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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Bab: A Sub Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of "Bab: A Sub-Deb" by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Follow the hi-jinks of 17-year-old Babs as she chronicles her life in series of diary entries and "magazine articles".
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Mary Ann Adams Maverick

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Mary Maverick, who lived along the Texas frontier after the Texas Revolution. Her diaries of her life as a frontier woman provide firsthand accounts of historic events from that time.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Washington's Rise Begins: A Journal of a Noteworthy Journey

For Teachers 5th
In this lesson, 5th graders examine letters and entries from George Washington's diaries to understand more about his character and ambitions, and the conflict and cooperation that existed between the French and English colonists and the...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Coming to California [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson plan, 4th graders examine entries from Juan Bautista de Anza's diary and other documents to understand the experiences and obstacles he and his companions faced as they traveled from Arizona to California in 1774. Student...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The November 1938 Pogrom Kristallnacht

For Students 9th - 10th
This reference page contains links to an abundance of artifacts and background material on Kristallnacht. You can view encyclopedia entries, letters, diaries, videos, photos, and documents pertaining to the November 1938 Pogrom.
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Curated OER

Tolstoy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has much to offer the Tolstoy scholar. There is a diary entry written by a young woman the day after Tolstoy's death which reveals the emotions of the Russian people at the passing of this great man. There is the text of...
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Curated OER

Poland 1940

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939. The site also contains diary entries from Dr. Zygmunt Klukowski, who was the chief physician of a small hospital in the village of Szczebrzeszyn south of the city of Lublin. An...
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Curated OER

Ny Times: ...Writing Process Through Autobiography

For Students 9th - 10th
Through examining Anne Frank's diary, students will come to appreciate the writing process as they write their own journel entries.

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