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Timekeepers.org: Calendar History

For Students 6th - 8th
Scroll down this page to see the various topics addressed on this website. Learn a "brief history of the Western Calendar" as well as information about the ancient calendars of the world, including the Sumerian, Egyptian, and Greek...
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Livius: Caesar's Calendar Reform

For Students 9th - 10th
A selection from Plutarch that highlights Caesar's desire to reform the calendar and how he came about with the changes he enforced.
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Interesting Calendar Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides some entertaining facts regarding the calendar according to different countries and religions.
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Author's Calendar: Mao Zedong (1893 1976)

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this site for a biographical sketch of the life of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong. It discusses his political career, as well as his literary career. A bibliography of his selected works is also provided.
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A Calendar for "Northanger Abbey"

For Students 9th - 10th
This analysis of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" examines the function of time in the plot using an day-by-day calendar to summarize the events of the story. Includes a bibliography.
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Alex: Calendar Fun Operations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to help students evaluate numerical expressions by using order of operations. The students will be provided a calendar for the current month of the year. Students will then be provided with a worksheet that...
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Author's Calendar: Derek (Alton) Walcott

For Students 9th - 10th
This Calendar of Authors' Literature webpage has biographical sketch about of this West Indian poet and playwright who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. Walcott's works often deal with the conflict between his Caribbean...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Lesson Plan: Calendar Fun Operations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This activity allows students to practice evaluating expressions using order of operations. They will create a calendar using symbols, and a PowerPoint presentation to review the order of operations. It also gives an assessment and ideas...
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Carbon 14 Dating Calendar

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a Carbon 14 Dating Calculator to compute the percent of Carbon 14 remaining after a given number of years. Also calculates how many years have elapsed from how much Carbon 14 remains.
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Writing Fix: The Wacky Classroom Calendar

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, in this cross-curricular lesson students learn how to summarize properly.
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Author's Calendar: Margaret Atwood

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy biography and list of works by Atwood.
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Author's Calendar: Upton Beall Sinclair

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography, selected publications, and a list of further reading.
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Author's Calendar: Erik Axel Karlfeldt

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical sketch of Erik Axel Karlfeldt who was a famous Swedish writer. Highlights his life as a writer and lists several of his selected works.
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Smart Draw: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The official website of SmartDraw offers comprehensive information about this drawing software, as well as a free-trial download. Additional content includes tutorials, examples, and scenarios. This software is often used in...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Animals of the Chinese Zodiac

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site from EDSITEment provides a fun look at the Chinese culture by examining the animals of the Chinese Zodiac and the traits of the Chinese calendar.
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Time and date.com

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a free site which began with the World Clock, and has grown to include many other wonderful tools for learning about time and date. what makes this site distinctive, is its ability to manipulate the perspective internationally to...
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National Geographic: 45 Bce: Julius Caesar Takes a Leap

For Students 9th - 10th
Why do we have an extra day at the end of February every four years? We have Julius Caesar to thank! Read this short explanation about how the calendar kept falling out of step with the seasons and Caesar's solution to the problem.
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Author's Calendar: Pegasos: Eugene O'neill (1888 1953)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a biography of Eugene O'Neill, an expressionist writer. It includes quotes as well as further bibliographical references.
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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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Author's Calendar: Guillaume Apollinaire

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography on the life of French author and playwright, Guillaume Appollinaire.
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Author's Calendar: Ludovico Ariosto

For Students 9th - 10th
The biography on this Italian poet is thorough and contains a selected bibliography.
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Author's Calendar: Vicente Aleixandre

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay describes the influences and work of Nobel Prize winner, Vicente Aleixandre.
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Author's Calendar: T(homas) E(dward) Lawrence

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a biography of British archeological scholar, adventurer, and military strategist, T.E.Lawrence. It gives details on his early life and life in Arabia. It includes quotations, and links to further information.
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Author's Calendar: Maksim Gorky

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative biographical essay focusing on Gorky's political and social activities. Features several quotations from major works, and links to pages on Tolstoy and Chekhov.

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