Beanie Baby, was born in 1997
U.S. Constitution signed in 1787
U.S. Dep. of Energy formed in 1977
U.S. Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology
U.S. Senate
Ukiyo-e Prints
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Uncle Tom's Cabin; American Culture
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
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Uneasy Partners: Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, LBJ and Martin
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United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
United States Entry into World War I: Some Hypotheses About U.S.
Entry
United States Entry into World War I: Two Diametrically Opposed
Views
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United We Stand: Behind the Designs
Universal Human Rights Month
Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Online
University of Massachusetts Amerherst
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Using Grading and Assessment to Maximize the Online Writing Course
Experience--Without Burning Out
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Utopian Visions
VRoma
Van Valen's Gold Rush Journey
Verizon Foundation
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Video Portal Test Record
Vietnam War Resources
Virtual Jamestown
Visualizing Cultures
Voiceover Text from the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
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Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Homepage
Voting in Congress: More than "Yea" or "Nay"
Voting: Design for Democracy
Voting: Florida 2000
Voting: Punch Card Democracy
Voting: The Acme of Reform
Voting: The Present and Future Ballot
WWI flying ace Rickenbacker b. 1890
Walk with Light: Guiding Students through the Conventions of Literary
Analysis
Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade
Classroom
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Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
Walters Art Museum
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
Water Wows
Web Site Evaluation Form
Web de Anza
Western History: The Photography Collection
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing?
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
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What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
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What It Takes to Become a Professional Singer
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
What Portraits Reveal
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction
What Research Really Says about Teaching and Learning to Read
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
What is a Genre?
What s in a Name?
What's In a Picture: An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts
What's in Your Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit?
When Worlds Collide
When the Games Were Held at Olympia
Who Was Cinque?
Wild Things
William Blake Archive
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Shakespeare
William the Conqueror raids England
Wired for Books
Women in Africa: Tradition and Change
Wonderworld
Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the
English Classroom
World of Dante
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs
Write Alouds
Write letters that make things happen!
Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture
Writing Technical Instructions
Writing a Review Checklist
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
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Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
Writing for the Real World
Writing with Love
Writing with Voice
Writing with Voice
You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents (2nd edition)
Youth Vote
Zora Neale Hurston, novel published
b. Lorimer editor - Sat. Evening Post
diet
e-Reading and e-Responding: New Tools for the Next Generation of
Readers
food
food staple
iAzucar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
tide
yurt
Writing Standards
Text Types and Purposes
W.9-10.1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts,
using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
W.910.1(a)
Introduce precise claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing
claims, and create an organization that establishes clear relationships among
claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
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'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
Ad Campaign Rubric
Adopting Hawthorne's Style
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Basic Questions about Audience
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Blogtopia Assignment
Blogtopia Rubric
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Broken Worlds
Celebrate Earth Day!
Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive
Letter Writing
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Cultural Change
Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two
Prewriting Strategies
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing
Classroom
Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
Feature July 2011: New Save Capabilities
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific
Arguments
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Genre List
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Guiding Questions for Feedback
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
Hypertext Response Project
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall.
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Inventors and Explorers
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Letter to the Editor Peer Review Questions
Letters to the Next President
Lincoln Goes to War
Modeling Academic Writing Through Scholarly Article Presentations
Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor
Persuasion Map
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Persuasion Map
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Essay
Persuasive Letter Audience Analysis
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Possible Genres
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Putting It in Perspective-A Letter to Myself
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reflection Questions
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Short Story Fair Projects
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Taking a Position on a Fictional Technology Rubric
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing
The Matter of the Philippines
Today is International Literacy Day
Tracking the Ways Writers Develop Heroes and Villains
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Utopian Visions
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
Wonderworld
Write letters that make things happen!
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Writing Checklist
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly, supplying evidence for each while
pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates
the audience's knowledge level and concerns.
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'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
Ad Campaign Rubric
Adopting Hawthorne's Style
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Basic Questions about Audience
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Blogtopia Assignment
Blogtopia Rubric
Broken Worlds
Celebrate Earth Day!
Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive
Letter Writing
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Cultural Change
Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two
Prewriting Strategies
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing
Classroom
Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
Feature July 2011: New Save Capabilities
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific
Arguments
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Genre List
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Guiding Questions for Feedback
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Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
Hypertext Response Project
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall.
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Inventors and Explorers
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Letter to the Editor Peer Review Questions
Letters to the Next President
Lincoln Goes to War
Modeling Academic Writing Through Scholarly Article Presentations
Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Essay
Persuasive Letter Audience Analysis
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Possible Genres
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Putting It in Perspective-A Letter to Myself
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reflection Questions
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Short Story Fair Projects
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Taking a Position on a Fictional Technology Rubric
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W.910.1(c)
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing
The Matter of the Philippines
Today is International Literacy Day
Tracking the Ways Writers Develop Heroes and Villains
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Utopian Visions
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
Wonderworld
Write letters that make things happen!
Writing Checklist
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create
cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between
reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.
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'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
Ad Campaign Rubric
Adopting Hawthorne's Style
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Basic Questions about Audience
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Blogtopia Assignment
Blogtopia Rubric
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Broken Worlds
Celebrate Earth Day!
Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive
Letter Writing
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Cultural Change
Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two
Prewriting Strategies
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing
Classroom
Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
Feature July 2011: New Save Capabilities
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific
Arguments
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Genre List
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Guiding Questions for Feedback
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
Hypertext Response Project
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall.
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Inventors and Explorers
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Letter to the Editor Peer Review Questions
Letters to the Next President
Lincoln Goes to War
Modeling Academic Writing Through Scholarly Article Presentations
Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor
Persuasion Map
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Persuasion Map
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Essay
Persuasive Letter Audience Analysis
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Possible Genres
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Putting It in Perspective-A Letter to Myself
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reflection Questions
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Short Story Fair Projects
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Taking a Position on a Fictional Technology Rubric
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing
The Matter of the Philippines
Today is International Literacy Day
Tracking the Ways Writers Develop Heroes and Villains
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Utopian Visions
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
Wonderworld
Write letters that make things happen!
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W.910.1(d)
Writing Checklist
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the
norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
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'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
Ad Campaign Rubric
Adopting Hawthorne's Style
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Basic Questions about Audience
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Blogtopia Assignment
Blogtopia Rubric
Broken Worlds
Celebrate Earth Day!
Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive
Letter Writing
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Cultural Change
Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two
Prewriting Strategies
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing
Classroom
Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
Feature July 2011: New Save Capabilities
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific
Arguments
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Genre List
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Guiding Questions for Feedback
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
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Hypertext Response Project
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall.
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Inventors and Explorers
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Letter to the Editor Peer Review Questions
Letters to the Next President
Lincoln Goes to War
Modeling Academic Writing Through Scholarly Article Presentations
Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Essay
Persuasive Letter Audience Analysis
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Possible Genres
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Putting It in Perspective-A Letter to Myself
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reflection Questions
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Short Story Fair Projects
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Taking a Position on a Fictional Technology Rubric
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W.910.1(e)
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing
The Matter of the Philippines
Today is International Literacy Day
Tracking the Ways Writers Develop Heroes and Villains
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Utopian Visions
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
Wonderworld
Write letters that make things happen!
Writing Checklist
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the
argument presented.
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'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
Ad Campaign Rubric
Adopting Hawthorne's Style
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Basic Questions about Audience
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Blogtopia Assignment
Blogtopia Rubric
Broken Worlds
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Celebrate Earth Day!
Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive
Letter Writing
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Cultural Change
Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two
Prewriting Strategies
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing
Classroom
Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
Feature July 2011: New Save Capabilities
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific
Arguments
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Genre List
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Guiding Questions for Feedback
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
Hypertext Response Project
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall.
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Inventors and Explorers
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Letter to the Editor Peer Review Questions
Letters to the Next President
Lincoln Goes to War
Modeling Academic Writing Through Scholarly Article Presentations
Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Map
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Persuasion Map
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Essay
Persuasive Letter Audience Analysis
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Possible Genres
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Putting It in Perspective-A Letter to Myself
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reflection Questions
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Short Story Fair Projects
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Taking a Position on a Fictional Technology Rubric
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing
The Matter of the Philippines
Today is International Literacy Day
Tracking the Ways Writers Develop Heroes and Villains
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Utopian Visions
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
Wonderworld
Write letters that make things happen!
Writing Checklist
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Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
W.9-10.2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas,
concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective
selection, organization, and analysis of content.
W.910.2(a)
Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make
important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings),
graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding
comprehension.
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiered in 1967.
The Jazz Singer debuted on this day in 1927.
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Tool
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Worksheet
"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
"Gulliver's Travels" Analytical Essay
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
"War of the Worlds" Worksheet
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
A Sentence as a Poem
Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Allegory in Painting
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Analysis Sheet for "A View of Toledo"
Analyzing a World War II Poster
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Anticipation Guide
Art Explication: "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli
Art Safari
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
Artist's Journals
At Home in the Heartland Online
August - 2009 - Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's
Introduction Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Basic Character Analysis Questions
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Basic Questions about Audience
Beyond What I Did on Vacation : Exploring the Genre of Travel
Writing
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Biography Project Discussion Questions
Birches
Birches, Too
Blog About Courage Using Photos
Blogtopia Assignment
Blogtopia Rubric
Book Report Alternative: Grading Rubric
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Broken Worlds
Character Analysis Assignment for "The Great Gatsby"
Character Analysis Rubric
Character Sketch
Character Technology Profile Questions
Character Trading Cards
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Common Visions, Common Voices
Compare and Contrast Rubric
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Components of Your Cultural Relevance Review
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present Rubric
Connecting Past and Present Student Reflection
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Creating Characters
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Cultural Mask Research Graphic Organizer
Cultural Relevance Rubric
Cultural Relevance Rubric
Culture Connect
David Macaulay was born in 1946.
Davy Crockett was born in 1786.
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Defining Literacy in a Digital World: Student Interactive
Designing Effective Poster Presentations
Differentiating Instruction for Shakespeare
Disability Book Sheet
Discussion Questions for "Coming Home, Again"
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Discussion Questions for "Mother Tongue"
Discussion Questions for "We" by Mary Grimm
Discussion Questions for the "Love and Friendship" Vignette from "The
Mystery of Love"
Discussion Web
Document Analysis for Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda
Drama Map
Drama Map
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Earth, Wind and Water
Editorial Cartoon Analysis
Episode Analysis Rubric
Epitaph Peer Review Form
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Rubric
Essay Rubric
Essay Rubric: 6+1 Trait Writing Model
Essay of Place
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Evaluative Reading
Examining Transcendentalism Through Popular Culture: Final Project
Examples of Transcendental Thought
Explication Essay Checklist
Explication Essay Rubric: Renaissance Humanism
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Cultural Connotations of Color
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring Onomatopoeia
Extreme Photography: Life through the Lens of Jimmy Chin -- Student
Interactive
Family and Community
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature September 2010: STEM
Follow-up Reflections Sheet
Fractured Families in American Drama
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
Freedom Riders
French Connections
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From ''Picturing America'': Norman Rockwell, Freedom of SpeechKnow It When You See It
From Courage to Freedom
From Courage to Freedom: The Reality Behind the Song
Gathering Evidence of Cultural Relevance
Genre List
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Group Assessment
Guiding Questions for Feedback
Gulf Coast Highway
Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Heart Transplant
Hero's Traits Reader's Log
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
Homework Questions for "Blackberry Picking"
How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
How to Revise and Edit
How to Start a Blog
How to Start a Writer's Notebook
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
Hypertext Response Project
Identifying Dystopian Characteristics
Identifying the Characteristics of a Dystopian Protagonist
Imperialism and the Open Door
In Old Pompeii
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
In-class Narrative Writing Assignment
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Inventors and Explorers
It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
J. Alfred Prufrock
Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
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Letter to the Editor Peer Review Questions
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Life Online
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Listening Diary
Listening Findings Peer Review
Listening Findings Rubric
Listening Survey
Literacy Narrative Assignment
Literary Elements Map
Literary Elements Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Conflict Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Resolution Map
Looking at Other People's Pledges
Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight 's Edward Cullen
Manipulating Sentences
Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Meet Our Museum Podcast: Backstage at the Museum
Memoir Assignment
Metaphors -- Margaret Atwood
Metaphors -- Naomi Shahib Nye
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multigenre Mapper
Multigenre Mapper
Multigenre Museum Exhibits for "The Grapes of Wrath"
Multiple Ownership of the Past
Mural Rubric
Museum Exhibit Planner
Museum Exhibit Project Checkpoints
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
Music & IQ
Music and Me Project Instructions
Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
Music and My Friends: Evaluating Classmates' Work
MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service
Announcements
Myths and Heroes
NCTE's Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award is announced today.
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Name Story Assignment
National Wildlife Week
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
Noh Theater
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
Online Persona Evaluation Form
Online Profile Tips
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Parasites and Disease
Patriot Day is celebrated today on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of 2001.
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Peer Review Reflection Structure
Peer-Editing Instructions
Perception of Place
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Essay
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Picture Book Notes
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poem of Possibilities--Questions for Reflection
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
Poetic Devices Quiz
Political Cartoon Analysis Assignment
Political Cartoon Analysis Peer Review
Political Cartoon Analysis Rubric
Possible Genres
Poster Analysis Rubric
Postreading Analysis Sheet for the Cover of The Great Gatsby
Preparing a Character for a New Job: Character Analysis through Job
Placement
Prewriting Questions
Prewriting Questions: "What Makes You Interesting?"
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
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Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Protest Song Lyrics Research Guide
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Putting It in Perspective-A Letter to Myself
Qualities of a Feature Story
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question Guidelines
Questions for Exploring an Edward Hopper Painting
Quotation Journal Recording Sheet
RAFT Writing Template
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reader's Response Assignment
Reading a Work of Art
Reading a Work of Art in Eight Steps
Reading a Work of Art: Student Questions for "Death and the Miser"
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Reflection Questions
Reflection Questions for Draft Letters
Reflection Sheet
Reflection Sheet
Reflections on the Harlem Renaissance
Reflective Journal Instructions
Renaissance Humanism in "Hamlet"
Research Implications of My Diary
Review Writing Tips
Reviewer Response Sheet-Feature Story
Revision Questions for Analytical Essay
Rubric for Electronic Scrapbooks
Rubric for Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Rubric for a Narrative Writing Piece
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Script Guidelines
Sculpture With Richard Serra
Seed Discussion Organizer
Self-Reflection
Self-Reflection
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Self-Reflection Worksheet: Taking Part in a Group
Self-Reflection on the Music and Me Project
Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group
Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group
Self-portrait of a Reading Experience
Self-reflection
Self-reflection on Censorship & Propaganda
Sentence Manipulation Rubric
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966.
Short Story Fair Projects
Short Story Fair Rubric
Slavery s Dehumanizing Effects
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Soundtrack for My Life
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Specific Disability Picture Book Notes
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Story Map
Story Mapping
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Student Assessment/Reflections
Student Reflection Sheet
Student Reflection Sheet
Student Reflection Sheet
Student Self-Assessment
Style Analysis
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Taking a Position on a Fictional Technology Rubric
Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.
Teacher Tribute Rubric
Technology Profile
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Technology Profile
Tell a Migration Story...with Photos
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The "Ramayana" Paintings
The Art and Craft of Memoir Writing
The Barbie doll was unveiled in 1959.
The Birth of an American Empire
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Daffodils
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Spanish American War
The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937.
The Spread of Buddhism
The Weakness
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.
Three-Voice Narrative Venn Diagram
Today is World Hello Day!
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Ukiyo-e Prints
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Varying Views of America Rubric
Visual Collage Peer Review Sheet
Web Site Analysis Worksheet
Web Site Evaluation Form
What Portraits Reveal
What s in a Name?
What's In a Picture: An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts
Wiki Rubric
Word Matrix
Word Matrix Interactive Tool
Writing Brochures
Writing Checklist
Writing Habits Journal Questions
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing Metaphor Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Your Own Pledge
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Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
Writing with Love
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended
definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples
appropriate to the audience's knowledge of the topic.
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"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
'Common Sense'': The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
Ad Campaign Rubric
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
At Home in the Heartland Online
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Beyond What I Did on Vacation : Exploring the Genre of Travel
Writing
Blogtopia Rubric
Book Report Alternative: Grading Rubric
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Broken Worlds
Character Sketch
Checklist for Cultural Relevance Reviews
Common Visions, Common Voices
Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive
Letter Writing
Compare & Contrast Map
Compare and Contrast Rubric
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Components of Your Cultural Relevance Review
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present Rubric
Connecting Past and Present Student Reflection
Cultural Relevance Review Guidelines
Culture Connect
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David Macaulay was born in 1946.
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Designing Effective Poster Presentations
Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two
Prewriting Strategies
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Earth, Wind and Water
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Rubric
Essay Rubric
Essay Rubric: 6+1 Trait Writing Model
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Evaluative Reading
Explication Essay Checklist
Explication Essay Rubric: Renaissance Humanism
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Family and Community
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature September 2010: STEM
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific
Arguments
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
French Connections
Genre List
Gulf Coast Highway
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Heart Transplant
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
How to Revise and Edit
How to Start a Blog
How to Write a Character Sketch
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
In Old Pompeii
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Inventors and Explorers
It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
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Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Letter to the Editor Peer Review Questions
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Life on the Great Plains
Listening Findings Peer Review
Listening Findings Rubric
Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight 's Edward Cullen
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Memoir Peer Review
Memoir Rubric
Modeling Academic Writing Through Scholarly Article Presentations
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multigenre Mapper
Multigenre Mapper
Museum Exhibit Planner
Museum Exhibit Project Checkpoints
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service
Announcements
Myths and Heroes
NCTE's Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award is announced today.
National Wildlife Week
Noh Theater
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
Online Profile Tips
Online Profile Tips
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Parasites and Disease
Partner Checklist
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Peer-Editing Instructions
Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Rubric
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Persuasive Letter Audience Analysis
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Possible Genres
Poster Analysis Rubric
Preparing a Character for a New Job: Character Analysis through Job
Placement
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Putting It in Perspective-A Letter to Myself
Qualities of a Feature Story
RAFT Writing Template
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reader's Response Assignment
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Reflection Questions
Review Guidelines
Review Writing Tips
Reviewer Response Sheet-Feature Story
Revision Questions for Analytical Essay
Revision: How to Teach it, Learn it, Love it!
Rubric for Diary Entry
Rubric for Electronic Scrapbooks
Rubric for Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Rubric for Peace Journey Planning Worksheet
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Rubric for a Narrative Writing Piece
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
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Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
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Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Short Story Fair Rubric
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Taking a Position on a Fictional Technology Rubric
Teacher Tribute Rubric
Technology Autobiography Assignment
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing
The Matter of the Philippines
Timeline Rubric
Today is World Hello Day!
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research
Techniques and Technology
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Utopian Visions
Varying Views of America Rubric
Venn Diagram Rubric
What Portraits Reveal
Wiki Rubric
Writing Brochures
Writing Checklist
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing Metaphor Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Your Own Pledge
Use appropriate and varied transitions to link the major sections of the text,
create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among complex ideas and
concepts.
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"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
At Home in the Heartland Online
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Beyond What I Did on Vacation : Exploring the Genre of Travel
Writing
Blogtopia Rubric
Book Report Alternative: Grading Rubric
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Compare and Contrast Rubric
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Culture Connect
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Designing Effective Poster Presentations
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Earth, Wind and Water
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Rubric
Essay Rubric
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Evaluative Reading
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Family and Community
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature September 2010: STEM
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
French Connections
Genre List
Gulf Coast Highway
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
How to Revise and Edit
In Old Pompeii
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Inventors and Explorers
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It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Life on the Great Plains
Listening Findings Peer Review
Listening Findings Rubric
Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight 's Edward Cullen
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multigenre Mapper
Multigenre Mapper
Museum Exhibit Planner
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service
Announcements
Myths and Heroes
National Wildlife Week
Noh Theater
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
Online Profile Tips
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Parasites and Disease
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Possible Genres
Preparing a Character for a New Job: Character Analysis through Job
Placement
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Qualities of a Feature Story
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Revision Questions for Analytical Essay
Rubric for Electronic Scrapbooks
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Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Short Story Fair Rubric
Taking a Position on a Fictional Technology Rubric
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
What Portraits Reveal
Wiki Rubric
Writing Brochures
Writing Checklist
Writing Your Own Pledge
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the
complexity of the topic.
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Artist's Journals
Blogtopia Rubric
Book Report Alternative: Grading Rubric
Components of Your Cultural Relevance Review
Connecting Past and Present Rubric
Connecting Past and Present Student Reflection
David Macaulay was born in 1946.
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Essay Rubric
Essay Rubric
Essay Rubric: 6+1 Trait Writing Model
Evaluative Reading
Explication Essay Checklist
Explication Essay Rubric: Renaissance Humanism
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
How to Start a Blog
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
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Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Letter to the Editor Peer Review Questions
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Memoir Rubric
Museum Exhibit Planner
Museum Exhibit Project Checkpoints
Museum Exhibit Rubric
NCTE's Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award is announced today.
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
Peer-Editing Instructions
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Poster Analysis Rubric
Purpose and Audience Analysis
RAFT Writing Template
Reader's Response Assignment
Review Writing Tips
Reviewer Response Sheet-Feature Story
Revision Questions for Analytical Essay
Rubric for Electronic Scrapbooks
Rubric for Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Rubric for a Narrative Writing Piece
Shared Writing
Short Story Fair Rubric
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Taking a Position on a Fictional Technology Rubric
Teacher Tribute Rubric
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
Timeline Rubric
Today is World Hello Day!
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Varying Views of America Rubric
Wiki Rubric
Word Map
Writing Brochures
Writing Checklist
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W.910.2(e)
Writing Metaphor Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Your Own Pledge
Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the
norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiered in 1967.
The Jazz Singer debuted on this day in 1927.
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Tool
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Worksheet
"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
"Gulliver's Travels" Analytical Essay
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
"War of the Worlds" Worksheet
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
A Sentence as a Poem
Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Allegory in Painting
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Analysis Sheet for "A View of Toledo"
Analyzing a World War II Poster
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Anticipation Guide
Art Explication: "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli
Art Safari
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
Artist's Journals
At Home in the Heartland Online
August - 2009 - Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's
Introduction Author Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944.
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Basic Character Analysis Questions
Basic Questions about Audience
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Beyond What I Did on Vacation : Exploring the Genre of Travel
Writing
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Biography Project Discussion Questions
Birches
Birches, Too
Blog About Courage Using Photos
Blogtopia Assignment
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Broken Worlds
Character Analysis Assignment for "The Great Gatsby"
Character Analysis Rubric
Character Sketch
Character Technology Profile Questions
Character Trading Cards
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Common Visions, Common Voices
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present Student Reflection
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Creating Characters
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Cultural Mask Research Graphic Organizer
Cultural Relevance Rubric
Cultural Relevance Rubric
Culture Connect
Davy Crockett was born in 1786.
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Defining Literacy in a Digital World: Student Interactive
Designing Effective Poster Presentations
Differentiating Instruction for Shakespeare
Disability Book Sheet
Discussion Questions for "Coming Home, Again"
Discussion Questions for "Mother Tongue"
Discussion Questions for "We" by Mary Grimm
Discussion Questions for the "Love and Friendship" Vignette from "The
Mystery of Love"
Discussion Web
Document Analysis for Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda
Drama Map
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Drama Map
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Earth, Wind and Water
Editorial Cartoon Analysis
Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
Episode Analysis Rubric
Epitaph Peer Review Form
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Rubric: 6+1 Trait Writing Model
Essay of Place
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Evaluative Reading
Examining Transcendentalism Through Popular Culture: Final Project
Examples of Transcendental Thought
Explication Essay Checklist
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Cultural Connotations of Color
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring Onomatopoeia
Extreme Photography: Life through the Lens of Jimmy Chin -- Student
Interactive
Family and Community
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature September 2010: STEM
Follow-up Reflections Sheet
Fractured Families in American Drama
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
Freedom Riders
French Connections
From ''Picturing America'': Norman Rockwell, Freedom of SpeechKnow It When You See It
From Courage to Freedom
From Courage to Freedom: The Reality Behind the Song
Gathering Evidence of Cultural Relevance
Genre List
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Group Assessment
Guiding Questions for Feedback
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Gulf Coast Highway
Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Heart Transplant
Hero's Traits Reader's Log
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
Homework Questions for "Blackberry Picking"
How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
How to Start a Writer's Notebook
Hypertext Response Project
Identifying Dystopian Characteristics
Identifying the Characteristics of a Dystopian Protagonist
Imperialism and the Open Door
In Old Pompeii
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
In-class Narrative Writing Assignment
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Inventors and Explorers
It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
J. Alfred Prufrock
Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Letter to the Editor Peer Review Questions
Life Online
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Listening Diary
Listening Survey
Literacy Narrative Assignment
Literary Elements Map
Literary Elements Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Conflict Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Resolution Map
Looking at Other People's Pledges
Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight 's Edward Cullen
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Manipulating Sentences
Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Meet Our Museum Podcast: Backstage at the Museum
Memoir Assignment
Memoir Rubric
Metaphors -- Margaret Atwood
Metaphors -- Naomi Shahib Nye
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multigenre Mapper
Multigenre Mapper
Multigenre Museum Exhibits for "The Grapes of Wrath"
Multiple Ownership of the Past
Mural Rubric
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
Music & IQ
Music and Me Project Instructions
Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
Music and My Friends: Evaluating Classmates' Work
MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service
Announcements
Myths and Heroes
Name Story Assignment
National Wildlife Week
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
Noh Theater
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
Online Persona Evaluation Form
Online Profile Tips
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Parasites and Disease
Patriot Day is celebrated today on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of 2001.
