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Loc: Poetry 180: The Poetry of Bad Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
This seven-stanza poem includes words and phrases that are commonly associated wit the weather.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Green One Over There

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece shares a story of jealousy and the tragic illness that occurred in its midst.
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Loc: Poetry 180: A Man I Knew

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem describes a man that the poet once knew.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Nights

For Students 9th - 10th
This three-stanza poem explains that she really does not want anything other than rest.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem plays on the topic of grammatical concepts.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Fault

For Students 9th - 10th
This four-stanza poem's topic of a mother worrying about her son so much that is is to a fault.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Thanks for Remembering Us

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-stanza poem describes the event of receiving an arrangement of flowers by mistake.
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Loc: Susan B. Anthony, Defendant

For Students 9th - 10th
This site at the Library of Congress includes information on Anthony's trial in 1873 for her attempt to vote the year before. There is a graphic of her own copy of "An Account on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony" as well as other...
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Loc: Frank Lloyd Wright Designs for an American Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
A site covering Frank Lloyd Wright from 1922-1932. Specific information on how his architecture was designed with the environment in mind. The Exhibition was at the Library of Congress from 1966 until 1997.
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Loc: September 11 Acquisitions

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress has received original material including photographs, drawings, poems, eye-witness accounts, maps, and much more concerning the attacks on September 11th. They have archived this is a special exhibition.
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Loc: American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Women's Trade Union Seal

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the seal of the National Women's Trade Union League, a union formed by women to address issues not being supported by unions with mostly men as members.
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Loc: Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive exhibition offers observations on various facets of Franklin's life, as well as his writing and other accomplishments.
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Loc: African American Mosaic: Black History and Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Online version of a Library of Congress exhibit, covering information about black history, including colonization, abolition, migrations, and the WPA. It is multimedia and contains hundreds of primary source documents.
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Loc: The Fifteenth Amendment

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief description of the 15th Amendment.
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Loc: Battle Hymn of the Republic

For Students 9th - 10th
A historical look at the writing of the Battle Hymn of the Republic and many versions of historically significant sheet music.
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Loc: Political Cartoons and Debates

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A rich Web resource from the Library of Congress for lesson plans that require researching historic political cartoons and utilizing primary source documents.