The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...

This website on Gao Xingjian, the recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature, provides a multimedia experience through videos, primary texts, and images.

Have fun with drama and the weather with this pantomime play about weather concepts! Lists characters, props, and directions for each character.

These activities allow students to explore how Aphra Behn uses character types and tropes associated with carnival in "The Rover". Students can relate this to the play's context of production, and comic theories relating to the...

This varied series of activities is designed to encourage learners to exercise independence of thought when exploring the presentation of Lady Macbeth throughout the play. The tasks draw learners' attention to the varied ways in which...

Experience vaudeville in pictures, sound, and animation, with a selection of supporting primary-source documents, such as period newspaper clippings and historical photographs. The jewels of the site, however, are two performance...

Collection of primary documents that depict the social revolution and drama of the Emancipation in the words of the participants. Includes the voices of liberated slaves and defeated slaveholders, soldiers and civilians, common folk and...

This lesson from the American Forum for Global Education is designed to help children understand that using hands to "convey messages" is a form of communication.