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"Sarah Josepha Hale was born on October 24th, 1788 in Newport, New Hampshire to Revolutionary War Captain Gordon Buell and Martha Whittlesay Buell. Well educated in the classics, Sarah continued her private studies after her marriage in 1813 to David Hale, a lawyer and Freemason. Sarah was widowed in 1822 with five children to support, four under the age of seven. After a brief stint with a millinery shop, she published her first book of poems, The Genius of Oblivion, with David Hale's Freemason lodge paying for the publication. Her career was firmly established with her first novel, Northwood, released in 1827. That same year, she began her most remembered literary position - that of editress."

great site for help in English reading and understanding novels,

tons of info on the Bard

"Google Web bardweb.net Shakespeare's Biography Shakespeare's Works * Plays * Poetry Shakespeare's Language Shakespeare's Will Authorship Debate The Globe Theatre Elizabethan England SRC Features Shakespearean Study Reading List Theatre Companies Other Links SRC Storefront About the SRC Citing the SRC Will's Quote o' the Day O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? - Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. ii Welcome! Thank you for visiting the Shakespeare Resource Center. You'll find here collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you find information on William Shakespeare. There are millions of pages that reference Shakespeare on the Internet. This site aims to make it a little easier to find your sources. You could also buy a book or something to further your learning experience and help support the site, but that's up to you."

Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). Here you can read more than 39,000 pages about flags

Lumiere Technology, a start-up based in Paris, reveals the true colors of the Mona Lisa. Pascal Cotte, engineer and founder of Lumiere Technology, largely contributed to the knowledge of the Mona Lisa thanks to the multispectral digitization of the famous painting, whose report is detailed in the famous book "Mona Lisa - Inside the Painting", recently published by Abrams in USA, Gallimard & the Editions of the Louvre in France, Shirmer Mosel in Germany. The hidden knowledge of the true colors was revealed by multispectrally scanning the painting in thirteen channels - from Ultra Violet to Infra Red. Then the spectral response curve of the varnish in each pixel was isolated and subtracted from the digital file to virtually reveal the surface of the painting when it had freshly exited Leonardo da Vinci's workshop. This virtual removal of years of accumulated varnish is an illustration of Lumiere Technology's technical knowledge that will now be marketed as an exclusive digitization service to museums and private fine art collections worldwide. The true revolution that Pascal Cotte developed enables the in-depth study of fine art paintings using a numerical file to reveal the true pigments for viewing and analysis without touching or damaging the paintings. Lumiere Technology offers this service to museums worldwide as a unique, single tool to assess, analyze, authenticate, restore and reproduce their masterpieces of fine art.

"Americans have recognized black history annually since 1926, first as "Negro History Week" and later as "Black History Month." What you might not know is that black history had barely begun to be studied-or even documented-when the tradition originated. Although blacks have been in America at least as far back as colonial times, it was not until the 20th century that they gained a respectable presence in the history books."

"Here, you can: » Learn what makes green schools better for students. » Learn about local, state and federal initiatives to promote and support green schools » Learn about LEED, the national benchmark for high-performance schools. » Find videos, research, case studies and other resources. » Read the most recent green schools news. » Get involved "

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Lots of info about the constitution, history, social studies, etc.

"The form taken by literature circles varies according to the students' needs, their abilities, and the characteristics of individual classrooms. However, all literature circles share the following three basic elements: diversity, self-choice, and student initiative (Daniels, 2002). Based upon curriculum goals or particular themes students are studying, the teacher selects a set of texts which are either thematically related books of various genres or a body of work by a single author (Brabham & Villaume, 2000; Gilbert, 2000). Learners then are either assigned to a "circle" by their teacher or they may form their own groups, based on students' reading interests or book titles they have selected (Burns, 1998). Within each circle, students are in charge of their own learning and have responsibilities, such as leading discussions and deciding the volume of material to be read for each meeting (Farinacci, 1998; Peralta-Nash & Dutch, 2000). "

also has a Teacher Resources page full of lesson plans for hands-on activities, study pages, and reference materials

Synopsis: The lesson plan is based on Hispanic artists. Its purpose is to introduce important artists to students so they may become familiar with artists, their works, and their roles in society. Three artists are highlighted in this lesson, but you can easily incorporate other artists. Plus, this lesson can continue throughout the course with students maintaining notebooks (either in hard form or on the computer) of the artists they study. The lesson is intended for Level II Spanish, but may be adapted for higher levels as well. Similarly, it may be modified for artists from different languages and cultures.

"The Great War 1914-1918 began as a resource for courses in World War Ipoetry, a topic now taught in a number of universities. The site has sincegrown to be of interest to anyone studying World War I."

The Status of Women in the States provides data on women's progress in 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the United States overall.

Categories:  Student Use, Teacher Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration, Interactive Learning Brief Description:  Fairly comprehensive set of links to popular culture and US history decades sites.