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Peer Review Reflection Structure
Peer-Editing Instructions
Perception of Place
Persuasion Rubric
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Persuasive Essay
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Picture Book Notes
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poem of Possibilities--Questions for Reflection
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
Poetic Devices Quiz
Political Cartoon Analysis Assignment
Political Cartoon Analysis Peer Review
Political Cartoon Analysis Rubric
Possible Genres
Postreading Analysis Sheet for the Cover of The Great Gatsby
Preparing a Character for a New Job: Character Analysis through Job
Placement
Prewriting Questions
Prewriting Questions: "What Makes You Interesting?"
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Protest Song Lyrics Research Guide
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Putting It in Perspective-A Letter to Myself
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question Guidelines
Questions for Exploring an Edward Hopper Painting
Quotation Journal Recording Sheet
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reading a Work of Art
Reading a Work of Art in Eight Steps
Reading a Work of Art: Student Questions for "Death and the Miser"
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Reflection Questions
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Reflection Questions for Draft Letters
Reflection Sheet
Reflection Sheet
Reflections on the Harlem Renaissance
Reflective Journal Instructions
Renaissance Humanism in "Hamlet"
Research Implications of My Diary
Revision Questions for Analytical Essay
Rubric for Electronic Scrapbooks
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Script Guidelines
Sculpture With Richard Serra
Seed Discussion Organizer
Self-Reflection
Self-Reflection
Self-Reflection Worksheet: Taking Part in a Group
Self-Reflection on the Music and Me Project
Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group
Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group
Self-portrait of a Reading Experience
Self-reflection
Self-reflection on Censorship & Propaganda
Sentence Manipulation Rubric
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shared Writing
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966.
Short Story Fair Projects
Slavery s Dehumanizing Effects
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Soundtrack for My Life
Specific Disability Picture Book Notes
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
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Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Story Map
Story Mapping
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Student Assessment/Reflections
Student Reflection Sheet
Student Reflection Sheet
Student Reflection Sheet
Student Self-Assessment
Style Analysis
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.
Technology Profile
Technology Profile
Tell a Migration Story...with Photos
The "Ramayana" Paintings
The Art and Craft of Memoir Writing
The Barbie doll was unveiled in 1959.
The Birth of an American Empire
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Daffodils
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Spanish American War
The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937.
The Spread of Buddhism
The Weakness
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.
Three-Voice Narrative Venn Diagram
Timeline Rubric
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Ukiyo-e Prints
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
Visual Collage Peer Review Sheet
Web Site Analysis Worksheet
Web Site Evaluation Form
What Portraits Reveal
What s in a Name?
What's In a Picture: An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts
What's My Subject? A Subject-Verb Agreement Minilesson
Word Map
Word Matrix
Word Matrix Interactive Tool
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W.910.2(f)
Writing Brochures
Writing Checklist
Writing Habits Journal Questions
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Your Own Pledge
Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
Writing with Love
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the
information or explanation presented (e.g., articulating implications or the
significance of the topic).
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiered in 1967.
The Jazz Singer debuted on this day in 1927.
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Tool
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Worksheet
"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
"Gulliver's Travels" Analytical Essay
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
"War of the Worlds" Worksheet
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
A Sentence as a Poem
Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Allegory in Painting
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Analysis Sheet for "A View of Toledo"
Analyzing a World War II Poster
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Anticipation Guide
Art Explication: "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli
Art Safari
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
Artist's Journals
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At Home in the Heartland Online
August - 2009 - Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's
Introduction Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Basic Character Analysis Questions
Basic Questions about Audience
Beyond What I Did on Vacation : Exploring the Genre of Travel
Writing
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Biography Project Discussion Questions
Birches
Birches, Too
Blog About Courage Using Photos
Blogtopia Assignment
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Broken Worlds
Character Analysis Assignment for "The Great Gatsby"
Character Analysis Rubric
Character Sketch
Character Technology Profile Questions
Character Trading Cards
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Common Visions, Common Voices
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Components of Your Cultural Relevance Review
Components of a Review
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present Student Reflection
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Creating Characters
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Cultural Mask Research Graphic Organizer
Cultural Relevance Rubric
Cultural Relevance Rubric
Culture Connect
Davy Crockett was born in 1786.
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Defining Literacy in a Digital World: Student Interactive
Designing Effective Poster Presentations
Differentiating Instruction for Shakespeare
Disability Book Sheet
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Discussion Questions for "Coming Home, Again"
Discussion Questions for "Mother Tongue"
Discussion Questions for "We" by Mary Grimm
Discussion Questions for the "Love and Friendship" Vignette from "The
Mystery of Love"
Discussion Web
Document Analysis for Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda
Drama Map
Drama Map
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Earth, Wind and Water
Editorial Cartoon Analysis
Episode Analysis Rubric
Epitaph Peer Review Form
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Rubric
Essay Rubric
Essay of Place
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Examining Transcendentalism Through Popular Culture: Final Project
Examples of Transcendental Thought
Explication Essay Checklist
Explication Essay Rubric: Renaissance Humanism
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Cultural Connotations of Color
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring Onomatopoeia
Extreme Photography: Life through the Lens of Jimmy Chin -- Student
Interactive
Family and Community
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature September 2010: STEM
Follow-up Reflections Sheet
Fractured Families in American Drama
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
Freedom Riders
French Connections
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From ''Picturing America'': Norman Rockwell, Freedom of SpeechKnow It When You See It
From Courage to Freedom
From Courage to Freedom: The Reality Behind the Song
Gathering Evidence of Cultural Relevance
Genre List
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Group Assessment
Guiding Questions for Feedback
Gulf Coast Highway
Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Heart Transplant
Hero's Traits Reader's Log
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
Homework Questions for "Blackberry Picking"
How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
How to Revise and Edit
How to Start a Writer's Notebook
Hypertext Response Project
Identifying Dystopian Characteristics
Identifying the Characteristics of a Dystopian Protagonist
Imperialism and the Open Door
In Old Pompeii
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
In-class Narrative Writing Assignment
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Inventors and Explorers
It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
J. Alfred Prufrock
Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Letter to the Editor Peer Review Questions
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Life Online
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Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Listening Diary
Listening Survey
Literacy Narrative Assignment
Literary Elements Map
Literary Elements Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Conflict Map
Literary Elements Mapping: Resolution Map
Looking at Other People's Pledges
Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight 's Edward Cullen
Manipulating Sentences
Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Meet Our Museum Podcast: Backstage at the Museum
Memoir Assignment
Metaphors -- Margaret Atwood
Metaphors -- Naomi Shahib Nye
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multigenre Mapper
Multigenre Mapper
Multigenre Museum Exhibits for "The Grapes of Wrath"
Multiple Ownership of the Past
Mural Rubric
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
Music & IQ
Music and Me Project Instructions
Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
Music and My Friends: Evaluating Classmates' Work
MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service
Announcements
Myths and Heroes
Name Story Assignment
National Wildlife Week
Newspaper Article Summary Questions
Noh Theater
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
Online Persona Evaluation Form
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Online Profile Tips
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Parasites and Disease
Patriot Day is celebrated today on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of 2001.
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Peer Review Reflection Structure
Peer-Editing Instructions
Perception of Place
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Essay
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Picture Book Notes
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poem of Possibilities--Questions for Reflection
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
Poetic Devices Quiz
Political Cartoon Analysis Assignment
Political Cartoon Analysis Peer Review
Political Cartoon Analysis Rubric
Possible Genres
Postreading Analysis Sheet for the Cover of The Great Gatsby
Preparing a Character for a New Job: Character Analysis through Job
Placement
Prewriting Questions
Prewriting Questions: "What Makes You Interesting?"
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Protest Song Lyrics Research Guide
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Putting It in Perspective-A Letter to Myself
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question Guidelines
Questions for Exploring an Edward Hopper Painting
Quotation Journal Recording Sheet
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
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ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reader's Response Assignment
Reading a Work of Art
Reading a Work of Art in Eight Steps
Reading a Work of Art: Student Questions for "Death and the Miser"
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Reflection Questions
Reflection Questions for Draft Letters
Reflection Sheet
Reflection Sheet
Reflections on the Harlem Renaissance
Reflective Journal Instructions
Renaissance Humanism in "Hamlet"
Research Implications of My Diary
Review Writing Tips
Reviewer Response Sheet-Feature Story
Revision Questions for Analytical Essay
Rubric for Electronic Scrapbooks
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Rubric for a Narrative Writing Piece
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Script Guidelines
Sculpture With Richard Serra
Seed Discussion Organizer
Self-Reflection
Self-Reflection
Self-Reflection Worksheet: Taking Part in a Group
Self-Reflection on the Music and Me Project
Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group
Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group
Self-portrait of a Reading Experience
Self-reflection
Self-reflection on Censorship & Propaganda
Sentence Manipulation Rubric
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
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Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966.
Short Story Fair Projects
Slavery s Dehumanizing Effects
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Soundtrack for My Life
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Specific Disability Picture Book Notes
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Story Map
Story Mapping
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Student Assessment/Reflections
Student Reflection Sheet
Student Reflection Sheet
Student Reflection Sheet
Student Self-Assessment
Style Analysis
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.
Technology Profile
Technology Profile
Tell a Migration Story...with Photos
The "Ramayana" Paintings
The Art and Craft of Memoir Writing
The Barbie doll was unveiled in 1959.
The Birth of an American Empire
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Daffodils
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Spanish American War
The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937.
The Spread of Buddhism
The Weakness
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.
Three-Voice Narrative Venn Diagram
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
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Ukiyo-e Prints
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
Visual Collage Peer Review Sheet
Web Site Analysis Worksheet
Web Site Evaluation Form
What Portraits Reveal
What s in a Name?
What's In a Picture: An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts
Word Matrix
Word Matrix Interactive Tool
Writing Checklist
Writing Habits Journal Questions
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Your Own Pledge
Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
Writing with Love
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
W.9-10.3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using
effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
W.910.3(a)
Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation,
establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or
characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.
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On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
A Poem of Possibilities-A Letter to Myself
Adopting Hawthorne's Style
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About
Women
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Ancient Empires
Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
Arts of the Gilded Age
Audience Analysis Inventory
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Audio Dramatization Process
Author Raymond Chandler b. 1888
Authoring With Video
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Basic Questions about Audience
Battle of the Bulge: Americans Respond to a German Surprise
Become a Character
Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
Brainstorming the Conflict
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
Character Sketch
Character Technology Profile Questions
Character Trading Cards
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Children s Book Project
Children's Book Review Guide
Civil War
Client Preparation Rubric
Comic Book Primer
Comic Book Scripting Techniques
Comic Book Show and Tell
Comic Creator
Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927.
Creating Character Blogs
Creating Characters
Esther Forbes, author of "Johnny Tremain", was born in 1891.
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Family and Community
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Concluding the Novel
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
French Connections
Genre List
Grading Rubric for the Children's Picture Storybook
Grandma Atkinson
Graphic Map
Guiding Questions for Feedback
Holocaust and Resistance
How to Write a Character Sketch
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
Hypertext Response Project
In-class Narrative Writing Assignment
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Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Inventors and Explorers
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Letters to the Next President
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Literacy Narrative Assignment
Literary Elements Map
Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy
Mountain
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
Monsters
Mystery Cube
Mystery Cube
Myths and Heroes
National Arts and Humanities Month
New Takes on Old Tales
Paying Attention to Technology: Writing Technology Autobiographies
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Persuasive Letter Audience Analysis
Picture Book Rubric
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Plot Pitch Template
Plotting the Story
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Possible Genres
Prewriting Sheet
Profile Publisher
Profile Publisher
Profile Publisher
Projects for "Death and the Miser"
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Qualities of a Feature Story
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
RAFT Writing Template
Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to
Literature
Recording Family Stories
Reflection Sheet
Richard Wright was born in 1908.
Riddle Interactive
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
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Rubric for Peace Journey Planning Worksheet
Rubric for a Narrative Writing Piece
Rummaging for Fiction: Using Found Photographs and Notes to Spark
Story Ideas
Script Guidelines
Script Preparation Guidelines
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in
Narrative
Story Map
Story Mapping
Technology Autobiography Assignment
Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883.
The Far Reaches of Greek Culture
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Skeleton of a Scary Story
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Three-Voice Narrative Rubric
Tips for Teens Writing a Children's Picture Storybook
Tips for Writing a Children's Picture Storybook
Today is International Literacy Day
Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.
Two Ancient Cities
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore
Characterization and Style
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster
, was born in 1937.
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the
English Classroom
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs
Writing Fanfiction
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W.910.3(b)
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and
multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
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On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
Analyzing "Gas" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Hotel Room" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Hotel Window" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Morning Sun" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "New York Movie" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "People in the Sun" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Room in Brooklyn" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing "Sunday" by Edward Hopper
Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About
Women
Ancient Empires
Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
Arts of the Gilded Age
Audio Dramatization Process
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Author Raymond Chandler b. 1888
Authoring With Video
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Brainstorming the Conflict
Character Sketch
Character Technology Profile Questions
Character Trading Cards
Children s Book Project
Circle Plot Diagram
Comic Book Primer
Comic Book Scripting Techniques
Comic Book Show and Tell
Comic Creator
Comic Vocabulary Definitions and Examples: Text Containers
Creating Characters
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Concluding the Novel
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
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Genre List
Grading Rubric for the Children's Picture Storybook
Grandma Atkinson
Graphic Map
Guiding Questions for Feedback
How to Write a Character Sketch
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
Hypertext Response Project
In The Middle
In-class Narrative Writing Assignment
Interactive Circle Plot Diagram
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Literacy Narrative Assignment
Literary Elements Map
Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy
Mountain
Monsters
Mystery Cube
Mystery Cube
Myths and Heroes
National Get Organized Month
New Takes on Old Tales
Paying Attention to Technology: Writing Technology Autobiographies
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Plot Pitch Template
Plotting the Story
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Possible Genres
Prewriting Sheet
Profile Publisher
Profile Publisher
Profile Publisher
Qualities of a Feature Story
Questions for Exploring an Edward Hopper Painting
ReadWriteThink Student Materials Index
Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to
Literature
Reflection Sheet
Richard Wright was born in 1908.
Rubric for Peace Journey Planning Worksheet
Rubric for a Narrative Writing Piece
Rummaging for Fiction: Using Found Photographs and Notes to Spark
Story Ideas
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W.910.3(c)
Sample Comic Script and Visual Interpretation from "Cedric the
Dragon Slayer"
Script Guidelines
Script Preparation Guidelines
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in
Narrative
Story Map
Story Mapping
Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television
The Far Reaches of Greek Culture
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Skeleton of a Scary Story
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
Tips for Teens Writing a Children's Picture Storybook
Tips for Writing a Children's Picture Storybook
Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.
Two Ancient Cities
Writing Fanfiction
Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one
another to create a coherent whole.
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Children s Book Project
Client Preparation Rubric
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Great Composers
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Myths and Heroes
Picture Book Rubric
Picture Book Rubric (Teacher Version)
Rubric for Photomontage Movie
Setting the Story
Short Story Fair Rubric
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Timeline
Timeline Tool
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
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Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research
Techniques and Technology
Unearthing Ancient Greece
Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey
a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
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On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About
Women
Ancient Empires
Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
Arts of the Gilded Age
Audio Dramatization Process
Author Raymond Chandler b. 1888
Authoring With Video
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Brainstorming the Conflict
Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
Character Sketch
Character Technology Profile Questions
Character Trading Cards
Children s Book Project
Client Preparation Rubric
Comic Book Primer
Comic Book Scripting Techniques
Comic Book Show and Tell
Comic Creator
Comic Creator
Comic Creator
Creating Characters
Diamante Poem Rubric
Earth, Wind and Water
Emotion Catalog Poem Checklist
Epitaph Assignment
Epitaph Peer Review Form
Epitaph Rubric
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Family and Community
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Concluding the Novel
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Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
From Picture to Story
Genre List
Grandma Atkinson
Graphic Map
Guiding Questions for Feedback
Harvest Some Autumn Learning
How to Write a Character Sketch
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
Hypertext Response Project
In-class Narrative Writing Assignment
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki d. 1902
Jazz in DC
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Literary Elements Map
Literary Parodies Assessment
Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy
Mountain
Mask Poem Rubric
Monsters
Music and Me Project Instructions
Mystery Cube
Mystery Cube
Myths and Heroes
Name That Chapter Rubric
Name That Chapter! Discussing Summary and Interpretation Using
Chapter Titles
New Takes on Old Tales
Object Catalog Poem Checklist
Paying Attention to Technology: Writing Technology Autobiographies
Picture Book Rubric
Picture Book Rubric (Teacher Version)
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Plot Pitch Template
Plotting the Story
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
Possible Genres
Prewriting Sheet
Profile Publisher
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Profile Publisher
Qualities of a Feature Story
Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to
Literature
Reflection Sheet
Resume Component Checklist
Revision: How to Teach it, Learn it, Love it!
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Richard Wright was born in 1908.
Riddle Interactive
Rubric for Peace Journey Planning Worksheet
Rubric for a Narrative Writing Piece
Rummaging for Fiction: Using Found Photographs and Notes to Spark
Story Ideas
Script Guidelines
Script Preparation Guidelines
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Setting the Story
Shared Writing
Show-Me Sentences
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Sound Devices Rubric
Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in
Narrative
Story Map
Story Mapping
Student Examples of Epitaphs
Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television
The Comic Book Show and Tell
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Skeleton of a Scary Story
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Tips for Teens Writing a Children's Picture Storybook
Tips for Writing a Children's Picture Storybook
Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.
Two Ancient Cities
Word Map
Word Matrix
Word Matrix Interactive Tool
Writing Fanfiction
Writing Habits Journal Questions
Writing Metaphor Assignment
Writing Metaphor Rubric
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Writing Rubric
Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced,
observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.
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On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
Arts of the Gilded Age
Authoring With Video
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Book Review Template
Children s Book Project
Children's Book Review Guide
Comic Book Primer
Comic Book Scripting Techniques
Comic Book Show and Tell
Compare & Contrast Map
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Cracking the Genetic Code
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Map
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
Genre List
Grading Rubric for the Children's Picture Storybook
Graphic Map
In-class Narrative Writing Assignment
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Literary Elements Map
Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy
Mountain
Mystery Cube
Mystery Cube
Paying Attention to Technology: Writing Technology Autobiographies
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Map
Persuasion Map
Picture Book Rubric
Picture Book Rubric (Teacher Version)
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Plot Pitch Template
Plotting the Story
Possible Genres
Prewriting Sheet
Qualities of a Feature Story
Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to
Literature
Richard Wright was born in 1908.
Rubric for a Narrative Writing Piece
Rummaging for Fiction: Using Found Photographs and Notes to Spark
Story Ideas
Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in
Narrative
Story Map
Story Mapping
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Tips for Teens Writing a Children's Picture Storybook
Tips for Writing a Children's Picture Storybook
Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.
Two Ancient Cities
Writing Fanfiction
Writing Rubric
Production and Distribution of Writing
W.9-10.4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization,
and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific
expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
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"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
"The Glass Menagerie" Job Placement Assignment
"The Mysteries of Harris Burdick": Using Illustrations to Guide Writing
A Brief, Urgent Message : Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in
Schools
Acrostic Poems
Acrostic Poems
Ad Campaign Rubric
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
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An Exploration of "The Crucible" through Seventeenth-Century
Portraits
Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar Wilde
And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
At Home in the Heartland Online
Audience Analysis Inventory
Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
Avi was born in 1937.
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Basic Questions about Audience
Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
Beyond What I Did on Vacation : Exploring the Genre of Travel
Writing
Blogtopia Rubric
Book Report Alternative: Grading Rubric
Book Review Template
Both Art and Craft: Teaching Ideas That Spark Learning
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Brochures: Writing for Audience and Purpose
But Will It Work with Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching
Secondary English Language Arts
Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
Celebrate the National Day on Writing!
Checklist for Cultural Relevance Reviews
Children s Book Project
Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Minilesson
Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive
Letter Writing
Compare and Contrast Rubric
Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography
and Literature
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Components of Your Cultural Relevance Review
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present Rubric
Connecting Past and Present Student Reflection
Connecting with Young Adult Authors through Writing
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Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
Create a Career Blog
Creating Characters
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Cultural Relevance Review Guidelines
Culture Connect
David Macaulay was born in 1946.
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Designing Effective Poster Presentations
Designing Writing Assignments
Diamante Poems
Diamante Poems
Diamante Poems
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Earth, Wind and Water
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Rubric
Essay Rubric
Essay Rubric: 6+1 Trait Writing Model
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Evaluative Reading
Explication Essay Checklist
Explication Essay Rubric: Renaissance Humanism
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with "The Piano Lesson"
Family and Community
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2010: STEM
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific
Arguments
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
French Connections
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Genre List
Gulf Coast Highway
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Help Wanted: Writing Professional Resumes
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
How to Revise and Edit
How to Start a Blog
How to Write a Character Sketch
Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927.
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
Ideas Plus: Book 14
If a Body Texts a Body: Texting in "The Catcher in the Rye"
In Old Pompeii
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Inventors and Explorers
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born today.
Job Placement Assignment
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Letter Exchange Example
Letter Exchange Guidelines
Letter to the Editor Peer Review Questions
Letters to the Next President
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Life on the Great Plains
Listening Findings Peer Review
Listening Findings Rubric
Literacy Narrative Assignment
Literary Parodies Assessment
Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight 's Edward Cullen
Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multigenre Mapper
Multigenre Mapper
Museum Exhibit Planner
Museum Exhibit Project Checkpoints
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Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service
Announcements
Myths and Heroes
NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
NCTE's Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award is announced today.
National Inventor's Month
National Wildlife Week
Noh Theater
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
On this day in 1935, Elvis Presley was born.
Online Persona Evaluation Form
Online Profile Tips
Online Profile Tips
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Parasites and Disease
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Peer-Editing Instructions
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Letter Audience Analysis
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Picture Book Rubric
Picture Book Rubric (Teacher Version)
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With "Persepolis"
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
Plotting the Story
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Poetic Devices Quiz
Possible Genres
Poster Analysis Rubric
Preparing a Character for a New Job: Character Analysis through Job
Placement
Preparing for the Journey: An Introduction to the Hero Myth
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
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Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Projects for "Death and the Miser"
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Qualities of a Feature Story
RAFT Writing Template
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reader's Response Assignment
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Review Guidelines
Review Writing Tips
Reviewer Response Sheet-Feature Story
Revision Questions for Analytical Essay
Riddle Interactive
Rubric for Diary Entry
Rubric for Electronic Scrapbooks
Rubric for Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Rubric for a Narrative Writing Piece
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Setting the Story
Shared Writing
Short Story Fair Projects
Short Story Fair Rubric
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary
English Classroom
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Student Assessment/Reflections
Student Reflection Sheet
Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and
Back Again
Take part in the African American Read-In!
Taking a Position on a Fictional Technology Rubric
Teacher Tribute Rubric
Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
Connections
Teaching With Blogs
Technological Advances
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Correspondence Project: A Lesson of Letters
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
The Statute of Anne, an influential copyright law, went into effect in
1710.
The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're
All Hard Parts)
Timeline
Timeline Tool
Today is World Hello Day!
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research
Techniques and Technology
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Using Grading and Assessment to Maximize the Online Writing Course
Experience--Without Burning Out
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore
Characterization and Style
Using Movie Maker to Create Photomontage Movies
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Varying Views of America Rubric
Weekly Writer's Blogs: Building a Reflective Community of Support
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Portraits Reveal
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
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Wiki Rubric
Write Alouds
Writing Brochures
Writing Checklist
Writing Fanfiction
Writing Metaphor Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Technical Instructions
Writing Your Own Pledge
Writing a Review Checklist
Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
Writing for the Real World
Writing with Voice
Writing with Voice
W.9-10.5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing,
rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most
significant for a specific purpose and audience.
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The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.
"All Quiet on the Western Front" Peer Review of Ending and Title
"The Glass Menagerie" Job Placement Assignment
"The Mysteries of Harris Burdick": Using Illustrations to Guide Writing
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in
Schools
A Poem of Possibilities-A Letter to Myself
Acrostic Poems
Acrostic Poems
Ad Campaign Rubric
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
Alex Haley, author of "Roots", was born in 1921.
All the News that's Fit to Print
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
America celebrates Thanksgiving Day today.
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
An Exploration of "The Crucible" through Seventeenth-Century
Portraits
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Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar Wilde
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Audience Analysis Inventory
Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Avi was born in 1937.
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Basic Questions about Audience
Become a Character
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events
Both Art and Craft: Teaching Ideas That Spark Learning
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
Brainstorming the Conflict
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
Bringing Grammar to Life
Brochures: Writing for Audience and Purpose
Broken Worlds
But Will It Work with Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching
Secondary English Language Arts
Celebrate author Mary Hoffman's birthday today.
Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
Celebrate the 100th day of school!
Celebrate the National Day on Writing!
Character Trading Cards
Children s Book Project
Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Minilesson
Circle Plot Diagram
Civil War
Comic Creator
Comic Creator
Comic Creator
Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive
Letter Writing
Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography
and Literature
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Comparison and Contrast Guide
Connecting with Young Adult Authors through Writing
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
Create a Career Blog
Creating Characters
David Macaulay was born in 1946.
Designing Writing Assignments
Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two
Prewriting Strategies
Diamante Poems
Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
Documentary photo. Dorothea Lange
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a MD degree in
1849.
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Essay Map
Essay Map
Essay Map
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with "The Piano Lesson"
Faith Ringgold was born on October 8, 1930.
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2010: STEM
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific
Arguments
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Giving Voice to Students Through "This I Believe" Podcasts
Graphic Map
Help Wanted: Writing Professional Resumes
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.
How to Revise and Edit
How to Start a Blog
How to Write a Character Sketch
Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927.
I Remember That Book: Rereading as a Critical Investigation
Ideas Plus: Book 14
If a Body Texts a Body: Texting in "The Catcher in the Rye"
In 1847, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula was born.
In 1902, John Steinbeck was born.
In 1952, Paul Fleischman was born on this day.
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Interactive Circle Plot Diagram
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born today.
