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Curated OER

Stephen Joseph Harper

For Students 3rd - 8th
The life and career of Stephen Harper, one of Canada's youngest prime ministers, is outlined in this informative but concise site.
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Website
Library of Virginia

Death or Liberty: John Brown's Raid

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Virginia details John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry as a prelude to the U.S. Civil War. Content also lists various records and resources regarding John Brown's Raid held in the library.
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Handout
Other

Ny History Net: The "Black Dream" of Gerrit Smith, New York Abolitionist

For Students 9th - 10th
This site talks about the life of abolitionist Gerrit Smith, who was convicted in the John Brown Raid on Harpers Ferry but maintained innocence in any involvement in planning the raid.
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Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize the beginning and ending of a story and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence. Lessons are based on the...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a lesson in which students identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and...
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eBook
Other

Iola Leroy, Or, Shadows Uplifted

For Students 9th - 10th
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's novel is offered by the Schomburg African American Women Writers project in machine-readable form.
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Website
Other

Prime Minister Rallies Troops in Afghanistan

For Students 9th - 10th
Offering Prime Minister Harper's Speech to Canadian Troops in Afghanistan in audio and text formats, students can gain insight to Canada's role in the Middle East. Links on the site to video clips of speeches by Afghan Prime Minister...
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Dr. Stephen Oates on John Brown

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents audio and video clips of an interview with Dr. Stephen B. Oates conducted at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park on June 30, 1994. Dr. Oates comments on John Brown's impact upon the nation with regard to the slavery...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: John Brown's Raid

For Students 5th - 8th
John Brown was considered a madman by many and a martyr by others. Read about his ill-fated raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Why did this raid cause such a reaction in the Southern states?
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Curated OER

Harper Lee

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Harper Lee.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Racial Politics, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapter from a novel and images that illustrate black political action in late-nineteenth-century America. Frances Harper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy, is examined, covering topics of white supremacy and racial justice.
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Lincoln, Douglas and Brown

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of events of a nation in conflict including the 1858 U.S. Senate race between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas and the attack on Harpers Ferry.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Petal From the Rose Elizabeth Shippen Green

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress offers an overview of the exhibition of illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green, whose work appeared in Harper's Monthly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: With Your Own Two Hands

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, learners Use Ben Harper's "With My Own Two Hands" and John Mayer's "Waiting On The World To Change" to ponder their roles in changing the world. After analyzing how a variety of important people changed the world,...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: With Your Own Two Hands

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners work to develop strong ideas by listening to songs like "With My Own Two Hands" by Ben Harper, "Year of the Rat" by Badly Drawn Boy, and "Waiting on the World to Change" by John Mayer. After brainstorming and completing graphic...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: "Where Is the Love?"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the song "Where Is the Love" by the Black-Eyed Peas and "Excuse Me, Mr." by Ben Harper, students will begin to think about injustices that exist in our world. Ultimately, student writers will compose an essay based on a persuasive...
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University of California

History Project: The Trial and Execution of John Brown

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using primary source documents, high school lesson plan focuses on John Brown, the events at Harper's Ferry, and his trial and execution. Included are excerpts from 16 primary source documents to aid in the research of writing this paper.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Champions of Human Liberty

For Students 9th - 10th
Frederick Douglass gave as speech praising John Brown and his raid on Harper's Ferry. He viewed Brown as a real hero of the abolitionist cause. Read his speech or listen to an excerpt.
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Primary
Son of the South

Son of the South: The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
Pages from Harper's Weekly edition on April 29, 1865, published just after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Website
Other

Pm Addresses Head Tax and Lauds Accomplishments

For Students 9th - 10th
Building upon his initial apology for the Chinese Head Tax, Prime Minister Harper's October 10, 2006 speech addresses the accomplishments of Chinese-Canadians. Audio and Video Vaults, along with a photo gallery related to the Canadian...
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Website
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Rhode Island Poets

For Students 9th - 10th
Poets.org provides an overview of the poets from a particular state. The overview for Rhode Island includes information on the poet laureate,Tom Chandler. Other sections include featured poets (Galway Kinnell and Michael S. Harper) and...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: I've Been Assigned a Paper Now What??

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on finding and narrowing a topic for a paper; it provides two video examples of this process using To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling. It also provides a flow chart...
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Read Works

Read Works: Cause and Effect 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on cause and effect intended to improve reading comprehension. Students learn to identify causes based on effects and effects based on causes. Students also use explicit information...
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Unit Plan
Harp Week

Education at Harp Week: The Civil War Illustrations Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
A set of three activities where students explore and analyze illustrations and cartoons from Harper's Weekly magazine that showed what life was like in the United States during the Civil War. The first activity looks at why the North won...

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