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Isaac Asimov Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource covers every aspect of Asimov's prolific writing career. Biographical information, movie connections, short story collections, lists of Asmiov's works are all here.
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J.s. Bach Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive site listing all of Bach's music viewable by BWV number, by category, by instrument, by key, by title, or by year. Includes brief reviews of many recordings. Excellent biography with portraits. Very complete information...
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Encyber Pedia

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An encyclopedia online. Just look for your topic to find information that you need. Provides information on a wide range of topics.
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Prokofiev: Music Under Soviet Rule

For Students 9th - 10th
An anti-Soviet position permeates the biography of Prokofiev offered here, but the information is good.
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Wic Biography Index

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site lists biographies of Living Legacy Award recipients and other exceptional female humanitarians alphabetically.
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Interview With Daniel Keyes

For Students 9th - 10th
The author of "Flowers for Algernon" shares some incidents on the way to publishing the famous novel.
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Leo Hendrik Baekeland

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at the life of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, including his creation of the first completely synthetic plastic, bakelite.
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Database of Award Winning Children's Literature

For Students 4th - 9th
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
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Trelease on Reading/beverly Cleary

For Students 3rd - 8th
The author of the Ramona series, Beverly Cleary, receives an appreciative biographical note by Jim Trelease.
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A La lettre.com: Arthur Rimbaud

For Students 9th - 10th
This French-language biography profiles the life and work of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891).
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Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association: Bronson Alcott Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
This Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association site features this profile of her father, the educator and transcendentalist writer Amos Bronson Alcott.
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Life of Amos Bronson Alcott

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical survey of the educational and religious philosophy of Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), author, teacher, conversationalist, transcendentalist philosopher, and outspoken advocate of educational and social reform. Includes extensive...
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Erskine Caldwell

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a great place to start any Caldwell research. A brief biography by the author's stepson, information about all of Caldwell's writing, a complete bibliography, and a well-developed list of print works about the author are all...
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Literature Unit: "A Day No Pigs Would Die"

For Students 6th - 8th
This site features questions for each of the chapters in Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die."
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Soylent Communications

Notable Names Database|nndb: Tracking the Entire World

For Students 9th - 10th
Homepage of NNDB, a site to turn to for discovering biographical data of folks of popular significance around the world.
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Biography of Baruch Spinoza

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides some brief biological information about the philosopher, Baruch Spinoza.
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Dictionary of Uu Biography: Bela Bartok

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent biography of Hungarian composer Bela Bartok by the Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography Project.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: "Walk Two Moons" Study Guide

For Students 4th - 7th
Download the 40 page study guide for "Walk Two Moons" at this site. Share with your class this intricately plotted and wryly narrated novel with its subtle and moving portrayal of grief. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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IMDb

Internet Movie Database: Tennessee Williams

For Students 9th - 10th
Presented by Internet Movie Database, this website offers a list of Williams' film credits as both writer and producer. Each film credit serves as a link to more information about that title.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Tech: Obituary: Isaac Asimov

For Students 9th - 10th
This plain text obituary from Newsday is published in The Tech, MIT's "Oldest and largest newspaper."
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The White House

The White House: Presidents: Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief overview of the life of President Lincoln. Includes photo.
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City University of New York

Cuny: Dorothy Parker Rothschild

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography of 20th century poet Dorothy Parker discusses the many tragedies that impacted her life and the wit that made her writing famous.
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Read Write Think: Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
People make the past come alive as students research and then share stories about famous Americans who promoted democratic ideals.
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Pbs Frontline: The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela

For Students 3rd - 8th
Site accompanies a PBS special on the inspirational Nelson Mandela. Site chronicles the life and many struggles of Mandela. It specifically breaks his life down into four parts: childhood, revolutionary, prisoner, and husband. Also...