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The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela - PBS Frontline

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6 to 12
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A detailed look at Mandela's life and the revolution he helped lead. The site contains two biographies, interviews, a timeline, film clips, and a "viewers' and teachers' guide," and...more
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A detailed look at Mandela's life and the revolution he helped lead. The site contains two biographies, interviews, a timeline, film clips, and a "viewers' and teachers' guide," and more. The site is a well-organized companion to the PBS Frontline documentary of the same name.

tag(s): africa (162), biographies (96), Nelson Mandela (29), racism (81), south africa (31)

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Take advantage of the free lesson plans and activities offered for ideas on how to integrate this site into your classroom! Students can use Blogger, reviewed here or Google Keep, reviewed here to store and share information they learn. This would be a great resource for almost any social studies teacher.

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Voice - Online Poetry Classroom

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Introductory poetry unit which uses class discussion, critical writing assignments, and personal reflection to help students learn poetic vocabulary. The lessons are developed to forge...more
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Introductory poetry unit which uses class discussion, critical writing assignments, and personal reflection to help students learn poetic vocabulary. The lessons are developed to forge links between the poems from the unit and the text book used throughout the year. The unit is designed for lower high school students.

tag(s): poetry (195), writing (309)

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Songs My Teacher Taught Me - Online Poetry Classroom

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9 to 12
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This unit of lesson plans surveys a wide range of poets including women, African-American, and nineteenth-century poets. Lessons are thematically broken into three categories, "What...more
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This unit of lesson plans surveys a wide range of poets including women, African-American, and nineteenth-century poets. Lessons are thematically broken into three categories, "What is Poetry?" "Poems of Childhood," and "Self and Society." A "Teaching Guide" is included and offers suggestions on presenting the material in a variety of ways, making this unit suitable to any high school grade.

tag(s): poetry (195)

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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - PBS

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6 to 12
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This is the companion site to a PBS program of the same name. It offers an introduction to the Jim Crow laws that effectively institutionalized segregation throughout the South. There...more
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This is the companion site to a PBS program of the same name. It offers an introduction to the Jim Crow laws that effectively institutionalized segregation throughout the South. There are also numerous images of African American life in the South during the early 1900s.This looks like a promising resource, especially as a backgrounder for the study of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

tag(s): 1900s (85), african american (129), civil rights (221), segregation (20)

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True to its claim, this is an educator's site; it contains lesson plans, simulations, narratives, and picture galleries and more. The site may be useful for both American History and American Literature classes.

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Braille Bug - American Foundation for the Blind

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4 to 12
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The American Foundation for the Blind has created Braille Bug to explain Braille - what it is and how it works - to the sighted world. This site would be ...more
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The American Foundation for the Blind has created Braille Bug to explain Braille - what it is and how it works - to the sighted world. This site would be a great introduction for students who have family, friends, or classmates who are blind. There's a very complete introduction to the Braille alphabet, along with a printable Braille letter guide.

tag(s): alphabet (46), disabilities (37), hearing impaired (8), vision (41)

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This would also be a great stop in a study of disabilities and adaptive strategies.

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Presentation Skills

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Designed for use in the business world, this site offers a straightforward set of pointers on making effective oral presentations. Teachers might find this one useful as a public speaking...more
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Designed for use in the business world, this site offers a straightforward set of pointers on making effective oral presentations. Teachers might find this one useful as a public speaking resource or a resource students could use for planning oral reports.

tag(s): speaking (22)

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Spaghetti Book Club

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Here's a collection of reviews-by-children of several hundred popular juvenile and young adult books. These reviews could be useful as a resource for encouraging elementary students...more
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Here's a collection of reviews-by-children of several hundred popular juvenile and young adult books. These reviews could be useful as a resource for encouraging elementary students to find books that interest them.

tag(s): book reports (26), literature (214)

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Recommended Literature - California Department of Education

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This page from the California Department of Education offers a fully searchable database of literature for K-12 students. Available search criteria include age, language, awards, and...more
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This page from the California Department of Education offers a fully searchable database of literature for K-12 students. Available search criteria include age, language, awards, and a variety of topical keywords. Each book listing includes a short synopsis.

tag(s): literature (214), reading lists (77)

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Teachers will find this a great tool for locating books appropriate to particular topics or student interests, especially in multi-lingual classrooms

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TeachersFirst: The Hamlet Quizzes - TeachersFirst

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9 to 12
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This is a collection of interactive quizzes on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Designed for use as a review tool, the collection includes character quizzes and scene-by-scene reviews of key elements...more
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This is a collection of interactive quizzes on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Designed for use as a review tool, the collection includes character quizzes and scene-by-scene reviews of key elements of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. The collection can be used in class or independently.

tag(s): hamlet (8), plays (31), shakespeare (98)

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Share these quizzes as a way to check for understanding while students read the play. As an extension, invite students to create their own scene-by-scene or act-by-act quizzes for classmates to try, using a tool such as Easy Test Maker, reviewed here or Kubbu, reviewed here.