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
Job Placement Assignment
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Learner.org
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Letter Exchange Example
Letter Exchange Guidelines
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Emulating Emily Dickinson -- Poetry
Writing
Letters to the Next President
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Literacy Narrative Assignment
Literary Elements Map
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832.
MPA Designation and Management
Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Mask Poem Rubric
Memoir Assignment
Memoir Peer Review
Museum Exhibit Rubric
NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
NCTE's Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award is announced today.
National Inventor's Month
National Wildlife Week
Newbery Medal winner Christopher Paul Curtis was born in 1953.
November is National American Indian Heritage Month.
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
On this day in 1935, Elvis Presley was born.
One Story, Many Tales
Online Persona Evaluation Form
Online Profile Tips
Online Profile Tips
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Letter Audience Analysis
Picture Book Rubric
Picture Book Rubric (Teacher Version)
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Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With "Persepolis"
Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
Plotting the Story
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
Poet Robert Burns was born in 1759.
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Poet and author Pat Mora was born on this day in 1942.
Poetic Devices Quiz
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
Possible Genres
Preparing for the Journey: An Introduction to the Hero Myth
Prewriting Questions
Prewriting Questions: "What Makes You Interesting?"
Projects for "Death and the Miser"
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Putting It in Perspective-A Letter to Myself
RAFT Writing Template
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
Raymond Carver in the Classroom: "A Small, Good Thing"
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool
ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool
Reading in the Content Areas
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Research Project: The Year I Was Born
Reviewer Response Sheet-Feature Story
Revision Questions for Analytical Essay
Revision: How to Teach it, Learn it, Love it!
Riddle Interactive
Rubric for Diary Entry
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Sample Leads for Feature Stories
Sample Poems
Setting the Story
Shared Writing
Short Story Fair Projects
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Soundtrack for My Life
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Special Memories & Significant Moments: Making an Electronic
Scrapbook
Stapleless Book
Stapleless Book
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Stapleless Book
Story Map
Story Mapping
Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary
English Classroom
Student Reflection Sheet
Summer Travel--Education on the Road
Take part in the African American Read-In!
Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
Connections
Teaching With Blogs
Technological Advances
Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television
The Birth of an American Empire
The Children's Picture Book Project
The Comic Book Show and Tell
The Correspondence Project: A Lesson of Letters
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Assignment
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Scopes Trial began today in 1925.
The Spanish American War
The Statute of Anne, an influential copyright law, went into effect in
1710.
The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're
All Hard Parts)
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Timeline
Timeline Tool
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
Today is Chris Van Allsburg's birthday.
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research
Techniques and Technology
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Using Grading and Assessment to Maximize the Online Writing Course
Experience--Without Burning Out
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore
Characterization and Style
Using Movie Maker to Create Photomontage Movies
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Venn Diagram, 2 Circles
Venn Diagram, 3 Circles
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Visual Collage Peer Review Sheet
Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing"
Interactive Chart
Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster
, was born in 1937.
Weekly Writer's Blogs: Building a Reflective Community of Support
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the
English Classroom
Write Alouds
Writing Fanfiction
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Technical Instructions
Writing a First Resume
Writing a Review Checklist
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
Writing for the Real World
b. Lorimer editor - Sat. Evening Post
W.9-10.6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update
individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's
capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and
dynamically.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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"The Mysteries of Harris Burdick": Using Illustrations to Guide Writing
Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events
Celebrate the National Day on Writing!
Easing Your Transition to Teaching Writing Online
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
From Courage to Freedom: Slavery's Dehumanizing Effects
If a Body Texts a Body: Texting in "The Catcher in the Rye"
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It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
Letter Exchange Guidelines
Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
Make a Magnetic Poetry Set
One Story, Many Tales
Paying Attention to Technology: Writing Technology Autobiographies
Research Project: The Year I Was Born
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Special Memories & Significant Moments: Making an Electronic
Scrapbook
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiography Project
Using Grading and Assessment to Maximize the Online Writing Course
Experience--Without Burning Out
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
Writing Brochures
Writing a First Resume
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
W.9-10.7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question
(including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the
inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject,
demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered in New York in 1955.
On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
Star Wars creator George Lucas was born in 1944.
The Jazz Singer debuted on this day in 1927.
The New York Times used the slogan "All the News That's Fit to
Print."
The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.
Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in 1937.
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
"Gulliver s Travels" Travelogue
"Gulliver's Travels" Analytical Essay
"It's Our World Too": Socially Responsive Learners in Middle School
Language Arts
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"To Kill a Mockingbird" in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's
Shoes
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"You Gotta BE the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents
'An Expression of the American Mind'': Understanding the Declaration
of Independence
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Police Action'': The Korean War, 1950-1953
'The Missiles of October'': The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
'The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force'': The United States in
World War II
1968 Exhibit
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest
Songs
A Dancer's Journal: Martha Graham
A Failure of the Imagination
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum
America
A More Perfect Union: Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution Overview
A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
About Us
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American
Union and Slavery
Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry
Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
Adapting a Musical
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
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African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
African-American History
African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps
Afropop Worldwide NPR
After the Gold Rush
Al-Mizan
Alex Haley, author of "Roots", was born in 1921.
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
Alternative Book Reports
Alternative Book Reports
Amelia Earhart completed her solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland in
1935.
America
America and the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1933-1939
America celebrates Thanksgiving Day today.
America in the Great War
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
America's New Birth of Freedom: Documents from the Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
American Authors: Biography Assignment Sheet
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Diplomacy in World War II
American Icons: A Radio Series from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
American Masters
American Memory Project: Main Index Page
American Studies
American Verse Project
American Writers
An Army for the Nation
An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and
the Nullification Crisis
An Evening with Stephen Schwartz
An Exploration of "The Crucible" through Seventeenth-Century
Portraits
Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's ''Those Winter Sundays''
and Theodore Roethke's ''My Papa's Waltz''
Analyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar Wilde
Ancient Empires
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
Animals
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
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Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
Annotated List of Memoirs
Anthropology Collection, AMNH
April 2010 - Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
April 2010 Feature: Verizon Thinkfinity Launches New Site
April Calendar
April is National Poetry Month!
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Arctic Studies Center
Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law
Art History Resources
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Artificial Anatomy Homepage
Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
Artist's Journals
Arts Education: Making the Case With Legislators
Arts of the Gilded Age
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is in May!
Asian-Pacific Islander
Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
At the Crossroads of Expertise: The Risky Business of Teaching
Popular Culture
Attitudes Toward Emancipation
August Calendar
Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
Author Gabriel Garcaa Marquez was born on this day.
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Author Lois Duncan was born on this date in 1934.
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
Author of Tuck Everlasting , Natalie Babbitt, was born in 1932.
Authoring With Video
Avi was born in 1937.
Aviation History Month
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Baltimore Museum of Art
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Beware the Ides of March!
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Biography Project Discussion Questions
Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and the Balancing of Rights Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964
Black History Month
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Black Poetry Day is celebrated.
Black Ships; Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Books and Films About Inspirational Teachers
Both Art and Craft: Teaching Ideas That Spark Learning
Boycotting Baubles of Britain
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
Bringing Grammar to Life
British Academy
Brochure Inquiry
Brochure Research Guide
Broken Worlds
Browsing Music
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page,
Panel by Panel
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
Building a National Collection: 150 Years of Print Collecting at the
Smithsonian
Building a Sod House
But Will It Work with Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching
Secondary English Language Arts
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Caldecott Medal-winner Virginia Lee Burton was born on this day in
1909.
Caldecott-winning illustrator Lane Smith was born in 1959.
Celebrate Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Celebrate Earth Day!
Celebrate International Literacy Day!
Celebrate Juneteenth!
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
Celebrate the 100th day of school!
Celebrate the National Day on Writing!
Celebrate the first day of summer with summer reading.
Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
Certain Crimes Against the United States: Consequences of the Sedition
Act
Characterization in Literature and Theater
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Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight in 1927.
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Choosing Sides: The Native Americans' Role in the American
Revolution
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
Clues Within These Walls
Co-Authoring in the Classroom: Creating an Environment for Effective
Collaboration
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Collaborative Work Skills Rubric
Commercial ice cream is first sold in the U.S. in 1786.
Common Visions, Common Voices
Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive
Letter Writing
Community tour
Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography
and Literature
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927.
Corridos About the Mexican Revolution
Cracking the Genetic Code
Create a Career Blog
Creating Psychological Profiles of Characters in "To Kill a
Mockingbird"
Creating a Persuasive Podcast
Critical Literacies and Graphic Novels for English-Language Learners:
Teaching "Maus"
Critical Ways of Seeing ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' in
Context
Crossword Puzzles
Crossword Puzzles
Crossword Puzzles
Cultural Change
Cultural Creation Myths
Culture Connect
César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
Dali and Desnos
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Davy Crockett was born in 1786.
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Debate Over Downloading Music Links
December Calendar
Deep Diver
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath : A Multigenre
Project
Designing Writing Assignments
Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of
Multiple Intelligence Activities
Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Differentiating Instruction
Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
Digital Karnak Project
Digital Roman Forum
Digital Scriptorium
Digital Workshops: Online Resources for Parents and Teachers
Disability Research Website List
Disneyland's Virtual Geography
Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian
Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine, was born in 1914.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Drafting the Declaration: The Jefferson Desk and the Declaration of
Independence
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Drawing Political Cartoons
Drop Me Off in Harlem
EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War
and Reconstruction
Earth, Wind and Water
Ecosystems
Edison After Forty: The Challenge of Success
Edison Invents
Edith Wharton: War Correspondent
Education News
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928.
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a MD degree in
1849.
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Ending the War, 1783
Engaging the Disengaged: Using Learning Clubs to Motivate
Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Escape from Reality: Miro and Surrealism
Espanol
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Essay Assignment and Grading Rubric
Esther Forbes, author of "Johnny Tremain", was born in 1891.
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Evaluative Reading
Examining Transcendentalism Through Popular Culture: Final Project
Exile: Cuba and the United States
Exit Slips
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Exploration Map
Explore Summers Past and Present
Explore Thomas Cole
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
Exploring Women's History
Extraordinary Evidence
Ezra Jack Keats was born on this day in 1916.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Centenary
F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of "The Great Gatsby", was born in 1896.
FDR and the Lend Lease Act
FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words
Faith Ringgold was born on October 8, 1930.
Family and Community
Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Feature April 2010: 2010 IRA Convention
Feature April 2010: Digital Nation
Feature Archive
Feature August 2011: 9/11 Anniversary
Feature August 2011: Conflict in Libya
Feature August 2011: Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Feature August 2011: Punctuation Lessons
Feature August 2011: Wonderopolis
Feature July 2010: Best in Tech Award
Feature July 2011: Back to School
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
Feature July 2011: Healthy Habits
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature July 2011: New Save Capabilities
Feature March 2010: Michelle Obama Fights Childhood Obesity
Feature September 2010: ELL
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Feature September 2010: Global Connections
Feature September 2010: Hispanic Heritage Month
Feature September 2010: Literacy Week
Feature September 2010: Math
Feature September 2010: STEM
Feature September 2010: Web 2.0 Tools
Feature September 2011: Constitution Day
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Feature September 2011: Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: Supporting Literacy
Feature September 2011: Thinkfinity Education Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: iCivics Challenge
February - 2009 - Teaching Abraham Lincoln
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Fighting for Peace: The Fate of Wilson's Fourteen Points
Filipino Hip-Hop
Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the
English Language Arts Classroom
Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
Flip-A-Chip to Build Vocabulary
Folger Shakespeare Library
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil
Rights
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Form for Gathering Research Information
Fractured Families in American Drama
Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)-The Purpose of the
American Union
Framework for 21st Century Learning
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
French Connections
French author Guy de Maupassant was born on this day in 1850.
From Segregation to Sit-ins: The Greensboro Woolworth Lunch
Counter
From Sheryl Crow to Homer Simpson: Literature and Composition
through Pop Culture
From the President's Lips: The Concerns that Led to the Sedition (and
Alien) Act
Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis : A WebQuest
on Iran
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas
Gendered Fictions
Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Geography in Fiction
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George Washington on the Sedition Act
George Washington: The Living Symbol
Get Connected
Get ready for Bullying Awareness Week!
Get ready to celebrate Banned Books Week!
Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
Gettysburg Address Booklist
Gettysburg Address Web Resources
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Go Back in Time
Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
Going Bohemian: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean It
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Going the Distance
Gold Fever
Gold was discovered in California in 1848.
Golden Legends
Google was formally incorporated this week in 1998.
Governor Warren's Expedition
Grading Rubric
Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
Grammar for Teachers: Perspectives and Definitions
Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom and School Libraries
Great Books, Great Art
Great Chicago Stories
Great Composers
Great Films and How to Teach Them
Guampedia
Guggenheim Museum
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Gulf Coast Highway
Gwendolyn Brooks published "Bronzeville Boys and Girls" in 1956.
Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
Harbor High
Harlem Renaissance Web Sites
Harrowing Halloween: Spooky, Supernatural, and Suspenseful
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Helen Keller was born in 1880.
Help Wanted: Writing Professional Resumes
Help! What Is Wrong With These Literature Circles and How Can We
Fix Them?
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.
Hints about Print
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Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic St. Augustine
Historical References in the Endian Passage
History of Jim Crow
Holocaust and Resistance
Homeland Afghanistan
House Detectives: Finding History in Your Home
How ''Grand'' and ''Allied'' Was the Grand Alliance?
How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
How to Be Safe Online
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Collect Stars Activity
How to Win a World War
Humanities Articles
Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927.
I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It: Scaffolding
Students' Engagement With Complex Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
I-Search in the Age of Information
If a Body Texts a Body: Texting in "The Catcher in the Rye"
Images of the New World
In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.
In 1847, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula was born.
In 1870, the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
In 1902, John Steinbeck was born.
In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall.
In 1940, Musician and peace activist John Lennon was born.
In 1952, Paul Fleischman was born on this day.
In 1969, the first human walked on the moon.
In Defense of Liberty: The Magna Carta in the American Revolution
In Old Pompeii
In Old Pompeii
In The Middle
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inclusive Stories: Teaching About Disabilities With Picture Books
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Inquiry Questions Guide
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Invention Playhouse
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Inventors and Explorers
It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
It's All in the Translation
It's Independence Day! Or is it?
It's Not All Black and White: Postmodern Picture Books and New
Literacies
It's winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter celebrate birthdays today.
Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born today.
James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President
James Madison: Internal Improvements Balancing Act -- Federal/State,
Executive/Legislative
James Madison: Madison Was There
James Madison: Raising an Army-- Balancing the Power of the States
and the Federal Government
James Madison: The Second National Bank -- Powers Not Specified in
the Constitution
January - 2009 - Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold
Winter s Day
January Calendar
Japan's ''Southern Advance'' and the March Towards War, 1940-1941
Japanese American Exclusion Orders During World War II
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 1 - Immigration
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 2 - Removal
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 3 - Internment
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 4 - Loyalty
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 5 - Service
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 6 - Justice
Jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915.
Jazz in DC
Jazz in Time
Jesse James robs the Obocock Bank in 1871.
John Marshall, Marbury v Madison and Judicial Review How the Court
Became Supreme
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
Jonathan Swift was born on this day in 1667.
Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
July 1942: United We Stand Campaign
July Calendar
June 14 is Flag Day in the U.S.
June Calendar
K-W-L-S Chart
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
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Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
KateChopin.org
Keith Bear
Know LA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
La Red de Radioifusoras y Televisoras Educativas y Culturales de
Mexico A.C.
Langston Hughes was born in 1902.
Language Learners in the English Classroom
Learner.org
Learning From Lyrics
Legislating Neutrality, 1934-1939
Lesson 1: Anti-federalist Arguments Against A Complete Consolidation
Lesson 1: NAACP s Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s
Lesson 1: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of War
Lesson 2: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1930's
Lesson 2: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Politics of
Reconstruction
Lesson 2: The Federalist Defense of Diversity and Extending the
Sphere
Lesson 3: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of
Reconstruction
Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary
Classroom
Letters to the Next President
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de PRIMERO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA- Educacion Artistica
Life on the Great Plains
Lighting a Revolution
Lincoln Goes to War
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Literacy
Literacy Remix: Bridging Adolescents' In and Out of School Literacies
Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
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Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature Featuring Propaganda Techniques and Themes
Live from Antiquity
Lost and Found Sound (NPR's All Things Considered)
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832.
Louisiana Digital Library
Louvre Museum
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution
Making of America
Making the Wright Connection
Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James
Bible
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New
England
Mapping Up the Spill
March Calendar
March is National Women's History Month.
March2010 - Exploring Women's History
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Master Work: Alvin Ailey and "Revelations"
Material and Symbol: The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
May Calendar
May is Get Caught Reading Month!
Media Center
Menu Magic!
Menu Magic!
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Odyssey Online
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
Mis Cositas Resources: Thematic Units
Modern American Poetry
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Monarch Migration Mystery
Montezuma Castle and Well
Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog in 1872.
Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson
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Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks: Real Writers, Real
Audiences, Real Purposes
Movement and Migration: the Gold Nugget That Launched the Gold
Rush
Mozart Forum
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multigenre Museum Exhibits for "The Grapes of Wrath"
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Museo Nacional del Prado
Museo Nacional del Prado Audio Guides
Museum Exhibit Planner
Museum Exhibit Planning
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
MyTube: Make a Video Public Service Announcement
Myths and Heroes
NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaigns: The Quest for Social Justice in
the Interwar Years
NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
NCTE Position Statement on Reading
NCTE's Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award is announced today.
NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African-Americans
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Gallery, UK
National Get Organized Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Inventor's Month
National Museum of the American Indian
National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.
National Wildlife Week
Native American Cultures
Nature and the Environment
New American Roles
New Georgia Encyclopedia
New Literacies and 21st-Century Technologies
Newbery Medal winner Christopher Paul Curtis was born in 1953.
Newest Resources
News Reporting Sheet
Night at the Museum Movie
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure"
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Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure
Noh Theater
Novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day in 1899.
November Calendar
November is National American Indian Heritage Month.
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
October Calendar
On Time: How America Has Learned to Live By the Clock
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
On this day in 1800, Congress approved the purchase of books to start
the Library of Congress.
On this day in 1907, Rachel Carson was born.
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
On this day in 1935, Elvis Presley was born.
One Story, Many Tales
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Online Safety
Oprah Winfrey launched her book club this week in 1996.
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Oregon Encyclopedia
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus
OurStory: Building a Sod House
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
PBS MASTERPIECE celebrates their 40th anniversary today.
PBS: The Buddha
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pakistan: The Gift of the Indus
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy
Parasites and Disease
Patriot Day is celebrated today on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of 2001.
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
Pearl S. Buck: ''On Discovering America''
Pedro Albizu Campos leads the Puerto Rican Independence movement.
Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
PhillyHistory.org
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Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 19701974
Photography and the National Park Service
Picturing America on Screen
Picturing U.S. History
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Podcasts: The Nuts and Bolts of Creating Podcasts
Poe's "The Raven" was published in 1845.
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943.
Poet Robert Burns was born in 1759.
Poet Robert Frost was born in 1874.
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
Poet and author Pat Mora was born on this day in 1942.
Poetry Reading and Interpretation Through Extensive Modeling
Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace, 1921-1929
Power Notes
Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
President Barack Obama was born today in 1961.
President Madison's 1812 War Message
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Brief Overview
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Documentary Review
President Madison's 1812 War Message: Answers Lead to More
Questions
Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques
Produce For Victory: Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Project Check Guide
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Protest Song Lyrics Research Guide
Public Art In The Bronx
Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question the Author (QtA)
Radical Change and Wikis: Teaching New Literacies
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
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Raymond Carver in the Classroom: "A Small, Good Thing"
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
Re-seeing (Dis)Ability: Teaching Students with Disabilities - and
Learning from Them
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
ReadWriteThink Student Materials Index
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent
Literacy
Reading Online
Reading in the Content Areas
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Real-World Geography: Andrew Carroll
Real-World Geography: Donald Buraglio
Real-World Geography: Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin
Real-World Geography: Dr. Michael Wesch
Real-World Geography: Eric Berkenpas
Real-World Geography: Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Real-World Geography: Ken Banks
Real-World Geography: Murray Fisher
Real-World Geography: Nathaniel Kelso
Real-World Geography: Ryan McInnis
Real-World Geography: Steve Vogel
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Recommended Children's Picture Books
Recording Family Stories
Regulating Freedom of Speech
Religion and the Fight for American Independence
Religion in 18th Century America
Representative Poetry Online
Rereadings and Literacy: How Students' Second Readings Might Open
Third Spaces
Research Group Roles
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Project: The Year I Was Born
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
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Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Review Redux: Introducing Literary Criticism Through Reception
Moments
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Richard Wright was born in 1908.
Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School
Students
Romantic Circles
Roots and Branches: A Resource of Native American Literature
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Rubric for Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Rubric for Projects for "Death and the Miser"
Scavenger Hunt Rubric
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.
Scotland Yard's 179th anniversary takes place today.
Scribbling Women
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Seamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939.
Second-Language Literacy Instruction
Selecting and Using Core Reading Programs
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Homepage
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
September Calendar
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shared Writing
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966.
Short Story Collections
Show-Me Sentences
Simon Schama's Power of Art
Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian Education
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Snake Migration
Socratic Seminars
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Songs with Metaphor
Sophocles, Socrates, and the Greek Polis
Sounds Historic
Sources of Discord, 1945-1946
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Soviet Espionage in America
Space
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
Spreading the Message
Standards for the English Language Arts
Standards in Practice, Grades 3-5
Stapleless Book
Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
Stories and Folktales
Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary
English Classroom
Student Interactives
Studying Literature: New Approaches to Poetry and Fiction
Summer Vacations
Supplemental Booklist: Books About Disabilities
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Supporting Contributors
Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Susan B. Anthony voted on this date in 1872, leading to her arrest.
Sweet Secret
Take part in the African American Read-In!
Taking America to Lunch
Taking Up Arms and the Challenge of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Tall Trees
Tate Online
Teaching (and Learning) about Japan
Teaching Poetry in High School
Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
Connections
Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
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Teaching With Blogs
Teaching With Glogster: Using Virtual Posters in the Classroom
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
Teaching With Podcasts
Teaching the Middle East
Teaching with Technology
Technology Profile
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
Textmasters: Bringing literature circles to textbook reading across the
curriculum
Texts With A Sense of Place
Texts to Inspire Discussion about Feminist Issues
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Changes in Voting
Participation
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Issues in the Election of 1828
(and Beyond)
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Territorial Expansion and the
Shift of Power
The 1896 Washington Salon & Art Photographic Exhibition
The Academy of American Poets
The American Civil War
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
The American War for Independence
The Antebellum Army
The Barbie doll was unveiled in 1959.
The Battle Over Reconstruction
The Birth of an American Empire
The Booker T. Washington Papers
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883.
The Caldwell Family
The Campaign of 1840: The Candidates
The Campaign of 1840: The Whigs, the Democrats, and the Issues
The Campaign of 1840: William Henry Harrison and Tyler, Too
The Cave of Lascaux
The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 'Great Rebuilding'
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The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Choate Family
The Crystal Palace hosted the first display of life-size dinosaur replicas
in 1854.
The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations:
Disagreement Over the League
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: Five
Camps -- From Voices of Consent to Voices of Dissent
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: League of
Nations Basics
The Dodge Family and Chance
The Election Is in the House: 1824 -- The Candidates and the Issues
The Election Is in the House: The Denouement
The Election Is in the House: Was There a Corrupt Bargain?
The Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States
The Failure of Diplomacy, September-December 1941
The Far Reaches of Greek Culture
The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement
The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the
Extended Republic
The First American Party System: A Documentary Timeline of
Important Events (1787-1800)
The First American Party System: Events, Issues, and Positions
The First American Party System: Federalists and DemocraticRepublicans -- The Platforms They Never Had
The First American Party System: U.S. Political Parties -- The Principle
of Legitimate Opposition
The First Great Awakening
The First Inaugural Address (1861)-Defending the American Union
The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949
The Gettysburg Address (1863)-Defining the American Union
The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The Internet Public Library
The Invention of the Electric Guitar
The Jefferson Desk
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the
Political Polarization over Slavery
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
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The Lynch Family
The Many Faces of Freedom
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Mexican War
The Monroe Doctrine: A Close Reading
The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy
The Monroe Doctrine: President Monroe and the Independence
Movement in South America
The Monroe Doctrine: U.S. Foreign Affairs (circa 1782-1823) and
James Monroe
The Monroe Doctrine: Whose Doctrine Was It?
The New Americans
The New Order for ''Greater East Asia''
The Object of History
The Online Library of Liberty
The Panic of 1837 and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
The Path of the Black Death
The Phyllis Diller Gag File
The Pied Piper led the children out of Hamelin in 1376.
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Price of Freedom Collection Search
The Price of Freedom: Americans at War Homepage
The RMS "Titanic" sank on this day in 1912.
The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
The Scopes Trial began today in 1925.
The Scott Family
The Second Inaugural Address (1865)-Restoring the American Union
The Short-Handled Hoe
The Social Security Act
The Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded in 1986.
The Spanish American War
The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937.
The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
Homepage
The Statute of Anne, an influential copyright law, went into effect in
1710.
The Strategy of Containment, 1947-1948
The United States Military Academy at West Point
The Victorian Web
The Vietnam War
The Voting Machine
The War in the North, 1775-1778
The War in the South, 1778-1781
The We the People Bookshelf: Pursuit of Happiness
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The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're
All Hard Parts)
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiography Project
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.
The first typewriter patent was awarded in 1868.
The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas in
2005.
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Thinkfinity At Home & Afterschool
Thinkfinity Blog
Thinkfinity Content Partners
Thinkfinity In the Classroom
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This House
Thomas Gray Archive
Thomas Jefferson on the Sedition Act
Thomas Nast was born on this day in 1840.
Thoreau Reader
Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967.
Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: This too is true: Stories can save us
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
Today is Chris Van Allsburg's birthday.
Today is International Literacy Day
Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.
Today is St. Patrick's Day.
Today is World Hello Day!
Today is World Poetry Day.
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Today, the American Library Association announces its annual book
award winners.
Touchdown Songs: Music and Football
Tracking the Buffalo: Stories From a Buffalo Hide Painting
Travis Panorama
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Treasures of American History: American Biography
Treasures of American History: American Identity
Treasures of American History: Creativity and Innovation
Treasures of American History: National Challenges
Turning the Tide in Europe, 1942-1944
Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research
Techniques and Technology
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two Ancient Cities
Two famous Smiths share this birthday.
U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1934-1939
U.S. War Images Web Sites
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Uncle Tom's Cabin; American Culture
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Unearthing Ancient Greece
Unexpected Legends
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
United States Entry into World War I: Some Hypotheses About U.S.
Entry
Universal Human Rights Month
Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Online
University of Massachusetts Amerherst
Ursula K. LeGuin was born on this day in 1929.
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Utopian Visions
VRoma
Valentine's Day is today!
Verizon Foundation
Verizon Thinkfinity
Victory and the New Order in Europe
Victory in Europe, 1944-1945
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Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945
Vietnam Scavenger Hunt
Vietnam War Resources
Virtual Jamestown
Visualizing Cultures
Voices of Democracy
Voices of the American Revolution
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Homepage
Walk with Light: Guiding Students through the Conventions of Literary
Analysis
Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade
Classroom
Walt Disney was born in 1901.
Walt Whitman Archive
Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster
, was born in 1937.
Walters Art Museum
War of 1812
Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work before the
Civil War
Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New
Technology, New Consumers
Water Wows
Web de Anza
West Point Graduates
West Point Graduates Quiz
West Point in the Twentieth Century
Western History: The Photography Collection
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory and Defeat
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory: One Last Measure of the Man
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Powers and
Problems
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? What Are the
Qualities of a Good Military Leader?
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction
What Research Really Says about Teaching and Learning to Read
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
What's in Your Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit?
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Whatever Happened to Polio?
When Worlds Collide
Who Was Cinque?
Why Use Primary Sources?
Wild Things
William Blake Archive
William Penn's Peaceable Kingdom
Wilson and American Entry into World War I
Wired for Books
Within These Walls Homepage
Witnesses to Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years' War
Woodrow Wilson and Latin America: ''To Elect Good Men''
Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the
English Classroom
Working with the Short-Handled Hoe: Organizing Farmworkers after
World War II
World Music
World of Dante
Write Alouds
Write letters that make things happen!
Writing Brochures
Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing with Voice
Writing with Voice
You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents (2nd edition)
You re the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
diet
e-Reading and e-Responding: New Tools for the Next Generation of
Readers
food
food staple
iAzucar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
tide
W.9-10.8. Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital
sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each
source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text
selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a
standard format for citation.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered in New York in 1955.
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On the Road author Jack Kerouac embarked on his first cross-country
road trip in 1947.
Star Wars creator George Lucas was born in 1944.
The Jazz Singer debuted on this day in 1927.
The New York Times used the slogan "All the News That's Fit to
Print."
The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.
Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in 1937.
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Tool
"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
"Gulliver s Travels" Travelogue
"Gulliver's Travels" Analytical Essay
"Gulliver's Travels" Essay Rubric
"It's Our World Too": Socially Responsive Learners in Middle School
Language Arts
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"To Kill a Mockingbird" in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's
Shoes
"United We Stand": Search the Covers
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
"War of the Worlds" Worksheet
"You Gotta BE the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents
'An Expression of the American Mind'': Understanding the Declaration
of Independence
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Police Action'': The Korean War, 1950-1953
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
'The Missiles of October'': The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
'The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force'': The United States in
World War II
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Courage
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
'You Kiss by the Book'': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
1968 Exhibit
1996: Netscape released Navigator 3.0
2004 Political Web Sites
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21st Century Schools: Learning in the Digital Age
A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways
to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
A Failure of the Imagination
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum
America
A More Perfect Union: Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution Overview
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
About Us
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American
Union and Slavery
Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry
Acrostic Poems
Acting Up, A Melodrama
Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers
of Literature
Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps
Afropop Worldwide NPR
After the Gold Rush
Al-Mizan
Alex Haley, author of "Roots", was born in 1921.
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
Alternative Book Reports
Alternative Book Reports
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Amelia Earhart completed her solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland in
1935.
America and the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1933-1939
America celebrates Thanksgiving Day today.
America in the Great War
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
America's New Birth of Freedom: Documents from the Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
American Authors: Biography Assignment Sheet
American Centuries: View from New England
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Diplomacy in World War II
American Icons: A Radio Series from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
American Masters
American Memory Project: Main Index Page
American Studies
American Verse Project
American Writers
An Army for the Nation
An EDSITEment Tour of the National Mall
An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and
the Nullification Crisis
An Evening with Stephen Schwartz
An Exploration of "The Crucible" through Seventeenth-Century
Portraits
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Opinions on Music Downloads
Analyzing a World War II Poster
Analyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar Wilde
Ancient Empires
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
Animals
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
Annotated List of Memoirs
Anthropology Collection, AMNH
April 2010 Feature: Verizon Thinkfinity Launches New Site
April Calendar
April is National Poetry Month!
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Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Arctic Studies Center
Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law
Art Algorithms
Art History Resources
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Artificial Anatomy Homepage
Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
Artist's Journals
Arts Education: Making the Case With Legislators
Arts in the 21st Century!
Arts of the Gilded Age
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is in May!
Asian-Pacific Islander
Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
At Home in the Heartland Online
At the Crossroads of Expertise: The Risky Business of Teaching
Popular Culture
Attitudes Toward Emancipation
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
August - 2009 - Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's
Introduction August Calendar
Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
Author Gabriel Garcaa Marquez was born on this day.
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Author Lois Duncan was born on this date in 1934.
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
Author of Tuck Everlasting , Natalie Babbitt, was born in 1932.
Authoring With Video
Avi was born in 1937.
Aviation History Month
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Baltimore Museum of Art
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Beware the Ides of March!
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Biography Project Suggestions
Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and the Balancing of Rights Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964
Black History Month
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Black Poetry Day is celebrated.
Black Ships; Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Blogtopia Rubric
Books and Films About Inspirational Teachers
Both Art and Craft: Teaching Ideas That Spark Learning
Bouncing Babies
Boycotting Baubles of Britain
Brain to Brain Interface
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
Bringing Grammar to Life
British Academy
Brochure Research Guide
Broken Worlds
Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Browsing Music
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the
Classroom
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page,
Panel by Panel
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
Building a National Collection: 150 Years of Print Collecting at the
Smithsonian
Building a Sod House
But Will It Work with Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching
Secondary English Language Arts
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Caldecott Medal-winner Virginia Lee Burton was born on this day in
1909.
Caldecott-winning illustrator Lane Smith was born in 1959.
Celebrate Earth Day!
Celebrate International Literacy Day!
Celebrate Juneteenth!
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
Celebrate the 100th day of school!
Celebrate the National Day on Writing!
Celebrate the first day of summer with summer reading.
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
Certain Crimes Against the United States: Consequences of the Sedition
Act
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Character Analysis Assignment for "The Great Gatsby"
Character Sketch
Character Technology Profile Questions
Characterization in Literature and Theater
Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight in 1927.
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Choosing Sides: The Native Americans' Role in the American
Revolution
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Civil War
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
Clocking T. rex
Clues Within These Walls
Co-Authoring in the Classroom: Creating an Environment for Effective
Collaboration
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Collaborative Work Skills Rubric
Commercial ice cream is first sold in the U.S. in 1786.
Common Visions, Common Voices
Communicating the Presidency
Community tour
Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography
and Literature
Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
Components of a Review
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting with Young Adult Authors through Writing
Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927.
Corridos About the Mexican Revolution
Cracking the Genetic Code
Create a Career Blog
Creating Psychological Profiles of Characters in "To Kill a
Mockingbird"
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Creating a Scavenger Hunt Question
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Critical Literacies and Graphic Novels for English-Language Learners:
Teaching "Maus"
Critical Ways of Seeing ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' in
Context
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Crossword Puzzles
Crossword Puzzles
Crossword Puzzles
Cultural Change
Cultural Creation Myths
Cultural Mask Research Graphic Organizer
Culture Connect
César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
Daily Response Journal
Dali and Desnos
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Davy Crockett was born in 1786.
Debate Over Downloading Music Links
Debating Music Downloads
December Calendar
Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's 1984
Commercial
Deep Diver
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Defining Literacy in a Digital World
Defining Literacy in a Digital World: Student Interactive
Designing Writing Assignments
Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of
Multiple Intelligence Activities
Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Differentiating Instruction
Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
Digital Karnak Project
Digital Parenting: Protecting and Empowering Kids
Digital Roman Forum
Digital Scriptorium
Digital Workshops: Online Resources for Parents and Teachers
Disability Research Website List
Disneyland's Virtual Geography
Documenting African American History
Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian
Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine, was born in 1914.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Drafting the Declaration: The Jefferson Desk and the Declaration of
Independence
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Drawing Political Cartoons
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Driving Music
Drop Me Off in Harlem
EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War
and Reconstruction
Earth, Wind and Water
Easing Your Transition to Teaching Writing Online
Ecosystems
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Edison After Forty: The Challenge of Success
Edison Invents
Edith Wharton: War Correspondent
Education News
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928.
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a MD degree in
1849.
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Ending the War, 1783
Engaging the Disengaged: Using Learning Clubs to Motivate
Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Escape from Reality: Miro and Surrealism
Espanol
Essay of Place
Esther Forbes, author of "Johnny Tremain", was born in 1891.
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Examining Transcendentalism Through Popular Culture: Final Project
Examples for the United States
Exile: Cuba and the United States
Exit Slips
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
Exploration Map
Explore Summers Past and Present
Explore Thomas Cole
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Cultural Connotations of Color
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace: List of Sample Web Sites
Exploring Onomatopoeia
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
Exploring Women's History
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Extraordinary Evidence
Ezra Jack Keats was born on this day in 1916.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Centenary
F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of "The Great Gatsby", was born in 1896.
FDR and the Lend Lease Act
FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words
Families in Bondage
Family and Community
Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Burying Addie's Voice
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Concluding the Novel
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Crossing the River
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Form of a Funeral
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': April Eighth, 1928: Narrating
from an ''Ordered Place''?
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Feature April 2010: 2010 IRA Convention
Feature April 2010: Digital Nation
Feature Archive
Feature August 2011: 9/11 Anniversary
Feature August 2011: Conflict in Libya
Feature August 2011: Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Feature August 2011: Punctuation Lessons
Feature August 2011: Wonderopolis
Feature July 2010: Best in Tech Award
Feature July 2011: Back to School
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
Feature July 2011: Healthy Habits
Feature July 2011: Hurricanes
Feature July 2011: Inventions
Feature July 2011: New Save Capabilities
Feature March 2010: Michelle Obama Fights Childhood Obesity
Feature September 2010: ELL
Feature September 2010: Global Connections
Feature September 2010: Hispanic Heritage Month
Feature September 2010: Literacy Week
Feature September 2010: Math
Feature September 2010: STEM
Feature September 2010: Web 2.0 Tools
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Feature September 2011: Constitution Day
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Feature September 2011: Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: Supporting Literacy
Feature September 2011: Thinkfinity Education Speaker Series
Feature September 2011: iCivics Challenge
February - 2009 - Teaching Abraham Lincoln
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
Fighting for Peace: The Fate of Wilson's Fourteen Points
Filipino Hip-Hop
Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the
English Language Arts Classroom
Finding the Fallacies That Surround You
Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Flip-A-Chip to Build Vocabulary
Folger Shakespeare Library
Follow-up Reflections Sheet
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil
Rights
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Form for Gathering Research Information
Four Freedoms for the Fourth
Fractured Families in American Drama
Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)-The Purpose of the
American Union
Framework for 21st Century Learning
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
Freedom Riders
French Connections
French author Guy de Maupassant was born on this day in 1850.
From Segregation to Sit-ins: The Greensboro Woolworth Lunch
Counter
From Sheryl Crow to Homer Simpson: Literature and Composition
through Pop Culture
From the President's Lips: The Concerns that Led to the Sedition (and
Alien) Act
Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis : A WebQuest
on Iran
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas
Gendered Fictions
Genre List
Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
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Geography in Fiction
George Washington on the Sedition Act
George Washington: The Living Symbol
Get Connected
Get ready for Bullying Awareness Week!
Get ready to celebrate Banned Books Week!
Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
Gettysburg Address Booklist
Gettysburg Address Web Resources
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
Go Back in Time
Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
Going Bohemian: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean It
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Going the Distance
Gold Fever
Gold was discovered in California in 1848.
Golden Legends
Google was formally incorporated this week in 1998.
Governor Warren's Expedition
Grading Rubric
Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
Grammar for Teachers: Perspectives and Definitions
Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom and School Libraries
Great Books, Great Art
Great Chicago Stories
Great Composers
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Great Films and How to Teach Them
Group Process Assessment Worksheet
Guampedia
Guggenheim Museum
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Guideline on The Students' Right to Read
Gulf Coast Highway
Gwendolyn Brooks published "Bronzeville Boys and Girls" in 1956.
Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
Hans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
Harbor High
Harlem Renaissance Web Sites
Harrowing Halloween: Spooky, Supernatural, and Suspenseful
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
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Heart Transplant
Helen Keller was born in 1880.
Help Wanted: Writing Professional Resumes
Help! What Is Wrong With These Literature Circles and How Can We
Fix Them?
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.
Hero's Traits Reader's Log
Hints about Print
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
Historic St. Augustine
History of Jim Crow
Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and
Evaluation
Holocaust and Resistance
Homeland Afghanistan
House Detectives: Finding History in Your Home
How ''Grand'' and ''Allied'' Was the Grand Alliance?
How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature:
One Teacher's Perspective
How to Be Safe Online
How to Help a Teen Choose a Book
How to Record Podcasts
How to Start a Blog
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Collect Stars Activity
How to Win a World War
Humanities Articles
Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927.
Hypertext Response Planning Sheet
Hypertext Response Project
I Have a Dream: Exploring Nonviolence in Young Adult Texts
I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It: Scaffolding
Students' Engagement With Complex Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
I-Search in the Age of Information
IPASS: Japan! Culture - Hyperculture
Images of the New World
In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.
In 1847, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula was born.
In 1870, the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
In 1902, John Steinbeck was born.
In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
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In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall.
In 1940, Musician and peace activist John Lennon was born.
In 1952, Paul Fleischman was born on this day.
In 1969, the first human walked on the moon.
In Defense of Liberty: The Magna Carta in the American Revolution
In Old Pompeii
In Old Pompeii
In The Middle
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Interactive Verb Observation Chart
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Invention Playhouse
Inventors and Explorers
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It s Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children s Book about the Weather
It's All in the Translation
It's Independence Day! Or is it?
It's Not All Black and White: Postmodern Picture Books and New
Literacies
It's winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter celebrate birthdays today.
JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement
Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born today.
James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President
James Madison: Internal Improvements Balancing Act -- Federal/State,
Executive/Legislative
James Madison: Madison Was There
James Madison: Raising an Army-- Balancing the Power of the States
and the Federal Government
James Madison: The Second National Bank -- Powers Not Specified in
the Constitution
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
January - 2009 - Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold
Winter s Day
January - 2010 - I Have a Dream: Celebrating the Vision of Martin
Luther King, Jr
January Calendar
Japan's ''Southern Advance'' and the March Towards War, 1940-1941
Japanese American Exclusion Orders During World War II
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 1 - Immigration
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 2 - Removal
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Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 3 - Internment
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 4 - Loyalty
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 5 - Service
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 6 - Justice
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, a Catalyst for Victory
Jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915.
Jazz in Time
Jesse James robs the Obocock Bank in 1871.
Jimmy Chin's Extreme Photography: Both Sides of the Lens
John Marshall, Marbury v Madison and Judicial Review How the Court
Became Supreme
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.
Jonathan Swift was born on this day in 1667.
Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
July - 2009 - Eakins Vision of American Recreation - In the good old
summer time
July 1942: United We Stand Campaign
July Calendar
June 14 is Flag Day in the U.S.
June Calendar
Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel "Out of the
Dust", was born in 1952.
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
KateChopin.org
Keith Bear
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
Know LA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
La Red de Radioifusoras y Televisoras Educativas y Culturales de
Mexico A.C.
Lady Liberty
Langston Hughes was born in 1902.
Language Learners in the English Classroom
Learning From Lyrics
Learning in Virtual Worlds
Learning the Blues
Legislating Neutrality, 1934-1939
Lesson 1: Anti-federalist Arguments Against A Complete Consolidation
Lesson 1: NAACP s Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s
Lesson 1: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of War
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Lesson 2: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1930's
Lesson 2: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Politics of
Reconstruction
Lesson 2: The Federalist Defense of Diversity and Extending the
Sphere
Lesson 3: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of
Reconstruction
Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary
Classroom
Letters to the Next President
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de PRIMERO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA- Educacion Artistica
Life Online
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Lighting a Revolution
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Lincoln Goes to War
Links to Web Sites with Historical Information
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
List of Online Magazines
Literacy
Literacy Remix: Bridging Adolescents' In and Out of School Literacies
Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach
to Teaching English
Literature Featuring Propaganda Techniques and Themes
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Live from Antiquity
Lost and Found Sound (NPR's All Things Considered)
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832.
Louisiana Digital Library
Louvre Museum
MPA Designation Project
Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution
Making It Visual for ELL Students: Teaching History Using "Maus"
Making of America
Making the Wright Connection
Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James
Bible
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New
England
Mapping Up the Spill
March Calendar
March is National Women's History Month.
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Mark Twain and American Humor
Master Work: Alvin Ailey and "Revelations"
Material and Symbol: The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
May - 2010 - Jewish American Heritage Month
May Calendar
May is Get Caught Reading Month!
Media Center
Meet Our Museum Podcast: Backstage at the Museum
Menu Magic!
Menu Magic!
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Odyssey Online
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Mis Cositas Resources: Thematic Units
Modern American Poetry
Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Mona Lisa's Smile
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Monarch Migration Mystery
Montezuma Castle and Well
Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog in 1872.
Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson
Moody Music
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Motivating Teen Readers
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Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks: Real Writers, Real
Audiences, Real Purposes
Movement and Migration: the Gold Nugget That Launched the Gold
Rush
Mozart Forum
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multigenre Museum Exhibits for "The Grapes of Wrath"
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Museo Nacional del Prado
Museo Nacional del Prado Audio Guides
Museum Exhibit Planner
Museum Exhibit Planning
Museum Exhibit Project Checkpoints
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
Music & IQ
Music & Intelligence
Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
Music in Movies: You Pick the Soundtrack
MyTube: Make a Video Public Service Announcement
Myths and Heroes
NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaigns: The Quest for Social Justice in
the Interwar Years
NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
NCTE Position Statement on Reading
NCTE's Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award is announced today.
NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African-Americans
Naming in a Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Gallery, UK
National Get Organized Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Inventor's Month
National Museum of the American Indian
National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.
National Wildlife Week
Native American Cultures
Nature and the Environment
New American Roles
New Georgia Encyclopedia
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New Literacies and 21st-Century Technologies
Newbery Medal winner Christopher Paul Curtis was born in 1953.
Newest Resources
Night at the Museum Movie
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure"
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: The same ol' danger but a brand new
pleasure
Noh Theater
Not Just Halloween: Festivals of the Dead from Around the World
Novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day in 1899.
November Calendar
November is National American Indian Heritage Month.
November's Literary Lions
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
October - 2009 - National Hispanic Heritage Month
October Calendar
On Time: How America Has Learned to Live By the Clock
On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York
City libraries.
On this day in 1800, Congress approved the purchase of books to start
the Library of Congress.
On this day in 1907, Rachel Carson was born.
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
On this day in 1935, Elvis Presley was born.
One Story, Many Tales
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Online Persona Evaluation Form
Online Profile Tips
Online Profile Tips
Online Safety
Online Writing Course Focuses on Writing, and Isn't That What We've
Been Aiming For?
Oprah Winfrey launched her book club this week in 1996.
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Oregon Encyclopedia
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus
OurStory: Building a Sod House
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
PBS MASTERPIECE celebrates their 40th anniversary today.
PBS: The Buddha
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pakistan: The Gift of the Indus
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Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy
Parasites and Disease
Pathways for Advancing Adolescent Literacy
Patriot Day is celebrated today on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of 2001.
Paying Attention to Technology: Exploring a Fictional Technology
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
Pearl S. Buck: ''On Discovering America''
Pedro Albizu Campos leads the Puerto Rican Independence movement.
Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and
Spelling!)
Perception of Place
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Persuasive Essay
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
PhillyHistory.org
Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 19701974
Photography and the National Park Service
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With "Persepolis"
Picturing America on Screen
Picturing U.S. History
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Plants and Seasons
Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Podcasts: The Nuts and Bolts of Creating Podcasts
Poe's "The Raven" was published in 1845.
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943.
Poet Robert Burns was born in 1759.
Poet Robert Frost was born in 1874.
Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
Poet and author Pat Mora was born on this day in 1942.
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Poetic Devices Quiz
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
Poetry Reading and Interpretation Through Extensive Modeling
Poetry of The Great War: ''From Darkness to Light''?
Pompeii and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes: Investigating Genre in the
Visual Arts
Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
Possible Genres
Poster Analysis Rubric
Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace, 1921-1929
Power Notes
Practical Criticism
Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
President Barack Obama was born today in 1961.
President Madison's 1812 War Message
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Brief Overview
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Documentary Review
President Madison's 1812 War Message: Answers Lead to More
Questions
Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold Winter's Day
Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques
Produce For Victory: Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)
Profile Publisher
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Projects for "Death and the Miser"
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Public Art In The Bronx
Publishing Tips
Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Question the Author (QtA)
Quotation Journal Recording Sheet
Radical Change and Wikis: Teaching New Literacies
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
Rate This Movie! Hold a Viewing Party
Raymond Carver in the Classroom: "A Small, Good Thing"
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
Re-seeing (Dis)Ability: Teaching Students with Disabilities - and
Learning from Them
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Index
ReadWriteThink Student Materials Index
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ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans That Teach Genres of Writing
Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent
Literacy
Reading Between the Lines
Reading Online
Reading Think-aloud Sheet
Reading in the Content Areas
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Real-World Geography: Andrew Carroll
Real-World Geography: Donald Buraglio
Real-World Geography: Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin
Real-World Geography: Dr. Michael Wesch
Real-World Geography: Eric Berkenpas
Real-World Geography: Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Real-World Geography: Ken Banks
Real-World Geography: Murray Fisher
Real-World Geography: Nathaniel Kelso
Real-World Geography: Ryan McInnis
Real-World Geography: Steve Vogel
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip
Recommended Children's Picture Books
Recording Family Stories
Regulating Freedom of Speech
Religion and the Fight for American Independence
Religion in 18th Century America
Representative Poetry Online
Rereadings and Literacy: How Students' Second Readings Might Open
Third Spaces
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote
Reading Comprehension?
Research Project: The Year I Was Born
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
Revision Questions for Analytical Essay
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Richard Wright was born in 1908.
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Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School
Students
Romantic Circles
Roots and Branches: A Resource of Native American Literature
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Rubric for Character Analysis Assignment
Rubric for Electronic Scrapbooks
Rubric for Modern-Day Interpretation Projects
Rubric for Projects for "Death and the Miser"
Safe Online Talk
Scavenger Hunt Rubric
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.
Scotland Yard's 179th anniversary takes place today.
Scribbling Women
Script Preparation Guidelines
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Sculpture With Richard Serra
Seamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939.
Second-Language Literacy Instruction
Selecting and Using Core Reading Programs
Self-portrait of a Reading Experience
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Homepage
September - 2009 - Chronicling America
September - 2009 - The Constitution of the United States of America
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
September Calendar
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shared Writing
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966.
Short Story Collections
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Show-Me Sentences
Simon Schama's Power of Art
Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian Education
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Snake Migration
So You Want to be a Singer?
Socratic Seminars
Songs with Metaphor
Sophocles, Socrates, and the Greek Polis
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Sounds Historic
Sources of Discord, 1945-1946
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Soviet Espionage in America
Space
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Special Memories & Significant Moments: Making an Electronic
Scrapbook
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Spirituals
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
Spreading the Message
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Standards for the English Language Arts
Standards in Practice, Grades 3-5
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
Stories and Folktales
Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary
English Classroom
Student Interactives
Studying Literature: New Approaches to Poetry and Fiction
Summer Travel--Education on the Road
Summer Vacations
Summertime Favorites 2005
Supplemental Booklist: Books About Disabilities
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Supporting Contributors
Supporting Reading Comprehension: The role of talk, text, task
Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
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Susan B. Anthony voted on this date in 1872, leading to her arrest.
Sweet Secret
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Take part in the African American Read-In!
Taking America to Lunch
Taking Up Arms and the Challenge of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
Tales of the Supernatural
Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Tall Trees
Tate Online
Teaching (and Learning) about Japan
Teaching Poetry in High School
Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
Teaching With Blogs
Teaching With Glogster: Using Virtual Posters in the Classroom
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
Teaching With Podcasts
Teaching the Middle East
Teaching with Technology
Technology Survey
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
Tell a Migration Story...with Photos
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
Textmasters: Bringing literature circles to textbook reading across the
curriculum
Texts With A Sense of Place
Texts to Inspire Discussion about Feminist Issues
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The "Ramayana" Paintings
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Changes in Voting
Participation
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Issues in the Election of 1828
(and Beyond)
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Territorial Expansion and the
Shift of Power
The 1896 Washington Salon & Art Photographic Exhibition
The Academy of American Poets
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The American Civil War
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
The American War for Independence
The Antebellum Army
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Barbie doll was unveiled in 1959.
The Battle Over Reconstruction
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Bill of Rights
The Birth of an American Empire
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Booker T. Washington Papers
The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883.
