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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color My World Grey and Blue

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After listening to the song "Grey Street" by the Dave Matthews Band, and the song "Blu is a Mood" by Blu Cantrell, students will explore the lyrics and discover what role color can play when combined with a particular setting. Students...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Mc Ardle Notebooks: Dawn at the Alamo

For Students 9th - 10th
Henry Arthur McArdle's "Dawn at the Alamo" notebook is "packed with letters, notes, and photographs," which McArdle used when researching for his well-known painting recording this important moment in Texas history. Browse the pages to...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Dixie's Land

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides the lyrics to Dan Emmett's song, "Dixie," and also includes good notes on specific parts of the lyrics.
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Website
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Stephen C. Foster, Old Folks at Home

For Students 9th - 10th
This website from the University of Toronto not only provides the lyrics to Stephen C. Foster's song, "Old Folks at Home," but also includes general information about the song.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: "Sleep, Baby Mine" by Sir Philip Sidney

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Sir Philip Sidney's lyric poem and lullaby, "Sleep, Baby Mine."
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Right Brained Lesson: Serendipitous Love Metaphors

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based on its title, student writers predict what Benatar's song means when it says that "Love Is a Battlefield." After discussing Benatar's extended metaphor as a class, young scholars will create an original extended metaphor about love...
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Other

The Confederation Poets: Bliss Carman (1861 1929)

For Students 9th - 10th
A great resource on Confederation poet Bliss Carman. This site provides numerous primary texts and essays on Carman's writing style.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: c.s.i.: The Cory Crime Scene

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The character talked about in E. A. Robinson's poem, Richard Cory, is about a man with everything, a man that everyone wants to be like, a man who ends his own life without explanation. Singers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, intrigued by...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Your Glorious Gene Pool

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read the books like I Am the Dog. I Am the Cat by Donald Hall and Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman and read the lyrics while listening to the song "Shallow End of the Gene Pool" by the Austin Lounge Lizards. Then students learn...

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