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Peanut Inventions From A-Z
Students create a PowerPoint presentation on peanut products. In this peanut lesson, students discuss the parts of a peanut and read the book The Life and Times of the Peanut by Charles Micucci. They create an ABC book on products...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: When Less Is More Understanding Minimalist Fiction
Contains plans for five lessons that use Ernest Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain" and Raymond Carver's "Little Things" to teach about minimalist fiction. After studying these texts, students try to write their own minimalist fiction. In...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Developing Characterization in Carver?s ?A Small, Good Thing
Contains plans for three lessons that teach characterization using Raymond Carver's short story "A Small, Good Thing." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
Alabama Humanities Foundation
Encyclopedia of Alabama: Science and Technology: George Washington Carver
Biographical profile makes note of the trials and triumphs George Washington Carver.
Curated OER
National Park Service: American Visionaries: George Washington Carver
Despite being born a slave, read how Dr. Carver persevered so that he could become successful.
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National Park Service: Legends of Tuskegee
Exhibit documents the history and achievements of three key constituents of Tuskegee University: Booker T. Washington, who founded the university; the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American flying squadron who trained there during...