The Caldwell Family
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Campaign of 1840: The Candidates
The Campaign of 1840: The Whigs, the Democrats, and the Issues
The Campaign of 1840: William Henry Harrison and Tyler, Too
The Cave of Lascaux
The Centennial of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-2010
The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 'Great Rebuilding'
The Chinese New Year starts today.
The Choate Family
The Crystal Palace hosted the first display of life-size dinosaur replicas
in 1854.
The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations:
Disagreement Over the League
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: Five
Camps -- From Voices of Consent to Voices of Dissent
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: League of
Nations Basics
The Digital You: Attention, Multitasking and Addiction
The Dodge Family and Chance
The Election Is in the House: 1824 -- The Candidates and the Issues
The Election Is in the House: The Denouement
The Election Is in the House: Was There a Corrupt Bargain?
The Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States
The Electoral College
The Failure of Diplomacy, September-December 1941
The Far Reaches of Greek Culture
The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement
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The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the
Extended Republic
The First American Party System: A Documentary Timeline of
Important Events (1787-1800)
The First American Party System: Events, Issues, and Positions
The First American Party System: Federalists and DemocraticRepublicans -- The Platforms They Never Had
The First American Party System: U.S. Political Parties -- The Principle
of Legitimate Opposition
The First Great Awakening
The First Inaugural Address (1861)-Defending the American Union
The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949
The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights
The Gettysburg Address (1863)-Defining the American Union
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Internet Public Library
The Invention of the Electric Guitar
The Jefferson Desk
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the
Political Polarization over Slavery
The Kennedy Center Education Department
The Language Bank
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
The Lynch Family
The Many Faces of Freedom
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Mexican War
The Monroe Doctrine: A Close Reading
The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy
The Monroe Doctrine: President Monroe and the Independence
Movement in South America
The Monroe Doctrine: U.S. Foreign Affairs (circa 1782-1823) and
James Monroe
The Monroe Doctrine: Whose Doctrine Was It?
The New Americans
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The New Order for ''Greater East Asia''
The Object of History
The Online Library of Liberty
The Panic of 1837 and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
The Path of the Black Death
The Phyllis Diller Gag File
The Pied Piper led the children out of Hamelin in 1376.
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Price of Freedom Collection Search
The Price of Freedom: Americans at War Homepage
The RMS "Titanic" sank on this day in 1912.
The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
The Scopes Trial began today in 1925.
The Scott Family
The Second Inaugural Address (1865)-Restoring the American Union
The Short-Handled Hoe
The Social Security Act
The Socially Networked English Classroom: Web 2.0 in the English
Classroom
The Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded in 1986.
The Spanish American War
The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937.
The Spread of Buddhism
The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
Homepage
The Statute of Anne, an influential copyright law, went into effect in
1710.
The Strategy of Containment, 1947-1948
The Ten-Minute Play: Encouraging Original Response to Challenging
Texts
The United States Military Academy at West Point
The Victorian Web
The Vietnam War
The Voting Machine
The War in the North, 1775-1778
The War in the South, 1778-1781
The We the People Bookshelf: Pursuit of Happiness
The Women's Declaration of Independence, July 1848
The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're
All Hard Parts)
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiography Project
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929.
The first picture of Earth was taken by the U.S. satellite "Explorer VI"
in 1959.
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The first typewriter patent was awarded in 1868.
The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas in
2005.
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Thinkfinity At Home & Afterschool
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Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
This House
This is a video test record
Thomas Gray Archive
Thomas Jefferson on the Sedition Act
Thomas Nast was born on this day in 1840.
Thoreau Reader
Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967.
Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: This too is true: Stories can save us
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
Today is Chris Van Allsburg's birthday.
Today is International Literacy Day
Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.
Today is St. Patrick's Day.
Today is Walt Whitman's birthday.
Today is World Hello Day!
Today is World Poetry Day.
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Today, the American Library Association announces its annual book
award winners.
Touchdown Songs: Music and Football
Tracking the Buffalo: Stories From a Buffalo Hide Painting
Travis Panorama
Treasures of American History: American Biography
Treasures of American History: American Identity
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Treasures of American History: Creativity and Innovation
Treasures of American History: National Challenges
Turning the Tide in Europe, 1942-1944
Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research
Techniques and Technology
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two Ancient Cities
Two famous Smiths share this birthday.
U.S. Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology
U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1934-1939
U.S. War Images Web Sites
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Uncle Tom's Cabin; American Culture
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Unearthing Ancient Greece
Unexpected Legends
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
United States Entry into World War I: Some Hypotheses About U.S.
Entry
United States Entry into World War I: Two Diametrically Opposed
Views
Universal Human Rights Month
Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Online
University of Massachusetts Amerherst
Ursula K. LeGuin was born on this day in 1929.
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Using Grading and Assessment to Maximize the Online Writing Course
Experience--Without Burning Out
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore
Characterization and Style
Using Movie Maker to Create Photomontage Movies
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Utopian Visions
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VRoma
Valentine's Day is today!
Verizon Foundation
Verizon Thinkfinity
Victory and the New Order in Europe
Victory in Europe, 1944-1945
Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945
Video Portal Test Record
Vietnam Scavenger Hunt
Vietnam War Resources
Virtual Jamestown
Visual Collage Rubric
Visualizing Cultures
Voices of Democracy
Voices of the American Revolution
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Homepage
Walk with Light: Guiding Students through the Conventions of Literary
Analysis
Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade
Classroom
Walt Disney was born in 1901.
Walt Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster
, was born in 1937.
Walters Art Museum
War of 1812
Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work before the
Civil War
Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New
Technology, New Consumers
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
Water Wows
Weaving the Multigenre Web
Web Site Analysis Worksheet
Web Site Evaluation Form
Web de Anza
West Point Graduates
West Point Graduates Quiz
West Point in the Twentieth Century
Western History: The Photography Collection
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
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What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory and Defeat
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory: One Last Measure of the Man
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Powers and
Problems
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? What Are the
Qualities of a Good Military Leader?
What Portraits Reveal
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction
What Research Really Says about Teaching and Learning to Read
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
What s in a Name?
What's In a Picture: An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts
What's in Your Arts Education Advocacy Tool Kit?
Whatever Happened to Polio?
When Worlds Collide
When the Games Were Held at Olympia
Who Was Cinque?
Why Use Primary Sources?
Wikipedia Tips
Wild Things
William Blake Archive
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Penn's Peaceable Kingdom
William Shakespeare
Wilson and American Entry into World War I
Wired for Books
Within These Walls Homepage
Witnesses to Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years' War
Women in Africa: Tradition and Change
Wonderworld
Woodrow Wilson and Latin America: ''To Elect Good Men''
Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the
English Classroom
Working with the Short-Handled Hoe: Organizing Farmworkers after
World War II
World Music
World of Dante
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs
Write Alouds
Write letters that make things happen!
Writing Brochures
Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture
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Writing a First Resume
Writing a Review Checklist
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
Writing with Voice
Writing with Voice
You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading
with Adolescents (2nd edition)
You re the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
diet
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
e-Reading and e-Responding: New Tools for the Next Generation of
Readers
food
food staple
iAzucar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
tide
W.9-10.9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis,
reflection, and research.
W.910.9(a)
Apply grades 9-10 reading standards to literature (e.g., ''Analyze how an author
draws on and transforms source material in a specific work [e.g., how
Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later
author draws on a play by Shakespeare]'').
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W.910.9(b)
Folger Shakespeare Library
Apply grades 9-10 reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., ''Delineate and
evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the
reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false
statements and fallacious reasoning'').
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"Gulliver s Travels" Travelogue
"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
"United We Stand": Search the Covers
"War of the Worlds" Travelogue
'An Expression of the American Mind'': Understanding the Declaration
of Independence
'Common Sense'': The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
'Hamlet'' Meets ''Chushingura'': Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
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'Police Action'': The Korean War, 1950-1953
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
'The Missiles of October'': The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
'The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force'': The United States in
World War II
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Courage
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
1492: Columbus Enterprise of Indies
1790: 1st census count in the U.S.
1792: Cornerstone White House laid
1796: birth of the metric system
1846: Congress charted Smithsonian
1858: Darwin theory of evolution
1884: Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's
1904: 1st rapid transit subway, NYC
1911: Bingham discovered Incan ruin
1922: First radio commercial aired
1939: The Wizard of Oz Premiered
1945: U.S. Gov. ended shoe rationing
1945: United Nations commenced
1946: 1st Cannes Film Festival held
1952: 1st open-heart surgery
1958: Nat. Aeronautics/Space Admin.
1960: U.S. halted exports to Cuba
1966: Extended minimum wage law
1969: Neil Armstrong 1st walk moon
1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial - D.C.
1988: Germany's Graf, won US Open
1990: East & West Germany reunified
1990: Nepal adopted a constitution
1996: Netscape released Navigator 3.0
1998: Hackers redirected AOL emails
1999: Earth population reached 6 B
1st drive-in banking services, 1946
2,000/yr old Terracotta Army dug up
2001: Islamist terrorists attack
300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae: Herodotus' ''Real'' History
622: Islamic calendar - Muhammad
A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives
A Case for Reading Examining Challenged and Banned Books
A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest
Songs
A Dancer's Journal: Martha Graham
A Few of Our Favorite Things...
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A Field Guide to Theaters
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum
America
A Letter From George Washington
A More Perfect Union: Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution Overview
A Question of Style
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
A Vision of Puerto Rico: The Teodoro Vidal Collection Homepage
A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971
AD 79: Mt Vesuvius erupted
AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed, 1987
Abraham Lincoln and Wartime Politics
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American
Union and Slavery
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life Homepage
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
Adapting a Musical
African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd
Divisions
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
African-American History
African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps
After the Gold Rush
All the News that's Fit to Print
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
America and the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1933-1939
America in the Great War
America on the Move - Creating Stories Activity Kit
America's New Birth of Freedom: Documents from the Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
American Diplomacy in World War II
American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel
Hawthorne
An Army for the Nation
An EDSITEment Tour of the National Mall
An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and
the Nullification Crisis
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An Exploration of "The Crucible" through Seventeenth-Century
Portraits
Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves
Analyzing Opinions on Music Downloads
Analyzing a Political Cartoon: "Settin on a Rail"
Analyzing a Visual Message
Analyzing a World War II Poster
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
And the Question Is... Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
Andy Warhol b. 1928
Answering the Call 1917-1945
Anthrax spores mailed to Senators
April - 2009 - National Poetry Month: American Originals
April 2010 - Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
April 2010 Feature: Ker-Splash
April2010 - National Poetry Month: Celebrating World Poetry
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law
Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Analyzing World War II Posters
Art Algorithms
Art collector Peg Guggenheim b 1898
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Artificial Anatomy Homepage
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
Arts of the Gilded Age
Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a
Text
Attitudes Toward Emancipation
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
Audio Listening Practices: Exploring Personal Experiences with Audio
Texts
August - 2008 - Electing America's President
August - 2009 - Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's
Introduction Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Author Raymond Chandler b. 1888
Author Stephen Crane b. 1871
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Battle of the Bulge: Americans Respond to a German Surprise
Becoming An American Citizen
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Beethoven Rocks!
Behaim, creator of the oldest globe
Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Benin became independent in 1960
Beowulf
Beyond What I Did on Vacation : Exploring the Genre of Travel
Writing
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Birth of Cleveland in White House
Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and the Balancing of Rights Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964
Black Sea ancient remains found
Bluford, 1st Afr. Amer. astronaut
Bon Appetite! Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
Book Cover Guide
Books
Botanist Morison, plant classify.
Botanist Morison, plant classify.
Bouncing Babies
Boycotting Baubles of Britain
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Bright Stars and Broad Stripes Classroom Videos
Bright Stars and Broad Stripes Teacher Guide for the Classroom Videos
Broadway librettist Hammerstein II
Brochure Investigation Sheet
Broken Worlds
Browning's ''My Last Duchess'' and Dramatic Monologue
Browsing Music
Building Suburbia: Highways and Housing in Postwar America
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
Building a National Collection: 150 Years of Print Collecting at the
Smithsonian
Building a Sod House
C.B. Darrow, inventor of Monopoly
Carl Sandburg's ''Chicago'': Bringing a Great City Alive
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Certain Crimes Against the United States: Consequences of the Sedition
Act
Changing Gender Roles on the World War II Home Front
Chapman - Johnny Appleseed b. 1775
Characterization in Literature and Theater
Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854
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Charles Baudelaire: Poete Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' -- Writing Women
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Chef Emeril Lagasse b. 1959
Children's author Dr. Seuss d. 1991
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Choosing Sides: The Native Americans' Role in the American
Revolution
Chronicles of EDSITEment: Beyond the Wardrobe
Circus/trainer Gunther d. 2001
Citizenship: New Citizenship Test
City Dionysia: The Ancient Roots of Modern Theater
Civil War
Clocking T. rex
Clues Within These Walls
Comedian/actor Dennis Miller b 1953
Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in
the Media
Commercial ice cream is first sold in the U.S. in 1786.
Common Visions, Common Voices
Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography
and Literature
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Conflicting Voices of the Mexican War
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
Connecting with Young Adult Authors through Writing
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
Corridos About the Mexican Revolution
Cortes captured MX City from Aztecs
Cracking the Genetic Code
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Create a Career Blog
Creating a Persuasive Podcast
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
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Critical Ways of Seeing ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' in
Context
Crittenden-Johnson Resolution
Cultural Change
Cultural Creation Myths
Culture Connect
Dali and Desnos
Debating Music Downloads
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's 1984
Commercial
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Defining Literacy in a Digital World: Student Interactive
Dem. W.J. Bryan gave notable speech
Designer Coco Chanel b. 1883
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath : A Multigenre
Project
Detective Allan Pinkerton b. 1819
Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of
Multiple Intelligence Activities
Discussion Questions for "Coming Home, Again"
Document Analysis for Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda
Documentary photo. Dorothea Lange
Documenting African American History
Dollar chosen as unit of currency
Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in
1963.
Drafting the Declaration: The Jefferson Desk and the Declaration of
Independence
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Drawing Political Cartoons
Driving Music
Drop Me Off in Harlem
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers
Economist Milton Friedman b. 1912
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Edison After Forty: The Challenge of Success
Edison Invents
Edith Wharton: War Correspondent
Editorial Cartoon Analysis
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s
Electing America's President
Ending the War, 1783
Eng. mathematician John Wallis d.
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
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Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Examining the U.S. Pledge
Exile: Cuba and the United States
Exploration Map
Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Cross-Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
Exploring Cultural Connotations of Color
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
Exploring Women's History
Exploring the Gettysburg Address
Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through
Diamante Poetry
Extraordinary Evidence
FDR and the Lend Lease Act
FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words
Families in Bondage
Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Crossing the River
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Form of a Funeral
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': April Eighth, 1928: Narrating
from an ''Ordered Place''?
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Benjy's Sense of Time and
Narrative Voice
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Faulkner's and The Sound and the Fury and Benjy's Sense of Time
Feature April 2010: National Poetry Month
Feature April 2010: The Object of History
Feature August 2011: Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Feature July 2010: Henry David Thoreau
Feature July 2010: Space Exploration
Feature July 2010: Symbols of July 4th
Feature July 2011: Hurricanes
Feature June 2010: Flag Day
Feature June 2010: National Zoo & Aquarium Month
Feature March 2010: NAACP Historical Interactive Timeline
Feature May 2010: All About Skin Cancer
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Feature May 2010: Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Feature May 2010: Become a Plant Hunter
Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Feature May 2010: Memorial Day
Feature May 2010: Oil Spill Resources
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2010: STEM
February - 2009 - Teaching Abraham Lincoln
Fighting for Peace: The Fate of Wilson's Fourteen Points
First Ladies at the Smithsonian Homepage
Fishing For a Living 1840-1920
Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution
Five Arty Activities for the Car and Grocery
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction
Strategies
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Fossils of a new species of dinosaur, Jobaria Tiguidensis, were
discovered in 1997
Four Freedoms for the Fourth
Fractured Families in American Drama
Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)-The Purpose of the
American Union
Freedom Riders
Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of
Allegiance
French Connections
From ''Picturing America'': Norman Rockwell, Freedom of SpeechKnow It When You See It
From Courage to Freedom
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
From Courage to Freedom: Slavery's Dehumanizing Effects
From Courage to Freedom: Student Interactive
From Courage to Freedom: The Reality Behind the Song
From Segregation to Sit-ins: The Greensboro Woolworth Lunch
Counter
From the President's Lips: The Concerns that Led to the Sedition (and
Alien) Act
Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis : A WebQuest
on Iran
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas
Garvey, Black Nationalist, b. 1887
Geologist Florence Bascom b. 1862
George Washington on the Sedition Act
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George Washington: The Living Symbol
Go Back in Time
Gold Fever
Golden Legends
Governor Warren's Expedition
Gramophone was patented in 1887
Great Chicago Stories
Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Guantanamera: A Poem and a Song
Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
Harvest Some Autumn Learning
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hawaii became 50th state in 1959
Heart Transplant
Help Wanted: Writing Professional Resumes
Hero's Journey
Hero's Journey
Hillary Clinton elected Senate - NY
Hints about Print
Hispanic Heritage Month
History fiction novelist Renault b.
Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and
Evaluation
Holocaust and Resistance
House Detectives: Finding History in Your Home
How ''Grand'' and ''Allied'' Was the Grand Alliance?
How can I help adults and adolescents better understand what they
read?
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Collect Stars Activity
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Share Your Story
How to Win a World War
Hurricane Carol hit northeastern
Hypercard, hypertext program, used
I Have a Dream: Exploring Nonviolence in Young Adult Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
Ice cream sundae invented in 1881
Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
If a Body Texts a Body: Texting in "The Catcher in the Rye"
Image of the Izumizaki Family, California, circa 1900
Images of the New World
Imperialism and the Open Door
In 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this day.
In Defense of Liberty: The Magna Carta in the American Revolution
In Old Pompeii
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In the Middle
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Inland Waterways 1820-1940
Interactive Flag
Interactive Gettysburg Address
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Interactive Verb Observation Chart
Interactive: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
International Puzzle Day
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
Invention Playhouse
Inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931
Inventors and Explorers
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It's All in the Translation
JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement
JFK, LBJ, and the Fight for Equal Opportunity in the 1960s
James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President
James Madison: Internal Improvements Balancing Act -- Federal/State,
Executive/Legislative
James Madison: Madison Was There
James Madison: Raising an Army-- Balancing the Power of the States
and the Federal Government
James Madison: The Second National Bank -- Powers Not Specified in
the Constitution
Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
January - 2009 - Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold
Winter s Day
January - 2010 - I Have a Dream: Celebrating the Vision of Martin
Luther King, Jr
Japan's ''Southern Advance'' and the March Towards War, 1940-1941
Japan/Amer. poet Yamada b. 1923
Japanese American Exclusion Orders During World War II
Japanese Woodblock Prints
Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki d. 1902
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 1 - Immigration
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 2 - Removal
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 3 - Internment
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 4 - Loyalty
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 5 - Service
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 6 - Justice
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, a Catalyst for Victory
Jazz in Time
Jazz's Jelly Roll Morton d. 1941
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Jimmy Chin's Extreme Photography: Both Sides of the Lens
John Marshall, Marbury v Madison and Judicial Review How the Court
Became Supreme
John Quincy Adams b. 1767
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
July - 2009 - Eakins Vision of American Recreation - In the good old
summer time
July 1942: United We Stand Campaign
June2010 - The Road to Santa Fe: A Virtual Excursion
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's ''To Build a Fire''
Korzybski general semantics b. 1879
L. Armstrong - joined F.H. Orchestra
Lady Liberty
Landscape Painting
Lascaux cave paintings in France
Learning From Lyrics
Learning the Blues
Legislating Neutrality, 1934-1939
Lesson 1: Anti-federalist Arguments Against A Complete Consolidation
Lesson 1: NAACP s Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s
Lesson 1: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of War
Lesson 2: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1930's
Lesson 2: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Politics of
Reconstruction
Lesson 2: The Federalist Defense of Diversity and Extending the
Sphere
Lesson 3: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of
Reconstruction
Letter Generator
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Letters from Emily Dickinson: Responding to Emily Dickinson -Poetic Analysis
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Lewis-Clark hire Sacagawea-Charbon.
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Lighting a Revolution
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Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Lincoln Goes to War
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln, Race and the American Presidency Lecture Video
Lincoln, the Smithsonian, and Science Lecture Video
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
Live Voyage - Great Pyramid of Giza
Live from Antiquity
Living in the Atlantic World 1450-1800
Love of War in Tim O Brien's How to Tell a True War Story
MX Pres. Fox addressed US Congress
MX women can run for office & vote
Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution
Making It Visual for ELL Students: Teaching History Using "Maus"
Manjiro Nakanohama's Rescue and Voyage
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New
England
Mar. Prot./Research/Sanctuaries Act
March2010 - Exploring Women's History
Marine Mammal Protection Act, 1972
Maritime Nation 1800-1850
Mark Twain and American Humor
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Material and Symbol: The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
Math - Johann Bernoulli b. 1667
Math - John Fields, (Medal) d. 1932
Math - Julia Bowman Robinson d. 1985
Math - Sir Roger Penrose b. 1931
Math/science/TV Jacob Bronowski d.
Math/statesman Paul Painleve
May - 2009 - Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
May - 2010 - Jewish American Heritage Month
May2010 - Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
Meeting w/Fuminaro, PM of JP, Pres. Roosevelt
Mexican's El Dia de los Muertos
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
Miguel de Cervantes was b. 1547
Military leader Xueliang d. age 100
Mobilizing Minds: Teaching Science and Math in the Age of Sputnik
Modern Maritime America 1950-Present
Mona Lisa's Smile
Monsters
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
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Movement and Migration: the Gold Nugget That Launched the Gold
Rush
Museum of the Moving Image
Music & IQ
Music & Intelligence
MyTube: Make a Video Public Service Announcement
Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaigns: The Quest for Social Justice in
the Interwar Years
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Inventor's Month
National Law Enforcement Museum
Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
New American Roles
New Takes on Old Tales
News channel MSNBC launched in 1996
Noh Theater
Not Just Halloween: Festivals of the Dead from Around the World
November's Literary Lions
November2009 - Celebrate We Shall Remain for Native American
Heritage Month 2009
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
Objection and Answer
Ocean Crossings 1870-1969
October - 2009 - National Hispanic Heritage Month
On Time: How America Has Learned to Live By the Clock
On the Eve of War: North vs. South
On the Water Collection Search
On the Water: Stories from Maritime America
One Story, Many Tales
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus
OurStory: Building a Sod House
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
Paint By Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950's
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Parasites and Disease
Paying Attention to Technology: Reviewing a Technology
Pearl S. Buck: ''On Discovering America''
Perception of Place
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Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
''Ethan Frome''
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Photographer George Eastman b. 1854
Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 19701974
Photography and the National Park Service
Pi Approximation Day
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With "Persepolis"
Picturing U.S. History
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Pioneer aviatrix B. Markham b. 1902
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Planning a Read-Aloud Event for Families
Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
Poet/author Edgar Allan Poe d. 1849
Poetry of The Great War: ''From Darkness to Light''?
Pompeii and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes: Investigating Genre in the
Visual Arts
Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace, 1921-1929
Pres. Clinton signed 2000 farm bill
Pres. Johnson - $1 B for anti-poverty
Pres. Ronald Reagan, Alzheimer's
Pres. Roosevelt, Social Sec. Act
Pres. Thomas Jefferson d. 1826
President Madison's 1812 War Message
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Brief Overview
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Documentary Review
President Madison's 1812 War Message: Answers Lead to More
Questions
Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold Winter's Day
Produce For Victory: Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)
Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Psychologist Carl Jung b. 1875
Quagga became extinct in 1883
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Radio Compass guides plane in 1920
Ragamala Dance
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
Ray Kroc, McDonald's chain, b. 1902
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ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
ReadWriteThink Student Materials Index
Reading Between the Lines
Reading Online
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Recording Family Stories
Regulating Freedom of Speech
Religion and the Argument for American Independence
Religion and the Fight for American Independence
Religion in 18th Century America
Renaissance Humanism
Report on assassination of Kennedy
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Riddle Interactive
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Russian Composer Tchaikovsky d. 1893
S. Bowser, inventor - 1st gas pump
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Science fiction - Hugo Gernsback born
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Sculpture With Richard Serra
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Homepage
September - 2009 - Chronicling America
September - 2009 - The Constitution of the United States of America
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
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Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shapes and Colors
Shaquille O'Neal - huge NBA contract
Shel Silverstein was born in 1930
Skeleton of 9,000-yr-old man in WA
Skin Deep Project
Slam: KC
Slam: KC - The Journey
Slam: KC - The Poets
Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Slavery and the American Founding: The Inconsistency not to be
excused
Slavery s Dehumanizing Effects
Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Smithsonian Online Education Conference: Problem Solving with
Smithsonian Experts
Snapshots in Time
So What Do You Think? Writing a Review
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Sophocles, Socrates, and the Greek Polis
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Sources of Discord, 1945-1946
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Soviet Espionage in America
Spanish Civil War began 1936
Spark!Lab Inventor Profiles
Spark!Lab Inventor's Notebook
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Speech Analysis Questions
Spirituals
Spooky Sounds and Scary Tales
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
Stephen Crane's ''The Open Boat''
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Students Response to 9/11: A Documentary Report
Summer Travel--Education on the Road
Summertime Favorites 2005
Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Supremes - 1st females w #1 album
Surfer Lisa Anderson-Walk of Fame
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Taking America to Lunch
Taking Up Arms and the Challenge of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
Tales of the Supernatural
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Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories
Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
Connections
Technology Profile
Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
Tell a Migration Story...with Photos
Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television
Text Analysis Chart
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme
Court
The Gettysburg Address Homepage
The "Ramayana" Paintings
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Changes in Voting
Participation
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Issues in the Election of 1828
(and Beyond)
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Territorial Expansion and the
Shift of Power
The 1896 Washington Salon & Art Photographic Exhibition
The American Civil War
The American Civil War: A Terrible Swift Sword
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
The American War for Independence
The Antebellum Army
The Art and Craft of Memoir Writing
The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante
The Battle Over Reconstruction
The Battles of the Civil War
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Bill of Rights
The Birth of an American Empire
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Brass Letters of Citizenship: Lincoln, African Americans and
Military Service
The Caldwell Family
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Campaign of 1840: The Candidates
The Campaign of 1840: The Whigs, the Democrats, and the Issues
The Campaign of 1840: William Henry Harrison and Tyler, Too
The Centennial of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-2010
The Choate Family
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The Commemorative Coin Act of 1996
The Cosmos in Miniature: The Remarkable Star Map of Simeon De
Witt
The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations:
Disagreement Over the League
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: Five
Camps -- From Voices of Consent to Voices of Dissent
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: League of
Nations Basics
The Dodge Family and Chance
The Election Is in the House: 1824 -- The Candidates and the Issues
The Election Is in the House: The Denouement
The Election Is in the House: Was There a Corrupt Bargain?
The Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States
The Electoral College
The Elements of Fiction
The Failure of Diplomacy, September-December 1941
The Far Reaches of Greek Culture
The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement
The Feature Story Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the
Extended Republic
The Fight for the Right to Vote
The Filipino American Story
The First American Party System: A Documentary Timeline of
Important Events (1787-1800)
The First American Party System: Events, Issues, and Positions
The First American Party System: Federalists and DemocraticRepublicans -- The Platforms They Never Had
The First American Party System: U.S. Political Parties -- The Principle
of Legitimate Opposition
The First Great Awakening
The First Inaugural Address (1861)-Defending the American Union
The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949
The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights
The Gettysburg Address (1863)-Defining the American Union
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
The Gold Nugget
The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists
The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932
The House Un-American Activities Committee
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The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Invention of the Electric Guitar
The Jefferson Desk
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the
Political Polarization over Slavery
The Kennedy Administration and the Civil Rights Movement
The Kennedy Center Education Department
The Language Bank
The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
The Lynch Family
The Matter of the Philippines
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Mexican War
The Mona Lisa stolen by Apollinaire
The Monroe Doctrine: A Close Reading
The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy
The Monroe Doctrine: President Monroe and the Independence
Movement in South America
The Monroe Doctrine: U.S. Foreign Affairs (circa 1782-1823) and
James Monroe
The Monroe Doctrine: Whose Doctrine Was It?
The New Order for ''Greater East Asia''
The New York Botanical Garden
The Object of History
The Panic of 1837 and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
The Path of the Black Death
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The President s Job
The Price of Freedom Collection Search
The Price of Freedom: Americans at War Homepage
The Price of Freedom: Learning Resources
The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
The Scopes Trial began today in 1925.
The Scott Family
The Second Inaugural Address (1865)-Restoring the American Union
The Short-Handled Hoe
The Skeleton of a Scary Story
The Social Security Act
The Soldier's Experience- Vietnam versus World War I
The Spanish American War
The Spanish American War
The Spanish American War
The Spread of Buddhism
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The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
Homepage
The Story Behind the Song: Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
The Story Behind the Song: God Bless America
The Story Behind the Song: The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Story Behind the Song: The Marine's Hymn
The Story Behind the Song: The Star-Spangled Banner
The Strategy of Containment, 1947-1948
The Ten-Minute Play: Encouraging Original Response to Challenging
Texts
The United States Military Academy at West Point
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
The Vietnam War
The Vision of Women Artists
The Voting Machine
The War in the North, 1775-1778
The War in the South, 1778-1781
The Women's Declaration of Independence, July 1848
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Think-Aloud Predictions for "Young Goodman Brown"
This House
Thomas Jefferson on the Sedition Act
Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Timeline of American History
Today is Halloween
Today is International Literacy Day
Today is World Hello Day!
Today is autumnal equinox
Tornado, by Cai Guo-Qiang
Touchdown Songs: Music and Football
Tracking the Buffalo: Stories From a Buffalo Hide Painting
Tracking the Ways Writers Develop Heroes and Villains
Travis Panorama
Treasures of American History: American Biography
Treasures of American History: American Identity
Treasures of American History: Creativity and Innovation
Treasures of American History: National Challenges
Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783
Turning the Tide in Europe, 1942-1944
Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
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Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research
Techniques and Technology
Two Ancient Cities
Ty Beanie Baby, was born in 1997
U.S. Constitution signed in 1787
U.S. Dep. of Energy formed in 1977
U.S. Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology
U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1934-1939
Ukiyo-e Prints
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Unearthing Ancient Greece
Uneasy Partners: Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, LBJ and Martin
Luther King Jr. Lecture Video
Unexpected Legends
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
United States Entry into World War I: Some Hypotheses About U.S.
Entry
United States Entry into World War I: Two Diametrically Opposed
Views
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore
Characterization and Style
Utopian Visions
Van Valen's Gold Rush Journey
Victory and the New Order in Europe
Victory in Europe, 1944-1945
Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945
Virtual Jamestown
Voices of Democracy
Voices of the American Revolution
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Homepage
WWI flying ace Rickenbacker b. 1890
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
War of 1812
Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work before the
Civil War
Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New
Technology, New Consumers
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
Web Site Evaluation Form
West Point Graduates
West Point Graduates Quiz
West Point in the Making of America Homepage
West Point in the Making of America Interactive Activities
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West Point in the Twentieth Century
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory and Defeat
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory: One Last Measure of the Man
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Powers and
Problems
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? What Are the
Qualities of a Good Military Leader?
What Portraits Reveal
What s in a Name?
What's In a Picture: An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts
Whatever Happened to Polio?
When the Games Were Held at Olympia
Who Was Cinque?
Why Use Primary Sources?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Penn's Peaceable Kingdom
William Shakespeare
William the Conqueror raids England
Wilson and American Entry into World War I
Within These Walls Homepage
Witnesses to Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years' War
Women in Africa: Tradition and Change
Wonderworld
Woodrow Wilson and Latin America: ''To Elect Good Men''
Working with the Short-Handled Hoe: Organizing Farmworkers after
World War II
World Music
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs
Writing Technical Instructions
Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
Writing with Love
Youth Vote
Zora Neale Hurston, novel published
b. Lorimer editor - Sat. Evening Post
Range of Writing
W.910.10.
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and
revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range
of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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"Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
"The Glass Menagerie" Job Placement Assignment
"The Mysteries of Harris Burdick": Using Illustrations to Guide Writing
'Common Sense'': The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance,
and Poetry
A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in
Schools
Acrostic Poems
Ad Campaign Rubric
Adopting Hawthorne's Style
All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
An Exploration of "The Crucible" through Seventeenth-Century
Portraits
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar
Instruction
Analyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar Wilde
And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Artist Vincent van Gogh's letter
At Home in the Heartland Online
Audience Analysis Inventory
Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
Author Gabriel Garcaa Marquez was born on this day.
Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Basic Questions about Audience
Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Blog About Courage Using Photos
Both Art and Craft: Teaching Ideas That Spark Learning
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Brochures: Writing for Audience and Purpose
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But Will It Work with Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching
Secondary English Language Arts
Celebrate the National Day on Writing!
Character Trading Cards
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Children s Book Project
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Minilesson
Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive
Letter Writing
Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography
and Literature
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting with Young Adult Authors through Writing
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
Create a Career Blog
Creating Characters
Dali and Desnos
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's 1984
Commercial
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Designing Writing Assignments
Diamante Poems
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible''
Earth, Wind and Water
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Exit Slips
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading
Strategy
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with "The Piano Lesson"
Family and Community
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': April Eighth, 1928: Narrating
from an ''Ordered Place''?
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Feature July 2011: Inventions
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Feature May 2010: Hooray for Mom!
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2010: STEM
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific
Arguments
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
From ''Picturing America'': Norman Rockwell, Freedom of SpeechKnow It When You See It
From Courage to Freedom
Geography and History in Songs
Great Composers
Gulf Coast Highway
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Help Wanted: Writing Professional Resumes
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
Holocaust and Resistance
How to Revise and Edit
How to Start a Blog
How to Start a Writer's Notebook
How to Write a Character Sketch
Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927.
I've Got the Literacy Blues
Ideas Plus: Book 14
If a Body Texts a Body: Texting in "The Catcher in the Rye"
In Old Pompeii
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
In-class Narrative Writing Assignment
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
Inventors and Explorers
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born today.
Job Placement Assignment
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kristallnacht occurred in 1938.
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Letter Exchange Example
Letter Exchange Guidelines
Letters to the Next President
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Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Listening Survey
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Literacy Narrative Assignment
Literary Graffiti
Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in 1925.
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
Museum Exhibit Rubric
Museum Exhibit Teacher Tips
Music & IQ
Mystery Cube
Mystery Cube
NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
National Inventor's Month
National Wildlife Week
Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
Noh Theater
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
On this day in 1935, Elvis Presley was born.
One Story, Many Tales
Online Persona Evaluation Form
Online Profile Tips
Online Profile Tips
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
Parasites and Disease
Peer Review Guidelines for Persuasive Letters
Perception of Place
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Letter Audience Analysis
Picture Book Rubric
Picture Book Rubric (Teacher Version)
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With "Persepolis"
Piracy: A Continuing Problem
Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
Plotting the Story
Pocahontas married John Rolfe on this date in 1614.
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
Poetic Devices Quiz
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
Possible Genres
Preparing for the Journey: An Introduction to the Hero Myth
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Profiles in Courage: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and the Scottsboro Boys
Trial
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Projects for "Death and the Miser"
Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
Purpose and Audience Analysis
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
RAFT Writing Template
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
Re-envisioning Research
Re-envisioning Research
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
Revision Questions for Analytical Essay
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Rubric for Diary Entry
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Seeing Sense in Photographs and Poems
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Setting the Story
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shared Writing
Short Story Fair Projects
Slam: KC
Slam: KC - The Journey
Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Speak Up! Writing a Review
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary
English Classroom
Student Reflection Sheet
Take part in the African American Read-In!
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Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through
Connections
Teaching With Blogs
Technological Advances
Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Correspondence Project: A Lesson of Letters
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805.
The Statute of Anne, an influential copyright law, went into effect in
1710.
The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're
All Hard Parts)
Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: This too is true: Stories can save us
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research
Techniques and Technology
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Unearthing Ancient Greece
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Using Grading and Assessment to Maximize the Online Writing Course
Experience--Without Burning Out
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore
Characterization and Style
Using Movie Maker to Create Photomontage Movies
Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Weekly Writer's Blogs: Building a Reflective Community of Support
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings,
and Student Writing Samples
What Portraits Reveal
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
World Music
Write Alouds
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Technical Instructions
Writing a Review Checklist
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Writing for Audience: The Revision Process in The Diary of Anne
Frank
Writing for the Real World
LA.CC.SL.9- Speaking and Listening Standards
10.
Comprehension and Collaboration
SL.9-10.1. Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (oneon-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics,
texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and
persuasively.
SL.910.1(a)
Come to discussions prepared, having read and researched material under
study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts
and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned
exchange of ideas.
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'An Expression of the American Mind'': Understanding the Declaration
of Independence
'Common Sense'': The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Police Action'': The Korean War, 1950-1953
'The Missiles of October'': The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
'The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force'': The United States in
World War II
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
'You Kiss by the Book'': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum
America
A More Perfect Union: Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution Overview
A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971
Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American
Union and Slavery
Adapting a Musical
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps
After the Gold Rush
Alan Stanford: The Power of Theater
America
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America and the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1933-1939
America in the Great War
American Authors: Biography Assignment Sheet
American Diplomacy in World War II
An Army for the Nation
An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and
the Nullification Crisis
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
And the Question Is... Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
Animals
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law
Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
Arts in the 21st Century!
Attitudes Toward Emancipation
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
August Wilson: The Power of Theater
Beethoven Rocks!
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 6
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 9
Beyond Food and Fiestas
Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and the Balancing of Rights Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964
Boycotting Baubles of Britain
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
Building a National Collection: 150 Years of Print Collecting at the
Smithsonian
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Certain Crimes Against the United States: Consequences of the Sedition
Act
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
Choosing Sides: The Native Americans' Role in the American
Revolution
City Dionysia: The Ancient Roots of Modern Theater
Civil War
Clues Within These Walls
Collaborative Work Skills Rubric
Common Myths about the Gettysburg Address
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
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Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Cultural Creation Myths
Culture Connect
César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
Dali and Desnos
Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's ''To an Athlete Dying Young'' and
Dylan Thomas' ''Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night''
Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two
Prewriting Strategies
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Discussion Web
Disney Musicals
Doodle Splash
Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian
Drafting the Declaration: The Jefferson Desk and the Declaration of
Independence
Drawing Political Cartoons
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Edison After Forty: The Challenge of Success
Edith Wharton: War Correspondent
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928.
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a MD degree in
1849.
Ending the War, 1783
Escape from Reality: Miro and Surrealism
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Exile: Cuba and the United States
Exploration Map
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Pottery Techniques
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Extraordinary Evidence
FDR and the Lend Lease Act
FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with The Piano Lesson
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with "The Piano Lesson"
Families in Bondage
Family and Community
Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
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Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
February - 2009 - Teaching Abraham Lincoln
Fighting for Peace: The Fate of Wilson's Fourteen Points
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Fisheries Sustainability
Five Easy Drama Games for the Early Elementary Classroom
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Fractured Families in American Drama
Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)-The Purpose of the
American Union
Framework for 21st Century Learning
French Connections
From Segregation to Sit-ins: The Greensboro Woolworth Lunch
Counter
From the President's Lips: The Concerns that Led to the Sedition (and
Alien) Act
George Washington on the Sedition Act
George Washington: The Living Symbol
Get ready for Bullying Awareness Week!
Go Back in Time
Going to the Principal's Office
Gold Fever
Golden Legends
Google was formally incorporated this week in 1998.
Governor Warren's Expedition
Great Composers
Group Process Assessment Worksheet
Group Work Rubric
Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
Holocaust and Resistance
House Detectives: Finding History in Your Home
How ''Grand'' and ''Allied'' Was the Grand Alliance?
How Parents Can Support Arts Education
How to Be Safe Online
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Collect Stars Activity
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How to Win a World War
I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It: Scaffolding
Students' Engagement With Complex Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
Images of the New World
Imperialism and the Open Door
In 1847, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula was born.
In Defense of Liberty: The Magna Carta in the American Revolution
In Old Pompeii
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Invention Playhouse
Inventors and Explorers
It's All in the Translation
JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement
James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President
James Madison: Internal Improvements Balancing Act -- Federal/State,
Executive/Legislative
James Madison: Madison Was There
James Madison: Raising an Army-- Balancing the Power of the States
and the Federal Government
James Madison: The Second National Bank -- Powers Not Specified in
the Constitution
Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
January - 2009 - Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold
Winter s Day
Japan's ''Southern Advance'' and the March Towards War, 1940-1941
Japanese American Exclusion Orders During World War II
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, a Catalyst for Victory
Jazz in Time
Jimmy Chin's Extreme Photography: Both Sides of the Lens
John Marshall, Marbury v Madison and Judicial Review How the Court
Became Supreme
Jonathan Swift was born on this day in 1667.
Joseph Bruchac: The Flute and the Drum
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kathleen Turner: The Power of Theater
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
Lee Blessing: The Power of Theater
Legislating Neutrality, 1934-1939
Lesson 1: Anti-federalist Arguments Against A Complete Consolidation
Lesson 1: NAACP s Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s
Lesson 1: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of War
Lesson 2: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1930's
Lesson 2: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Politics of
Reconstruction
Lesson 2: The Federalist Defense of Diversity and Extending the
Sphere
Lesson 3: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of
Reconstruction
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Letter Exchange Example
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Lighting a Revolution
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Lincoln Goes to War
Live from Antiquity
Logical Fallacy Project
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New
England
Marcia Norman: The Power of Theater
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Material and Symbol: The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Moody Music
Movement and Migration: the Gold Nugget That Launched the Gold
Rush
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Music of Greece: Past is Present
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Musical Theater in America
Myths and Heroes
NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaigns: The Quest for Social Justice in
the Interwar Years
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.
National Wildlife Week
Native American Cultures
New American Roles
Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English
Language in 1828.
Nobody's Perfect
Noh Theater
Novel News Broadcast Segments Rubric
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
On Time: How America Has Learned to Live By the Clock
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
One Story, Many Tales
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pakistan: The Gift of the Indus
Parasites and Disease
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
Pearl S. Buck: ''On Discovering America''
Perception of Place
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 19701974
Photography and the National Park Service
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Plants and Seasons
Plotting the Story
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace, 1921-1929
Practical Criticism
Presentation Guidelines
President Madison's 1812 War Message
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Brief Overview
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Documentary Review
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President Madison's 1812 War Message: Answers Lead to More
Questions
Produce For Victory: Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Protecting the Ocean
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
Rate This Movie! Hold a Viewing Party
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Reading Between the Lines
Reading into Action!
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Regulating Freedom of Speech
Religion and the Fight for American Independence
Religion in 18th Century America
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Richard Thomas and Randle Mell: The Power of Theater
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Rubric for Group Work
Rubric for Peace Journey Skit
Safe Online Talk
Scavenger Hunt Rubric
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Homepage
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
Seuss/Silverstein Presentation Rubric
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
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Shared Writing
Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Socratic Seminars
Sounds Historic
Sources of Discord, 1945-1946
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Soviet Espionage in America
Space
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Stories and Folktales
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Susan B. Anthony voted on this date in 1872, leading to her arrest.
Taking America to Lunch
Taking Up Arms and the Challenge of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
Tales of the Supernatural
Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Changes in Voting
Participation
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Issues in the Election of 1828
(and Beyond)
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Territorial Expansion and the
Shift of Power
The 1896 Washington Salon & Art Photographic Exhibition
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
The American War for Independence
The Antebellum Army
The Battle Over Reconstruction
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Birth of an American Empire
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Caldwell Family
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Campaign of 1840: The Candidates
The Campaign of 1840: The Whigs, the Democrats, and the Issues
The Campaign of 1840: William Henry Harrison and Tyler, Too
The Choate Family
The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations:
Disagreement Over the League
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The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: Five
Camps -- From Voices of Consent to Voices of Dissent
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: League of
Nations Basics
The Dodge Family and Chance
The Election Is in the House: 1824 -- The Candidates and the Issues
The Election Is in the House: The Denouement
The Election Is in the House: Was There a Corrupt Bargain?
The Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States
The Failure of Diplomacy, September-December 1941
The Far Reaches of Greek Culture
The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement
The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the
Extended Republic
The First American Party System: A Documentary Timeline of
Important Events (1787-1800)
The First American Party System: Events, Issues, and Positions
The First American Party System: Federalists and DemocraticRepublicans -- The Platforms They Never Had
The First American Party System: U.S. Political Parties -- The Principle
of Legitimate Opposition
The First Great Awakening
The First Inaugural Address (1861)-Defending the American Union
The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949
The Gettysburg Address (1863)-Defining the American Union
The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The Invention of the Electric Guitar
The Jefferson Desk
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the
Political Polarization over Slavery
The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference: Processes and Perspectives for
Effective Coaching
The Lynch Family
The Matter of the Philippines
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Mexican War
The Monroe Doctrine: A Close Reading
The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy
The Monroe Doctrine: President Monroe and the Independence
Movement in South America
The Monroe Doctrine: U.S. Foreign Affairs (circa 1782-1823) and
James Monroe
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The Monroe Doctrine: Whose Doctrine Was It?
The New Order for ''Greater East Asia''
The Object of History
The Panic of 1837 and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
The Path of the Black Death
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Power of Theater
The Pros and Cons of Discussion
The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
The Scott Family
The Second Inaugural Address (1865)-Restoring the American Union
The Short-Handled Hoe
The Social Security Act
The Spread of Buddhism
The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
Homepage
The Strategy of Containment, 1947-1948
The United States Military Academy at West Point
The Vietnam War
The Voting Machine
The War in the North, 1775-1778
The War in the South, 1778-1781
Things That Go Bump In The Night
This House
Thomas Jefferson on the Sedition Act
Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Tracking the Buffalo: Stories From a Buffalo Hide Painting
Travis Panorama
Treasures of American History: American Biography
Treasures of American History: American Identity
Treasures of American History: Creativity and Innovation
Treasures of American History: National Challenges
Turning the Tide in Europe, 1942-1944
Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1934-1939
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Unearthing Ancient Greece
Unexpected Legends
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United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's
Night
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Utopian Visions
Victory and the New Order in Europe
Victory in Europe, 1944-1945
Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945
Vietnam Scavenger Hunt
Voices of the American Revolution
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Homepage
Walt Disney was born in 1901.
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
War of 1812
Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work before the
Civil War
Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New
Technology, New Consumers
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
West Point Graduates
West Point Graduates Quiz
West Point in the Twentieth Century
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory and Defeat
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory: One Last Measure of the Man
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Powers and
Problems
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? What Are the
Qualities of a Good Military Leader?
Whatever Happened to Polio?
Who Was Cinque?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Penn's Peaceable Kingdom
Wilson and American Entry into World War I
Within These Walls Homepage
Witnesses to Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years' War
Woodrow Wilson and Latin America: ''To Elect Good Men''
Working with the Short-Handled Hoe: Organizing Farmworkers after
World War II
World Music
Write Alouds
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SL.910.1(b)
Write Your Own Musical
You re the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
Work with peers to set rules for collegial discussions and decision-making
(e.g., informal consensus, taking votes on key issues, presentation of alternate
views), clear goals and deadlines, and individual roles as needed.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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'An Expression of the American Mind'': Understanding the Declaration
of Independence
'Common Sense'': The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Police Action'': The Korean War, 1950-1953
'The Missiles of October'': The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
'The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force'': The United States in
World War II
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
'You Kiss by the Book'': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum
America
A More Perfect Union: Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution Overview
A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971
Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American
Union and Slavery
Acting Up, A Melodrama
Adapting a Musical
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps
After the Gold Rush
Alan Stanford: The Power of Theater
America
America and the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1933-1939
America in the Great War
American Authors: Biography Assignment Sheet
American Diplomacy in World War II
An Army for the Nation
An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and
the Nullification Crisis
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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And the Question Is... Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
Animals
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law
Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
Arts in the 21st Century!
Attitudes Toward Emancipation
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
August Wilson: The Power of Theater
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Beethoven Rocks!
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 6
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 9
Beyond Food and Fiestas
Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and the Balancing of Rights Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964
Boycotting Baubles of Britain
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
Building a National Collection: 150 Years of Print Collecting at the
Smithsonian
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Certain Crimes Against the United States: Consequences of the Sedition
Act
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
Choosing Sides: The Native Americans' Role in the American
Revolution
City Dionysia: The Ancient Roots of Modern Theater
Civil War
Clues Within These Walls
Collaborative Work Skills Rubric
Comic Book Primer
Common Myths about the Gettysburg Address
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Connecting Past and Present Rubric
Connecting Past and Present Student Reflection
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Creating Psychological Profiles of Characters in "To Kill a
Mockingbird"
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
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Cultural Creation Myths
Culture Connect
César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
Dali and Desnos
Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's ''To an Athlete Dying Young'' and
Dylan Thomas' ''Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night''
Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two
Prewriting Strategies
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Discussion Web
Disney Musicals
Doodle Splash
Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian
Drafting the Declaration: The Jefferson Desk and the Declaration of
Independence
Drawing Political Cartoons
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Edison After Forty: The Challenge of Success
Edith Wharton: War Correspondent
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928.
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a MD degree in
1849.
Ending the War, 1783
Escape from Reality: Miro and Surrealism
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Exile: Cuba and the United States
Exploration Map
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Pottery Techniques
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Extraordinary Evidence
FDR and the Lend Lease Act
FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with The Piano Lesson
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with "The Piano Lesson"
Families in Bondage
Family and Community
Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
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Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
February - 2009 - Teaching Abraham Lincoln
Fighting for Peace: The Fate of Wilson's Fourteen Points
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Fisheries Sustainability
Five Easy Drama Games for the Early Elementary Classroom
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Fractured Families in American Drama
Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)-The Purpose of the
American Union
Framework for 21st Century Learning
French Connections
From Segregation to Sit-ins: The Greensboro Woolworth Lunch
Counter
From the President's Lips: The Concerns that Led to the Sedition (and
Alien) Act
George Washington on the Sedition Act
George Washington: The Living Symbol
Get ready for Bullying Awareness Week!
Go Back in Time
Going to the Principal's Office
Gold Fever
Golden Legends
Google was formally incorporated this week in 1998.
Governor Warren's Expedition
Great Composers
Group Process Assessment Worksheet
Group Work Rubric
Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
Holocaust and Resistance
House Detectives: Finding History in Your Home
How ''Grand'' and ''Allied'' Was the Grand Alliance?
How Parents Can Support Arts Education
How to Be Safe Online
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Collect Stars Activity
How to Win a World War
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I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It: Scaffolding
Students' Engagement With Complex Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
Images of the New World
Imperialism and the Open Door
In 1847, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula was born.
In Defense of Liberty: The Magna Carta in the American Revolution
In Old Pompeii
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Invention Playhouse
Inventors and Explorers
It's All in the Translation
JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement
James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President
James Madison: Internal Improvements Balancing Act -- Federal/State,
Executive/Legislative
James Madison: Madison Was There
James Madison: Raising an Army-- Balancing the Power of the States
and the Federal Government
James Madison: The Second National Bank -- Powers Not Specified in
the Constitution
Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
January - 2009 - Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold
Winter s Day
Japan's ''Southern Advance'' and the March Towards War, 1940-1941
Japanese American Exclusion Orders During World War II
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, a Catalyst for Victory
Jazz in Time
Jimmy Chin's Extreme Photography: Both Sides of the Lens
John Marshall, Marbury v Madison and Judicial Review How the Court
Became Supreme
Jonathan Swift was born on this day in 1667.
