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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Zora Neale Hurston

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides information and activities focused around Zora Neale Hurston's life and work. Check out this site featuring links to several sites focused on Hurston's work.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Native Voices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit features the rich oral tradition of Native Americans storytelling in various genres predating the introduction and influence of English writings, bringing three contemporary authors to light. RI.11-12.8 seminal U.S. texts,...
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eBook
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Jules Verne, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has links to the full text from the University of Virginia of Jules Verne's science fiction work "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
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Website
Other

Athabasca University: Centre for Language and Literature: The Jesuit Relations

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about The Jesuit Relations, early documents (seventeenth century) that chronicle the Jesuit missions to New France.
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Article
US Department of State

American Life: Discontent and Reform

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from the US Department of State, "USA History in Brief," reviews the reasons for and results of Progressivism in the early 20th century.
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Article
Other

Uwo: Early Writing in Canada Susannah Moodie

For Students 9th - 10th
These are excerpts from Susannah Moodie's book 'Roughing it in the Bush'.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity will be an interdisciplinary instructional activity that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The instructional activity will be primarily technology-based and also project-based...
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Tonga

For Students 9th - 10th
The Tonga never formed a single political unit. Today they are an ethnic group united by common language and in opposition to other Zambian ethnic groups, with whom they compete. The Tonga speak dialects of ciTonga, a Central Bantu...
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Website
Sacred Text Archive

Ista: Complete Corpus of Anglo Saxon Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
The Internet Sacred Text Archive offers the Complete Corpus of Anglo Saxon Poetry. All of the titles link to primary documents, written in their original language.
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Curated OER

English Literature: Early 17th Century: The Life of Ben Jonson

For Students 9th - 10th
Substantial biographical sketch of Renaissance poet and playwright, Ben Jonson. Includes some information on his plays, "Volpone," and "The Alchemist."
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Website
British Library

British Library: Shakespeare in Quarto

For Students 9th - 10th
The very first printed versions of Shakespeare's works are available here at the British Library for looking at, comparing and examining. Also includes valuable links about Shakespeare's plays as they have been performed through the years.
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Website
Other

Stories From the Web

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Reading skills development program for children from 1 to 14 years old. Children can find short stories, poems, art work, games, pictures, everything divided by age range. Also are useful links for parents and teachers.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Whittier

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry is a bibliography of the works of John Greenleaf Whittier, including their original dates of publication. Lists works of biography and criticism written about Whittier...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: William Carlos Williams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the Modern American Poetry index site for William Carlos Williams (1883-1963 CE). From this site you can click on links that take you to analysis of the author's works as well as a link to full text versions of additional poems.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Science World: Bede, the Venerable

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia entry for the English scholar who wrote a history of the early centuries of Anglo-Saxon England and an encyclopedia which consisted largely of excerpts from Pliny the Elder.