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Creates a word cloud -- great for theme and word choice Then creates interactive word cloud -- with clickable words -- select a word and the visual word map thesaurus shows up, plus quotes and main ideas, plus research and encyclopedia info about that word. Try putting in a speech or other text ... it will identify main themes based on most frequent use of words... or will identify word choice... or use for vocabulary...

Creates a word cloud -- great for theme and word choice Then creates interactive word cloud -- with clickable words -- select a word and the visual word map thesaurus shows up, plus quotes and main ideas, plus research and encyclopedia info about that word. Try putting in a speech or other text ... it will identify main themes based on most frequent use of words... or will identify word choice... or use for vocabulary...

"American Authors in the Nineteenth Century: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Stowe, and Poe This primary source set showcases five prominent American authors and includes examples of the different media that promoted, and sometimes significantly altered, their public images and literary works. Looking at these primary sources provides an opportunity to explore both the authors' literary texts and the ways in which those works, and the authors themselves, were portrayed in the media at the time of their renown." Some Common Core connections include: CCSS.ELA-Lit.RH.11-12.7 ( Grades 11-12 Literacy in History/Social Studies ): Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem. CCSS.ELA-Lit.RH.11-12.9 ( Grades 11-12 Literacy in History/Social Studies ): Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources. CCSS.ELA-Lit.RH.11-12.8 ( Grades 11-12 Literacy in History/Social Studies ): Evaluate an author's premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information. CCSS.ELA-Lit.RH.9-10.8 ( Grades 9-10 Literacy in History/Social Studies ): Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claims. CCSS.ELA-Lit.RH.9-10.9 ( Grades 9-10 Literacy in History/Social Studies ): Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.