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Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Little House in the Valley

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners will explore nineteenth-century life in the White Mountains of New Hampshire through a tale of a family who lived there by analyzing a painting by Thomas Cole and reading a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Ambitious Guest" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "The Ambitious Guest" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a story of a young man who wishes for fame that will last long after he is gone; he wishes "not to be forgotten in the grave."