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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Love Letter

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Love Letter", created by Jacob Ochtervelt from 1670-72 (Oil on canvas, 91 x 64 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Love Letter

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Love Letter", created by French Family of Artists Fragonard during the 1770's (Oil on canvas, 83,2 X 67 cm).
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Liberty Letters: Filing Cabinet Resources: Nancy Harkness Love

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical profile of pilot Nancy Harkness Love.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Letters" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of a touching love story, "The Letters" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Lovely Ll

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a Kindergarten flipchart introducing the letter Ll, its sound, Ll picture recognition, and Ll writing.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: On the Edge of the Volcano

For Students 9th - 10th
"I am writing this letter before my death," wrote a young Jewish girl in a letter to her sister and brother in 1942. These last letters from the Holocaust can only be described as heart-wrenching. Letters written to parents and loved...
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: We Shall Meet Again

For Students 9th - 10th
These last letters from the Holocaust can only be described as heart-wrenching. Letters written to parents and loved ones show the depth of suffering and anxiety the Jewish people faced in 1941. Each letter has a short biography of the...
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180:gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain

For Students 9th - 10th
In this poem, a love letter is devoted to a girl named Marcia and is told of wonderful things the poet hopes she learns.
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Other

Immortal Beloved

For Students 9th - 10th
Letters from Beethoven to the "Immortal Beloved" who was supposedly Antonie Brentano. The girl with whom Beethoven was madly in love.
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 Year 7

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" asks students to mark the rhyme scheme and highlight similes and metaphors, to respond to a modern letter with a message similar to the sonnet, and to...
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Books by Anton Chekhov

For Students 9th - 10th
Project Gutenberg provides the full text to over 20 books by Anton Chekov. Select the title of the book, and then choose the best way in which to view and read it in its entirety.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Literature Inspired Writing Lesson: I Never Knew That!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem discover that their seemingly "feeble" father has an astonishing ability with a rifle. For this assignment, writers will compose a letter to a parent or loved one, asking for a return letter that...
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Other

Twentieth Century Poetry in English: t.s. Eliot

For Students 9th - 10th
Maintained by Professor Eiichi Hishikawa, Faculty of Letters at Kobe University in Japan, this useful website tells you where to look to find more information on Eliot. This site does not offer much general information on Eliot, but it...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Alphabet Shopping

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Young children love to help with grown-up tasks so they'll really enjoy making this alphabetical shopping list, in this activity from Arthur.
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Progressive Phonics: Progressive Phonics All in One Reading Program

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers phonics practice for beginner, intermediate, and advanced readers using downloadable books that encourage fluency, comprehension and a love of reading. The program also includes downloadable alphabet and handwriting...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Touchstone by Edith Wharton

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of "The Touchstone" by Edith Wharton about a man who plagiarizes love letters for financial gain.
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Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
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Great Thinkers and Visionaries: Books by Albert Einstein

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a comprehensive listing of over 50 books written by Einstein. Each has a link to Amazon, listing availability, cost, short synopsis.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Literature 1950 2000

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore key literary works of the late 20th century with these articles.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Sherwood Anderson

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, compiled by a public library in Finland, contains a brief biography of Anderson and a discussion of his major works. It also has a chronological list of his works.
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New York Times

New York Times: Listening to Jazz C Ds With Sonny Rollins

For Students 9th - 10th
Sonny Rollins, legendary tenor saxophonist, invites us to listen to selections from four of his favorite jazz performances. Hear snipets of these jazz classics from the 1930s and 1940s: "Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fats...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: From the Trenches Wwi

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will experience what life was like for many soldiers during World War I by studying Trench Warfare. They will gain this understanding through pictures, first person audio accounts, and reading poetry from the war. Students will...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Jack London

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plans, e-notes, activities, and other resources are provided for teaching students reading Jack London's The Call of the Wild and his other works.
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Other

Neurotic Poets: Sylvia Plath

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a detailed biography on the often turbulent life and poetry of Sylvia Plath (1932-1963 CE). Included are links to full-texts of Plath's poems and images.

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