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Ducksters

Ducksters: History: Realism Art for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the Realism Art movement and its major artists such as Eduoard Manet and Winslow Homer.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: History: Renaissance Art for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about Renaissance art including painting and sculpture on this site. Explore what makes this art unique like realism and perspective.
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University of Virginia Library

Prism: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." Text highlighted in red represents modernism while blue text represents realism. Click on any word to...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Madame X John Singer Sargent

For Students 9th - 10th
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a display of John Singer Sargent's portrait "Madame X," or "Madame Pierre Gautreau." The enlargeable image has some background information about the painting.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Magical Realism

For Students 9th - 10th
A fourteen-part learning module with links to images, slides, videos, texts, and websites on the literary technique of magical realism.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: David Gilmour Blythe

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, David Gilmour Blythe is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his bitter depictions of humanity often cloaked in depravity.
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Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
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Handout
New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Epistemology

For Students 9th - 10th
Wonderful introduction to the topic. Historical overview up to Descartes summarizes epistemological questions in ancient and classical thought. From there, lists the contemporary problems of epistemology that follow after Cartesian...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Two Bad Ants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart correlates with the Scott Foresman Grade 3 textbook. It preteaches the main comprehension skill which is recognizing the aspects of the literary genres realism vs. fantasy; has...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Unit Six Two Bad Ants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains the target skills, comprehension skills, text structure, grammar, phonics, vocabulary, genre, and literary sources from the Scott Foresman reading series,"Two Bad Ants"..
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1936 Award Ceremony Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Nobel E Museum you can read Per Hallstrom's presentation speech before the Swedish Academy prior to Eugene O'Neill's acceptance of the Nobel Prize.
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Baertracks

Creative Quotations From Gustave Courbet

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Creative Quotations contains five quotes from Gustave Courbet. A short piece of biographical information is also included. An interesting site.
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Other

Alan Magee Studio

For Students 9th - 10th
A modern day realist whose work is mostly reminiscent of pop art. You will enjoy viewing his work in which the subject matter is of everyday objects.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Social Realism: American Passages: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Trace the historical events and literary publications from the 1870s to 1920 with this timeline that accompanies the video Social Realism.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Winslow Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical profile of Homer Winslow, 19th-century American landscape painter.
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Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account covers the life and career of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French landscape and portrait painter.
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Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Jean Francois Millet

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account covers the life and career of Jean Francois Millet, French Realist artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Edward Hopper

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of 20th-century American realist painter Edward Hopper.
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Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Cecilia Beaux

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of American painter Cecilia Beaux who was known for portrait painting.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Gustave Courbet

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of Gustave Courbet, a French painter during the Realism movement.
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Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Honore Daumier

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account covers the life and career of French artist Honore Daumier known for his drawings and cartoons satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.
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Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Newell Convers Wyeth

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of American artist Newell Convers Wyeth, one of America's greatest illustrators.
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Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Thomas Eakins

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of American realist painter, Thomas Eakins.
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Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Charles Demuth

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of American painter Charles Demuth, the first American Cubist-Realist.