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EL Education

El Education: Earth, Wind and Fire

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Third grade students at World of Inquiry, School #58 created this set of cards as part of an expedition on natural disasters. To create their card, each student researched and wrote a descriptive summary on a specific natural event; each...
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EL Education

El Education: It's All Greek to Me

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This book was created by 7th grade students in Portland, Maine as part of a learning expedition on ancient civilizations, focusing on ancient Greece.The book includes collage-like portraits and background information on famous figures...
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EL Education

El Education: Malaria

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research world health and global diseases and create a comic and activity book to raise awareness of global health issues, malaria in particular. In addition, students started a fund raising campaign to raise money for mosquito...
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Imitations

For Students 9th - 10th
Impressions were a common form of entertainment and a great source of comic material for many comedians. Explore this short site and see if you can identify the sounds.
Activity
Shmoop University

Shmoop: De Daumier Smith's Blue Period

For Students 9th - 10th
This both comic and tragic short story is wonderfully analysed in this site which focuses on characters and themes.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Redd Foxx

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Redd Foxx, an American comedian and television actor known for his raunchy stand-up routines. His style of comedy, often described as "blue" for its foul language and highly adult subject...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Richard Pryor

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Richard Pryor, an American comedian and actor, who was one of the leading comics of the 1970s and '80s. His comedy routines drew on a variety of downtrodden urban characters, rendered with...
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Starfall

Starfall: It's Fun to Read: I'm Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a collection of online reading stories for beginning readers. These collections include plays, fiction and nonfiction stories, comics, folktales, Greek myths, and Chinese fables. Many of the stories have an option for read alouds...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Bert Williams

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of Bert Williams, black comic actor of early 1900s.
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Drama Circle

Drama Circle: A Brief History of Russian Drama (Before 1900)

For Students 9th - 10th
This summary of Russian plays and playwrights begins with the 18th century comic playwright, Denis Ivanov Fonvizin and continues through Anton Chekov, with two or three sentence summaries about ten writers and their works.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Pop Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A site with artists and links to the Pop Art movement of the 1950s and 60s. There are links to museums with great images.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Bill the Bloodhound" by p.g. Wodehouse

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Bill the Bloodhound" by P.G. Wodehouse. Henry Pifield Rice, who works for a detective bureau, falls in love with Alice Weston, a chorus girl. He proposes to her but is refused on the ground that she...
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Law for Kids: Toons

For Students 9th - 10th
Join animated characters like Marco and Kirk, teenagers in difficult circumstances and facing legal issues, and find out what consequences they must deal with. Students can learn to avoid the same mistakes. Teens' questions about the law...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for five lessons that teach young scholars how to recognize and avoid stereotyping in media. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...

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