Joseph Bruchac: The Flute and the Drum
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kathleen Turner: The Power of Theater
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
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Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
Lee Blessing: The Power of Theater
Legislating Neutrality, 1934-1939
Lesson 1: Anti-federalist Arguments Against A Complete Consolidation
Lesson 1: NAACP s Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s
Lesson 1: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of War
Lesson 2: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1930's
Lesson 2: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Politics of
Reconstruction
Lesson 2: The Federalist Defense of Diversity and Extending the
Sphere
Lesson 3: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of
Reconstruction
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Letter Exchange Example
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Lighting a Revolution
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Lincoln Goes to War
Live from Antiquity
Logical Fallacy Project
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New
England
Marcia Norman: The Power of Theater
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Material and Symbol: The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Moody Music
Movement and Migration: the Gold Nugget That Launched the Gold
Rush
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Museum Exhibit Project Checkpoints
Music of Greece: Past is Present
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Musical Theater in America
Myths and Heroes
NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaigns: The Quest for Social Justice in
the Interwar Years
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.
National Wildlife Week
Native American Cultures
New American Roles
Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English
Language in 1828.
Nobody's Perfect
Noh Theater
Novel News Broadcast Segments Rubric
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
On Time: How America Has Learned to Live By the Clock
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
One Story, Many Tales
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pakistan: The Gift of the Indus
Parasites and Disease
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
Pearl S. Buck: ''On Discovering America''
Perception of Place
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 19701974
Photography and the National Park Service
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Plants and Seasons
Plotting the Story
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace, 1921-1929
Practical Criticism
Presentation Guidelines
President Madison's 1812 War Message
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Brief Overview
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Documentary Review
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President Madison's 1812 War Message: Answers Lead to More
Questions
Produce For Victory: Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Protecting the Ocean
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
Rate This Movie! Hold a Viewing Party
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Reading Between the Lines
Reading into Action!
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Regulating Freedom of Speech
Religion and the Fight for American Independence
Religion in 18th Century America
Research Group Roles
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Richard Thomas and Randle Mell: The Power of Theater
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Rubric for Group Work
Rubric for Peace Journey Skit
Rubric for Projects for "Death and the Miser"
Safe Online Talk
Scavenger Hunt Rubric
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group
Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Homepage
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
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Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shared Writing
Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Socratic Seminars
Sounds Historic
Sources of Discord, 1945-1946
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Soviet Espionage in America
Space
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Stories and Folktales
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Susan B. Anthony voted on this date in 1872, leading to her arrest.
Taking America to Lunch
Taking Up Arms and the Challenge of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
Tales of the Supernatural
Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Changes in Voting
Participation
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Issues in the Election of 1828
(and Beyond)
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Territorial Expansion and the
Shift of Power
The 1896 Washington Salon & Art Photographic Exhibition
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
The American War for Independence
The Antebellum Army
The Battle Over Reconstruction
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Birth of an American Empire
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Caldwell Family
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Campaign of 1840: The Candidates
The Campaign of 1840: The Whigs, the Democrats, and the Issues
The Campaign of 1840: William Henry Harrison and Tyler, Too
The Choate Family
The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
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The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations:
Disagreement Over the League
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: Five
Camps -- From Voices of Consent to Voices of Dissent
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: League of
Nations Basics
The Dodge Family and Chance
The Election Is in the House: 1824 -- The Candidates and the Issues
The Election Is in the House: The Denouement
The Election Is in the House: Was There a Corrupt Bargain?
The Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States
The Failure of Diplomacy, September-December 1941
The Far Reaches of Greek Culture
The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement
The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the
Extended Republic
The First American Party System: A Documentary Timeline of
Important Events (1787-1800)
The First American Party System: Events, Issues, and Positions
The First American Party System: Federalists and DemocraticRepublicans -- The Platforms They Never Had
The First American Party System: U.S. Political Parties -- The Principle
of Legitimate Opposition
The First Great Awakening
The First Inaugural Address (1861)-Defending the American Union
The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949
The Gettysburg Address (1863)-Defining the American Union
The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The Invention of the Electric Guitar
The Jefferson Desk
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the
Political Polarization over Slavery
The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference: Processes and Perspectives for
Effective Coaching
The Lynch Family
The Matter of the Philippines
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Mexican War
The Monroe Doctrine: A Close Reading
The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy
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The Monroe Doctrine: President Monroe and the Independence
Movement in South America
The Monroe Doctrine: U.S. Foreign Affairs (circa 1782-1823) and
James Monroe
The Monroe Doctrine: Whose Doctrine Was It?
The New Order for ''Greater East Asia''
The Object of History
The Panic of 1837 and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
The Path of the Black Death
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Power of Theater
The Pros and Cons of Discussion
The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
The Scott Family
The Second Inaugural Address (1865)-Restoring the American Union
The Short-Handled Hoe
The Social Security Act
The Spanish American War
The Spread of Buddhism
The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
Homepage
The Strategy of Containment, 1947-1948
The United States Military Academy at West Point
The Vietnam War
The Voting Machine
The War in the North, 1775-1778
The War in the South, 1778-1781
Things That Go Bump In The Night
This House
Thomas Jefferson on the Sedition Act
Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Tracking the Buffalo: Stories From a Buffalo Hide Painting
Travis Panorama
Treasures of American History: American Biography
Treasures of American History: American Identity
Treasures of American History: Creativity and Innovation
Treasures of American History: National Challenges
Turning the Tide in Europe, 1942-1944
Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1934-1939
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Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Unearthing Ancient Greece
Unexpected Legends
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's
Night
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Utopian Visions
Victory and the New Order in Europe
Victory in Europe, 1944-1945
Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945
Vietnam Scavenger Hunt
Voices of the American Revolution
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Homepage
Walt Disney was born in 1901.
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
War of 1812
Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work before the
Civil War
Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New
Technology, New Consumers
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
West Point Graduates
West Point Graduates Quiz
West Point in the Twentieth Century
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory and Defeat
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory: One Last Measure of the Man
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Powers and
Problems
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? What Are the
Qualities of a Good Military Leader?
Whatever Happened to Polio?
Who Was Cinque?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Penn's Peaceable Kingdom
Wilson and American Entry into World War I
Within These Walls Homepage
Witnesses to Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years' War
Woodrow Wilson and Latin America: ''To Elect Good Men''
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Working with the Short-Handled Hoe: Organizing Farmworkers after
World War II
World Music
Write Alouds
Write Your Own Musical
You re the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the
current discussion to broader themes or larger ideas; actively incorporate others
into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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'An Expression of the American Mind'': Understanding the Declaration
of Independence
'Common Sense'': The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Police Action'': The Korean War, 1950-1953
'The Missiles of October'': The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
'The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force'': The United States in
World War II
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
'You Kiss by the Book'': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum
America
A More Perfect Union: Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution Overview
A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971
Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American
Union and Slavery
Adapting a Musical
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps
After the Gold Rush
Alan Stanford: The Power of Theater
America
America and the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1933-1939
America in the Great War
American Authors: Biography Assignment Sheet
American Diplomacy in World War II
An Army for the Nation
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An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and
the Nullification Crisis
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
And the Question Is... Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
Animals
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law
Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
Arts in the 21st Century!
Attitudes Toward Emancipation
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
August Wilson: The Power of Theater
Author Panel Presentation Rubric
Beethoven Rocks!
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 6
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 9
Beyond Food and Fiestas
Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and the Balancing of Rights Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964
Boycotting Baubles of Britain
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
Building a National Collection: 150 Years of Print Collecting at the
Smithsonian
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Certain Crimes Against the United States: Consequences of the Sedition
Act
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
Choosing Sides: The Native Americans' Role in the American
Revolution
City Dionysia: The Ancient Roots of Modern Theater
Civil War
Clues Within These Walls
Collaborative Work Skills Rubric
Common Myths about the Gettysburg Address
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Cultural Creation Myths
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Culture Connect
César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
Dali and Desnos
Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's ''To an Athlete Dying Young'' and
Dylan Thomas' ''Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night''
Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two
Prewriting Strategies
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Discussion Web
Disney Musicals
Doodle Splash
Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian
Drafting the Declaration: The Jefferson Desk and the Declaration of
Independence
Drawing Political Cartoons
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Edison After Forty: The Challenge of Success
Edith Wharton: War Correspondent
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928.
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a MD degree in
1849.
Ending the War, 1783
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Escape from Reality: Miro and Surrealism
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Exile: Cuba and the United States
Exploration Map
Explore Summers Past and Present
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Pottery Techniques
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Extraordinary Evidence
FDR and the Lend Lease Act
FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with The Piano Lesson
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with "The Piano Lesson"
Families in Bondage
Family and Community
Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
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Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
February - 2009 - Teaching Abraham Lincoln
Fighting for Peace: The Fate of Wilson's Fourteen Points
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Fisheries Sustainability
Five Easy Drama Games for the Early Elementary Classroom
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Fractured Families in American Drama
Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)-The Purpose of the
American Union
Framework for 21st Century Learning
French Connections
From Segregation to Sit-ins: The Greensboro Woolworth Lunch
Counter
From the President's Lips: The Concerns that Led to the Sedition (and
Alien) Act
George Washington on the Sedition Act
George Washington: The Living Symbol
Get ready for Bullying Awareness Week!
Go Back in Time
Going to the Principal's Office
Gold Fever
Golden Legends
Google was formally incorporated this week in 1998.
Governor Warren's Expedition
Graffiti Wall Group Rubric
Great Composers
Group Process Assessment Worksheet
Group Work Rubric
Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Helping a Teen Plan and Conduct an Interview
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
Holocaust and Resistance
House Detectives: Finding History in Your Home
How ''Grand'' and ''Allied'' Was the Grand Alliance?
How Parents Can Support Arts Education
How to Be Safe Online
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Collect Stars Activity
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How to Win a World War
I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It: Scaffolding
Students' Engagement With Complex Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
Images of the New World
Imperialism and the Open Door
In 1847, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula was born.
In Defense of Liberty: The Magna Carta in the American Revolution
In Old Pompeii
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Invention Playhouse
Inventors and Explorers
It's All in the Translation
JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement
James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President
James Madison: Internal Improvements Balancing Act -- Federal/State,
Executive/Legislative
James Madison: Madison Was There
James Madison: Raising an Army-- Balancing the Power of the States
and the Federal Government
James Madison: The Second National Bank -- Powers Not Specified in
the Constitution
Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
January - 2009 - Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold
Winter s Day
Japan's ''Southern Advance'' and the March Towards War, 1940-1941
Japanese American Exclusion Orders During World War II
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, a Catalyst for Victory
Jazz in Time
Jimmy Chin's Extreme Photography: Both Sides of the Lens
John Marshall, Marbury v Madison and Judicial Review How the Court
Became Supreme
Jonathan Swift was born on this day in 1667.
Joseph Bruchac: The Flute and the Drum
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kathleen Turner: The Power of Theater
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
Lee Blessing: The Power of Theater
Legislating Neutrality, 1934-1939
Lesson 1: Anti-federalist Arguments Against A Complete Consolidation
Lesson 1: NAACP s Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s
Lesson 1: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of War
Lesson 2: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1930's
Lesson 2: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Politics of
Reconstruction
Lesson 2: The Federalist Defense of Diversity and Extending the
Sphere
Lesson 3: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of
Reconstruction
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Letter Exchange Example
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Lighting a Revolution
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Lincoln Goes to War
Live from Antiquity
Logical Fallacy Project
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New
England
Marcia Norman: The Power of Theater
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Material and Symbol: The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia: Backstage Tour
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Moody Music
Movement and Migration: the Gold Nugget That Launched the Gold
Rush
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
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Music of Greece: Past is Present
Musical Theater in America
Myths and Heroes
NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaigns: The Quest for Social Justice in
the Interwar Years
Name Story Assignment
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.
National Wildlife Week
Native American Cultures
New American Roles
Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English
Language in 1828.
Nobody's Perfect
Noh Theater
Novel News Broadcast Segments Rubric
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
Observation Checklist
On Time: How America Has Learned to Live By the Clock
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
One Story, Many Tales
Oral Presentation Rubric
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pakistan: The Gift of the Indus
Parasites and Disease
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
Pearl S. Buck: ''On Discovering America''
Perception of Place
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 19701974
Photography and the National Park Service
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Plants and Seasons
Plotting the Story
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
Possible Interview Questions
Possible Interview Questions
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Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace, 1921-1929
Practical Criticism
Presentation Guidelines
President Madison's 1812 War Message
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Brief Overview
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Documentary Review
President Madison's 1812 War Message: Answers Lead to More
Questions
Produce For Victory: Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Protecting the Ocean
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
Rate This Movie! Hold a Viewing Party
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Reading Between the Lines
Reading into Action!
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Regulating Freedom of Speech
Religion and the Fight for American Independence
Religion in 18th Century America
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Richard Thomas and Randle Mell: The Power of Theater
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Rubric for Electronic Scrapbooks
Rubric for Group Work
Rubric for Peace Journey Skit
Safe Online Talk
Scavenger Hunt Rubric
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
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Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Homepage
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
Seuss/Silverstein Presentation Rubric
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shared Writing
Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Smithsonian Online Education Conference: Problem Solving with
Smithsonian Experts
Socratic Seminars
Sounds Historic
Sources of Discord, 1945-1946
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Soviet Espionage in America
Space
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Start the Conversation about Arts Education
Stories and Folktales
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Susan B. Anthony voted on this date in 1872, leading to her arrest.
Taking America to Lunch
Taking Up Arms and the Challenge of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
Tales of the Supernatural
Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Changes in Voting
Participation
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Issues in the Election of 1828
(and Beyond)
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Territorial Expansion and the
Shift of Power
The 1896 Washington Salon & Art Photographic Exhibition
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
The American War for Independence
The Antebellum Army
The Battle Over Reconstruction
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Birth of an American Empire
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Caldwell Family
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The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Campaign of 1840: The Candidates
The Campaign of 1840: The Whigs, the Democrats, and the Issues
The Campaign of 1840: William Henry Harrison and Tyler, Too
The Choate Family
The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations:
Disagreement Over the League
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: Five
Camps -- From Voices of Consent to Voices of Dissent
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: League of
Nations Basics
The Dodge Family and Chance
The Election Is in the House: 1824 -- The Candidates and the Issues
The Election Is in the House: The Denouement
The Election Is in the House: Was There a Corrupt Bargain?
The Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States
The Failure of Diplomacy, September-December 1941
The Far Reaches of Greek Culture
The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement
The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the
Extended Republic
The First American Party System: A Documentary Timeline of
Important Events (1787-1800)
The First American Party System: Events, Issues, and Positions
The First American Party System: Federalists and DemocraticRepublicans -- The Platforms They Never Had
The First American Party System: U.S. Political Parties -- The Principle
of Legitimate Opposition
The First Great Awakening
The First Inaugural Address (1861)-Defending the American Union
The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949
The Gettysburg Address (1863)-Defining the American Union
The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The Invention of the Electric Guitar
The Jefferson Desk
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the
Political Polarization over Slavery
The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference: Processes and Perspectives for
Effective Coaching
The Lynch Family
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The Matter of the Philippines
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Mexican War
The Monroe Doctrine: A Close Reading
The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy
The Monroe Doctrine: President Monroe and the Independence
Movement in South America
The Monroe Doctrine: U.S. Foreign Affairs (circa 1782-1823) and
James Monroe
The Monroe Doctrine: Whose Doctrine Was It?
The New Order for ''Greater East Asia''
The Object of History
The Panic of 1837 and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
The Path of the Black Death
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Power of Theater
The Pros and Cons of Discussion
The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
The Scott Family
The Second Inaugural Address (1865)-Restoring the American Union
The Short-Handled Hoe
The Social Security Act
The Spread of Buddhism
The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
Homepage
The Strategy of Containment, 1947-1948
The United States Military Academy at West Point
The Vietnam War
The Voting Machine
The War in the North, 1775-1778
The War in the South, 1778-1781
Things That Go Bump In The Night
This House
Thomas Jefferson on the Sedition Act
Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Tips for Interviews
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Tracking the Buffalo: Stories From a Buffalo Hide Painting
Travis Panorama
Treasures of American History: American Biography
Treasures of American History: American Identity
Treasures of American History: Creativity and Innovation
Treasures of American History: National Challenges
Turning the Tide in Europe, 1942-1944
Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943
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Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1934-1939
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Unearthing Ancient Greece
Unexpected Legends
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's
Night
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Utopian Visions
Victory and the New Order in Europe
Victory in Europe, 1944-1945
Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945
Vietnam Scavenger Hunt
Voices of the American Revolution
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Homepage
Walt Disney was born in 1901.
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
War of 1812
Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work before the
Civil War
Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New
Technology, New Consumers
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
West Point Graduates
West Point Graduates Quiz
West Point in the Twentieth Century
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory and Defeat
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory: One Last Measure of the Man
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Powers and
Problems
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? What Are the
Qualities of a Good Military Leader?
Whatever Happened to Polio?
Who Was Cinque?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
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William Penn's Peaceable Kingdom
Wilson and American Entry into World War I
Within These Walls Homepage
Witnesses to Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years' War
Woodrow Wilson and Latin America: ''To Elect Good Men''
Working with the Short-Handled Hoe: Organizing Farmworkers after
World War II
World Music
Write Alouds
Write Your Own Musical
You re the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, summarize points of agreement
and disagreement, and, when warranted, qualify or justify their own views and
understanding and make new connections in light of the evidence and
reasoning presented.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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'An Expression of the American Mind'': Understanding the Declaration
of Independence
'Common Sense'': The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
'Hamlet'' and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere''-Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
'Old Southwest'' Humorists and George Washington Harris
'Police Action'': The Korean War, 1950-1953
'The Missiles of October'': The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
'The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force'': The United States in
World War II
'The Red Badge of Courage'': A New Kind of Realism
'World enough, and time'' -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
'You Kiss by the Book'': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
A Dancer's Journal: Martha Graham
A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum
America
A More Perfect Union: Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution Overview
A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971
Abraham Lincoln and Music
Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American
Union and Slavery
Adapting a Musical
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps
After the Gold Rush
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Alan Stanford: The Power of Theater
America
America and the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1933-1939
America in the Great War
American Authors: Biography Assignment Sheet
American Diplomacy in World War II
An Army for the Nation
An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and
the Nullification Crisis
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
And the Question Is... Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
Animals
Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
Arabesque: Music of the Arab World
Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law
Artfully Speaking
Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
Arts in the 21st Century!
Asian-Pacific Islander
Attitudes Toward Emancipation
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
August Wilson: The Power of Theater
Author Panel Presentation Rubric
Beethoven Rocks!
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 6
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 9
Berlioz: Understanding Symphonie Fantastique
Beyond Food and Fiestas
Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and the Balancing of Rights Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964
Black Choral Music: Boys Choir of Tallahassee
Blues Journey
Blues Journey: Page to Stage
Border Music: Grupo Fantasma
Boycotting Baubles of Britain
Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
Brass Music: Treme Brass Band
Building a National Collection: 150 Years of Print Collecting at the
Smithsonian
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Cajun Music: Michael Doucet
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
Certain Crimes Against the United States: Consequences of the Sedition
Act
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wall-paper''-The ''New
Woman''
Chivalry and Courtly Love
Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
Choosing Sides: The Native Americans' Role in the American
Revolution
City Dionysia: The Ancient Roots of Modern Theater
Civil War
Classical Music in America
Clues Within These Walls
Collaborative Work Skills Rubric
Common Myths about the Gettysburg Address
Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of
Shakespeare
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
Cultural Creation Myths
Culture Connect
César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
Dali and Desnos
Dan-One: Alphabetical Engineer
Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's ''To an Athlete Dying Young'' and
Dylan Thomas' ''Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night''
Debate Rubric
Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Delta Blues: James "Super Chikan" Johnson
Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two
Prewriting Strategies
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Discussion Web
Disney Musicals
Doodle Splash
Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian
Drafting the Declaration: The Jefferson Desk and the Declaration of
Independence
Drawing Political Cartoons
Earth, Wind and Water
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Edison After Forty: The Challenge of Success
Edith Wharton: War Correspondent
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928.
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a MD degree in
1849.
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Ending the War, 1783
Escape from Reality: Miro and Surrealism
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Exile: Cuba and the United States
Exploration Map
Exploring Arthurian Legend
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Pottery Techniques
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Extraordinary Evidence
FDR and the Lend Lease Act
FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with The Piano Lesson
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with "The Piano Lesson"
Families in Bondage
Family and Community
Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War
Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying'': Images of Faulkner and the South
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating Quentin's Mental
Breakdown
Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narration, Voice, and the
Compson Family's New System
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
February - 2009 - Teaching Abraham Lincoln
Fighting for Peace: The Fate of Wilson's Fourteen Points
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Fisheries Sustainability
Five Easy Drama Games for the Early Elementary Classroom
Flannery O'Connor's ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'': Who's the Real
Misfit?
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's ''Their Eyes Were Watching God''
Fractured Families in American Drama
Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)-The Purpose of the
American Union
Framework for 21st Century Learning
French Connections
From Segregation to Sit-ins: The Greensboro Woolworth Lunch
Counter
From the President's Lips: The Concerns that Led to the Sedition (and
Alien) Act
Galumpha
Gear: The Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight
George Washington on the Sedition Act
George Washington: The Living Symbol
Get ready for Bullying Awareness Week!
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Go Back in Time
Going to the Principal's Office
Gold Fever
Golden Legends
Google was formally incorporated this week in 1998.
Gospel Quartet: Blind Boys of Alabama
Governor Warren's Expedition
Great Composers
Group Process Assessment Worksheet
Group Work Rubric
Gulf Coast Highway
Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hip Hop To Da Head
Hip-Hop Meets Modern: Dance is not Dance
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Historic Heroes
Hobey Ford: Animalia
Hobey Ford: Animalia
Holocaust and Resistance
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
House Detectives: Finding History in Your Home
How ''Grand'' and ''Allied'' Was the Grand Alliance?
How Parents Can Support Arts Education
How to Be Safe Online
How to Use this Resource in Your Classroom: Collect Stars Activity
How to Win a World War
I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It: Scaffolding
Students' Engagement With Complex Texts
I've Got the Literacy Blues
Images of the New World
Imperialism and the Open Door
In 1847, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula was born.
In Defense of Liberty: The Magna Carta in the American Revolution
In Old Pompeii
In Performance: Babar the Elephant
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Indonesian Dance
Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Invention Playhouse
Inventors and Explorers
It's All in the Translation
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JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement
James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President
James Madison: Internal Improvements Balancing Act -- Federal/State,
Executive/Legislative
James Madison: Madison Was There
James Madison: Raising an Army-- Balancing the Power of the States
and the Federal Government
James Madison: The Second National Bank -- Powers Not Specified in
the Constitution
Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'': The Novel as Historical Source
January - 2009 - Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold
Winter s Day
Japan's ''Southern Advance'' and the March Towards War, 1940-1941
Japan: Arts and Culture
Japanese American Exclusion Orders During World War II
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 5 - Service
Jason and the Argonauts
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, a Catalyst for Victory
Jazz in DC
Jazz in Time
Jimmy Chin's Extreme Photography: Both Sides of the Lens
John Marshall, Marbury v Madison and Judicial Review How the Court
Became Supreme
Jonathan Swift was born on this day in 1667.
Joseph Bruchac: The Flute and the Drum
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kathleen Turner: The Power of Theater
Keith Bear
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Knuffle Bunny: Page to Stage
Koji Kakinuma: Otsukimi
Koji Kakinuma: Trancework
Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
Larry and Jessup Yazzie: Fancy Dancers
Latin America
Lee Blessing: The Power of Theater
Legislating Neutrality, 1934-1939
Lesson 1: Anti-federalist Arguments Against A Complete Consolidation
Lesson 1: NAACP s Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s
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Lesson 1: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of War
Lesson 2: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1930's
Lesson 2: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Politics of
Reconstruction
Lesson 2: The Federalist Defense of Diversity and Extending the
Sphere
Lesson 3: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of
Reconstruction
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Letter Exchange Example
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ''Will You Be My Preceptor?''
Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -Letters and Poems
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant
Class in Edo Period Japan
Life on the Great Plains
Lighting a Revolution
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Lincoln Goes to War
Live from Antiquity
Logical Fallacy Project
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New
England
Marcia Norman: The Power of Theater
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Material and Symbol: The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
Matt Alt: Jumbo Machinders
Matt the Chihuahua
Meet Our Museum Podcast: The Sioux City Ghosts
Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia: Backstage Tour
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Moody Music
Movement and Migration: the Gold Nugget That Launched the Gold
Rush
Multi-Media Hero Analysis
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Music in the Military: Ceremonial Brass
Music in the Military: Ceremonial Brass
Music of Greece: Past is Present
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Musical Theater in America
Myth and Truth: Gettysburg Address Presentation Rubric
Myths and Heroes
NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaigns: The Quest for Social Justice in
the Interwar Years
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.
National Wildlife Week
Native American Cultures
Native Pride Dancers
New American Roles
Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English
Language in 1828.
Nobody's Perfect
Nobody's Perfect: Page to Stage
Noh Theater
Novel News Broadcast Segments Rubric
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
On Time: How America Has Learned to Live By the Clock
On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time
Act.
One Story, Many Tales
Oral Presentation Rubric
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus
Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
Page to Stage
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Pakistan: The Gift of the Indus
Palestinian Jazz
Parasites and Disease
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941.
Pearl S. Buck: ''On Discovering America''
Perception of Place
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 19701974
Photography and the National Park Service
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Plants and Seasons
Plotting the Story
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
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Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace, 1921-1929
Practical Criticism
Presentation Guidelines
President Madison's 1812 War Message
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Brief Overview
President Madison's 1812 War Message: A Documentary Review
President Madison's 1812 War Message: Answers Lead to More
Questions
Produce For Victory: Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
Protecting the Ocean
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Ralph Stanley: The Roots of Country Music
Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846.