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Poetry in Translation - Online Poetry

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How can you use a multicultural classroom to help students get the most out of the study of poetry? This unit offers 11th ad 12th graders a chance to work ...more
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How can you use a multicultural classroom to help students get the most out of the study of poetry? This unit offers 11th ad 12th graders a chance to work with poetry from other eras and decipher its meaning through the lens of their own culture. It's a great challenge whose results will vary for each class.

tag(s): poetry (195)

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Word Magnet Puzzles

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6 to 12
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This one's mostly for fun, but the on-screen version of the popular magnetic word game lets students manipulate words on the screen to make phrases, sentences, or poetry. Can't find...more
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This one's mostly for fun, but the on-screen version of the popular magnetic word game lets students manipulate words on the screen to make phrases, sentences, or poetry. Can't find the word you want? Just create a new tile for it.

tag(s): poetry (195), vocabulary (253)

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Try this as a brainstormer in your poetry class, or as a vocabulary builder.

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Poetry 180 - Library of Congress

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Poet Laureate Billy Collins has created a collection of 180 poems - a poem a day - for the school year. This Library of Congress site offers the poems themselves, ...more
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Poet Laureate Billy Collins has created a collection of 180 poems - a poem a day - for the school year. This Library of Congress site offers the poems themselves, tips on reading poetry aloud, and information on poetry sources and permissions. It's an interesting collection that could add variety to any middle or high school poetry study.
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tag(s): poetry (195)

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Use these poems as a warm up to start class. Have kids analyze the poem to find symbolism, meter, rhyme, etc.

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American Folktales

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This is an interesting compilation of American folktales, each retold by the author. The tales are sorted into thematic groups - states, tall tales, ethnic tales, etc. There is also...more
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This is an interesting compilation of American folktales, each retold by the author. The tales are sorted into thematic groups - states, tall tales, ethnic tales, etc. There is also an alphabetical index of stories. While we cannot guarantee the political correctness of all these, they would be a nice resource for any study of folktales or American growth and development.

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Eight Steps to Information Literacy

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6 to 12
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This is a great guide for teachers interested in getting their students to use the web and related technologies creatively. You'll find a step-by-step process that lets students get...more
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This is a great guide for teachers interested in getting their students to use the web and related technologies creatively. You'll find a step-by-step process that lets students get organized before heading off on a project and encourages them to sort through their results before building a project. Great backgrounder for teachers getting started with web research.

tag(s): book reports (26)

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Bookmark this site for information on how to research on the web. Your students can learn how to get organized, research, keep track of information that might be useful, select the most relevant items, and preparing a project or paper.

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Twain's Hanibal - Library of Congress

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9 to 12
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This unit from the Library of Congress offers students an exposure to the use of primary resources in the study of history and literature. The Library's collection for this time ...more
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This unit from the Library of Congress offers students an exposure to the use of primary resources in the study of history and literature. The Library's collection for this time period is rich, so there are many highly visual ways to expose students to Twain's world. Students will need to spend some time with this one.

tag(s): mark twain (9)

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Take advantage of the free lesson plans on this site! Be sure to save it as a favorite on your desktop to allow for easy retrieval.

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World Wide Words

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6 to 12
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Word origins and meanings can be great fun, and the answers you get from this page aren't always what you were expecting. There are numerous theme-based sections, new material posted...more
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Word origins and meanings can be great fun, and the answers you get from this page aren't always what you were expecting. There are numerous theme-based sections, new material posted each day, and the definitions go well beyond American jargon. Great site for vocabulary building.

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Best of the Year for Young Adults - American Library Association

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The American Library Association's annual listings of the best young adult fiction and non-fiction. You'll find listings from 2002 up to the current yr. Find the good works here. ...more
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The American Library Association's annual listings of the best young adult fiction and non-fiction. You'll find listings from 2002 up to the current yr. Find the good works here.

tag(s): reading lists (77)

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Mark Twain in his Times - University of Virginia

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This site from the University of Virginia is a welcome addition to the general lack of good Twain material on the web. The site concentrates on Twain's career and the ...more
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This site from the University of Virginia is a welcome addition to the general lack of good Twain material on the web. The site concentrates on Twain's career and the manner in which Sam Clemens turned Twain into an institution. There are also links to critical information and e-texts of Twain's major works, along with illustrations.

tag(s): biographies (96), mark twain (9)

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Good site for lesson ideas, or for independent use by students. Bookmark this site for biographical information about Mark Twain for student projects and papers. Check out the links to his writings as well, available as complete texts on the internet.

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The Internet TESL Journal

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This is a venerable (well, since 1995 anyway) online journal for ESL teachers. The various editions include articles, activities, and projects for ESL teachers and students. Importantly,...more
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This is a venerable (well, since 1995 anyway) online journal for ESL teachers. The various editions include articles, activities, and projects for ESL teachers and students. Importantly, back issues are archived on-line, creating an extensive resource for ESL teachers.

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This site is a gold mine for teachers looking for new activities and methods to use in their ESL classroom. Save the site as a favorite on your classroom desktop, allowing you to reference the site whenever in need of fresh ideas!

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K-W-L - A Strategy for Learning

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4 to 12
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While this exercise is from a site on science and optics, the KWL strategy - a structured form of questioning and answering - is applicable to the study of many ...more
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While this exercise is from a site on science and optics, the KWL strategy - a structured form of questioning and answering - is applicable to the study of many topics other than science. Teachers will like this one because it outlines multiple strategies for both inquiry and presentation, giving examples from science, literature, and art.

tag(s): inquiry (37), inventors and inventions (89)

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If you're not familiar KWL, this is a great starting point.

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