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Abraham Lincoln Online

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a wonderful resource for everything you need on Abraham Lincoln! The site contains the text to many of his writings and speeches, many pictures, profiles and biographies, information on places associated with Lincoln, plus...
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Ministerio De Cultura Y Juventud De Costa Rica: Teodorico Quiros Alvarado

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content; this is a biography of the Costa Rican architect and sculptor Teodorico Quiros Alvarado.
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John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
This site known as the JSS virtual gallery is a great site with a biography of the artist John Singer Sargent and an extensive listing of his works. Links 350+ paintings.
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Raptus Assoc.: Beethoven: The Magnificent Master

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive Beethoven with galleries, biography, works by genre and research projects. MIDI
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First Thing/ "St. Evelyn Waugh"/ Review of Biographies

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an extended review of Martin Stannard's two volumes of Waugh's biography. Stannard contends that Waugh is "a brilliant satirest, one of the funniest writers of the century." The book and this review provide insight into Waugh's...
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George Bernard Shaw/ Life and Excerpts From Works

For Students 9th - 10th
The biography may be brief, but the selections from his works are, as one is entitled, "Gems." The excerpts deal with subjects like education ("Always argue with the teacher."), love and children, marriage and divorce, and a compilation...
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The Stoa Consortium:johannes Tinctoris Theoretical Works

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an overview of the life and work of Johannes Tinctoris. It explains several important details on his work in notation and musical composition. Also makes reference to his musical dictionary (the first musical dictionary in...
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Uua: Louisa May Alcott

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed biography of Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 CE) from the Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography. Contains a couple of pictures as well.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Lyrical Ballads (1798)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Toronto features the complete text of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads". It includes Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Dorothy Parker

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a list of poems by Dorothy Parker, all which are linked to the text of each.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Toronto has links to 39 poems written by Percy Shelley, with line-by-line notes for each work. A section of biographical information is provided.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Toronto site provides information on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The text of some of his works is provided.
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Fernando Botero: Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
From a website exclusively devoted to the artist this is the biography of the world-renowned Colombian painter Fernando Botero.
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University of North Carolina

Unc: Harriet: The Moses of Her People

For Students 9th - 10th
E-text of a book with primary and secondary source information about Harriet Tubman by Sarah Bradford published in 1886. RI.9-10.7 different mediums
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University of Michigan

Making of America: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

For Students 9th - 10th
Digitization of this two-volume, searchable text of Margaret Fuller's memoirs are available.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: William Wordsworth, "Lyrical Ballads"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Virginia provides the text to the book of poems "Lyrical Ballads," featuring the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth.
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Unc: James Fenimore Cooper, 1789 1851

For Students 9th - 10th
This useful and detailed page includes both biographical and literary analysis of Cooper and his work.
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Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: Los Pronombres Relativos

For Students 9th - 10th
Great Spanish language practice with the relative pronouns que, quien, quienes, and lo que. Use these pronouns to complete three short biographical profiles of three famous hispanic women, and check your answers.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Guide Nonfiction Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains 17 nonfiction articles that are appropriate for students with a 6th grade reading level, as measured by the Fry Formula. Questions for each passage are provided. These graphic organizers are copyrighted and may be used...
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Dorothy Parker

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers an organized collection of biographical information on Dorothy Parker.
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Valparaiso University: William Morris Davis

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive biography of William Morris Davis (1850-1934 CE), often called "The father of American geography." He was one of the founders of the Association of American Geographers and a regular contributor to the National Geographic...
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Autobiography: e.l. Konigsburg

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Following this brief autobiographical sketch, there are is a biographical statement, a list of works written by the author, and a list of works about the author.
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New York Times

New York Times: Supreme Court Justice Profiles

For Students 9th - 10th
This New York Times site contains biographies of every US Supreme Court Chief Justice including early life, famous decisions, and opinions.
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Byron: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Work

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides biographical information about Byron, a chronology of works, the text of his works and other good references.