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eBook
University of Michigan

American Verse Project: Atlanta Offering: Poems, by Frances e.w. Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
Searchable text of poems by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, from the book "Atlanta Offering."
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Activity
University of Toronto (Canada)

Selected Poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins (1825 1911)

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected full texts of poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Aunt Chloe", "The Drunkard's Child", and "The Slave Mother." Includes overview of the author's life and works.
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eBook
University of Virginia

Univ. Of Virginia: Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, Poems

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Virginia Library provides a wonderful selection of Frances Harper poems. Each poem is individually linked for easy access to one of interest. Includes images.
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Primary
University of Virginia

The University of Virginia: Sketches of Southern Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Virginia Library resource provides the text for Frances Harper's "Sketches of Southern Life," which is a collection of poems. The full text of many of Harper's poems are available.
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Handout
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical profile of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the first African American woman to publish a short story and also an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer.
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Unit Plan
Cengage Learning

Studying Francis Ellen Watkins Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
This Houghton Mifflin site prepared by Elizabeth Ammons is a study site about Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, the 19th century African American author.
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Black Emancipators of the 19th Century

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson unit on the people and movements that fought to abolish slavery. Looks at the Triangular Trade, and at the Underground Railroad and famous abolitionists. Includes a play about emancipation, a black history rap and a trivia quiz...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Learning to Read" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with the poem "Learning to Read" by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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eBook
Other

Iola Leroy, Or, Shadows Uplifted

For Students 9th - 10th
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's novel is offered by the Schomburg African American Women Writers project in machine-readable form.
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Website
Other

Mossell, n.f.: A Sketch of Afro American Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
This site by N.F.Mossell looks at the history of Afro-American Literature. Beginning on page 59 of the text, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper is discussed along with her contributions to Afro-American Literature.
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Curated OER

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.