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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Our Country's Good

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of the play "Our Country's Good" by Timberlake Wertenbaker and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Oh What a Lovely War

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of the play "Oh What a Lovely War" directed by Joan Littlewood and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: East Is East

For Students 9th - 10th
Ayub Khan Din based his debut play "East Is East" on his own childhood in Salford. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Loot

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of the play "Loot" by Joe Orton and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Happy Days

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of "Happy Days" by Samuel Beckett and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Look Back in Anger

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of the play "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: An Inspector Calls

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of the play "An Inspector Calls" by J.B. Priestley and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Betrayal

For Students 9th - 10th
Harold Pinter's 1978 play 'Betrayal' employs a reverse-chronological structure to tell the story of an extra-marital affair. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Priestley's an Inspector Calls

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These activities offer students the opportunity to examine the theme of social responsibility through a range of class activities and autonomous tasks. By exploring and visualizing J.B. Priestley's history through photographs and other...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: John Dryden

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author John Dryden including the full text of the drama All for Love.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author F. Scott Fitzgerald including the full text of 10 novels and two dramas: Mr. Icky and Porcelain and Pink. The novels include titles such as The Beautiful and the Damned, The Camel's Back, and The Curious...
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Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Susan Glaspell

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever read any of Susan Glaspell's work? This site offers a range of material on the work "Trifles." The materials range from classroom issues and strategies, major themes, historical perspectives, and the personal issues that...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: Moralities and Mysteries

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Victoria, which is part of a much larger site on Shakespeare, describes morality plays. It also provides examples and links to complete texts of some medieval morality plays.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: A Raisin in the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features discussion questions to go along with each scene of the play "A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry. Students will gain a broader perspective of Hansberry's work when they visit this site.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: John Galsworthy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author John Galsworthy including a biography and the full text of four novels including The Forsyte Saga and five dramas including The First and the Last and A Bit O' Love.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Susan Glaspell

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Susan Glaspell including the full text of the two novels, 14 short stories, and the drama Trifles.
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Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: Classical Greece, 500 323 b.c.

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Persian invasion of Greece, the Age of Pericles, the Peloponnesian War, and the culture of Classical Greece.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Pedro Calderon De La Barca

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Pedro Calderon de la Barca including the full text of the drama Life Is a Dream.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Anton Chekhov

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Anton Chekhov including a biography and the full text of 11 novels, 121 short stories, and four plays.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: William Congreve

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author William Congreve including the full text of two novels: Love for Love and The Way of the World.
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Vocabulary.com

Vocabulary From "Hamilton" Lyrics, Act 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site contains a list of 50 words from Act I lyrics from the Broadway production of Hamilton, a Grammy Award-winning and the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Genre Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Bob the Snowman [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater adaptation of Sylvia Loretan and Jan Lenica's early childhood book, Bob the Snowman, is provided on this script. Six character roles are needed in this performance.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: It Wasn't My Fault [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater adaptation of Helen Lester's early elementary book, It Wasn't My Fault, is provided on this script. Twelve character roles are needed in this performance.