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Activity
Sonoma State University

Berkeley Education: List of Works by Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
Superb site from Berkeley Education for finding any work by Jack London. Included are plays, short stories, fiction, non-fiction, and essays.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Nature: Obsession With Orchids

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS features this program on orchids, including a short video on how an orchid encourages a bee to carry pollen to another flower. There are 3 articles focusing on the flower's ability to coax insects into pollinating other orchids, new...
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Graphic
Other

Sherman's March and America: Mapping Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of five interactive maps that each focus on a different perspective of Sherman's March to the Sea. These include a factual map, one that looks at African Americans and Southern civilians, one about travel, one on soldiers,...
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Activity
Other

University of Nottingham: d.h. Lawrence Bibliography

For Students 9th - 10th
This selected bibliography lists the novels of D. H. Lawrence, including poems, short stories, plays, travel writings, fiction, translations, essays and more.
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Article
Other

Panix.com: The Cockatrice Boys

For Students 9th - 10th
Monsters have invaded the world and a brave group boards a train called the Cockatrice Belle to rescue humankind. This is a very short, positive review of this Aiken work from Panix.com.
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eBook
Marxists Internet Archive

Marxist Internet Archive: Floyd Dell's "The Beating"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the text of Dell's "The Beating," a short story that originally appeared in the Socialist paper "The Masses" in 1914.
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eBook
Marxists Internet Archive

Marxist Internet Archive: Floyd Dell's "Why Mona Smiled"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the text of Dell's "Why Mona Smiled," a short story that originally appeared in the Socialist paper "The Masses" in 1914.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Laura Ingalls Wilder

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Wikipedia provides a short biography on author Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957 CE) is provided in this encyclopedia article along with a bibliography of her work. Links are also provided for additional information on...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Character's Decalogue

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
In this lesson, the writer first writes a personal decalogue (a list of ten personal beliefs) about something important to him/her. The writer then creates a decalogue for a fictional character they will invent and envision. The final...
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Time O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip over this interactive OLogy card to find short overviews, fact-or-fiction questions, and similar bite-size bits of information about the nature of time, time travel, atomic clocks, and the general theory of relativity.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Figurative Language 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-lesson unit, learners use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz and some additional short texts to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in fiction...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Metaphors

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A activity in which students use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David M. Schwartz and an additional short text to learn to identify and understand the use of metaphor in fiction. Lesson includes...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Setting 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is series of two lesson plans designed to teach students to visualize the setting and determine its effect on characters in a fiction text. Lessons are based on two short texts and the book...
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Hiroshima by John Hersey

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the non-fiction book Hiroshima by John Hersey including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis. The book tells the stories of six...
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Other

Council for Economic Education: The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This source includes general information and the chronology of the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, or the time of development of the first human communities. After learning about the revolution, read a brief short-story about a...
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Interactive
British Council

British Council: Kids Stories: Cold Planet

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Read and listen to a story about a connection between Earth and an imaginary planet called Fliptune. See how Billy, a boy from Earth, helps the people of Fliptune by making their planet warmer so things can grow.
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Article
Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Pacing Anxiety, or How to Stop Padding and Plot!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the seventh installment of a series giving advice to the author who is new to writing novels. This article focuses on how to take your characters and use them and their conflicts to develop the plot of your story. W.9-10.3b...
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Website
Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Dandy in the Picture of Dorian Gray

For Students 9th - 10th
Victorian Web provides a site that covers the the study of archetypes in Oscar Wilde's fiction. Gives good examples of this kind of criticism. Very accessible to students, with a short list of references at the end.
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Handout
Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers

Canscaip: Barbara Greenwood

For Students 3rd - 8th
Barbara Greenwood has published numerous historical fiction titles for children. A short biography and a list of her works can be found at this site.
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Handout
Other

Book Browse: Author Biography: Judith Viorst

For Students 3rd - 5th
A short profile of Judith Viorst, a versatile author who has written for children, young people, and adults. Her works include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Symbolism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces symbols in fiction writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Rudolph Fisher

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Rudolph Fisher, an American short-story writer and novelist associated with the Harlem Renaissance whose fiction realistically depicted black urban life in the North, primarily Harlem.

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