Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Head of a Roman Patrician
Verism can be defined as a sort of hyperrealism in sculpture where the naturally occurring features of the subject are exaggerated, often to the point of absurdity. Roman portraiture used this artistic preference to show leaders as...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Oh Baloney! Incorporating Large Numbers Into Tall Tales
Fourth graders write and read aloud an exaggerated story using multi-digit numbers up to 1,000,000.
University of California
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: Cotton Pickers by Romare Bearden
The Berkeley Art Museum publishes an activity based on Romare Bearden's The Cotton Pickers that helps young learners identify the geometric shapes used in the composition. Also discusses the artist's use of color to evoke mood.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: "Knot" the Whole Truth
The writer will analyze and discuss the tall tale format after reading Jerry Spinelli's tale of Cobble's Knot, told in Chapter 20 of Maniac Magee. Then writers will need to create an interesting character in a special situation which...
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: The Iron Horse: Land Departments and Immigration
From a lengthy essay on the history of the railroad in the United States. This section describes what the Land Department and the Bureau of Immigration did in order to attract new immigrants to settle along the railroad line. The...
BBC
Bbc: New Orleans Violence 'Overstated'
Amid reports that there was an increase in crime and violence in New Orleans during in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this September 2005 article contends that those reports were exaggerated.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Windmills
Windmills were so common along the North Carolina coast at the time of the Civil War that Charles F. Johnson, a Union soldier stationed on Hatteras Island, later wrote that there were "a greater number than I supposed were in existence...
The History Cat
The History Cat: Age of Exploration: Christopher Columbus
The story of Christopher Columbus, of how he became an explorer, his encounter with the Arawak people in the Caribbean, and the exaggerated tales he told the King and Queen of Spain when he returned to Europe.
Other
Stories for Scouts: Tall Tales and Campfire Stories
Goofy stories and larger-than-life adventures populate this list of tall tales.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Statue of Khnumhotep
Khnumhotep is represented with his torso exaggeratedly large in proportion to his short legs and arms. He has a broad, fat chest and belly and relatively large ears. His name and titles are inscribed on the base of the statue.
Curated OER
Sign Outside the Convention Center
Amid reports that there was an increase in crime in violence in New Orleans during in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this September, 2005, article contends that those reports were exaggerated.
Curated OER
Image of Ladybird Book Cover
This article answers the question of whether the Normans put England under a brutal "yoke of control" or was this more of a myth created much later after the fact. The author concludes is was an "exaggerated and one-sided account" and...