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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: Henry V

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This informative site features links to teaching resources for Shakespeare's history play Henry V. Includes lesson plans, a classic James Agee review of the film version, and the like.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Immigration and Migration:today/during the Great Depression

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students address these questions through activities using oral history methods and investigating life in the 1930s. They compare the immigration/migration experiences of their families to those of people living through the Great...
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White Pine Pictures

White Pine Pictures: Breaking the Ice: The Mary Ann Shadd Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Mary Ann Shadd was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1823. She emigrated to Windsor, Upper Canada and was a leader in advocating for integrated schools at a time when most Canadians believed segregated schools should predominate. This web...
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Through the Eyes of Everett Baker

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographer Everett Baker captured the people, places, and events of Saskatchewan in this exhibit. Archival photographs and film are included as a means of preserving the past.
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PBS

Pbs: Global Connections in Liberia

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS profiles the African nation of Liberia with a timeline, film, essays, and lessons for students and teachers.
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Other

Streetswing: Rumba

For Students 9th - 10th
Very detailed site includes a history of the dance, as well as key dancers and musicians associated with it. Easy to read charts cover films, theaters, sheet music and a variety of other things connected to the rumba.
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Movies and Filmography

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining the history of movies and filmography. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click 'Check my answers.' If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be...
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Other

Digital Imaging in Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource is a 15-page PDF that gives a good history of the shift from film to digital photography and applications for digital imaging in the classroom. Included are nine lesson plans which include project ideas, guidelines for...
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White Pine Pictures

White Pine Pictures: Hungarian Revolution 1956

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the film series produced about various groups that resettled in Canada, White Pines Pictures gives a brief historical background of the wave of Hungarian immigration in 1956. Click on the teacher link at the top for lesson...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: The Telephone

For Students 9th - 10th
The home page to the PBS feature film on the invention of the telephone. The People and Events section has biographies and commentary on the invention of the telephone and its subsequent success. Be sure to click on Gallery for pictures...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Cleopatra

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview of the life of Cleopatra VII. Content includes a look at Cleopatra's legacy, involving both films and paintings.
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Other

Peace It Together | Empowering Youth to Promote Peace

For Students 9th - 10th
A program enticing students to promote peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict through media such as film and inviting conversation between the two groups.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Tech: Clunky French Camille Claudel Gets Stuck in Hollywood

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a review of the film about Camille Claudel's sad life and aspiring career as a sculptress.
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Ibis Communications

Eyewitness to History: Making Movies, 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
Firsthand account of the filmimg of director D.W. Griffith's movie Way Down East staring actress Lillian Gish.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Chester Carlson

For Students 9th - 10th
Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides interesting information on Chester F. Carlson, the inventor of the photocopier. The site provides good background on the history of the photocopier, and a photo of Carlson.
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Community Learning Network

Cln: Instructional Materials in Media Literacy Studies

For Students 9th - 10th
CLN "Theme Pages," focus on specific topics within Media Literacy/Studies. CLN's theme pages are collections of useful Internet educational resources within a narrow curricular topic and contain links to two types of information....

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