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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Importance of Figurative Language: Practice 3 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will sharpen your skill in reading figurative language and in connecting it with the historical and cultural settings in the text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Importance of Figurative Language: Practice 3 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read a text and understand how the figurative language of a literary work contributes to its historical and cultural setting.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Historical Fiction Form [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Good printable historical fiction book report form. Highlights the era as well helping students distinguish between fictional and true historical figures.
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Texas Historical Commission: Texas in the Civil War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive 36-page history of the Civil War in Texas. Includes numerous images, maps, primary documents, profiles of leading figures, a timeline, and information about battles. Specific topics are addressed, such as the cotton...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: What Makes a Hero?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this unit, students will discuss what qualities make a hero: kid heroes, adult heroes, local heroes, and historical figure heroes. They will extend this to what qualities make historical figures heroes for them; they will research a...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fantastic resource where you can find biographies of historical figures. You can search by the person's name or by topics, such as Presidents, United States Leaders, Scientists, Inventors, Humanitarians, Explorers and Pioneers,...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Twenty Questions" History Virtual Fieldtrip

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson, students engage in a virtual game of "Twenty Questions" with another class. They will utilize textbooks, trade books, the Alabama Virtual Library, and other Internet sites for reference. Each team (class) will be...
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Other

Arlington National Cemetery: History of Arlington National Cemetery

For Students 3rd - 8th
The National Cemetery site gives information about the famous, and not-so-well-known people who are buried there: war heroes, presidents, chief justices, explorers, historical figures, etc.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Beyond the Basic Biography Report

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson young scholars use the format and structure of a mentor text such as A. Lincoln and Me by Louise Borden to write an interesting biography about a historical figure with an emphasis on idea development, voice, and writing...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Twentieth Century Resumes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use the Alabama Virtual Library and other reference materials available in the library to create a resume for a twentieth century historical figure from United States history, science, or literature. The lesson is designed...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Zora Neale Hurston Video: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

For Students K - 1st
Learn about Zora Neale Hurston with this video clip, printable biosketch reader, and support materials. About the Show: "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum" is a PBS KIDS show based on the popular book series, "Ordinary People Change...
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BBC

Bbc: Historic Figures: Vladimir Lenin (1870 1924)

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography on the first leader of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilych Lenin. Discusses his legacy and his accomplishments throughout his life.
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BBC

Bbc: Historic Figures: Olaudah Equiano

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of Olaudah Equiano, an African who is famous for writing a narrative of his life as a slave, sailor, writer, Englishman, Christian, and abolitionist. Archived.
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BBC

Bbc: Historic Figures: Marcus Garvey (1887 1940)

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biographical resource on Marcus Garvey, the creator of the "Back to Africa" movement in the United States. Archived.
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Nat Turner

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Nat Turner led the largest slave uprising the South would see until the Civil War. The infamy of the event has led to multiple interpretations of Turner as a historical figure. By sourcing and...
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Texas A&M University

Sons of Dewitt Colony Texas: Mexican Independence

For Students 9th - 10th
Website devoted to the regional history of Texas discusses significant historical figures and events of Mexican Independence.
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Ohio State University

Ohio State University: Cold Cases: Lessons in Historical Skills and Methods

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lessons using primary sources to figure out what happened in the past allows students to examine and perhaps crack the mysteries that swirl around Byrd and his expedition to Antarctica to this day. Primary sources are available on the...
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Agriculture: Ranching in a Changing Land

For Students 4th - 8th
Looks at the history of agriculture in Texas, from the cattle drives of the past to the mechanization of food production today. One section discusses the major crops that are produced today, and the production and economic figures for each.
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Other

Office of the Treaty Commissioner: Historical Biographies

For Students 9th - 10th
Click on a treaty number to access biographies of important aboriginal figures in treaty negotiations in Canada.
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Maine.gov: Maine Kids: Famous People From Maine

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource from the Maine Department of the Secretary of State contains famous people, historic and recent, from Maine. Included are political figures, people in arts and literature, sports, entertainment, and entrepreneurs.
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Utah State History: I Love History

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find out about he State of Utah's exciting past with this multimedia resource. Learn about different groups and individuals who have impacted historical events as well as the history of the land there. Also find an interactive timeline,...
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Utah State History: I Love History

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find out about he State of Utah's exciting past with this multimedia resource. Learn about different groups and individuals who have impacted historical events as well as the history of the land there. Also find an interactive timeline,...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Rhetorical Devices and Historically Significant Speeches

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives students the opportunity to analyze Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech and identify the rhetorical devices that make them...
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EL Education

El Education: Black History Portraits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This product represents the work of one student from Meadowbrook High School, Chesterfield County, Virginia. Each portrait depicts a figure from black history. The student transformed his graffiti art skills into beautifully detailed and...

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