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Buzzle.com: Historyplex: Facts About the Rich and Diverse Hispanic Culture
Aspects of Hispanic culture are discussed in this resource. Looks at family, language, social codes of conduct, religion, celebrations, foods eaten, and how they have contributed to the United States.
Tufts University
Perseus Digital Library: Works by and About Cicero
Contains electronic versions of many of the writings of Cicero. Some are available in both English and Latin, others only in one or the other language.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: That's Greek
[Free Registration/Login Required] Did you know that at least half of the words in the English language are derived from Greek and Latin roots? Students use these roots to grasp meaning of words before looking them up in the dictionary....
Able Media
Classics Technology Center: Life and Labors of Hercules
Lesson plan created for eighth-grade students with no Latin language background to learn about Hercules and his twelve labors. Includes handouts and examples of student work, as well as ways to add Latin to the project.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Cognates (English Iii Reading)
In this lesson you'll learn about different types of cognates, words that sound or look alike from one language to the next. You'll learn how leveraging cognate knowledge helps you figure out unfamiliar words in English. When you combine...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Describe Christmas or Other Holiday
Various listening examples of native speakers in different dialects describing the Christmas and other holiday traditions. Uses a variety of tenses. Provides a transcript as well so you can read along. Great way to bring native speakers...
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California Polytechnic State University: Backgrounds to Romance: Courtly Love
Background information on courtly love as reflected in "romance" literature of the Middle Ages.
Hans Lohninger
Photo Globe: Guatemala
Presents general facts about Guatemala in a well organized chart form. This site is enriched by links to aerial photos of the Santa Maria volcano and other images.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Distribution of Languages, 1916
A map of the distribution of Indo-European languages in Europe, including Celtic, Germanic, Latin, Slavic, Greek, and Albanian languages. Areas where language families other than Indo-European are also shown, including Lapp, Finnish,...
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Biblioteca Miguel Cervantes: Literatura Paraguaya
Discover the literature of Paraguay at this Spanish-language site.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Nicaraguan Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Nicaraguan Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
Virginia Tech
Electronic Antiquity: Communicating the Classics
Electronic Antiquity is a scholarly journal with an emphasis on editorial articles, reviews and announcements.
Phonecian Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Phoeniciana: Table of Phoenician Alphabet
This site from the Encyclopedia Phoeniciana provides an excellent chart comparing Phoenician letters and meanings with the modern (Latin) alphabetic equivalents. Explains the history of how each phonetic meaning has shifted over time.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dative With Special Verbs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students choose the correct direct object in sentences with verbs which take the dative. This activity corresponds to the grammar lesson of Stage XI of the Cambridge Latin Course.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Culture of Costa Rica
Readers will learn about the music, food, language, religion, art and other aspects of Costa Rican culture.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Palmyra
Amid the barren deserts of Arabia, a few fertile spots of soil arise out of the sandy waste, like islands out of the wide ocean. One of these places, termed oases by the inhabitants of those countries, became the seat of a rich,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Weather Watchers
Learners are introduced to some essential meteorology concepts so they more fully understand the impact of meteorological activity on air pollution control and prevention. First, they develop an understanding of the magnitude and...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Future Tense
General discussion of how future tense verbs work in language with more specific information about English, Latin, French, and Spanish. Includes examples throughout and some links to additional information near the bottom.