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Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Sidekicks

For Students 9th - 10th
This five-stanza poem describes the sidekicks of superheroes.
Article
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: See, Hear and Sing: Humor

For Students 9th - 10th
Today's comedy evolved from vaudeville (variety) shows of the 19th and early 20th centuries that included clowns, slapstick, dancers, singers, performing animals, acrobats, and magicians. This is an interactive site offering various...
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Other

Owl Kids: Chirp Magazine: Jokes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Frequently updated resource has many jokes, riddles, and tongue twisters perfect for kids. Scroll down to see them all and to go to different pages for more laughter.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Students Write a Newspaper

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this project-based language development instructional activity, English Language Learners learn about the newspaper publication and create their own newspaper that covers stories about their school year. The instructional activity...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Scams: What's Your Ethical Viewpoint?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will identify how investment scams work, go inside an investment scam pitch, and create an ethical dilemma.
Graphic
Curated OER

Molla Nasreddin Comic Sage of the Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
Nasreddin is a famous character (and perhaps real person) in Arabic folktales -- he's wise, and funny; sometimes the sage and sometimes the trickster. This page, part of larger site on Azerbaijan, provides a nice sampling of Nasreddin...
Handout
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Basic Nuclear Science Information

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides the ABC's of nuclear science including radioactivity and gamma decay to fission and comic rays.
Interactive
University of Kentucky

Chemcomics/carbon

For Students 9th - 10th
A whole bunch of comic pages that mention the element carbon and in most cases add a little bit of information about the element's properties.
Activity
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel De Cervantes: La Parodia Teatral en Espana

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy the history of the Spanish theatre of the nineteenth-century from a comic perspective.
Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tic Tac Toe Spelling [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
For this PDF spelling activity, choose three activities "in a row" to complete for your weekly spelling assignments. These activities include creating a comic strip using at least seven of your spelling words, write your spelling words...
Handout
Other

Oxford University Press: Oxford Dictionaries: Affect or Effect: A Visual Guide

For Students 7th - 8th
This is a dictionary entry explaining how to use affect and effect using comic pictures.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Confidence by Henry James

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the comic novel "Confidence" by Henry James. The novel follows the awkward relationship between an artist, scientist, and an inscrutable heroine.
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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.
Handout
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...
Handout
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...
Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Bert Williams

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