eBook
University of Michigan

Middle English Compendium: The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and search Chaucer's famous work, "The Canterbury Tales." Text is provided in untranslated Middle English.
Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: "To This We Dissented": The Rock Springs Riot

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the description of the Rock Springs massacre written by the Chinese workers who lived through the massacre and presented to the Chinese Consul in New York. Included is a report of an investigation of those who died in the massacre....
Article
Curated OER

History Matters:"rock Springs Is Killed":white Reaction to the Rock Springs Riot

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an article from the Rock Springs Independent railng against the return of the Chinese coal miners the day after the Rock Springs Massacre that resulted in the death of several Chinese laborers.
Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: Protestant Paranoia

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains text concerning the APA and the Secret Oath taken to belong to the Association and explains why the group was formed.
Website
National Library of France

Bn F the Legend of King Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive story of King Arthur. Includes images and activities in addition to an extensive biography.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Le Morte D'arthur by Sir Thomas Malory [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 700-page PDF of the complete novel Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, the Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions, 2004.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Glossary for Vol 1 of Le Morte Darthur: Thomas Malory [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 16-page PDF Glossary for Volume One of Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory from The Pennsylvania State University.
Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Letter From the East to the Master of Hospitallers

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a primary source document, written by Ansbert, detailing the events in and around Jerusalem, during the Third Crusade.
Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: The Chinese Experience in 19th Century America: The Rock Springs Massacre

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan is from a larger site examining the Chinese Experience in the United States in the 19th century. Discover the role the official support by the labor movement played in the discrimination, and in the case of the Rock...
Website
Luminarium

Luminarium: Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Luminarium offers Chaucer quotes, a biography, a collection of Chaucer's works, both in Middle and Modern English, a selection of essays about his times and his works and links to much of the other scholarly information about Chaucer on...
Handout
Luminarium

Luminarium: Sir Thomas Malory

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to providing both Modern English and Middle English texts of Malory's "Morte d'Arthur, Luminarium provides several biographies, and essays on Malory and his works.
eBook
Central Intelligence Agency

Cia: Intelligence in the Civil War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A multi-topic look at intelligence gathering, the tools used, and the people involved in both the North and the South during the Civil War. Comprehensive, interesting coverage from the CIA.
Activity
Other

Postcolonial and Postimperial Authors: v.s. Naipaul

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource on V.S. Naipaul, a Carribean writer, this website provides articles on his status as a "rootless wanderer," his major works, and the key themes and ideas conveyed in Naipaul's writing.
Activity
Other

Illinois State Museum: The American Railway Union

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpt from U.S. Strike Commission Report. Site also provides focus questions at the bottom.
Website
Web Gallery of Art

Web Gallery of Art: Raffaello Sanzio

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth biography of the painter Raphael discussing his life and works. A link is also provided to a listing of his works.
Primary
Harvard University

Harvard Univ. Library: The Tide of Immigration: The Alien Contract Labor Law

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter from a 1916 book by Frank Julian Warne, titled The Tide of Immigration, outlines how the so-called native workers' jobs should be protected from the influx of immigrants. Read about the law that made it illegal for...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Middle Ages: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an introduction to a unit on the literature of the Middle Ages. It focuses on two essential questions of study: "How is the poetry of the middle ages characteristic of the culture? and How did the English Language change during...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Middle Ages: Chivalry and Courtly Love

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Chivalry and Courtly Love in the literary works of the Middle Ages. It includes a list of the vows of chivalry and the rules of courtly love. It features links to information about Medieval Europe, the Vikings, the...
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Industrialization: Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor

For Students 11th - 12th
Learn about the lives of the working class in Industrial America, what led to the formation of labor unions, and why labor unions were not successful despite strike actions.
Website
Other

Wyo History: The Rock Springs Massacre

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this very detailed description of the Rock Springs Massacre and the circumstances that led up to it. Find out why Chinese immigrants became the focus of hatred and discrimination.
Website
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about V.S. Naipaul, the man who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature. His life and works are discussed in this detailed website,providing video, original texts and speeches and...
Interactive
Other

Educastur: Caballeros Y Castillos

For Students 3rd - 8th
Terrific introduction to the Middle Ages, in Spanish. Learn about the people, cities, and life by clicking through beautifully illustrated screens while a jester narrates. Click objects, e.g., the castle gate, a cathedral door, or a...
Graphic
Indiana University

Wolfert's Roost and Other Papers, Now First Collected

For Students 9th - 10th
The 1855 edition of Washington Irving's essay collection Wolfert's Roost is provided in facsimile and can also be read in PDF and plain text form.
Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Women and Minorities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Although the colonial period produced several women writers of note, the revolutionary era did not further the work of women and minorities, despite the many schools, magazines, newspapers, and literary clubs that were springing up....

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