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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Epic of Gilgamesh

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers the Epic of Gilgamesh. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt from Gilgamesh and find dozens of rich and varied...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Pamuk: My Name Is Red

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers My Name Is Red, by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamluk. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt from the novel and find...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Homer: The Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers Homer's Odyssey. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt from The Odyssey and find dozens of rich and varied...
Lesson Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Euripides: The Bacchae

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers The Bacchae, by Euripides. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt from the play and find dozens of rich and...
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: The Bhagavad Gita

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers the Bhagavad Gita. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt from the Gita and find dozens of rich and varied...
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Shikibu: The Tale of Genji

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers The Tale of Genji, byMurasaki Shikibu. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt from the tale and find dozens of...
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Wu: Journey to the West

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers the Chinese folk novel Journey to the West (also known at The Monkey), generally ascribed to sixteenth-century writer Wu Cheng'en. Lesson centers on a half-hour video...
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Candide

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers Candide, by Voltaire. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt from the satire and find dozens of rich and varied...
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: One Hundred Years of Solitude

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt...
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Popol Vuh

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers Popol Vuh, a Mayan text that combines history and myth. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on Popol Vuh. Read an excerpt from the work...
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Roy: The God of Small Things

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the novel. Read an excerpt from the work and find...
Website
PBS

Art:21: Art in the Twenty First Century

For Students 9th - 10th
The online home of award-winning PBS television series "Art:21" opens a window into the world of contemporary art and artists. Includes a lessons library, downloadable educator guides, examples of student-created projects inspired by the...
Lesson Plan
Ohio State University

Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Mathew Brady's Portraits

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition of photographic portraits taken by Civil War-era photographer Mathew Brady, who made portraits of many illustrious Americans on both sides of the conflict before, during, and after the war. Includes an animated explanation of...
Handout
University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Charles Augustin De Coulomb

For Students 9th - 10th
A large complete authoritative biography of Coulomb. Five large pictures, over a dozen links to contemporaries, references, a poster, other mathematicians. A fine source.
Website
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Amazing Americans

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Checklist of inventors, politicians, performers, activists and ordinary people who made America. Meet Harry Houdini, Langston Hughes, Buffalo Bill Cody and dozens of other famous and interesting American adventurers, presidents,...
Website
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Amazing Americans

For Students 3rd - 8th
Checklist of inventors, politicians, performers, activists, and ordinary people who made America. Meet Harry Houdini, Langston Hughes, Buffalo Bill Cody and dozens of other famous and interesting American adventurers, presidents,...
Graphic
Tech4Learning

Pics4 Learning: Images for Education: Paintings

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Dozens of useful photos of various paintings from around the world! A useful reference in an art or history class. Browse through the examples, then click to enlarge.
Graphic
Tech4Learning

Pics4 Learning: Images for Education: Mosaic

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Dozens of photos of mosaics from around the world add to this useful reference. Browse through the examples, then click to enlarge.
Graphic
Tech4Learning

Pics4 Learning: Images for Education: Carving

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Dozens of useful photos of various carvings from around the world! A useful reference in an art or history class. Browse through the examples, then click to enlarge.
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can view maps showing the migratory paths of dozens of animals across the northern hemisphere, report a sighting of one of the animals listed in the database, and much more.
Website
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Genetics

For Students 3rd - 5th
The Gene Scene OLogy site is a place for learning all about genetics--DNA, cloning, nature versus nature, and interesting genetic science facts and discoveries. Explore, ask questions, find information, and meet American Museum of...
Article
CNN

Cnn: War in Afghanistan

For Students 9th - 10th
This CNN site provides comprehensive coverage of the war in Afghanistan with daily updates on the most recent news and events, and links to dozens of related stories on Afghanistan.
Website
Other

Netsurf: Art [Medieval]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is part of a well-known and long-established Medieval Studies site. It presents links in a dozen categories.

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