eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Married Sisters" by T. S. Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Married Sisters" by T. S. Arthur. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Means of Enjoyment" by T. S. Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Means of Enjoyment" by American author T. S. Arthur. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Messengers" by Richard Harding Davis

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Messengers" by Richard Harding Davis, an American author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Mother's Promise" by T. S. Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Mother's Promise" by American author T. S. Arthur. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Nature Faker" by Richard Harding Davis

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Nature Faker" by American author Richard Harding Davis. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Nice People" by Henry Cuyler Bunner

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Nice People" by American author Henry Cuyler Bunner. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Old Pipes and the Dryad" by Frank Stockton

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Old Pipes and the Dryad" by Frank Stockton. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Passing of Abraham Shivers" by John Fox Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Passing of Abraham Shivers" by American author John Fox Jr. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Philosophy of Relative Existences" by Frank Stockton

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Philosophy of Relative Existences" by Frank Stockton, an American author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Portrait" by t.s. Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Portrait" by T.S. Arthur. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Riding of Felipe" by Frank Norris

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Riding of Felipe" by Frank Norris. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Lady or the Tiger?" by Frank Stockton

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Lady or the Tiger?" by Frank Stockton. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Log of the 'Jolly Polly'" by Richard Harding Davis

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Log of the 'Jolly Polly'" by American author Richard Harding Davis. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Message in the Sand" by John Fox Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Message in the Sand" by John Fox Jr. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Rich and the Poor" by t.s. Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Rich and the Poor" by T.S. Arthur. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Not Great, but Happy" by t.s. Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Not Great, But Happy" by T.S. Arthur, an American author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Lesson Plan
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art of Renaissance Europe

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This educational resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains resources about Renaissance Europe including numerous pieces of art from that period with images and lesson plans.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Baroque Music

For Students 9th - 10th
A Wikipedia article on Baroque music distinguishes it from the Renaissance and Classical styles, discusses the different musical genres the Baroque composers wrote in, lists the important features of Baroque music, and provides a list of...
Handout
Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: General Information on Frederic Chopin

For Students 9th - 10th
Page contains general information about the difficulty of Chopin's Music. Also included is a picture of Chopin.
Handout
Other

Quick and Easy: Cesar Franck

For Students 9th - 10th
Quick, simple and short; this biography covers all the territory. Extremely basic.
Graphic
Other

Napoleon.org: Bonaparte at Arcole

For Students 9th - 10th
A picture and description of the painting by Antoine-Jean Gros that was done during the Neo-Classic period of art.
Lesson Plan
iCivics

I Civics: Cradle of Democracy Mini Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
No one person invented the kind of government that we have in the U.S. Check out two early governments that inspired the system that we have today: Athenian democracy, and the Roman Republic.
Website
Other

Acropolis Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow this link to the online home of the Acropolis Museum, which opened to the public in June 2009. Holdings include weathered originals and reproductions, freestanding works of sculpture, architectural fragments, and other antiquities...
Graphic
Curated OER

Model of West Side of the Athenian Agora in the Late Classical Period

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated dictionary entry for agora defines the term, identifies the location of the Athenian agora on a map of the ancient city, and includes a reconstructed model of the site.