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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the famous short story "The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde about an American family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: A Grammatical Ghost by Elia W. Peattie

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the short story "A Grammatical Ghost" by Elia W. Peattie.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Ghost in the Crosstrees by Frank Norris

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the short story "The Ghost in the Crosstrees" by Frank Norris.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Cobbler and the Ghosts

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the short story "The Cobbler and the Ghost" by Juliana Horatia Ewing.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Juliana Horatia Ewing

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Juliana Horatia Ewing including the full text of the novel The Yew-Lane Ghosts and 24 short stories including "Amelia and the Dwarfs" and "An Idyll of the Wood."
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Frank Norris

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Frank Norris including the full text of five novels and nine short stories.
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Website
A&E Television

History.com: The History of Halloween

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the origins and history of Halloween as well as traditions and superstitions of this holiday. Links to video clips are included.
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Maryland

For Students 3rd - 8th
Did you know about the Chestertown Tea Party? Why is there the Mason and Dixon line? What is a "Jimmy?" The Library of Congress provides this article of fun facts about Maryland.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Casting the Runes by Montague Rhodes James

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the ghost story "Casting the Runes" by Montague Rhodes James.
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eBook
World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of the Haunted Man

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete e-text for the Charles Dickens story, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Trial for Murder

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Trial for Murder" by Charles Dickens is a ghost story combined with a murder trial. Read the full text on this site.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.
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Lesson Plan
Crayola

Crayola: Mystery Flip Flap (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A great activity where students write their own mysteries-with a creative twist. Provides a list of resources, and adaptations. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with Crayola.com. Registration is free and takes only a few...
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Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: Dickens's Great Expectations: The Gothic, the Uncanny

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will introduce the idea of the uncanny and explore its expression within the narrative form of Charles Dickens's novel "Great Expectations".
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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Elia W. Peattie

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features links to the full text of 21 short stories by Elia W. Peattie such as "An Astral Onion," "A Child of the Rain," "A Grammatical Ghost," "The Room of the Evil Thought," "The Shape of Fear," "Their Dear Little Ghost" and...
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Interactive
Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: The Legend of Compass Rosie

For Students 2nd - 5th
This interactive story about the ship Compass Rosie and her crew allows students to read the story and click to see ghosts return to the ship.
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Article
Other

Will Hobbs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Author Will Hobbs has put together an interesting and comprehensive website about his life and his novels. Included are activities for teachers to use his books in their curriculum.
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Unit Plan
Other

David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page: "A Christmas Carol"

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a larger site dedicated to helping readers understand and appreciate Charles Dickens and his writing, this section is on "A Christmas Carol." Here you'll find not only the plot of the story, but also explanatory notes about some...
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Website
NC State University

Global Book Club: The Westing Game

For Students 3rd - 8th
Do you like mystery and intrigue in your literature? This site features activities for the mystery story, "The Westing Game," by Ellen Raskin. Come and check out these cross-curricular activities.
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Handout
Other

Signal Corps Association: Espionage in the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the murky underground stories of espionage on both sides of the Civil War. The spies were often eccentric, and the raiders ruthless.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of "Wyler's Hand" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, one of the 19th century's most prominent writers of ghost stories.
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: The Silk Road

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover detailed information about the Silk Road, a network of trade routes that connected the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea. Read stories of wealthy merchants, deadly bandits, fabulous cities, ghosts and genies, and...
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Online Course
University of California

Online English: The Hamlet Module: u.c. Davis

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about Shakespeare's "Hamlet," when you visit this online English Module.

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