Read this short account of when the Mexican government imprisoned the Texas colonizer Stephen Austin in Mexico City.

Six slides introducing the rules of using capitalization correctly within sentences. Capitalization rules for sentences with colons and semicolons are also included.

This video lesson focuses on the use of capital letters in sentences including the following: after a colon, after a semicolon, titles, and lower case proper nouns at the beginning of sentences (eg. iPod). She also offers a memory trick...

A comprehensive country profile focusing on the continent of Australia. Topics include basic facts, early history, colonization and settlement, politics, and economy. A map and links to related topics are included.

King Leopold portrayed himself as charitable with his primary goal of helping Africans, when in reality he was a fraud and scoundrel who just wanted his "slice" of Africa. Read about his schemes to take over the Congo and an excerpt from...

Use this drop-down menu to explore genetic conditions that involve variations in multiple genes, often coupled with environmental causes (multifactorial disorders). Examples of disorders include breast and ovarian cancer, colon cancer,...

Lists, defines and describes the uses of many elements of English punctuation, including the period, comma, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, quotation, hyphen, and dash. Includes several examples.

This lesson focuses on the differentiating the standard use of semicolons and colons and demonstrating the standard use of semicolons. It also provides a practice activity.

An account of the first English colony in New England, Sagahadoc. To access the document itself, click on"Read This Document." Although unsuccessful, it provided valuable information for later colonization.

Some summary and analysis of William Shakespeare's comedy "The Tempest." It discusses a variety of aspects of the play including the unities in "The Tempest," Caliban and colonization, Prospero the magus, Ferdinand and Miranda, staging,...

Written for a college composition course, the ideas in this article are valid for journalists as well. The article gives examples of each of the 4 ways to use quotations in writing. W.9-10.2b Strong Support, L.9-10.2b Colons

This lesson provides a brief overview of semicolons, colons, parentheses, dashes, quotation marks, italics, and underlining.

Students will learn about Mars and what adaptations would be needed for people to live on Mars. They will develop a plan for the colonization of Mars. A slideshow presentation and brochure will be created to entice people to join this...

Nearly 100 years before the American Revolution, another war of independence took place on American soil -- against Spanish colonizers. Coordinated by Tewa leader Po'Pay, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 saved Indigenous cultures from...

Analyze primary sources in the media gallery and create an illustrated poem to learn how and why Filipino Americans faced racial prejudice and discrimination during the early 1900s. This anti-Asian racism is connected to U.S....

In this interactive timeline see how other European nations, along with the British, colonized America and how events in Europe impacted colonization.

This page provides links to punctuation reference materials for apostrophes, colons, dashes, commas, parentheses, italics, quotation marks, and semicolons.

A brief history of the colonization of New Zealand including information from before annexation, during the time of Baron Charles Philippe Hippolyte de Thierry, and including with the nomination of James Busby May, 1833.

This site provides a discussion of the colonization and political unrest in the Vietnam region, including mention of the Can Vuong royalist movement.

This site contains practical and useful information about the following: commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, parentheses and brackets, ellipsis points, quotation marks, and apostrophes. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2

Originally natives of Montreal, New France, four Le Moyne brothers are credited for the discovery and colonization of Alabama, as presented in this resource.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that demonstrate how to identify and correctly use commas with coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and introductory...

This summary of sources is a quick and easy way to explore the contexts for The Tempest - from early modern ideas about magic, masques, and music, to controversial images and first-hand accounts of shipwreck and colonization. Included...

Short essay addresses reasons that brought the Europeans to America. Covering many important points, he also provides compelling reasons and a map.