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Marxists Internet Archive

Marxists Internet Archive: Looking Backward From 2000 to 1887

For Students 9th - 10th

Provides the full text of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887.

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German Culture: Famous Germans

For Students 9th - 10th

Brief biographical profiles of famous Germans recognized worldwide in the arts, military, movies, politics, sciences, and sports.

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Fourmilab Switzerland

John Walker: The War of the Worlds

For Students 9th - 10th

An online version of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds. Separated by chapter and book, and based on the work of Project Gutenberg.

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Allama Iqbal Urdu Cyber Library

For Students 9th - 10th

Pakistani equivalent of Project Gutenberg. This site provides free online access to books in Urdu. The focus is on the works of Pakistan's official national poet, Muhammad Iqbal (or books about him), but other works include contemporary...

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Thomas Hardy's Lifeline

For Students 9th - 10th

This site provides a timeline of author Thomas Hardy's life (1840-1928 CE). Includes links to his published works - some of these may no longer work but the materials can be easily located on gutenberg.org.

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University of Pennsylvania

Project Guttenberg: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

For Students 9th - 10th

Project Guttenberg offers the following downloadable full texts:*Burns, Robert, 1759-1796: The Letters of Robert Burns, ed. by J. Logie Robertson (Gutenberg text)*Burns, Robert, 1759-1796: The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns*Burns,...

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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: The Latin Legacy: Language as a Cultural Marker [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th

In this lesson plan, 6th graders examine to what extent an imported language endures in a place over time. They will look at pages in Latin from the Gutenberg Bible, a Latin version of "The Lord's Prayer," and an English version of the...

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Annie Sechrist: The Role of the Printing Press in the Reformation

For Students 9th - 10th

Handwritten bibles were seldom found anywhere but within the walls of churches or in the hands of clergymen until the printing press afforded the opportunity for more production, faster, so that anyone willing and able to purchase one...

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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: William Caxton and the Introduction of Printing to England

For Students 9th - 10th

This article explains how William Caxton brought the printing press to England and published printed versions of works by writers including Chaucer, Malory, Gower, Cicero, and Virgil.

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Read Works

Read Works: The Renaissance Renaissance: The Spread of Ideas

For Teachers 4th

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the invention of the printing press. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Curated OER

Virtual Typewriter Museum: Why Typewriters?

For Students 9th - 10th

This site provides an early history of the typewriter, from Gutenberg's invention of the printing press through the standard Sholes & Glidden typewriter. Photos and drawings accompany the historical information. Also discusses the...

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