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PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Role of Exiles in Post Saddam Iraq (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson in which students discuss Iraqi expatriates who returned to their home country after the fall of Saddam. Students look at obstacles faced by these former exiles and identify parallels between the return of Iraqi expats to Iraq...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Leon Trotsky

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of the life of Leon Trotsky. Discusses his life before the Russian Revolution, his political accomplishments afterwards, his opposition to Stalinism, his exile and his assassination.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Anglo-Saxon poetry including its elegiac tone, exile themes, and use of figurative language and poetic techniques like alliteration, caesura and kennings. It features links to three poems, each in at least two...
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Luther Seminary

Bible Tutor: Babylonia

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bible Tutor site briefly describes the Babylonia and the Babylonian Exile. Includes image, map, and hyperlinked terms.
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Luther Seminary

Bible Tutor: 539 Bc

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bible Tutor site about 539 BC briefly describes the period immediately following the Babylonian Exile.
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Other

The Travelling Historian: Napoleon Returns

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a narrative history of Napoleon's return to France from his exile at Elba along with a description and photographs of an annual re-anactment at Golfe Juan.
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Other

The Traveling Historian: St. Helena

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a narrative history on the exile of Napoleon to the Island St. Helena from 1815 to his death in 1821 along with numerous photos and illustrations.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Exiles in Paradise

For Students 9th - 10th
Bernardi discusses the exhumations of the victims of political oppression in Argentina and how those experiences influence her art.
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Young French Marquise in Exile in Lausanne

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Young French Marquise in Exile in Lausanne", created by Jean-Baptiste Mallet in 1789 (Gouache on wove paper, 217 x 300 mm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: War, the Exile and the Rock Limpet

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "War, the Exile and the Rock Limpet", created by Joseph Mallord William Turner in 1842 (Oil on canvas, 79,5 x 79,5 cm).
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Other

Santa Fe Institute: Social Strife May Have Exiled Ancient Indians

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers another explanation for the disappearance of the Anasazi - a bloody interclan war as opposed to the theory of drought and climactic changes.
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Other

University of Southern Maine: Biblical Jewish Diaspora

For Students 9th - 10th
This site interprets the ancient documents that recorded Jewish diaspora. Discover the trails of these ancient peoples from throughout history. Interesting information about ancient Jewish and African cultures.
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Curated OER

Cbc.ca: Taking the West: The North West Rebellion

For Students 3rd - 8th
An overview of the NorthWest Rebellion of 1885 . Events, including the return from exile of Louis Riel, conflict between the government and the local aboriginal peoples, are viewed as is the treason hanging death of Riel.
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BBC

Bbc: The Road to Refugee

For Students 9th - 10th
Fifty years after the adoption of the UN Convention on Refugees, the decade we live in has seen more of the world's people than ever before seeking refuge from war, persecution or disaster. This special report tells the stories behind...
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Other

American Jewish Historical Society: Timeline of American Soviet Jewry Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
In the late 1800's and most of the 1900's countries made many efforts to help Jews in the Soviet Union gain freedom to practice their faith. Countries such as the United States and Israel offered exile to many Jews to escape the...
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: The Tempest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of resources for Shakespeare's The Tempest, a story of a shipwrecked, exiled duke, who plots revenge, and his daughter, who dreams of love. Compare productions and see how artists...
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Albie Sachs

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of Albie Sachs a champion of justice in Apartheid South Africa who spent time as a political prisoner and was gravely injured by a car bomb planted by South African security forces, exiled, and was finely reunited with his...
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Benazir Bhutto

For Students 9th - 10th
At age 35, Benazir Bhutto was one of the youngest chiefs of state in the world. More than that, she was the first woman ever to serve as prime minister of an Islamic country, but the road that brought her to power had already led through...
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PBS

Pbs: Simon Schama: The Story of the Jews: Explore the Diaspora: Visual Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline beginning in 587 B.C.E. when the Jews are exiled into Babylonia through persecution under the Roman Empire on through the Crusades, World War II up to the construction of the "Separation Wall." This thorough resource follows...
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Other

Civil War News: Roswell Women Exiled

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Civil War News discusses the story of the women of Georgia's Roswell mills who were forced from their homes and jobs during the American Civil War. The factories which employed these women were destroyed, and as a...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Bringing the "New Colossus" to America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan provides suggestions for augmenting a study of The Statue of Liberty. Includes information on the Emma Lazarus sonnet, "The New Colossus," (which was written about the statue) and the attitudes towards immigration during...
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Brown University

Brown University Library: Center for Digital Initiatives: Napoleonic Satires

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of over four hundred satirical prints (made in Britain and continental Europe) of Napoleon. Related historical essays on the prints themselves and on the cast of characters depicted in them round out the site. Also includes...
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BBC

Bbc: Us Urges Aristide to Delay Return

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti in time for the 2011 run-off election and the reaction of the United States. Links to related articles are featured. (March 14, 2011)
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PBS

New Perspectives on the West: Juan Seguin

For Students 9th - 10th
Juan Seguin, a Mexican American Tejano who helped lead the Texas revolution and independence survived the Alamo but was then exiled from the new state, a victim of prejudice.

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