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Beowulf
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Track #336244
Format: Worksheet
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<P>Introduction to Beowulf, Anglo-Saxon poetic style & epic poetry/heroes.</P>
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The Harlem Renaissance
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Track #245944
Format: Worksheet
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<p>This brief overview of The Harlem Renaissance will introduce students to the subject of The Great Migration, the social atmosphere created in Harlem's African-American community at the time, and some of the variety of arts-related endeavours undertaken by African-Americans of the period.</p><p>Included in the project are:</p><p>1. A quiz about poet Langston Hughes.</p><p>2. An brief description of "The Harlem Renaissance", and short biography of writer Zora Neale Hurston.</p><p>3. Video about The Great Migration.</p><p>4. A consideration of William H. Johnson's painting "Street Life".</p><p>5. Video about Harlem's social scene in the 1920s.</p><p>6. Video of Bessie Smith performing.</p>
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Social conventions of Japan & The Sound of Waves
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Track #312803
Format: Worksheet
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Students read online text about social conventions of Japan, relating them to personal experience in the U.S. and to the Yukio Mishima novel, <u>The Sound of Waves</u>.
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Beethoven to luftballoons...
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Track #278246
Format: Worksheet
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...a most incomplete and superficial consideration of German music.
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Myths of creation
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Track #300597
Format: Worksheet
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What is a "myth"? What is a "creation myth"? Students answer these questions and consider creation myths from the Australian Aborigines, the Navajo (Dine) and a culture of their choice.
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Three Day Road & World War I
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Track #340783
Format: Worksheet
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World War I informational reading activities, with connections to the novel <U>Three Day Road</U>.
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The Nobel Prize
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Track #280103
Format: Worksheet
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An overview of the Nobel Prize and Alfred Nobel, how recipients for the peace and literature prizes are determined, and a consideration of select Literature recipients.
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