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TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE AwesomeStories is large resource filled with primary-source information. Its purpose is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. The site is very easy to use and is would be helpful to use with many projects across the curriculum.

" Pete Jones"

A lasting online resource and a companion project for Shakespeare in American Life, a radio documentary produced by Richard Paul and narrated by Sam Waterston, airing on Public Radio International (PRI) stations beginning in April 2007.

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.

Several thousand original and copy photographs; albumen, platinum and silver gelatin prints; 1860s-1920s. Use for story starters, historical background, and research projects

Will Farren's very interesting project whereby students can lead him to travel to new places and interact with various people.

This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math. Fun and interesting site with ideas mapped out on index cards.

The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II.

Site at SFMOMA that corresponds to the exhibit of the 1000 journals project.

Created by Andrew Zukerman as a book of interviews and accompanying DVD (with some sample interviews online). Asks people we mostly know to share what they know after all their years. Compelling.

Blog from last year's 6th grade Language Arts class, includes descriptions of projects/activities and student reflection on activities. Lots of information about using Web 2.0 technology in the LA classroom.

Use this to publish student writing from blogs, could turn into a very cool project.

"In our weekly "Poetry Pairing" series we collaborate with the Poetry Foundation to feature a work from its American Life in Poetry project alongside content from The Times that somehow echoes, extends or challenges the poem's themes"

St. Columba's College English department's transition year extended essay assignment is a great project.

Poems from more contemporary poets. Includes readings of some poems

"The University of North Carolina Press joins the UNC Office of Information Technology in publishing the Internet Poetry Archive. The archive makes available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The goal of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences (at little or no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their texts. "

Great intro unit that will help students get acquainted!

Writing in Digital Environments: Pedagogies and Theories - hosted by the Red Cedar Writing Project