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Pbs: Representation & Diversity on Stage/screen: Raul Julia: The World's a Stage
Despite Raul Julia's talents, opportunities for Latinx actors in the United States in the 1960's were scarce. In this series of two videos from the American Masters film Raul Julia: The World's a Stage, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Raul Julia
This is a collection of two media galleries about the actor Raul Julia and his works. Teaching materials are provided.
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Pbs Learning Media: Abraham Lincoln: A Good Man? Or a Good Man!
In this lesson, students use video from American Masters: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man along with primary sources to investigate the life of Lincoln and write a one page argument essay on whether Lincoln was "a good man."
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Bill T. Jones
This is a collection of five video lessons about Bill T. Jones, an African American choreographer, director, author, and dancer, and his quest to determine if Abraham Lincoln was a Good Man! or a Good Man? from today's perspective.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Great Depression: Creating Narrative Through Photography
This video [4:15] segment from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning provides a documentary photographer's perspective of the severe economic despair and difficult living conditions that characterized the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Hedy Lamarr: Engineering and Invention
Discover Hedy Lamarr's contributions as a woman in STEM in this video from the American Masters film, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Lamarr has received belated acknowledgement for inventing frequency hopping, the basis of secure...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Hedy Lamarr
Major support for Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This is a collection of four video lessons about Hedy Lamarr including her acting career and her inventions. Teaching materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Picturing Japanese American Internment: Dorothea Lange
This media gallery explores the government-issued Japanese American internment that occurred during World War II using two videos from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning. Dorothea Lange, a documentary...
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting the Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl and resulting western migration that occurred in the 1930s is explored in this video [5:44] segment from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning. The agricultural devastation and ensuing migration...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Dorothea Lange
This is a collection of four video lessons about Dorothea Lange, an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work, and her works. Teaching materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Setting: Eatonville, Florida
In this media gallery from the American Masters film Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun, students will learn about Eatonville, Florida-Zora Neale Hurston's hometown and the setting of her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God....
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Pbs Learning Media: Their Eyes Were Watching God
This video [4:00] from the American Masters film Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun examines Zora Neale Hurston and her famous novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God." In this resource, students delve into the novel's title in greater...
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Pbs Learning Media: Public Reaction to Their Eyes Were Watching God
This video [3:32] from the American Masters film Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun examines Zora Neale Hurston and her famous novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. In this resource, students delve into the novel's title in greater...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Zora Neale Hurston
This is a collection of four media galleries of videos about Zora Neale Hurston and her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
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Pbs: L. Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun: Jim Crow, Home Ownership, American Dream
Learn how Jim Crow laws impacted home ownership and the pursuit of the American Dream in this series of videos from the American Masters film, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart. Lorraine Hansberry's family was at the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pedro E. Guerrero: Capturing the Artist
This media gallery from the American Masters and VOCES co-presentation of Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey explores Guerrero's working relationship with sculptor Louise Nevelson. Guerrero was a gifted photographer of...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Valley of Ashes: The Great Gatsby
This video [5:33] from the American Masters film F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams examines the valley of ashes in The Great Gatsby. Using the video, discussion questions, activities, and handouts in this resource, students will gain a...
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Pbs Learning Media: Life Imitates Art: The Great Gatsby
This media gallery from the American Masters film F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's work mirrored events in his life. Using video, discussion questions, organizers, and essays, students will take a...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Young F. Scott Fitzgerald
In this video [6:35] from the American Masters film F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams, students learn about the early life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The accompanying activity asks students to examine the events of Fitzgerald's youth and...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is a collection of videos and media galleries about F. Scott Fitzgerald and his works especially "The Great Gatsby."
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Pbs Learning Media: Pedro E. Guerrero Photography Workshop
This media gallery contains video clips from the American Masters and VOCES co-presentation of Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey. The videos are intended for use in a beginner's photography workshop. See the support materials...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Pedro E. Guerrero
This is a collection of videos lessons, media galleries, and photographs about Pedro E. Guerrero, a Mexican-American Mexican-American Photographer Pedro E. Guerrero famous for his photos of architecture and statues and his works.
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Sammy Davis Jr.
This is a collection of three video lessons about Sammy Davis Jr., comedy, race, segregation in 1960's Hollywood, politics, identity, and The Civil Rights Movement.
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Pbs Learning Media: Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure: Hip on Hemingway
This resource for teachers has students create an official "Hip on Hemingway Club." To become a member, students will learn about Hemingway and then they will create a biography of Ernest Hemingway patterned after an alphabet book.