Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Technology and the World: Technology and Literature: Part 1
This lesson focuses on Flannery O'Connor, her short story "The Life You Save May be Your Own," and the characteristics of Southern Gothic Literature. It features links to Flannery O'Connor's Biography, a Wikipedia article on "The Life...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Technology and the World:technology and Literature:part Two
This lesson focuses on the use of technology to assist students with historical background to a piece of literature; it can help to understand the literature and how people felt about the historical event. It features links to the short...
Curated OER
Kids Health: All About the Heart
Kids Health features this diagrammatically color-illustrated article about the human heart.
Read Works
Read Works: After the Floods
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about a horrific flood that devastated parts of Pakistan in 2010. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
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The Guillotine History, Facts and Fiction
The Guillotine, a formidable and central part of the French Revolution, maintains a position of prominence in French history. This site documents the importance of this device and it's role in French culture. An interactive feature,...
American Public Media
American Radioworks: Why Are They So Angry at Us
A look at the anger and resentment aimed at America from the Middle Eastern nations. This article gives an overview of relations beginning with the Crusades and proceeding into modern times with interviews of people from the Arab...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Edward Estlin Cummings
Part of a series on "Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945," this article features a biographical note and appraisal and cummings's poem, "in Just."
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Territorial Claims
Part of the BBC's "Story of Africa" series, this article covers 19th century exploration and colonization.
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Map of California's Central Valley
National Public Radio offers a multi-part article on central California, "Home to the greatest garden in the world." Topics include creeping urbanization, demand for less pesticide use, labor and immigration issues, and the central...
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D Wv)
This article from NPR explores the faulty information and the possibility the case for war was based on invalid information. As part of President Bush's case for war with Iraq, he cited sources indicating that Iraq was attempting to...
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Staff Sgt Sparkman Instructs Troops in Niger on Use of .50 Caliber Machine Gun
A two-part article that considers the role of the U.S. military in the war on terrorism in Africa, specifically Niger. Is it enough to train African forces in anti-terrorism tactics and then leave, or does the U.S. need to step up...
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Niger Map
A two-part article that considers the role of the U.S. military in the war on terrorism in Africa, specifically Niger. Is it enough to train African forces in anti-terrorism tactics and then leave, or does the U.S. need to step up...