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This lesson correlates to the National History Standards. Era 6 -The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) Standard 3A -Demonstrate understanding of how the "second industrial revolution" changed the nature of work and conditions of work. This lesson correlates to the National Standards for Civics and Government.

Richard Arkwright's spinning machine turn Britain into the centre of the industrial revolution.

People have known about coal since ancient times. Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, wrote about it in one of his books - Meteorology - during the 4th Century B.C. By the 13th century, people in Europe were commonly using this natural resource. By the 14th century, Hopi Indians had discovered its value.

How To Use This Discussion Guide Materials Included | Begin by reading Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s " Harrison Bergeron" or in your copy of What So Proudly We Hail. Materials for this guide include background information about the author and discussion questions to enhance your understanding and stimulate conversation about the story.

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.

Creating Utopia: The thing I like about this graphic organizer is that it calls for the student's rationale -- would be nice to add that.

My school is located within a 20 minute drive of where part ofThe Hunger Games was filmed in an old mill village. Being the intelligent teachers we our, my teammate and I jumped on the excitement and interest in this book along with other dystopian novels to create a series of literature circle books.

Rebecca Stead chose to set her children's novel "When You Reach Me"-winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal-in nineteen-seventies New York partly because that's where she grew up, but also, as she told one interviewer, because she wanted "to show a world of kids with a great deal of autonomy."

A simple definition for Utopia (coined in 1516 by Thomas More and translated literally as "no-place") is hard to come by. Lyman Tower Sargent, founding editor of the journal Utopian Studies, describes the writers of utopias as "social dreamers." He explains in his article "The Three Face of Utopianism," I define the broad, general phenomenon...

The Economy. Everyone's talking about it, but who can explain it? 20 award­-winning directors and 10 of our most respected economists add their voice to the chorus with a thought­-provoking short­-film series.