University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Golden Age of Islam
Learning module considers the language, literature, material culture, and architectural monuments of classical Islamic civilization (AD 610-1258).
Rick Beach
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Canon Curriculum Design
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 9 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 9. Focus of the...
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Yesterday's Classics: Look Inside: Babbitt: Jakata Tales [Pdf]
Read two fables from Ellen C. Babbitt's Jakata Tales, a classic of children's literature that retells stories, from sacred Buddhist literature, of the Buddha's past lives. Jakata stories, full of the quaint humor, teach many different...
International Reading Association
Reading Online: Teaching the Faust Theme Through Music, Literature, and Film
Research and ideas about using music, literature, and film to teach the theme of Faust selling his soul for knowledge and power.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Egg Cellent Landing
The purpose of this activity is to recreate the classic egg-drop experiment with an analogy to the Mars rover landing. The concept of terminal velocity will be introduced, and students will perform several velocity calculations. Also,...
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Saint Louis University: Latin Teaching Materials
This website is stuffed with cool classroom ideas and helpers. Includes graded readers on historical topics.
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Esl Kid Stuff: Teaching the Alphabet
Dynamic classroom activities for teaching the alphabet -- includes a few classic methods and some great new ideas. All are hands-on; many are group or team oriented.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Physics I: Classical Mechanics
A collection of video lectures from a classic mechanics course taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The course teaches modern physics, thermal physics, fluid mechanics, solids mechanics, celestial mechanics, momentum,...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Read the full text of this adventure and love story "Villette" by Charlotte Bronte. Follow Lucy Snowe as she leaves her hometown after a tragedy to teach at an all-girls school.
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Yesterday's Classics: Baldwin Project: More Jataka Tales: Table of Contents
Links to twenty-one different fables from the book More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt. Written in the Jataka tradition from India, these tales are interesting and teach life and character-building lessons to readers. An illustrated...
TES Global
Tes: Insights Into Shakespeare Image Bank and Notes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show of artifacts from Shakespeare's world and notes for teachers which include information about Shakespeare's world that impacted his plays including the following: Information about...
TES Global
Tes: Frankenstein Comic
[Free Registration/Login Required] This English Language Learner resource provides visual supports to accompany Mary Shelley's classic book Frankenstein. This resource can also be used to introduce young readers to this classic horror...
Able Media
Classics Tech Center: Strategies for Reading Latin Texts
Site presents strategies for reading long texts in Latin. Discusses the concept of "prior knowledge" and also gives example exercises.
Library of Congress
Library of Congress: read.gov: Educators
Parents and teaches can encourage reading with these author webcasts and links to teaching resources for novels, poetry, writing contests, and more.
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Abney Website: Ap Vergil's Aeneid
This comprehensive teacher-created resource provides many resources for teaching the "Aeneid." Lots of help on vocabulary, scansion tests, and figures of speech. Activities for every book.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Hound of the Baskervilles 3: The Seance
Students explore the advantages and disadvantages of adapting a classic work for the screen in this excerpt from Masterpiece's 2002 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Using a scene that was created especially for the film,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: A Wrinkle in Time Novel Study: Amy Palermo, River Trail Ms
This interactive novel study provides a 21st Century approach for students to understand Madeleine L'Engle's classic, A Wrinkle in Time. Students with develop PicCollages, create Audioboos (student-created version of Audiobooks), write...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Rumplestiltskin
First graders explore several classic Grimm fairy tales. Students create a Fairy Tales Learning Log to trace the various connections and common ideas across the various tales. They begin to develop an awareness of common traits in fairy...
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Light Up Your Brain: Brain Teaser Games & Audio Stories for Kids
Fantastic classic children's stories online that you can listen to while you read along. Stories are offered in streaming or downloadable MP3 format. Some of the popular stories are: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", "The Tale of the Flopsy...
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Lib.ru: Russian & World Poetry in Russian
Large online collection of Russian and world poetry, in Russian. Includes classics by English language poets like Dante, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Frost, Eliot, Ginsburg and a few by Russian-American poets. Helpful support for the upper...
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Greek Philosophy
Learnng module in which Tom Richey engages us in a discussion of philosophical thought of the times in ancient Greece, beginning with the Greek sophists, Plato and Aristophanes. Teaching and learning materials include videos, unit guides...
Able Media
Ctc: Reading Exercises on Gods and Gladiators
Three readings in Latin along with comprehension quizzes from the Classics Technology Center. Quizzes could easily be used as worksheets as well. Appropriate for a level I or II Latin class.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Children's Literature Newsletter
Free monthly email newsletters featuring classic children's literature, new books, ideas and activities to use with students, and links to other Internet resources.
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Kidoons: Andersen Fairy Tales
Enjoy many of the classic Anderson's fairy tales in English and French, set to cartoons. Also includes games and a biography of Hans Christian Andersen.