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Neh: Edsit Ement: The Campaign of 1840
A three-lesson unit on the campaign and election of 1840. Links to many sites for more information, interactive worksheets, lesson objectives, and assessment. From EDSITEment.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Letters From Emily Dickinson
Excellent lesson plan in which young scholars study and analyze the letters that Emily Dickinson wrote to Thomas Higginson and to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, as a method of understanding her poetry in a deeper...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Hammurabi?s Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
A complete lesson unit on Hammurabi?s Code, for Grades 9-12.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: The Path of the Black Death
The Black Death caused a radical alteration in population and dramatic changes in society. In this lesson, students will analyze maps, documents, and firsthand accounts to trace the effects of the Black Death in Europe.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Kate Chopin's "The Awakening": No Choice but Under? Unit Plan
This unit plan can be used as a whole, or any of its three parts. Plenty of resources for the context of the novel, and the literary concepts of realism and regionalism are provided.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Profiles in Courage to Kill a Mockingbird
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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Neh: Edsit Ement: Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Contemporary criticism of the novel, the conditions of Victorian women, and Bronte's decision to publish the novel under a male pseudonym form the focus of this lesson.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: The American War for Independence
The decision of Britain's North American countries to rebel against their Mother Country was a risky one. The teaching unit is comprised of three lesson plans. Students explore the diplomatic and military aspects of the American War for...
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Ed Sitement! "Shooting an Elephant": George Orwell's Essay on His Life in Burma
This site shares a PDF activity for students to organize connotative and denotative meanings. Students will read "Shooting an Elephant" and then complete the chart with explanations of the denotative and connotative meanings. L.11-12.5b...