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Cengage Learning

Studying Francis Ellen Watkins Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
This Houghton Mifflin site prepared by Elizabeth Ammons is a study site about Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, the 19th century African American author.
eBook
Just Books Read Aloud

Just Books Read Aloud: Jessica Harper and Lindsay Du Pont: Lizzy's Do's and Don

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A video of the book "Lizzy's Do's and Don", written by Jessica Harper and Lindsay DuPont. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
Here at Wikipedia you can find an encyclopedia article exploring the life of Nelle Harper Lee and her work.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Cliffs Notes: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
CliffsNotes offers a comprehensive overview of the novel by Harper Lee entitled "To Kill a Mockingbird." Here you can find chapter summaries, character analyses, study help, a biography of the author, and more.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Character Study: Scout Finch

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the character of Scout Finch from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It includes excerpts from the American Masters documentary entitled Harper Lee: Hey, Boo, discussion questions, teaching tips, and...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: "To Kill a Mockingbird"

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough overview of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," made specifically for students preparing to take the GCSE test. This site is beneficial to all students studying the novel or race relations in the 1930's. Links include...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: To Kill a Mockingbird Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a complete study guide for the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee including chapter-by-chapter guided reading questions (aligned to specific Common Core Standards), discussion questions, various writing prompts, and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Setting in to Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson plan, students explore the importance of setting in literature and apply their learning to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Students are introduced to the three main components of setting: time,...
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Swiss Educ

Swiss Educ: Lee, Harper 1926

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a rich collection of both background and teaching ideas, with a great number of multimedia files. Includes what purports to be a phone message from Lee herself.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Profiles in Courage to Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers two separate lesson plans which focus on the theme of "Courage," as portrayed in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," and court transcripts (and other primary source material) from the second Scottsboro Boys Trial of 1933.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Michael S. Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Michael S. Harper, an African-American poet whose sensitive, personal verse is concerned with ancestral kinship, jazz and the blues, and the separation of the races in America.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

For Students 9th - 10th
Interest facts about John Brown, the militant anti-slavery activist who tried to seize ammunition from an armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Website
Other

Harper Collins Children's Books: Laura Ingalls Wilder

For Students 3rd - 6th
This site features the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Quiz: Harpers Ferry and John Brown for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th
History Questions: Harpers Ferry and John Brown Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
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Toronto Star Newspapers

The Star: Portraits of the G20 Leaders: Stephen Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief profile of Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, the G20 leader hosting the 2010 Toronto Summit.
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Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Frank Harper, Or, the Country Boy in Town

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Unknown author's Frank Harper, Or, The Country Boy In Town has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids History: John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore an attempt at a slave uprising at Harpers Ferry to end slavery by John Brown during the Civil War on this site.
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The English Teacher

Teacher2b.com: Notes for "To Kill a Mockingbird"

For Students 9th - 10th
Review notes for the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
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The English Teacher

Teacher2b.com: To Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Check out this sample test for the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Teachers can pick and choose the questions that will fit with their students learning styles.
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The Book Report

Teenreads.com: To Kill a Mockingbird, Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find a brief review of Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," as well as a biography of the author and along excerpt from the novel.
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PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Martha Matilda Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
A former servant developed an influential beauty regimen -- and innovated business practices when she created the first franchise system of independently owned salons in the U.S. and Europe.
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Other

Harper College: North Africa/ Sw Asia Map Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
Quiz yourself on the physical geography of Southwest Asia and North Africa by using this tutorial to Check your knowledge of landforms, bodies of water, and rivers in this area of the world.
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Harper College: South Asia Physical Geography

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a map quiz of the physical features of South Asia. It contains lists of land bodies, rivers, and water bodies to be matched to a map of South Asia. It can be used as a study tool.
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Other

Harper Collins: Patricia Mac Lachlan

For Students 3rd - 5th
Patricia MacLachlan shares some information about her life in her own words. A link to her site and a list of her books are included.

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