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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Sally Hemings

For Students 9th - 10th
By dividing Sally Hemings' life into four major stages, students will encounter the difficult choices forced upon enslaved women by an evil institution.
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Internet Infidels

The Arguments From Evil and Nonbelief

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents two contemporary arguments against the existence of God. The first presents arguments in logical form, then explains and defends in more readable prose. Often cites Bible verses to refute a Christian claim.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Fairy Tales From Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A guideline for helping learners to write their own fairy tales. This is a fun activity that will help students to analyze a literary style and follow a pattern.
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Vancouver Island University

On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemical Tract by Friedrich Nietzsche

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this collection of three famous essays by Nietzsche on the development of morality in translation at this site.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Film Noir

For Students 9th - 10th
Crime and gangster movies, detective mysteries and more -- all are of the film noir genre. Get to know the history behind this style of films.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide for the novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Other

Amos Web: A Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
Exploring the economy can be a fun adventure with the Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy. Use this site to find your answers to economic topics in a user-friendly format with comic strip guides.
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Stanford University

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough, insightful overview of Nietzsche's life and works. A superb introduction.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This website is organized into the following sections: "Press Release," "Presentation Speech,"...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan accompanies a reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth and lets students explore Macbeth's "response to fear" through studying metaphor, imagery, and dramatic cues and by performing a scene.
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Other

Peace Pledge Union: Mohanda Gandhi

For Students 9th - 10th
The Peace Pledge Union offers a short biography of Mohandas Gandhi. Content explores Gandhi's development of nonviolent disobedience, campaigns against racial discrimination, and particularly Gandhi's role in the Salt March of 1930.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Facing the New Millenium

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A thought-provoking essay discusses the political, social, and technological trends facing the United States at the turn of the 21st century. Of particular focus is the Bush presidency, 9/11, and the...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Philosophy

For Students 9th - 10th
Flexbooks 2.0 are interactive, customizable, digital textbooks. Flexbooks are standards-aligned. Flexi, a student tutor, is integrated into each book to guide you on your learning journey. Flexi can assist in learning, answer questions,...
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Digital History

Digital History: The Celebrated Bank War

For Students 9th - 10th
A good discussion of the views of supporters and opponents of the Bank of the United States, and the banking industry in general during Jackson's presidency. Were Jackson's ideas backward looking and ignorant? Did his policies cause the...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Matt is a clone of El Patron, a powerful drug lord of the land of Opium, located between the United States and Mexico. For six years, he has lived in a tiny cottage in the poppy fields with Celia, a kind and deeply religious servant...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania website features the full text of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." A summary note about Stevenson's novel of the nature of good and evil is included.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Myths From Around the World: The Near East

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about the King of The Near East, Gilgamesh. Discover how he led to the celebration of triumph of good and evil.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young Misha Pilsudski lives on the streets of Warsaw, Poland and struggles with his identity. When he enters the Jewish ghetto and sees firsthand the evil acts of Hitler's Nazi soldiers, he realizes it's safest of all to be nobody.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Coraline by Neil Gaiman

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Coraline's parents are too busy to play with her. She's on her own, and when she goes exploring in her new apartment she unlocks a door that leads to a different world. At first it looks familiar, even intriguing, but Coraline quickly...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Freeglader by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
After the great battle and destruction of Undertown, its surviving inhabitants must seek out a new life in the Free Glades, but to do so will require a mass exodus across the treacherous Mire and the seductive Twilight Woods. Led by a...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The Curse of the Gloamglozer

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this prequel to the first three volumes, readers meet young Quint long before his sky pirating days, as he becomes the apprentice to Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax. Shortly after his arrival, Quint is enlisted...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Control Room Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
As your country's top spy, you must infiltrate the headquarters of the evil syndicate, find the secret control panel, and deactivate their death ray. But your reconnaissance team is spotty, and you have only limited information about the...
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Bill of Rights Institute

Bill of Rights Institute: Richard Henry Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
Richard Henry Lee in many ways personified the elite Virginia gentry. A planter and slaveholder, he was tall, handsome, and genteel in his manners. Raised in a conservative environment, Lee was nonetheless radical in his social and...
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Other

Nebraska: Brief Glimpses of Nebraska's Past: Billy Sunday Cleans Up

For Students 9th - 10th
Billy Sunday came into Omaha in 1915 and vowed to clean it up. Read about his fifty-day campaign to rid Omaha of its "evils."

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