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University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo: Toni Morrison Anchor

For Students 9th - 10th
A site from the University at Buffalo that provides information on the writings of Toni Morrison, as well as lots of helpful links.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Anniina's Toni Morrison Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site provides information and critiques on Morrison's work as well as biographies, bibliographies, and interviews with Toni Morrison.
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Website
Luminarium

Luminarium: Toni Morrison's "Beloved"

For Students 9th - 10th
The site gives information about "Beloved" along with links to reviews of the book.
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Website
Other

Finding Dulcinea: Nobel Women: Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison highlights her early life, literary career, teaching experience, and passion for writing.
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Website
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography on the works of African American writer and 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Toni Morrison. Contains information on the themes and subject matters of her most famous books while also giving some information on...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: The Search for Identity: Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
Toni Morrison is featured for her ability to illustrate the idiocies of racial stereotyping through her award winning literature. See "Toni Morrison Activities" for related materials.
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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Toni Morrison

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For teaching the work of Toni Morrison, this site provides lesson plans, activities, and other resources for Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Morrison's other fiction.
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Professional Doc
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: In Search of the Novel

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Eight one-hour workshop videos for middle and high school teachers wishing to bring novels to life in their classrooms. Features the works of ten famous novelists, including Charles Dickens, J.K. Rowling, and Toni Morrison. Free to all-...
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Website
Swiss Educ

Swisseduc.ch: Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
A multimedia bonanza of information about Morrison as a writer, this site offers biographical information, interviews, a bibliography and video footage.
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Lesson Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Beloved Trial

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan serves as a final assessment for Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. Students need to have a thorough working knowledge of the story and characters in the book. They are asked to give Sethe a present-day trial since her trial...
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Other

Lit Charts: Stream of Consciousness

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains what is meant by the term 'stream of consciousness' and where it originated. The characteristics of stream of consciousness are described, its history in literature, how it differs from 'interior monologue,' and examples of its...
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel The Bluest Eye: by Toni Morrison including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Sula by Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel Sula by Toni Morrison including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: The Bluest Eye Character Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of the characters from Toni Morrison's famous novel, The Bluest Eye, in this matching exercise.
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College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: The Bluest Eye (Characters)

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison has some unforgettable characters. Match the descriptions with the characters' names. The score is given upon completion.
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Beloved by Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Beloved" by Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but 18 years later she still isn't free; instead, she's haunted by the ghost of her daughter and memories of the past. Selected (10) reading passages (grades 7-12) to pair with "Beloved" by...
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Article
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Toni Morrison, noted novelist. The entry focuses on the black American experience.
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Website
New York Public Library

In Motion Magazine: In Praise of Toni Cade Bambara

For Students 9th - 10th
A short essay and poem written in Bambara's honor after her death.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Beloved by Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
Beloved is a novel inspired by the true story of Margaret Garner, who escaped with her family from slavery in Kentucky to freedom in Ohio in 1856.
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Unit Plan
A&E Television

Biography: Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography.com provides a biography on writer Toni Morrison. Her personal life, literary career, and her awards and accomplishments are discussed.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Song of Solomon

For Students 9th - 10th
This story of the African-American experience is examined in detail in this fascinating and informative site. Read about the characters, themes and important quotations from the novel and discover the impact this novel has had.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Sula

For Students 9th - 10th
The second of Toni Morrison's novels, Sula tells the story of the friendship between two African-American women. This site looks in detail at this friendship as it examines plot, character and themes found in the novel.
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Curated OER

Toni Morrison

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Toni Morrison.