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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Defamation

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what defamation is, and explore the legal differences between slander and libel. Other concepts include "false light" and "absolute privilege." Also looks at legal defenses used and defamation laws in other countries.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Herman Melville

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides lesson plans, e-notes, activities, and other resources for teaching young scholars Herman Melville's novels and fiction, including Moby-Dick, Bartleby, the Scrivener, Billy Budd, and so on.
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BBC

Bbc: Nature Wildfacts: Great White Shark

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed information about great white sharks.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Who's Looking at Your Digital Footprint?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Our digital footprints can have a powerful impact on our future. This can be a scary thought, given that what's in our digital footprint isn't always in our control. Teach students that digital footprints are an opportunity to showcase...
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Curated Lives

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Social media gives us a chance to choose how we present ourselves to the world. We can snap and share a pic in the moment or carefully stage photos and select only the ones we think are best. When students reflect on these choices, they...
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Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Be Safe and Smart Online

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set of resources have been created in partnership with The National Deaf Children's Society. They are designed to help and support deaf young people and their parents, carers and teachers to help and remind them how to stay safe...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comarison/contrast: Unusual Smear Campaigns [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this PDF lesson, pupils unpack two opposite concepts by creating an imaginary "Smear Campaign," pretending the two concepts are opposing each other in election. Students may create print, radio, or television ads to show how their...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Time Machine by h.g. Wells

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the story "The Time Machine" which earned H.G. Wells the reputation of the father of science fiction.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The White Feather by p.g. Wodehouse

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the novel "The White Feather" by P.G. Wodehouse about a young boy who trains to box in order to save his reputation and bring honor to his school.
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Other

Montclair Art Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Located in Montclair, NJ. The Montclair Art Museum has a respected national and international reputation for its fine collection of American art, Native American art and artifacts. The collection also encompasses works on paper,...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Evaluate Site

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides students with strategies for researching on the internet and how to tell if a resource is reputable. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7
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Other

Welcome to Houston Grand Opera

For Students 9th - 10th
The home page of the Houston Grand Opera, one of the premier opera companies in the U.S., with a reputation of premiering new works.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Nas

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Nas, an American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Luther Vandross

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizes the life and career of Luther Vandross, an American soul and pop singer, songwriter, and producer whose widespread popularity and reputation as a consummate stylist began in the early 1980s.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Pierre Puvis De Chavannes

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the "foremost French mural painter of the second half of the 19th century". This site provides examples of his work as well as a summary of his work at the end of the page.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sappho

For Students 9th - 10th
An Ancient Greek lyric poet from the city of Eressos on the island of Lesbos, which was a cultural centre in the 7th century BC. She was born sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC. The bulk of her poetry is now lost, but her reputation in...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Greece: Historic Centre (Chora) With the Monastery of Saint John

For Students 9th - 10th
The small island of Patmos in the Dodecanese is reputed to be where St John the Theologian wrote both his Gospel and the Apocalypse. A monastery dedicated to the 'beloved disciple’ was founded there in the late 10th century and it has...
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Neith

For Students 9th - 10th
Neith is the main goddess worshiped in Sais, in the West Delta. Neith had a great reputation in magic and medicine and was considered to be the goddess who invented the art of weaving. Therefore, she was a protective goddess and her...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Auger

For Students 9th - 10th
Among the anceient Romans, a functionary whose duty it was to observe and to interpret, according to traditional rules, the auspices, or reputed natural signs concerning future events.-Whitney, 1902.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Banastre Tarleton

For Students 9th - 10th
General Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, GCB (21 August 1754 - 16 January 1833) was a British soldier and politician. His reputation for ruthlessness and his involvement in the Waxhaw Massacre earned him the nickname "Bloody Ban" and...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bishop Hugh Latimer

For Students 9th - 10th
Hugh Latimer (c. 1485-October 16, 1555) was the bishop of Worcester, and by his death he became a famous martyr among Protestants and the Church of England. From around 14 years of age he started to attend Peterhouse, Cambridge, and was...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bust of Pindar

For Students 9th - 10th
Pindar, though the contemporary of Simonides, was considerably his junior. He was born either at, or in the neighborhood of Thebes in Baeotia, about the year 522 B.C. Later writers tell us that his future glory as a poet was miraculously...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Comte De Barras

For Students 9th - 10th
A French Jacobin, born in Province, in 1755, of an ancient family; served as second lieutenant in the regiment of Languedoc until 1775. He made, about this time, a voyage to the Isle-de-France, the governor of which was one of his...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Eleazar Williams

For Students 9th - 10th
A dark mystery shrouds the fate of the eldest son of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette, who was eight years of age at the time his father was murdered by the Jacobins. After the downfall of Robespierre and his fellows, it was...

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