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Writings in prose or verse.
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Between the Lions
Tying in with the television program of the same name, this site offers interactive stories and games for children learning to read and write. Information for parents about the importance of reading to their children, using the local library, and ways to connect art and writing is also included.
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Canela Indians ( of Brazil)
The Canela Indians of Northeastern Central Brazil. Visit the Canela Indians with a field-trained ethnologist, and read about the challenges of conducting ethnographic research in a beautiful savannah setting.
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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
features 10 essays on the Nez Perce, Lushootseed, Chief
Seattle, salmon, totem poles, and other topics and tribes. The essays provide context for the thousands of historical
photos, texts, and primary sources in the collection.
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Illustrated Shakespeare, 1826-1919
"This online collection of selected electronic facsimiles seeks to share with a wider audience meetings of book art and Shakespearean text, and suggests the variety of responses of visual and book artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words. This online collection of 12 works ..
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International Reading Association: Choices Booklists
Each year "thousands of children, young adults, teachers, and librarians select their favorite recently published books to be included in the Choices annotated booklists" published by the International Reading Association and the Children's Book Council. These annotated lists include Children's Choices, Teachers' Choices, and Young Adults' Choices.
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The Digital Michelangelo Project
"Since 1992 [Stanford University] Professor Marc Levoy and his students have been investigating methods for digitizing the shape of three-dimensional objects using laser scanners." This site presents the efforts of "a team of 30 faculty, staff, and students" to scan and produce 3-D computer models of "the sculptures and architecture of Michelangelo." Includes an overview and
timeline of the project, photographic essays, video clips, and related links. In English and Italian.
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The Literature Network
This site includes the text of "over 300 full books and over 1000 short stories and poems by over 90 authors" and "over 8500 quotes." Locate materials by browsing a list of authors. Searchable within works of each author.
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Bartelby.com
Bartelby.com, which began as a research experiment in 1993 at Columbia University, has grown into a high-quality reference tool and an extensive repository of classic literature. It includes works by hundreds of authors: including over 10,000 poems and 86,000 quotations.
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Benjamin Franklin , in his Own Words
"Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words"
shows the breadth of Franklin's accomplishments through key
letters, broadsides, and other documents. This exhibit,
marking the tercentenary of Franklin's birth (1706), focuses
on his achievements as a politician and statesman, as well as
a printer and writer, an inventor and scientist.
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Building Effective Teacher Teams
Middle grades teacher Bill Ferriter loves the group of teachers he's
worked with to develop a high-functioning professional learning team. "Over the past year, we have worked hard together in a school founded
on the principles of a learning community...(b)ut we've stumbled over
the past month.
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Civil War and Reconstruction
provides documents and images for learning about "fugitive
from labor" cases and black soldiers in the Civil War. The
site includes Civil War photos by Mathew Brady and letters,
telegrams, and photos illustrating factors that affected the
Civil War.
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Cool Science for Curious Kids
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology on screen, off screen and in between. http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.htmlhttp://.
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History Detectives
History Detectives is devoted to solving historical mysteries, searching out the true facts (and falsehoods) behind local folklore, family legends and interesting objects. http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/
History Detectives is devoted to solving historical mysteries, searching
out the true facts (and falsehoods) behind local folklore, family
legends and interesting objects.
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Illuminations
Designed to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. Offers interactive lessons for students, lesson plans for teachers, and math applets, all arranged by grade level.
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International Reading Association (IRA)
This professional organization's site highlights the latest educational legislation. The organization seeks to promote "high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit." Find publications, program descriptions, professional standards, links, meeting notices, news, and membership information.
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Jazz in the Schools
"Jazz in the Schools" is a new web-based, multimedia curriculum from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that explores jazz as an indigenous American art form and as a means to understand American history. The five-unit, web-based curriculum and DVD toolkit are available free of charge to high school teachers of social studies, U.S.
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Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery [Macromedia Flash Player]
In conjunction with the United Nations resolution designating 2004 as the
International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its
Abolition, New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture presents this Web exhibit. Making use of Schomburg Center materials,
as well as items loaned by other public institutions and private
collections, the Web exhibition begins with a section entitled "A New
People" that traces the complex genetic heritage of today's African-
Americans--the vast majority descended from enslaved Africans--but also
counting Europeans, Native Americans, and Asians among their ancestors.
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National Museum of the American Indian
The NAMAI web site offers an education section with teacher guides and lists of authentic resources for students: “Your students may have preconceived notions regarding Native Americans. Before visiting the museum, you may want to begin studying ‘fact versus fiction’ concerning indigenous cultures.
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NPACI Envision
Science stories written for the general public, introducing the computation behind 21st century science( appropriate for grades 7-16.
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Race and Place , an African American Community in the Jim Crow South
Race and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South is a collaborative work with the Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies at UVA. The project examines the era of segregation in one community and explores African American politics, families, schools, businesses, churches, and other institutions to gain perspective on African American history and the culture of the segregated South.http://.
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Resources for Teachers at the Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library, a private research institution, is the world's most significant repository of Shakespearean material. Its holdings, which include the largest collection of English Renaissance books outside of the U.K., attract scholars and educators of international repute.
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Silk Road, Trade, Travel, War and Faith
Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith [Macromedia Shockwave]
Pathways of travel have led to some of the most compelling and creative
cultural exchanges in human history, and the Silk Road was one such pathway. Stretching from China to the Mediterranean, the Silk Road was actually a
complex network of interconnected pathways that were influenced by a diverse
set of civilizations, including those in China, India, and Turkey.
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Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide
is now online at http://www.folklife.si.edu It presents guidelines that Smithsonian folklorists have developed over the years for collecting folklife and oral history from family and community members and features a concise, easy-to-use guide to conducting an interview, as well as sample questions that may be adapted to each interviewer's needs and circumstances. The Guide concludes with a few examples of ways to preserve and present findings, further readings, glossary, and sample information and release forms.
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The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial : Music History from Primary Sources
A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives:
The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: Music History from Primary Sources:
The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain approximately 3,500 items documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era and are the richest composite gift of musical documents ever received by the Library. Before his death, Hans Moldenhauer (1906-1987) established a directive and provided funds for the Library of Congress to publish The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: Music History from Primary Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives (2000).
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The Underground Railroad
During the 1800s, over one hundred thousand enslaved fugitives sought freedom through the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad is the symbolic term given to the routes enslaved Black Americans took to gain their freedom as they traveled, often as far as Canada and Mexico.
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Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
Features interviews with 23 former slaves (the oldest was 130 at the time of the interview). These nearly 7 hours ofrecordings provide a glimpse of what life was like for slaves
& freedmen.
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War and Peace
"War & Peace"
exhibits photos, maps, & documents related to America's wars.Features include a Civil War timeline, letters from soldiers,homefront contributions during World War I & II, American
women workers during World War II, man-on-the-street interviews after Pearl Harbor, "The Stars & Stripes" newspaper(for Army troops in France 1918-19), Winston Churchill, the Marshall Plan, Ansel Adam's book of photos of a World War II
internment camp, & the Veterans History Project. (LOC)
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Witness & Response: September 11 Acquisitions
Witness & Response: September 11 Acquisitions
presents photos, prints, eye-witness accounts, headlines,books, magazines, songs, maps, & videotapes related to September 11, 2001. Photos of ground zero taken during &
after the attacks by news photographers in New York City are included, as are press reactions from around the world.
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