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John Brown Raid: 1859 Raid on Harpers Ferry

For Students 9th - 10th
Commemorating John Brown's historic Harpers Ferry raid of 1859, this site has lots of information about Brown and the raid. The Educational Resources page is helpful for lesson materials. The links on the pressroom page will help you...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Learning to Read" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with the poem "Learning to Read" by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Digital History

Digital History: Harper's Ferry

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the infamous raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown and his band in 1859. His first plan had a chance of success thought Frederick Douglass, but the plan that was carried out was doomed from the start. See what John Brown was...
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BBC

Bbc News: Stephen Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC provides a brief profile of Stephen Harper who became Canada's Prime Minister in 2006.
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Digital History

Digital History: John Brown at Harper's Ferry [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the influences in John Brown's life that led him to think inciting a slave insurrection would be the way to get rid of slavery. Read about his actions in Kansas, and the raid he planned at Harper's Ferry. [pdf]
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Harper's School Geography

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Harper's School Geography, a nonfiction book for children.
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Other

Civil War Album: Site Photos: Battle of Harpers Ferry

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of the attack on Harpers Ferry along with maps of Confederate troop placements and photos of how it looks today.
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Cengage Learning

Studying Francis Ellen Watkins Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
This Houghton Mifflin site prepared by Elizabeth Ammons is a study site about Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, the 19th century African American author.
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Just Books Read Aloud

Just Books Read Aloud: Jessica Harper and Lindsay Du Pont: Lizzy's Do's and Don

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A video of the book "Lizzy's Do's and Don", written by Jessica Harper and Lindsay DuPont. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
Here at Wikipedia you can find an encyclopedia article exploring the life of Nelle Harper Lee and her work.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Cliffs Notes: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
CliffsNotes offers a comprehensive overview of the novel by Harper Lee entitled "To Kill a Mockingbird." Here you can find chapter summaries, character analyses, study help, a biography of the author, and more.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Character Study: Scout Finch

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the character of Scout Finch from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It includes excerpts from the American Masters documentary entitled Harper Lee: Hey, Boo, discussion questions, teaching tips, and...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: "To Kill a Mockingbird"

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough overview of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," made specifically for students preparing to take the GCSE test. This site is beneficial to all students studying the novel or race relations in the 1930's. Links include...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: To Kill a Mockingbird Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a complete study guide for the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee including chapter-by-chapter guided reading questions (aligned to specific Common Core Standards), discussion questions, various writing prompts, and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Setting in to Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive instructional activity, students explore the importance of setting in literature and apply their learning to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Students are introduced to the three main components of...
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Swiss Educ

Swiss Educ: Lee, Harper 1926

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a rich collection of both background and teaching ideas, with a great number of multimedia files. Includes what purports to be a phone message from Lee herself.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Profiles in Courage to Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers two separate lesson plans which focus on the theme of "Courage," as portrayed in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," and court transcripts (and other primary source material) from the second Scottsboro Boys Trial of 1933.
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Michael S. Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Michael S. Harper, an African-American poet whose sensitive, personal verse is concerned with ancestral kinship, jazz and the blues, and the separation of the races in America.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

For Students 9th - 10th
Interest facts about John Brown, the militant anti-slavery activist who tried to seize ammunition from an armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
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Other

Harper Collins Children's Books: Laura Ingalls Wilder

For Students 3rd - 6th
This site features the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Quiz: Harpers Ferry and John Brown for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th
History Questions: Harpers Ferry and John Brown Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
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Toronto Star Newspapers

The Star: Portraits of the G20 Leaders: Stephen Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief profile of Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, the G20 leader hosting the 2010 Toronto Summit.
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eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Frank Harper, Or, the Country Boy in Town

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Unknown author's Frank Harper, Or, The Country Boy In Town has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids History: John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore an attempt at a slave uprising at Harpers Ferry to end slavery by John Brown during the Civil War on this site.

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