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Curated OER

Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This resource is rich with primary and secondary source material regarding major events in the Atlantic world during the Age of Revolution. While there are suggested classroom activities toward the beginning of the resource, its true...
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Curated OER

After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the life of African Americans in the North during the American Revolution. They analyze how authors use various techniques to write biographies, read about Sojourner Truth, conduct research, and write an excerpt...
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Curated OER

Read My Expression

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students create a facial expression in clay using slabs of clay and coils that convey a feeling inspired by a poem in this excellent cross-curricular lesson suitable for the Laqnguage Arts or Art classroom. National Standards met during...
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Curated OER

Stamps of Approval for Women Journalists

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research, explore and analyze the history of how American women journalists have influenced major social change in the nation and the world. They visit major institution's to examine the written legacies of Abigail Adams,...
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Massachusetts Historical Society

Massachusetts Historical Society: Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a biography of Phillis Wheatley, along with poems and letters written by her.
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Other

Oxford Aasc: African Americans in the Revoluionary War

For Students 9th - 10th
A great display of paintings along with commentary about ten African Americans who were involved in the Revolutionary War era.
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PBS

Pbs: Literature & Life: From Freedom to Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
Some of the African-American writers and poets who spoke out eloquently about their experiences of slavery in the 1700s and 1800s are featured in this section of Literature & Life. Read powerful first-person accounts of Harriet...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Spirit of Nationalism: Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
Phillis Wheatley, an African-American slave, is featured for her neoclassical poetry of pre-nineteenth century America. Click on "Phillis Wheatley Activities" for more resources.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a brief biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784 CE), the first African-American to have a book of poetry published.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Poets, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
The writings of four African Americans poets from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries that examine slavery, abolition, and emancipation. These authors include Phillis Wheatley, George Moses Horton, James Whitfield, and...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of early American poet Wheatley, including helpful links and other additional titles about her.
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Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Phillis Wheatley (1753 1784)

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses classroom issues and strategies, themes, historical perspectives and issues, significant form, style and artistic conventions, original audience and comparison with Wheatley's contemporaries.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: All American Girl

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan on Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley and other women writers is designed to "enhance the Social Studies curriculum for fourth and fifth graders by providing information on the roles that women had during three areas in...
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PBS

Africans in America: Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
This website briefly describes the life of Phillis Wheatley, poetess and freed slave.
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PBS

Pbs: Illustration for Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes how slave artisan Scipio Moorhead was commissioned to draw the likeness of Phillis Wheatley for her book of published poems.
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University of Virginia

Univ. Of Virginia: Elegy to Reverend and Dr. Samuel E. Cooper

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Virginia offers the e-text of Wheatley's poem "Elegy to Reverend and Dr. Samuel E. Cooper"
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Library of Congress

Loc: A Voice of Her Own: Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress series biography of Phillis Wheatley also includes links to her selected writings.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Phillis Wheatley, Poet

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief look at the fascinating life of African American poet, Phillis Wheatley. Provides two portraits, and a sample page from Wheatley's collection of poems.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: To His Excellency, General Washington

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "To His Excellency, General Washington" by Phillis Wheatley, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: On Being Brought From Africa to America

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phillis Wheatley, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
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Washington State University

Washington State University: American Authors: Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
A bibliographical list of works by or about the African American poet Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784). Click on the links to take you to the works. The first link takes you to a directory of files containing Wheately poetry or questions...
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Black Past

Black Past: Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
This on-line encyclopedia article gives information about Phillis Wheatley, the Boston slave who surprised colonial America with her poetry. She was the first African-American woman to have her work published.
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: On "A Letter From Phillis Wheatley"

For Students 9th - 10th
Critical analysis of poet Robert Haden's "A Letter from Phillis Wheatley" from three different perspectives.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
Despite spending much of her life enslaved, Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems.