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Lumen Learning

Lumen: The Romantic Period, 1820 1860: Essayists and Poets

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Romantic Period's essayists and poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, the Brahmin Poets, and more.
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Read Works

Read Works: "Paul Revere's Ride"

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the ride of Paul Revere. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: My Lost Youth

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "My Lost Youth" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Turn, Turn, My Wheel

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "Turn, Turn, My Wheel" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Children's Hour

For Students 7th - 8th
A learning module that begins with the poem "The Children's Hour" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: My Lost Youth

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania.com site provides the full text to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, My Lost Youth.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: A Psalm of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Longfellow's poem, "A Psalm of Life."
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Maine Historical Society

Maine Memory Network: The Acadian Diaspora

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Take a fresh look at the Longfellow classic "Evangeline" in its historical context, with a look at a number of primary sources, and a connection with "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...
Website
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Simonds History of American Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents the full text of the "Simonds History of American Literature." This detailed reference book explores the literature in early colonial times, the eighteenth century, the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New...
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TES Global

Blendspace: American Literature Early Poets

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module with twenty-one links to texts, websites, videos, and quizzes on early American poets including Anne Bradstreet, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allen Poe.
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Wadsworth Longfellow House

For Students 9th - 10th
Home of Revolutionary War General Peleg Wadsworth, it was the childhood home of his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For Students 9th - 10th
The subject of this sketch was the most popular of American poets. -The Popular Cyclopedia, 1888
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Henry W. Longfellow

For Students 9th - 10th
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882) was an American educator and poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline". He was also the first American to translate Dante...
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Longfellow House

For Students 9th - 10th
This 1759 Georgian house was used by George Washington as his residence during the 1775-76 Siege of Boston. In the 19th century it was purchased for poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82) by his father-in-law, and is where Longfellow...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Transcendentalism, an American Philosophy

For Students 5th - 8th
A good look at the first major American philosophy, transcendentalism. Read about the ideas that transcendentalists believed, and find out the members of the Transcendental Club. Many American authors of the time espoused the ideals of...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Introduction: Giovanni Boccaccio's the Decameron

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, the Italian precursor to The Canterbury Tales, from which Chaucer drew heavily. It provides links to a Chaucer and Boccaccio essay, the tale "Fedrigo's Falcon," and questions...
Website
Other

Paul Revere Heritage Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A compilation of information about Paul Revere, his role in colonial America and the beginnings of the American Revolution, popular myths about his famous ride, and an interactive map. Read primary source documents, see pictures of...
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Literatura De Los Estados Unidos

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia overview in Spanish of American literature from its roots to contemporary authors and themes. This entry is a broad sweep -- no era is covered in depth but it's a helpful "big picture" view for Spanish-speaking students, with...
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Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society: How 19th Century Artists Viewed the Separation of Civilization and Nature

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Combining art and literature, this instructional activity takes a look at how artists drew the line between civilization and wilderness in 19th century America.
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Read Works

Read Works: Colonization & Revolutionary War: Paul Revere's Ride

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Paul Revere's ride and the beginning of the Revolutionary War. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: A Brief Guide to the Fireside Poets

For Students 9th - 10th
Concise explanation of the term "Fireside poets" (also called the "schoolroom" or "household" poets). It's mainly a discussion of the poetic movement, and it discusses many of the important figures including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...
Website
Digital History

Digital History: Creating a Distinctly American Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Truly American literature based on American legend, native scenes, and American culture began to find a place in the 1820s. Read about three of the American writers that introduced American literature to a reading public.

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