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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the short story collection Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Handout
The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: Benjamin Franklin Fa Qs

For Students 9th - 10th
Dozens of frequently asked questions about Ben Franklin with answers that cover all the essential facts about one of America's favorite founding fathers.
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Stranger by Albert Camus

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel Silent Spring by Rachel Carson including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis. This nonfiction book describes the...
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller including author information, literary elements, act-by-act summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'connor

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the collection of short stories "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Connor including author information, literary elements, short story summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Religion and Ethics Weekly: Dr. Ben Carson Extended Interview

For Students 9th - 10th
Dr. Ben Carson is a renown neurosurgeon who was involved with the attempted separation of the conjoined Bijani twins. He recounts dealing with that loss and how his faith has helped him cope with a life full of risk. Dr. Carson also...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: William Somerset Maugham

For Students 9th - 10th
This collaboratively written encyclopedia article covers just the basic facts of Maugham's life and includes a brief bibliography of some of his work.
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Website
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Cousin Bette: Reading Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Critical background information, as well as a biographical sketch and discussion questions are offered here by the publisher.
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Website
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: W(illiam) Somerset Maugham

For Students 9th - 10th
This generous biographical note about the British novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and once the highest paid author in the world profiles his life and such novels as Of Human Bondage and The Razor's Edge.
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eBook
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Devil's Pool Vol. Xiii, Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This reprint of the Harvard Classics edition includes biographical information, criticism and interpretation by Benjamin Wells and Matthew Arnold, as well as the text of "The Devil's Pool."
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EL Education

El Education: A Beaver Story

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This children's book about beavers was written and illustrated by 6th graders after extensive field research with experts in the field. The book is unique in that it offers a continuous fictional narrative at the top of each page, an...
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EL Education

El Education: Big Bend Friendship Book

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This children's book was created by the Big Bend pre-kindergarten class at The College School in St. Louis, Missouri. Each page of the book is dedicated to a student of the Big Bend class. Each student's page includes a drawn portrait, a...
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EL Education

El Education: Blanca Rosenberg

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This memoir-style book was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, and tells the life story of a Holocaust survivor. Blanca Rosenberg is the biography of Blanca written in first person narrative, as told to the...
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EL Education

El Education: Faces of the Depression

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This book was created by 5th graders in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, as part of a learning expedition on the Great Depression. Students learned about the Depression though several different sources: in addition to standard historical...
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Handout
Other

S9: Biographical Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Search biographical dictionary for famous people by using keywords or dates such as birth and death years, achievements, awards, literary or artistic works, or occupation and positions held. This is a Wikipedia type system where everyone...
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

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