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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Living Language: Language Lab Italian

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Italian Language Lab and have fun too. Practice with different games or review vocabulary with the digital flashcards.
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Italian Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent discourse on the arrival of the Italian immigrants. Discussion includes reasons for the immigration, their chosen places to stay once they passed through Ellis Island, and their trials in a new land.
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Time

World War Ii in Color: Italian Campaign and the Road to Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
See color photographs from Life Magazine of Allied troops traveling through Italy towards Rome in the Italian campaign near the end of World War II. Many of these photographs were not published in the magazine at the time. Each photo has...
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Rise of Italian Fascism and Its Influence on Europe

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the rise of Italian Fascism and its impact.
Lesson Plan
Other

Exploring Diversity: Rural Roads, City Streets: Italians in Pennsylvania [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A great lesson plan that offers primary source materials to understand Italian immigration to Pennsylvania in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Other

An Exploration of Historic Prejudice: Italian Digital Photo Album

For Students 9th - 10th
This photo album shows the Italians as they lived in the Kootenays in Victorian days. They are seen here building the CPR, mining and going about their lives.
Handout
Other

The Internet Picture Dictionary: Italian

For Students 9th - 10th
An online easy to use Italian picture dictionary. Selections can be made by typing in the word you wish to look up or you can choose a category.
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Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects: Italian Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th
Brush up on your Italian vocabulary by learning the words then playing a game to see how well you remember them.
Website
Other

The Comprehensive Salem Guide: Salem Architecture: Italianate 1845 1860

For Students 9th - 10th
A line drawing of an Italianate house is labeled with features that set this style apart. The text elaborates on the details of the style.
Article
Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Texas Almanac: Italian Texans

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the rich and varied history of Italian people who in Texas. The pillars of Italian cultural identity in Texas have been principally food, faith, and family.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Italian Gold Ground Painting

For Students 9th - 10th
Many of the early works in the paintings collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are altarpieces and fragments of altarpieces made for Italian churches. They were placed above altars and served as the focal point of the Mass. Churches in...
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Italian Gold Ground Painting

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about painting in the Italian gold-ground style.
Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Living Language: Starting Out in Italian [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an introductory course teaching the basics of the Italian language. You'll learn some basic expressions that you will find very useful in everyday interactions, such as greeting people, introducing yourself and some very useful...
Website
Royal British Colombia Museum (Canada)

Italians in British Columbia

For Students 9th - 10th
The Royal British Columbia Museum discusses the role that Italians played in shaping the province. Italian workers were instrumental with the gold rush, with coal mines and with the construction of the railroad. The Italian Community...
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World Food Programme

Free Rice: Learn Italian Vocabulary and Give Free Rice

For Students 9th - 10th
Play this web game and learn new Italian vocabulary words while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program.
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Other

Rome, Galleria Borghese: Italian Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
Eleven images of the sculpture located in the Galleria Borghese in Italy are displayed here for your viewing. Text is in Italian, however the images are wonderful.
PPT
Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Humanism and the Italian Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the foundation of the Italian Renaissance, classical studies, and humanism. This is a comprehensive study tool.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Italian Boy and Industrial Men of Note by Harrison Weir

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Italian Boy and Industrial Men of Note by Harrison Weir (c1875), a collection of biographies of important men from industry.
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Other

West Valley College: The Italian High Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
The site from the West Valley College briefly surveys several pieces of artwork from the Italian High Renaissance including those from Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
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BBC

Bbc History: Animated Map: The Italian Campaign

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated map gives a good visual of the Italian Campaign which began in Sicily in 1943. Each map has a description of the action, a key is provided, and just the map animation can be replayed, or view the entire site again.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: The Renaissance, 1300 1600

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find a selection of readings to enhance teaching humanism and the Italian Renaissance and follow up with some of the questions available through MIT.
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Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects: Italian Phrases and Greetings

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn some basic, written Italian phrases, then play a game to match the Italian words to the same phrase in English.
Interactive
Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects: Fruit and Vegetables in Italian Language

For Students 3rd - 8th
Play this game to match the written Italian word to the fruit or vegetable that it represents.
Interactive
Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects: Numbers in Italian 10 100

For Students 3rd - 8th
Play this game to match two written Italian number words to their sum in Italian. The numbers are multiples of ten, up to one hundred.

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