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John Brown Raid: 1859 Raid on Harpers Ferry
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...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Learning to Read" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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...
Digital History
Digital History: Harper's Ferry
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...
BBC
Bbc News: Stephen Harper
The BBC provides a brief profile of Stephen Harper who became Canada's Prime Minister in 2006.
Digital History
Digital History: John Brown at Harper's Ferry [Pdf]
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]
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Harper's School Geography
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Harper's School Geography, a nonfiction book for children.
Other
Civil War Album: Site Photos: Battle of Harpers Ferry
A brief description of the attack on Harpers Ferry along with maps of Confederate troop placements and photos of how it looks today.
Cengage Learning
Studying Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
This Houghton Mifflin site prepared by Elizabeth Ammons is a study site about Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, the 19th century African American author.
Just Books Read Aloud
Just Books Read Aloud: Jessica Harper and Lindsay Du Pont: Lizzy's Do's and Don
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.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Harper Lee
Here at Wikipedia you can find an encyclopedia article exploring the life of Nelle Harper Lee and her work.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Cliffs Notes: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Character Study: Scout Finch
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...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: To Kill a Mockingbird Teacher's Guide
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Setting in to Kill a Mockingbird
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...
Swiss Educ
Swiss Educ: Lee, Harper 1926
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.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Profiles in Courage to Kill a Mockingbird
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.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Michael S. Harper
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.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Interest facts about John Brown, the militant anti-slavery activist who tried to seize ammunition from an armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Other
Harper Collins Children's Books: Laura Ingalls Wilder
This site features the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Quiz: Harpers Ferry and John Brown for Kids
History Questions: Harpers Ferry and John Brown Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
Toronto Star Newspapers
The Star: Portraits of the G20 Leaders: Stephen Harper
A brief profile of Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, the G20 leader hosting the 2010 Toronto Summit.
Open Library of the Internet Archive
Open Library: Frank Harper, Or, the Country Boy in Town
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.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids History: John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid
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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