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Curated OER

Hyper for Expository Writing!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use the internet to research a plant or animal they read about in "The Talking Earth". Using notes, they develop a graphic organizer and use the main topics to create a HyperStudio stack. Using all of this information,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Forest Management

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the changes in the Sequoia forest ecosystem. They evaluate reasons for the changes and discuss opposing views of human activity, logging and fire management practices. Students observe a video, describe the location of...
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Website
University of North Carolina

Unc: Literature in the American South: Regionalism

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill site provides a wonderful explanation of regionalism and local color as it applies to literature. There is a lot of other good information about Southern Literature at this site!
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Article
University of North Carolina

Documenting the American South: Library of Southern Literature: Humor in Lit.

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the type and place of humor in Southern authors through information and links to several authors including Mark Twain, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, George Washington Harris, Joel Chandler Harris, and more.
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Primary
Other

University of Southern Mississippi: De Grummond Children's Literature

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The de Grummond Children's Literature Digital Collection contains a selection of items from the manuscript collection located at the University of Southern Mississippi. Includes illustrations, manuscripts, letters, photographs,...
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eBook
Other

America Dept. Of State: Outline of American Literature [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online book presents an overview of American literature chronologically. Eras and movements are explained and biographies of significant authors are provided. This is a good way to understand the background and influences of...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Eudora Welty

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eudora Welty is identified in this brief biography as one of America's greatest southern writers. See "Eudora Welty Activities" for related artifacts and activities.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Southern Nationalism

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting look at the Southern attempt to, at first defend the institution of slavery, and later, to become defiant about it. See how Southern intellectuals, religious leaders, and politicians strove to create a self-sufficiency in...
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Primary
Other

The University of Southern Mississippi: Mc Loughlin Brothers Digital

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The McLoughlin Brothers Papers Digital Collection contains a selection of items from the McLoughlin Brothers Papers located at The University of Southern Mississippi. McLoughlin Brothers, Inc. was a New York publishing firm which...
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Primary
Other

The University of Southern Mississippi: Kate Greenaway Digital Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Kate Greenaway Papers Digital Collection contains a selection of items from the Kate Greenaway Papers located at The University of Southern Mississippi. The majority of materials in this digital collection date from the turn of the...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Boy Scouts in Southern Waters by G. Harvey Ralphson

For Students 4th - 9th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This book, Boy Scouts in Southern Waters, was written by G. Harvey Ralphson, one of the first American Boy Scouts Masters. Published in the early 1900s, this is the...
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Other

Nancy Polette: "Missing May" Literature Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site features a literature guide for the book "Missing May," by Cynthia Rylant.
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Professional Doc
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Civil War in Children's Literature

For Students 3rd - 8th
This page from Carol Hurst's Children's Literature offers book reviews and planning help for an upper elementary unit on the Civil War. Includes information on books for teachers, books for students, easy-purchase links, and links to...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Technology and the World: Technology and Literature: Part 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Flannery O'Connor, her short story "The Life You Save May be Your Own," and the characteristics of Southern Gothic Literature. It features links to Flannery O'Connor's Biography, a Wikipedia article on "The Life...
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Website
Other

University of Southern Mississippi: De Grummond Children's Books Digital

For Students 9th - 10th
The de Grummond Children's Books Digital Collection contains a selection of books and documents from the holdings of the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi. The majority of works...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Technology and the World Around Us

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction the a unit on the effects of technology on education, reading, researching and the world around us. It provides key terms, and essential questions concerning how technology changed the way we read, what Southern...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Postmodernism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to American Literature Postmodernism, after WWII an age of rapid development in science and technology. It discusses the characteristics of Postmodernism and lists some of the authors and their new ideas....
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Flannery O'connor

For Students 9th - 10th
Flannery O'Connor is featured in this biography for her contributions to literature through many short stories, in most of which she created rural southern characters. See "Flannery O'Connor Activities" for related materials.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Robert Penn Warren

For Students 9th - 10th
A founding father of the New Criticism movement in literature, this is a brief biography of Robert Penn Warren featuring his poetic and fictitious contributions to the literary world. See "Robert Penn Warren Activities" for related...
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Website
University of North Carolina

Documenting the American South (Doc South)

For Students K - 1st Standards
Provides primary sources for the study of southern history, culture and literature. DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Zora Neale Hurston is featured in this biography highlighting her literary contributions which focused on African Americans as whole people, celebrating their heritage, in an era when black authors tended to write about their...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Richard Wright

For Students 9th - 10th
Author Richard Wright is presented in this biography which draws upon his brutal honesty in describing life in the racially segregated south. See "Richard Wright Activities" for related artifacts and activities.
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Graphic
University of Southern California

Univ. Of Southern California: Thumbnail Images of Bram Stoker's Dracula Editions

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, created by Melinda Hayes and updated May 28, 2000, contains thumbnail images of dozens of editions of Bram Stoker's "Dracula." Click on the thumbnail image and it is enlarged and publication information is provided about that...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Thomas Wolfe

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Thomas Wolfe is presented in this brief biography, highlighting his writings which exemplified the American culture of the 1920's-1930's. Click on "Thomas Wolfe Activities" for related resources.