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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Narratives of Amer. South

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, part of the 'Documenting the American South' project, contains information and texts about first-person narratives of the American south. These documents give the viewpoint of...
Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Robert La Follette: Senate Address:"free Speech in War Time"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the text of Robert La Follette's speech to the Senate, "Free Speech in War Time" delivered on October 6, 1917, in the U.S. Senate Chamber, in Washington, D.C.
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Other

University De Valencia: The Literature of Modernism: 1912 40

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Modernist poetry is featured in this comprehensive article.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Literary Essays' Inclusion of Personal Opinions and Facts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify and discuss the use of facts, personal examples, and ideas and how they are woven into a literary essay.
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Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Score: Guide to Reading Historical Documents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here are some questions that serve as a guide while you read and study historical documents. The information at this website was originally written by the National Council for the Social Studies. W.11-12.9b US Doc Analysis
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Modern Democracy in America

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of 19 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12) on the topic Modern Democracy in America. How does democracy function in modern-day America? Learn how a bill becomes a law, the role of American presidents, and much more in this...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Political Theory

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
As governments form and change over time, they look to political philosophers to answer important questions about governance. This text set covers some of the world's most influential political thinkers. This collection includes 10...
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Memorandum During the War

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia presents links to the online text for Walt Whitman's prose writing, "Memorandum During the War" in which Whitman records his thoughts and experiences visiting the wounded in the...
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Purdue University

Guide to Critical Theory: Intro to New Historicism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A detailed site that offers an introduction, some terms and concepts, sample applications, and even a lesson plan or two based on this approach.
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Disputes Learn More

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the LSAT. This section provides information about how to infer, and then approach, a dispute question in the "Logical Reasoning" section.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Language and Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
From Johnson's Dictionary to letter-writing, newspapers and coffee-house culture: explore how different forms and mediums helped to develop and circulate language and ideas during the long 18th century.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: John Dryden's Satiric Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Ashley Marshall suggests that there is more to Dryden's satiric poetry than the expression of high-minded moral values. Trace how Dryden's personal vendettas motivated some of the cruder and more vicious attacks in Mac Flecknoe, and how...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Popular Politics in the 18th Century

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Caricatures capturing public opinion and riots on the streets; this article discusses how the majority of Georgians, who didn't have the right to vote, engaged in politics and expressed their grievances.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Alabama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The students will learn about the Alabama (Alibamu) people> Their origins and their culture.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Imagist Ezra Pound

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University of Groningen provides a good exposition of the well known imagist poet, Ezra Pound. Includes links to T.S. Eliot and W. C. Williams.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Edward Estlin Cummings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Part of a series on "Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945," this article features a biographical note and appraisal and cummings's poem, "in Just."
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: On the Ezra Pound

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Maintained by the "McLuhan Studies Journal," this article by Edward Barton from the University of Toronto focuses on Pound's influence on Marshall McLuhan during their years of correspondence. This site is more useful for McLuhan studies...
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: A Brief Guide to Modernism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Concise explanation of modernism as it applies to literature. It's mainly a discussion of the poetic movement of the early twentieth century, and it discusses many of the important figures of the era.
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Internet Infidels

The Secular Web: Age of Reason Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Editor's introduction to Age of Reason
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Other

Quotes on Liberty and Virtue

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Follow links to find various quotes on Liberty and Virtue. Some are from other famous people.