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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rewriting Nominalizations: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to rewrite sentences including nominalizations. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Rewriting Nominalizations."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rewriting Nominalizations

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson goes over how to rewrite sentences including nominalizations.
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New York Times

New York Times: Photographic Portraits of the Year's Best Actors (2004)

For Students 9th - 10th
This portfolio of black-and-white portraits of Oscar-nominated film stars captures a range of faces, poses, moods, and points of view. Excellent site for comparing and criticizing artistic choices and approaches and for inspiring...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: The Confirmation Process

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of NewsHour's "The John Roberts Confirmation" site, a chart that describes the confirmation process for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 5 Bad Writing Habits You Can Break Today (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
This infographic includes a list of easy-to-fix writing habits. Methods for fixing these five writing habits are included.
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The Washington Post

Washington Post: Us Congress Votes Database: Senate Confirmation: John Roberts

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief analysis of the confirmation vote on Chief Justice John Roberts to the Supreme Court. (2005)
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Curated OER

Bravo! Canada: Nobel Prize Nominated Poet Irving Layton Dies in Montreal at 93

For Students 9th - 10th
An obituary of Irving Layton - it looks at his poetry from the standpoint of a feminist. Preview site first - as this is a media site, the advertisement photos may sometimes be a bit off-putting.
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Egypt, Abyssinia, Et Cetera, 1904

For Students 9th - 10th
"Egypt is another of those countries whose prehistoric ages are wrapped in mystery as impenetrable as the sources of her Nile, whose exact location ling baffled the most enterprising of explorers. Great interest attaches to the country's...
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Indiana: Benjamin Harrison Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Benjamin Harrison lived in this Italianate house from 1875 until his death there in 1901, except from 1889 to 1893 while he was the 23rd President. He was also a Senator from Indiana from 1881 to 1887. Harrison accepted the Republican...
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Curated OER

Harriet Miers With Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid

For Students 9th - 10th
News article from October, 2005, announcing the nomination of Harriet Miers for the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by William Rehnquist. Miers will later withdraw her name.
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Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th
January, 2006, report covering the confirmation of Samuel Alito's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. There is also a brief video report from the Associated Press that goes along with this article.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Hiram G. Berry

For Students 9th - 10th
General Berry, born in Thomaston (now Rockland), Me., August 27th, 1824, died at Chancellorsville, Va., May 2nd, 1863. He originated and commanded for several years the Rockland Guard, a volunteer company, which attained a very high...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Millard Fillmore

For Students 9th - 10th
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 - March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office. He was the second Vice President to assume the...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Thomas Moore

For Students 9th - 10th
Moore, Thomas, the national poet of Ireland, was born in 1799 in Dublin, where his father was a grocer; died near Devizes in 1852. From Trinity College, Dublin, he passed in 1799 to the Middle Temple in London, nominally to study law;...