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Virtual books: images only - The Notebook of William Blake: Introduction - 0 views

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    Blake wrote and sketched in this notebook, which came into his possession after his brother's death in 1787, for 30 years. The closely-filled pages give a fascinating insight into Blake's compositional process, allowing us to follow the genesis of some of his best-known work, including: A Poison Tree, Infant Sorrow, London, The Tyger, The Sick Rose, and The Chimney Sweeper.
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MoMA | Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language - 0 views

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    "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language brings together historical and contemporary works of art that treat language not merely as a system of communication governed by grammatical rules and assigned meanings, but as a material that can be manipulated with creative freedom, like paint, clay, or any other artistic medium. The exhibition is divided into two sections. The first is a historical overview of 20th-century art that experiments with the graphic, sonic, and kinetic possibilities of letters and words. With a few notable exceptions, these works are confined to the two-dimensional parameters of a page. The second section presents an installation of contemporary works, most of which do away with the page; some do away with writing altogether. The artist and poet Emmett Williams observed that "the poem as picture is as old as the hills," citing its beginnings in hieroglyphics,"
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NYPL Digital Gallery | Ellis Island Photographs from the Collection of William Williams... - 0 views

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    Photographs (gelatin silver prints) relating to Ellis Island and immigration into the United States in the early 20th century, ranging from portraits of individual immigrants by Augustus Francis Sherman to views of the Ellis Island facility and its grounds by Edwin Levick and others. Use for story starters, historical background, and research projects.
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Resources: ADText - An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Advertising - 0 views

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    Sleek interactive site about media in society. Here is their description: ADText is authored by Professor William M. O'Barr, Ph.D. Professor O'Barr (mack@duke.edu) is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in advertising and its relation to society, culture and history. He is author of Culture and the Ad: Exploring Otherness in the World of Advertising (1994). He is also founding editor of the online journal, Advertising & Society Review.
Dana Huff

Internet Shakespeare Editions - 9 views

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    Great resource for William Shakespeare.
Sheri Edwards

Simple Geometry | The American Scholar - 13 views

  • Good writing, like a good watch, should have no unnecessary parts, and that’s what great art shouts at us: Tell the story with no unnecessary parts.
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    Good writing, like a good watch, should have no unnecessary parts, and that's what great art shouts at us: Tell the story with no unnecessary parts. William Zinsser
Suzanne Rogers

The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 (William Byrd) - 3 views

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    Listed in Common Core mapping project
Suzanne Rogers

2aImpressionist Does Shakespeare in Celebrity Voices 2c 0f - YouTube - 7 views

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    Jim Meskimen performs Clarence's speech from William Shakespeare's Richard III as a number of different celebrities, from George Clooney to Droopy Dog.
Suzanne Rogers

The Bloody Tenent of Persecution, Roger Williams | The Reformed Reader - 2 views

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    in Common Core mapping project
Dana Huff

The Shakespeare Standard >> William Shakespeare News From Pages to Stages - 1 views

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    The Shakespeare Standard is a news, feature, and blog hub for Shakespeare-related news on the web. They publish news items from around the world on a regular basis while featuring reports, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts from our editorial staff and community contributors.
Suzanne Rogers

Of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford 1590-1657 - 2 views

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    on CCSS map
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