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\nTo Kill a Mockingbird: Fun Trivia Quiz \n

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\nA standard reading comprehension quiz, this resource asks 10 multiple choice questions that focus on the characters in Harper Lee's modern classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The fact-based questions, which focus on identifying...\n
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\nRomanticism 1800-1860\n

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\nWhat do Roger Chillingworth, Dr. Heidegger, and Ethan Brand have in common? They are all American literature poster boys for Romanticism, advertising the dangers of valuing reason over feeling and intuition. Introduce your class to...\n
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\nReliving History through Slave Narratives\n

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\nHelpful for an American literature or history unit, this instructional activity prompts middle schoolers to examine slavery in the United States. They read slave narratives that were part of the Federal Writers' Project and then conduct...\n
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\nThe Railroads and Settlement of the Great Plains\n

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\nEnhance your American literature unit with this resource, in which readers access the Nebraska Studies website and read about \"Railroads and Settlement.\" They search for a photograph of some aspect of the railroad from the Prairie...\n
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\nReading Comprehension: Uncle Tom’s Cabin\n

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\nIntroduce your high schoolers to one of the most important pieces of American literature with a reading comprehension lesson. As class members read a short passage from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, they learn...\n
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\nTeaching Guide: Exploring To Kill a Mockingbird\n

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\nHarper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, considered by many to be a seminal piece of American literature, contains many complex literary themes that carry through United States history. Use a series of discussion questions and classroom...\n
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\nTeacher's Guide: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald\n

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\nA 10-lesson unit takes high schoolers through a novel study of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. To start, students learn about Fitzgerald's background and gain historical context that prepares them for a reading of the book. The...\n
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\nBell Ringer: Ralph Waldo Emerson\n

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\nHere's a bellringer video about Ralph Waldo Emerson that will resonate with American Literature students. Against a backdrop of Emerson's study, Curator of the Concord Museum David Wood informs viewers about the philosopher's life,...\n
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\nSlavery and Freedom\n

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\nHow do nineteenth-century texts by African American and Native American writers contribute to the country's ideals of freedom and individuality? Learners explore the topic by watching and discussing a video, reading biographies, writing...\n
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\nModernist Portraits\n

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\nHow did literature reflect people's attitudes in post-World War I America? A lesson explores the topic using a variety of activities. Individuals watch and respond to a video; read author biographies and engage in discussion; write...\n
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\nBecoming Visible\n

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\nThe television and interstate highways both came of age in 1950s America. Scholars use film, text, and discussion to explore how these and other cultural icons shaped the literature of the time. Pupils also create a family history...\n
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\nParallel Studies in American/Afro-American Literature, Part II -- Black and White Images in Alienation\n

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\nStudents begin the lesson with a review of the elements of poetry. Individually, they read a variety of poems and literature one white and one black author focusing on decay, sterility and alienation. They identify these images within...\n
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\nSharing Their Stories: Native American Literature and Culture in 19th Century America\n

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\nStudents investigate Native American culture reading and writing about early Native American authors. They listen to an expert to extend their understanding of the culture.\n
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\nExploring Literary Genre Through Latin American Literature\n

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\nStudents explore poetry and its meaning. After reading poems, students explore the literary elements such as the setting, character, problem, events and resolution. They compare and contrast descriptions given in poems. Students...\n
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\nIntroduction to American Literature\n

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\nStudents discuss the topic of freedom and what the National Anthem means to them and to our country. They create a new and original verse for the National Anthem.\n
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\nThe Family That Endured An Historical View of African-American Families As Seen Through American Literature and Art\n

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\nYoung scholars identify racial stereotypes in advertisements from the past and survey their sources and implications. They compare advertisements from the past with those of today using similar approaches and create an original...\n
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\nGreetings from Maya Angelou\n

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\nLearners investigate the life and works of Maya Angelou. They complete a Webquest, read poems, listen to a reading by Maya Angelou, answer discussion questions, and write a poem, short story, or essay based on a newspaper article.\n
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\nNative Voices\n

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\nThe Navajo people build their dwellings with the doors facing the rising sun in the east to welcome wealth and fortune. Pupils learn about the traditions of the Navajo people in the first part of a 16-part unit. They explore American...\n
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\nEarly American Poets\n

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\nThe poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are the focus of a unit that asks readers to consider how an artist's life and changes in society influences his or her work. After careful study of Whitman's and Dickinson's perspectives on...\n
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\nEarly American Novel: Exploring the Emergence of a Genre\n

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\nNeed an extra challenge for your best readers? Check out a unit that uses Hannah Webster Foster’s epistolary novel, The Coquette, published in 1797, as the anchor text. The resource is packed with project ideas; each with its...\n
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\nAnonymous Patriots: Songs of the Revolution\n

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\nGive your class a deeper understanding of the context and meaning behind early American song lyrics. By reading the lyrics to \"Yankee Doodle\" and  \"Revolutionary Tea,\" high schoolers will practice analysis by examining the...\n
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\nNative Americans - Searching for Knowledge and Understanding\n

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\nWhat do you know about American Indians? Upper graders compose an informational essay based on the research they conduct. They choose a Native American group to study and, using the provided list of web links, gather information and...\n
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\nThe Death of a Salesman Act I: the Lowman Family & their American/Capitalist Dreams\n

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\nThis thirty-slide presentation, designed to accompany a lecture on the first act of Arthur Miller's The Death of a Salesman, would be appropriate for a college-level American literature class or perhaps as a teacher resource. \n
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\nMultigenre Research Project\n

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\nStudents research influences on African American literature. They research someone who has influenced the development of African American literature and create a multi-genre research project. They create a photograph poem, character...\n
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