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Shmoop University

Shmoop: De Daumier Smith's Blue Period

For Students 9th - 10th
This both comic and tragic short story is wonderfully analysed in this site which focuses on characters and themes.
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Redd Foxx

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Redd Foxx, an American comedian and television actor known for his raunchy stand-up routines. His style of comedy, often described as "blue" for its foul language and highly adult subject...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Richard Pryor

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Richard Pryor, an American comedian and actor, who was one of the leading comics of the 1970s and '80s. His comedy routines drew on a variety of downtrodden urban characters, rendered with...
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Website
Starfall

Starfall: It's Fun to Read: I'm Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a collection of online reading stories for beginning readers. These collections include plays, fiction and nonfiction stories, comics, folktales, Greek myths, and Chinese fables. Many of the stories have an option for read alouds...
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Bert Williams

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of Bert Williams, black comic actor of early 1900s.
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Article
Drama Circle

Drama Circle: A Brief History of Russian Drama (Before 1900)

For Students 9th - 10th
This summary of Russian plays and playwrights begins with the 18th century comic playwright, Denis Ivanov Fonvizin and continues through Anton Chekov, with two or three sentence summaries about ten writers and their works.
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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Pop Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A site with artists and links to the Pop Art movement of the 1950s and 60s. There are links to museums with great images.
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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Bill the Bloodhound" by p.g. Wodehouse

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Bill the Bloodhound" by P.G. Wodehouse. Henry Pifield Rice, who works for a detective bureau, falls in love with Alice Weston, a chorus girl. He proposes to her but is refused on the ground that she...
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Curated OER

Moliere

For Students 9th - 10th
Moliere, born in 1622, was a French comic dramatist, comic actor, stage director, and troupe manager.
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Slate: The Appeal of Calvin and Hobbes

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay on the unique appeal of one of America's favorite comic strips, "Calvin and Hobbes." Includes numerous examples of full-length strips from the series' 10-year history. Compares "Calvin and Hobbes" with Charles Schultz's...
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Go to Web Elements to Find More Information About This Element.

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Kentucky provides comics in which bromine and information on bromine comes into play. A less common way of getting bromine information across.
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Chemcomics/bromine

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Kentucky provides comics in which bromine and information on bromine comes into play. A less common way of getting bromine information across.
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Metamorpho

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Kentucky provides comics in which bromine and information on bromine comes into play. A less common way of getting bromine information across.
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Metamorpho

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Kentucky provides comics in which bromine and information on bromine comes into play. A less common way of getting bromine information across.
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Go to Web Elements to Find More Information About This Element.

For Students 9th - 10th
Three comic strip pages that mention cadmium and provide a little bit of information on the metal. A different way to get some information across.
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The Original Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
Three comic strip pages that mention cadmium and provide a little bit of information on the metal. A different way to get some information across.
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Go to Web Elements to Find More Information About This Element.

For Students 9th - 10th
A comic page from 1964 that features californium as one of several elements for which no practical uses were then known.
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Metal Men

For Students 9th - 10th
A comic page from 1964 that features californium as one of several elements for which no practical uses were then known.
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Go to Web Elements to Find More Information About This Element.

For Students 9th - 10th
Comic fraturing iodine. Not the most detailed information, but lots of fun. Interesting and useful for visuals.
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For Students 9th - 10th
All sorts of comics (especially Superman) where krypton comes into play. Nice graphics for a presentation or report.
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Superman

For Students 9th - 10th
All sorts of comics (especially Superman) where krypton comes into play. Nice graphics for a presentation or report.
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Go to Web Elements to Find More Information About This Element.

For Students 9th - 10th
A set of comics featuring the element antimony. Some good information in an entertaining manner.
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For Students 9th - 10th
A pair of comics that feature the element einsteinium. Fun ways to get some info across.
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For Students 9th - 10th
A comic strip that features the element fluorine. Interesting, and a different approach to providing information.

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