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Penn Library: Around the World in Seventy Two Days

For Students 9th - 10th
The text to Nellie Bly's book "Around the World in Seventy-Two Days," is reproduced here as it was published in 1890 by The Pictorial Weeklies Company.
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University of Pennsylvania: The Thesis Statement

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has an examination of five different thesis statements with examples of how to write each of the statements.
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Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents information on the University of Pennsylvania's Morris Arboretum and Gardens. On this web page, you will find general information about the garden, features of the garden, information on the garden's plant collection,...
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Project Guttenberg: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

For Students 9th - 10th
Project Guttenberg offers the following downloadable full texts:*Burns, Robert, 1759-1796: The Letters of Robert Burns, ed. by J. Logie Robertson (Gutenberg text)*Burns, Robert, 1759-1796: The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns*Burns,...
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Digital Library: h.b. Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

For Students 9th - 10th
This online library site provides a listing of available texts of Stowe's slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin". There are many links including a few to drama versions of the novel.
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Digital Library: Works of Robert Browning

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to five of Robert Browning's most famous works including "Dramatic Lyrics," "Dramatic Romances," "An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry," "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," and "The Ring and the Book."
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Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to five of Browning's most famous works including "Aurora Leigh," "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point," "Selected Poems," "Sonnets From the Portuguese," and "Translations from the Greek Christian Poets."
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Digital Library: The Works of Matthew Arnold

For Students 9th - 10th
The Digital Library provides links to three pieces of work done by Matthew Arnold: "Culture and Anarchy," "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time," and "The Next Bottom Line: Making Sustainable Development Tangible."
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Digital Library : Works of George Meredith

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to 9 of George Meredith's works.
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Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete texts for 19 of Rudyard Kipling's literary works.
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Digital Library: Works of Charlotte Bronte

For Students 9th - 10th
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of five works done by Charlotte Bronte including "Jane Eyre", selected poems, "Shirley" and more.
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Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of two of Emily Bronte works, "Poems by Currier, Ellis, and Acton Bell," and "Wuthering Heights."
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Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The Digital Library provides links to the complete texts of a dozen of George Eliot's works.
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U Penn Digital Library: Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

For Students 9th - 10th
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of 18 of Thackeray's works.
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Digital Library: Works of Samuel Butler

For Students 9th - 10th
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of eight of Samuel Butler's works.
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Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The Digital Library provides links to the complete texts of 25 of Arthur Conan Doyle's works in many formats.
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Digital Library Project: Online Books Page, John Ruskin

For Students 9th - 10th
The Digital Library provides links to the complete texts of many of John Ruskin's works including "The King of the Golden River," "Sesame and Lilies," and "Unto This Last."
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Project Guttenberg: History of Catholic Church 1450 to 1787

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text (Vol. 1) of a 1914 history of the Catholic Church and its role in European history from the Renaissance to the French Revolution. Click the Author's link to access Vol. 2.
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University of Pennsylvania: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Copies of the work by David Livingstone that can be downloaded at this site from the University of Pennsylvania. No additional information is given. Both text and zip files are available.
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University of Pennsylvania: Assonance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides a detailed explanation of the term "assonance." Several examples provided as well as links to related sites.
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Draft Resistance in the Vietnam Era

For Students 9th - 10th
Analysis of number of men who resisted the draft during the Vietnam War, the types of evasion, and the reasons they gave for resisting.
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University of Pennsylvania: An Agrarian History of South Asia

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy essay that fully describes agrarian history in South Asia, along with political connections.
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Penn Library: Books of Hours

For Students 9th - 10th
This website contains information about the Book of Hours: a private prayer book, liturgies or calendar. "In Books of Hours are preserved some of the finest works of medieval art." Seven Book of Hours with descriptions are shown. Though...
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Celebration of Women Writers: One Man Saves the Day

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of early Roman hero Horatius Cocles by Charlotte Yonge includes the famous poem by Lord Macaulay about the Roman soldier who single-handedly defended a bridge across the Tiber from invading Etruscans.