Rate This Movie! Hold a Viewing Party
Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Reading Between the Lines
Reading Think-aloud Sheet
Reading into Action!
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Regulating Freedom of Speech
Religion and the Fight for American Independence
Religion in 18th Century America
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Richard Thomas and Randle Mell: The Power of Theater
Robert Frost's ''Mending Wall'': A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
Rubric for Electronic Scrapbooks
Rubric for Group Work
Rubric for Peace Journey Skit
Safe Online Talk
Saint-Saens: Understanding Danse Macabre
Scavenger Hunt Rubric
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
5: A Landmark in American Justice
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan Unit
6: The Past Half Century: Achieving Equality
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
1: Segregated America
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
2: The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education
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Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit
4: Five Communities Change a Nation
Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Homepage
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
Setting the Precedent: Four Women Who Excelled in Business
Seuss/Silverstein Presentation Rubric
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the Motives of Evil
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Shapes and Colors
Shared Writing
Slam: KC
Slam: KC - The Dream
Slam: KC - The Journey
Slam: KC - The Poets
Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Socratic Seminars
Sogolon Puppet Theater
Sounds Historic
Sounds of China
Sources of Discord, 1945-1946
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Soviet Espionage in America
Space
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
Sputnik: Art/Space
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Stories Brought to Life
Stories and Folktales
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Summarization in any Subject with Rick Wormelli
Susan B. Anthony voted on this date in 1872, leading to her arrest.
Tadao Ando
Taking America to Lunch
Taking Up Arms and the Challenge of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
Tales of the Supernatural
Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Tambuco Percussion
Teater Garasi in Chicago
Terra Cotta Warriors
Texas Blues: Marcia Ball
Texas Troubadour: Nanci Griffith
The ''Secret Society'' and Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''
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The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Changes in Voting
Participation
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Issues in the Election of 1828
(and Beyond)
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Territorial Expansion and the
Shift of Power
The 1896 Washington Salon & Art Photographic Exhibition
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
The American War for Independence
The Antebellum Army
The Battle Over Reconstruction
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Birth of an American Empire
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online
Writing
The Caldwell Family
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Campaign of 1840: The Candidates
The Campaign of 1840: The Whigs, the Democrats, and the Issues
The Campaign of 1840: William Henry Harrison and Tyler, Too
The Choate Family
The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations:
Disagreement Over the League
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: Five
Camps -- From Voices of Consent to Voices of Dissent
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: League of
Nations Basics
The Dodge Family and Chance
The Election Is in the House: 1824 -- The Candidates and the Issues
The Election Is in the House: The Denouement
The Election Is in the House: Was There a Corrupt Bargain?
The Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States
The Failure of Diplomacy, September-December 1941
The Far Reaches of Greek Culture
The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement
The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the
Extended Republic
The First American Party System: A Documentary Timeline of
Important Events (1787-1800)
The First American Party System: Events, Issues, and Positions
The First American Party System: Federalists and DemocraticRepublicans -- The Platforms They Never Had
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The First American Party System: U.S. Political Parties -- The Principle
of Legitimate Opposition
The First Great Awakening
The First Inaugural Address (1861)-Defending the American Union
The Flying Legs Crew
The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949
The Gettysburg Address (1863)-Defining the American Union
The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The Invention of the Electric Guitar
The Jefferson Desk
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the
Political Polarization over Slavery
The Kennedy Center Concert Hall
The Kennedy Center Education Department
The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference: Processes and Perspectives for
Effective Coaching
The Lynch Family
The Matter of the Philippines
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Mexican War
The Monroe Doctrine: A Close Reading
The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy
The Monroe Doctrine: President Monroe and the Independence
Movement in South America
The Monroe Doctrine: U.S. Foreign Affairs (circa 1782-1823) and
James Monroe
The Monroe Doctrine: Whose Doctrine Was It?
The New Order for ''Greater East Asia''
The Object of History
The Panic of 1837 and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
The Path of the Black Death
The Phantom Tollbooth: Page to Stage
The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Power of Theater
The Pros and Cons of Discussion
The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
The Scott Family
The Second Inaugural Address (1865)-Restoring the American Union
The Short-Handled Hoe
The Social Security Act
The Spread of Buddhism
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The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
Homepage
The Strategy of Containment, 1947-1948
The United States Military Academy at West Point
The Vietnam War
The Voting Machine
The War in the North, 1775-1778
The War in the South, 1778-1781
Theater Conversations
Things That Go Bump In The Night
This House
Thomas Jefferson on the Sedition Act
Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Touchdown Songs: Music and Football
Tracking the Buffalo: Stories From a Buffalo Hide Painting
Travis Panorama
Treasures of American History: American Biography
Treasures of American History: American Identity
Treasures of American History: Creativity and Innovation
Treasures of American History: National Challenges
Turning the Tide in Europe, 1942-1944
Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1934-1939
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
Unearthing Ancient Greece
Unexpected Legends
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology of
World War I
Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's
Night
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
Utopian Visions
Victory and the New Order in Europe
Victory in Europe, 1944-1945
Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945
Vietnam Scavenger Hunt
Voices of the American Revolution
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Homepage
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Voyager: Art/Space
Walt Disney was born in 1901.
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
War of 1812
Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work before the
Civil War
Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New
Technology, New Consumers
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
West Point Graduates
West Point Graduates Quiz
West Point in the Twentieth Century
What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory and Defeat
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Leadership in
Victory: One Last Measure of the Man
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Powers and
Problems
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? What Are the
Qualities of a Good Military Leader?
Whatever Happened to Polio?
Who Was Cinque?
William Faulkner's ''The Sound and the Fury'': Narrating the Compson
Family Decline and the Changing South
William Penn's Peaceable Kingdom
Wilson and American Entry into World War I
Within These Walls Homepage
Witnesses to Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years' War
Woodrow Wilson and Latin America: ''To Elect Good Men''
Working with the Short-Handled Hoe: Organizing Farmworkers after
World War II
World Music
Write Alouds
Write Your Own Musical
You re the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
Zydeco: Geno Delafose
e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
SL.9-10.2. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats
(e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of
each source.
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"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Worksheet
1922: First radio commercial aired
1946: 1st Cannes Film Festival held
Analyzing Advertisements
Analyzing Opinions on Music Downloads
Analyzing Propaganda in Print Ads and Commercials
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is in May!
Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
Discovering Ardi
Dystopian Film Clip Guide
Exploring Consumerism Where Ads and Art Intersect
Exploring Satire with Shrek
Exploring Satire with The Simpsons
Finding the Fallacies That Surround You
Going shopping? Be a Wise Consumer
Great Films and How to Teach Them
Identifying Dystopian Characteristics
Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
Identifying the Characteristics of a Dystopian Protagonist
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Logical Fallacy Project
Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service
Announcements
National Wildlife Week
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Presentation Guidelines
Scene Analysis Framework
Scene-by-Scene Summary of the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
Teacher's Film Clip Guide: The Matrix
Teaching With Glogster: Using Virtual Posters in the Classroom
Technological Advances
The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl
XVIII.
The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights
The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas in
2005.
Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Voiceover Text from the "1984" Macintosh Commercial
SL.9-10.3. Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric,
identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
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A Dancer's Journal: Martha Graham
Abraham Lincoln and Music
Alan Stanford: The Power of Theater
Arabesque: Music of the Arab World
Artfully Speaking
Asian-Pacific Islander
August Wilson: The Power of Theater
Author Panel Presentation Rubric
Beethoven Rocks!
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 6
Beethoven: Listening to Symphony No. 9
Berlioz: Understanding Symphonie Fantastique
Black Choral Music: Boys Choir of Tallahassee
Blues Journey
Blues Journey: Page to Stage
Border Music: Grupo Fantasma
Brass Music: Treme Brass Band
Cajun Music: Michael Doucet
Classical Music in America
Dan-One: Alphabetical Engineer
Debate Rubric
Delta Blues: James "Super Chikan" Johnson
Disney Musicals
Earth, Wind and Water
Family and Community
Galumpha
Gear: The Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight
Gospel Quartet: Blind Boys of Alabama
Great Composers
Gulf Coast Highway
Hip Hop To Da Head
Hip-Hop Meets Modern: Dance is not Dance
Hobey Ford: Animalia
Hobey Ford: Animalia
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
In Performance: Babar the Elephant
In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
Indonesian Dance
Inventors and Explorers
Japan: Arts and Culture
Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 5 - Service
Jason and the Argonauts
Jazz in DC
Joseph Bruchac: The Flute and the Drum
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Kathleen Turner: The Power of Theater
Keith Bear
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Knuffle Bunny: Page to Stage
Koji Kakinuma: Otsukimi
Koji Kakinuma: Trancework
Larry and Jessup Yazzie: Fancy Dancers
Latin America
Lee Blessing: The Power of Theater
Logical Fallacy Project
Marcia Norman: The Power of Theater
Matt Alt: Jumbo Machinders
Matt the Chihuahua
Meet Our Museum Podcast: The Sioux City Ghosts
Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia: Backstage Tour
Moody Music
Music in the Military: Ceremonial Brass
Music in the Military: Ceremonial Brass
Musical Theater in America
Myth and Truth: Gettysburg Address Presentation Rubric
Native American Cultures
Native Pride Dancers
Nobody's Perfect: Page to Stage
Novel News Broadcast Segments Rubric
Oral Presentation Rubric
Page to Stage
Palestinian Jazz
Plants and Seasons
Ralph Stanley: The Roots of Country Music
Reading Think-aloud Sheet
Richard Thomas and Randle Mell: The Power of Theater
Rubric for Electronic Scrapbooks
Saint-Saens: Understanding Danse Macabre
Shapes and Colors
Slam: KC
Slam: KC - The Dream
Slam: KC - The Journey
Slam: KC - The Poets
Sogolon Puppet Theater
Sounds Historic
Sounds of China
Space
Sputnik: Art/Space
Stories and Folktales
Tadao Ando
Tambuco Percussion
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Teater Garasi in Chicago
Terra Cotta Warriors
Texas Blues: Marcia Ball
Texas Troubadour: Nanci Griffith
The Flying Legs Crew
The Kennedy Center Concert Hall
The Kennedy Center Education Department
The Phantom Tollbooth: Page to Stage
The Power of Theater
Theater Conversations
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Touchdown Songs: Music and Football
Voyager: Art/Space
World Music
Write Your Own Musical
Zydeco: Geno Delafose
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
SL.9-10.4. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and
logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the
organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose,
audience, and task.
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"Finding Common Ground" Hypothetical Scenario
Animals
April 2010 - Spotlight on Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM
At Home in the Heartland Online
Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
Creating Better Presentation Slides through Glance Media and
Billboard Design
Creating a Persuasive Podcast
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine, was born in 1914.
Earth, Wind and Water
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
How to Record Podcasts
In Old Pompeii
Joining the Conversation about Young Adult Literature
Learning From Lyrics
MyTube: Make a Video Public Service Announcement
One Story, Many Tales
PowerPoint Design Tips
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Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'': Fear and the ''Dagger of the Mind''
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Stories Brought to Life
Teaching With Podcasts
Technological Advances
The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights
The Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded in 1986.
The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas in
2005.
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
World Music
SL.9-10.5. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and
interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings,
reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
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1946: 1st Cannes Film Festival held
Commercial ice cream is first sold in the U.S. in 1786.
How to Record Podcasts
It's My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.
Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and
Sound
Multimedia Guide
Music in Movies: You Pick the Soundtrack
MyTube: Make a Video Public Service Announcement
Presentation Guidelines
Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
Rubric for Photomontage Movie
Script Guidelines
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
Self-Reflection on the Music and Me Project
Teaching With Podcasts
Teaching with Technology
Tips For Using Movie Maker
Tips for Using Movie Maker
Using Movie Maker to Create Photomontage Movies
SL.9-10.6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of
formal English when indicated or appropriate.
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LA.CC.L.910.
Literacy Narrative Assignment
National Wildlife Week
Poetry Speaking and Performance Rubric
PowerPoint Design Tips
Language Standards
Conventions of Standard English
L.9-10.1.
L.910.1(a)
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and
usage when writing or speaking.
Use parallel structure.
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L.910.1(b)
Evaluative Reading
Riddle Interactive
Writing Brochures
Use various types of phrases (noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial,
prepositional, absolute) and clauses (independent, dependent; noun, relative,
adverbial) to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing
or presentations.
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Compare and Contrast Rubric
Comparison and Contrast Guide
Diamante Poem Writing Assignment
Epitaph Peer Review Form
Essay Rubric
Essay Rubric
Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers
Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
Grammar for Teachers: Perspectives and Definitions
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Rubric for a Narrative Writing Piece
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Taking a Position on a Fictional Technology Rubric
Teacher Tribute Rubric
The Chinese New Year starts today.
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L.910.2(a)
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Use a semicolon (and perhaps a conjunctive adverb) to link two or more closely
related independent clauses.
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L.910.2(b)
Letter Generator
Use a colon to introduce a list or quotation.
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L.910.2(c)
Tips for Interviews
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Letter Generator
Spell correctly.
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Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Word Wizard
Knowledge of Language
L.9-10.3.
L.910.3(a)
Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in
different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to
comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
Write and edit work so that it conforms to the guidelines in a style manual (e.g.,
MLA Handbook, Turabian's Manual for Writers) appropriate for the discipline
and writing type.
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American Authors: Biography Assignment Sheet
Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
Form for Gathering Research Information
Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's ''My Antonia''
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
L.9-10.4.
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and
phrases based on grades 9-10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a
range of strategies.
L.910.4(a)
Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a
word's position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or
phrase.
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"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
1968 Exhibit
A Dancer's Journal: Martha Graham
A Nation Goes to War
A Window into the White House
Afropop Worldwide NPR
Al-Mizan
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Masters
American Writers
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
Anthropology Collection, AMNH
Art History Resources
Baltimore Museum of Art
Black Ships; Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
British Academy
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Deep Diver
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Digital Karnak Project
Digital Roman Forum
Digital Scriptorium
Disneyland's Virtual Geography
EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War
and Reconstruction
Ecosystems
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Examining the U.S. Pledge
Explore Thomas Cole
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Feature September 2011: Constitution Day
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Feature September 2011: iCivics Challenge
Filipino Hip-Hop
Fisheries Sustainability
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Geography in Fiction
Great Books, Great Art
Guampedia
Harbor High
History of Jim Crow
Homeland Afghanistan
Interactive Verb Observation Chart
J. Alfred Prufrock
KateChopin.org
Know LA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Louisiana Digital Library
Louvre Museum
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
Making of America
Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James
Bible
Mapping Up the Spill
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Monarch Migration Mystery
Montezuma Castle and Well
National Gallery, UK
National Museum of the American Indian
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Oregon Encyclopedia
PBS: The Buddha
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Picturing America on Screen
Public Art In The Bronx
Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
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Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading a Work of Art
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Real-World Geography: Andrew Carroll
Real-World Geography: Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin
Real-World Geography: Dr. Michael Wesch
Real-World Geography: Eric Berkenpas
Real-World Geography: Ken Banks
Real-World Geography: Murray Fisher
Real-World Geography: Nathaniel Kelso
Real-World Geography: Ryan McInnis
Real-World Geography: Steve Vogel
Safe Online Talk
Shakespeare in Love
Snake Migration
Spreading the Message
Student Self-assessment Sheet
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Sweet Secret
Tall Trees
Teaching the Middle East
The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 'Great Rebuilding'
The Past in the Present
The Phyllis Diller Gag File
Vocabulary Organizer
Walters Art Museum
Water Wows
When Worlds Collide
Wild Things
World of Dante
diet
food
food staple
tide
Identify and correctly use patterns of word changes that indicate different
meanings or parts of speech (e.g., analyze, analysis, analytical; advocate,
advocacy).
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L.910.4(c)
Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries,
glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a
word or determine or clarify its precise meaning, its part of speech, or its
etymology.
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ReadWriteThink Student Materials Index
African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
Baby Name Books
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Comic Vocabulary
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Feature September 2010: ELL
Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the
English Language Arts Classroom
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Hints about Print
Homeland Afghanistan
Korzybski general semantics b. 1879
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Make a Magnetic Poetry Set
Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English
Language in 1828.
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
Representative Poetry Online
Riddle Interactive
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
The End of Europe's Middle Ages
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Thomas Gray Archive
Two famous Smiths share this birthday.
Vocabulary Organizer
Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g.,
by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
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"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
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"The Great Gatsby" in the Classroom: Searching for the American
Dream
1968 Exhibit
A Dancer's Journal: Martha Graham
A Nation Goes to War
A Window into the White House
Afropop Worldwide NPR
Al-Mizan
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Masters
American Writers
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
Anthropology Collection, AMNH
Art History Resources
Baby Name Books
Baltimore Museum of Art
Black Ships; Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English
Dictionary
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
British Academy
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Oral and Literary Strategies
Chinua Achebe's ''Things Fall Apart'': Teaching Through the Novel
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Deep Diver
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Digital Karnak Project
Digital Roman Forum
Digital Scriptorium
Disneyland's Virtual Geography
EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War
and Reconstruction
Ecosystems
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Examining the U.S. Pledge
Explore Thomas Cole
Feature September 2011: Constitution Day
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Feature September 2011: iCivics Challenge
Filipino Hip-Hop
Fisheries Sustainability
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Geography in Fiction
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Great Books, Great Art
Guampedia
Harbor High
History of Jim Crow
Homeland Afghanistan
Interactive Verb Observation Chart
J. Alfred Prufrock
KateChopin.org
Know LA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
Korzybski general semantics b. 1879
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Louisiana Digital Library
Louvre Museum
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
Make a Magnetic Poetry Set
Making of America
Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James
Bible
Mapping Up the Spill
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Monarch Migration Mystery
Montezuma Castle and Well
National Gallery, UK
National Museum of the American Indian
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English
Language in 1828.
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Oregon Encyclopedia
PBS: The Buddha
Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
Picturing America on Screen
Public Art In The Bronx
Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Reading a Work of Art
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L.9-10.5.
L.910.5(a)
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Real-World Geography: Andrew Carroll
Real-World Geography: Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin
Real-World Geography: Dr. Michael Wesch
Real-World Geography: Eric Berkenpas
Real-World Geography: Ken Banks
Real-World Geography: Murray Fisher
Real-World Geography: Nathaniel Kelso
Real-World Geography: Ryan McInnis
Real-World Geography: Steve Vogel
Safe Online Talk
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Snake Migration
Spreading the Message
Student Self-assessment Sheet
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Sweet Secret
Tall Trees
Teaching the Middle East
The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 'Great Rebuilding'
The Past in the Present
The Phyllis Diller Gag File
Two famous Smiths share this birthday.
Vocabulary Organizer
Walters Art Museum
Water Wows
When Worlds Collide
Wild Things
World of Dante
diet
food
food staple
tide
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and
nuances in word meanings.
Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) in context and analyze
their role in the text.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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Analyzing Propaganda in Print Ads and Commercials
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L.910.5(b)
Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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L.9-10.6.
Children's Book Review Guide
Defining Style
Inductive Lesson Rubric
Novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day in 1899.
Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
Quest for the American Dream in ''A Raisin in the Sun''
Satirical Techniques Definitions
Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Style Analysis
Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's Blackberry
Picking
Today is World Poetry Day.
The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.
"1984" Macintosh Commercial Analysis Tool
'Shooting an Elephant'': George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Art Explication: "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli
Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
Exploring Satire with Shrek
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
From Courage to Freedom: The Reality Behind the Song
Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Korzybski general semantics b. 1879
Literary Terms: A Practical Glossary
Multiple Ownership of the Past
Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
Reading a Work of Art
Reading a Work of Art in Eight Steps
Reading a Work of Art: Student Questions for "Death and the Miser"
Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of Language
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Word Matrix
Word Matrix Interactive Tool
Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and
phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college
and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary
knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or
expression.
Thinkfinity - Verizon Foundation
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1968 Exhibit
A Nation Goes to War
A Question of Style
A Window into the White House
Adapting a Musical
Afropop Worldwide NPR
Al-Mizan
American Collection: An Educator's Site
American Masters
American Writers
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives
Anthropology Collection, AMNH
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
Art History Resources
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
Artist's Journals
BRRR, it's cold outside!
Baltimore Museum of Art
Becoming An American Citizen
Black Ships; Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
British Academy
Broken Worlds
Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Citizenship: New Citizenship Test
Client Preparation Rubric
Comic Vocabulary
Comic Vocabulary Definitions and Examples: Angles
Comic Vocabulary Definitions and Examples: Layout & Design
Comic Vocabulary Definitions and Examples: Text Containers
Concept of Definition Map
Creating a Safe Online Profile
Crossword Puzzles
Crossword Puzzles
Crossword Puzzles
Cultural Creation Myths
Dali and Desnos
DanteWords
Dartmouth Dante Project
Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's 1984
Commercial
Deep Diver
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
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Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
Diamante Poem Rubric
Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Digital Karnak Project
Digital Roman Forum
Digital Scriptorium
Disneyland's Virtual Geography
Drawing Political Cartoons
Dystopian Film Clip Guide
Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics
EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War
and Reconstruction
Earth, Wind and Water
Ecosystems
Emotion Catalog Poem Checklist
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
Essay Rubric: 6+1 Trait Writing Model
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Evaluative Reading
Examining the U.S. Pledge
Explore Thomas Cole
Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and
Beyond
Feature August 2011: Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Feature July 2011: Classroom Communities
Feature July 2011: Hurricanes
Feature May 2010: Summer Learning
Feature September 2010: ELL
Feature September 2011: Constitution Day
Feature September 2011: STEM Poetry
Feature September 2011: iCivics Challenge
Filipino Hip-Hop
Fisheries Sustainability
Flip-A-Chip to Build Vocabulary
Fractured Families in American Drama
Gear: The Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Geography in Fiction
Great Books, Great Art
Guampedia
Guantanamera: A Poem and a Song
Harbor High
Harvest Some Autumn Learning Fun
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Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the
Jataka Tales
Hip Hop To Da Head
History of Jim Crow
Homeland Afghanistan
How can I help adults and adolescents better understand what they
read?
How can I help my preschool child learn to read?
In Old Pompeii
Interactive Timeline
Introducing New Content with Seed Discussions
Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
It's All in the Translation
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'' : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in
late 19th Century America
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening'': Searching for Women and Identity in
Chopin's ''The Awakening''
Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening:'' No Choice but Under?
KateChopin.org
Know LA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
Korzybski general semantics b. 1879
Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The ''Ramayana''
Library of America
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA - Espanol
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA - Educacion Artistica
Lire les Femmes ecrivains et les Litteratures Africaines
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Literary Parodies Assessment
Live from Antiquity
Louisiana Digital Library
Louvre Museum
MPA Designation Project
MPA Designation and Management
Making of America
Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James
Bible
Mapping Up the Spill
Marine Protected Area: Stakeholder Debate
Marine Protected Areas: Student Case Studies
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
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Memoir Rubric
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
Monarch Migration Mystery
Montezuma Castle and Well
Music and Me Project Instructions
Mystery Cube
Mystery Cube
Myths and Heroes
Name That Chapter Rubric
Name That Chapter! Discussing Summary and Interpretation Using
Chapter Titles
National Gallery, UK
National Museum of the American Indian
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English
Language in 1828.
Noh Theater
Nureyev: After Petipa
Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Nureyev: The Unconquerable Will
Object Catalog Poem Checklist
One Story, Many Tales
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
Oregon Encyclopedia
Oxidation and Combustion: Chemical Reactions in Fire
PBS: The Buddha
Parasites and Disease
Pathways for Advancing Adolescent Literacy
Patriot Day is celebrated today on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks
of 2001.
Persuasion Rubric
Persuasive Writing Scoring Guide
Photography and the National Park Service
Picturing America on Screen
Planning a Read-Aloud Event for Families
Poetry
Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
Poetry Speaking and Performance Rubric
Political Cartoon Analysis Assignment
Political Cartoon Analysis Rubric
Political Cartoon Comparison Sheet
Possible List of Technologies and Technology Terms
Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
Public Art In The Bronx
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Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
Reading a Work of Art
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content
Knowledge
Reading in the Content Areas
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other
Nonfiction Texts
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas
Real-World Geography: Andrew Carroll
Real-World Geography: Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin
Real-World Geography: Dr. Michael Wesch
Real-World Geography: Eric Berkenpas
Real-World Geography: Ken Banks
Real-World Geography: Murray Fisher
Real-World Geography: Nathaniel Kelso
Real-World Geography: Ryan McInnis
Real-World Geography: Steve Vogel
Revision Questions for Analytical Essay
Rhythm and Art: Elements of Art
Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Rhythm and Improv: Jazz and Poetry
Rhythm and Raga
Rubric for Persuasive Letters
Safe Online Talk
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
Science Meets Artistry: the Work of Cai Guo-Qiang
Seed Discussion Organizer
Shakespeare in Love
Shared Writing
Show-Me Sentences
Snake Migration
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
Sound Devices Rubric
Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Spreading the Message
Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
Student Self-assessment Sheet
Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
Sweet Secret
Tall Trees
Teacher's Film Clip Guide: The Matrix
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Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
Teaching the Middle East
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to ''Beowulf''
The Birth of an American Empire
The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign
The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 'Great Rebuilding'
The Far Reaches of Greek Culture
The Fight for the Right to Vote
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn
Brooks' ''We Real Cool''
The Memory Play in American Drama
The Past in the Present
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950
The Phyllis Diller Gag File
The Poetics of Hip Hop
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Timeline Rubric
Twain: An American Humorist
Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Twain: Tom Sawyer - Mythic Adventurer
Uncivil Civilization in The Hairy Ape
Utopian Visions
Vocabulary Organizer
Walters Art Museum
Water Wows
What Is "College-Level" Writing?
When Worlds Collide
Wild Things
Word Map
Word Matrix
Word Matrix Interactive Tool
World of Dante
Writing Brochures
Writing Checklist
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
Writing Rubric
diet
food
food staple
tide
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