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Neh: Edsit Ement: Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, Plashless"
This lesson introduces students to Emily Dickinson's poetry which often reveals a child-like fascination with the natural world. Students examine how she writes perceptively of butterflies, birds, and bats and uses lucid metaphors to...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: A Story of Epic Proportions: What Makes a Poem an Epic?
For this lesson plan, students will consider "A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic?." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: African American Communities in the North Before the Civil War
In this lesson plan, middle schoolers will consider "African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Australian Aboriginal Art and Storytelling
For this lesson plan, students will consider "Australian Aboriginal Art and Storytelling." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Aztecs Find a Home: The Eagle Has Landed
In this lesson plan, young scholars will consider "Aztecs Find a Home: The Eagle Has Landed." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Background on the Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Background on the Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Being in the Noh: An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Being in the Noh: An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Birth of a Nation, the Naacp, and the Balancing of Rights
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and the Balancing of Rights." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Building Suburbia: Highways and Housing in Postwar America
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Building Suburbia: Highways and Housing in Postwar America." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall Paper" "New Woman"
In this lesson plan, students will consider Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"-The "New Woman". The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Chronicling America: Uncovering a World at War
In this lesson plan, middle schoolers will consider "Chronicling America: Uncovering a World at War." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Colonial Broadsides: A Student Created Play
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Colonial Broadsides: A Student-Created Play." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Critical Ways of Seeing the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: David Walker vs John Day: Two Nineteenth Century Free Black Men
In this lesson plan, students will consider "David Walker vs. John Day: Two Nineteenth-Century Free Black Men." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Empire and Identity in the American Colonies
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Empire and Identity in the American Colonies." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Galileo: Revealing the Universe
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Galileo: Revealing the Universe." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: George Orwell's Essay on Life in Burma: "Shooting an Elephant"
In this lesson plan, students will consider "George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma: "Shooting An Elephant"." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Leisure and Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Having Fun: Leisure and Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: History in Quilts
In this lesson plan, learners will consider "History in Quilts." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Homer's Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field
In this lesson plan, young scholars will consider "Homer's Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Images of the New World
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Images of the New World." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Jack London's the Call of the Wild: "Nature Faker"?
In this lesson plan, learners will consider "Jack London's The Call of the Wild: "Nature Faker"?." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.