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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Drifting North by Andy Adams

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1906, one short story is "Drifting North" from the book Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories. This story was written by Andy Adams.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Drowne's Wooden Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published 1844, one publication is "Drowne's Wooden Image." This story was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Dual Control by w.w. Jacobs

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published at the turn of the 20th Century, one publication is "Dual Control." This story was written by W.W. Jacobs.
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Other

Electronic Scholarly Publishing: Foundations of Classical Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of publications about genetics includes a unique approach to illustrate a genetics timeline. Important genetic events are correlated with other historical events. The book format allows you to scroll through history.
Website
Other

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy

For Students 9th - 10th
KAIROS, a quarterly online journal, explores the effect various technologies have in the classroom, as well as other large-scale issues relating to education.
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Other

Stile: 2.1 Lesson: Electromagnetism (Part 1)

For Students 4th - 6th
This is a sample lesson on electromagnetism. It includes animated diagrams, interactive exercises, an audio option for reading the text, and comprehension questions throughout where students can type their answers or pick from...
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Netta Syrett

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Netta Syrett and provides a link to her short story "Thy Heart's Desire." published in The Yellow Book in 1894.
Primary
University of Virginia

The University of Virginia: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

For Students 9th - 10th
A classic psychological text by Gustave Le Bon on crowd behavior, first published in 1896. The full text of this work is organized by chapter.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Erema" by R. D. Blackmore

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel Erema by R. D. Blackmore, is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1877. The novel is narrated by a teenage girl called Erema whose father escaped from England having been charged with a...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Tale of Tommy Fox by Arthur Scott Bailey

For Students 2nd - 4th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Arthur Scott Bailey's book titled The Tale of Tommy Fox. This book is the third book from "The Sleepy-Time Tales" series and was published in the early 1900s.
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University of North Carolina

Unc Libraries: "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
A very detailed version of Booker T. Washington's life as a slave and as an educator. This autobiography is the outgrowth of a series of articles he had published in the Outlook magazine. The simple story of an extraordinary man.
Primary
University of North Carolina

Documenting the American South: The Confessions of Nat Turner

For Students 9th - 10th
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, this site provides the complete "Confessions of Nat Turner" complete with images of the original pages published of the confession.
Primary
University of North Carolina

Unc: Charles Ball: Fifty Years in Chains

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read the entire text to "Fifty Years in Chains; or, The Life of an American Slave," which was written by Charles Ball and originally published in 1859.
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University of North Carolina

Documenting the South: George E. Pickett: The Heart of a Soldier

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the University of North Carolina, you can read letters written by George E. Pickett (1825-1875), a Confederate soldier. Originally published in 1913, this book provides George E. Pickett's correspondence with his wife,...
Primary
University of North Carolina

Documenting the American South: Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave

For Students 9th - 10th
UNC's resource provides links to download the entire text of "Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave," which was published in 1838. Included are 1838 articles from "The Liberator," in which the authenticity of this narrative is...
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University of North Carolina

Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read Mark Twain's (1835-1910 CE) book, "Life on the Mississippi," which was originally published in 1883. Download two HTML versions of the text: one providing links to images in the original text and one with images included.
Primary
University of North Carolina

Unc: Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 1849 Tales

For Students 9th - 10th
Download Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales," which was published in 1845, four years prior to his death. Read popular short stories such as, "The Black Hat," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Purloined Letter." Also, read biographical...
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FNO Press

From Now On: Graphical Organizers as Thinking Technology

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
From Now On explains the purpose and advantages of graphic organizers such as converting complex information into meaningful displays, helping students plan their research, and sometimes acting as mind maps. There are several examples...
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University of Manitoba

The Manitoba Library Association: Cm Magazine

For Students Pre-K - 1st
CM Magazine is an electronic magazine that is published every two weeks. It offers reviews of children's books and profiles of Canadian children's authors.
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Other

Encyclopedia Britannica: Emiliano Zapata

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a biography of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. The biography is taken from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and published as part of an online project entitled "Zapatista Rebels in Mexico and the Electronic...
Primary
University of North Carolina

Documenting the American South: John Andrew Jackson

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this exciting recollection of John Andrew Jackson in his book, "The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, "published in 1862. Find out about his experiences as a slave and his escape. Included are illustrations, biographical...
Primary
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Slave Narratives

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, part of the 'Documenting the American South' project, contains information about the slave narratives from their beginnings until 1920 and the importance of this form of...
Website
University of North Carolina

Documenting the South: John H. Worsham

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the University of North Carolina there is a firsthand account from a foot soldier who fought under the command of "Stonewall," Jackson during the Civil War. Download the full text of John H. Worsham's text, which was...
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University of North Carolina

Univ. Of North Carolina: Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut

For Students 9th - 10th
Here at this site from the University of North Carolina, read the full text to Mary Chesnut's (1823-1886 CE) "A Diary from Dixie." This website include biographical information and illustration from the original book, published in 1905.