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$3.00Buy NowTwelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night’s entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man.
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$3.00Buy NowThis large resource (300+ pages) is filled with poems that are sought by teachers to use in the classroom. Poems from authors such as Tennyson, Van Dyke, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Kipling and many more!
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$2.50Buy NowExcerpt from Paul Revere: The Torch Bearer of the Revolution
It has been Wisely said that Time must lay a finger on events to make them into history. The further away we stand from certain pictures, the more distinct they appear. The events we read of in today’s newspaper are not history, but twenty years, or fifty, or a century hence, our descendants will pore over the musty, dusty files, and history will be born.Paul Revere never imagined that he was living in an epoch – making period; yet the story of his eventful life holds a fascination of its own, appealing strongly to the interest of readers, old and young. He stood for so much in the history of our country in those stirring Revolutionary times, that we cannot lightly pass over the many services he rendered to the cause of Liberty.
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About the book: Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of “buccaneers and buried gold.” Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an “X,” schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders. The story was originally considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action. It is one of the most frequently dramatised of all novels.About the Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child’s Garden of Verses. A celebrity in his lifetime, Stevenson’s critical reputation has fluctuated since his death, though today his works are held in general acclaim. He is currently ranked as the 26th most translated author in the world.
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$2.50Buy NowDavid “Davy” Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet “King of the Wild Frontier”.
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$2.00Buy NowUse these 3 Vocabulary Word Map templates to aid your students in their study of individual words. Each word map will ask the students to write the word, the definition, what each is like (give synonyms, or adjectives – descriptors) and examples.
There are also blank lines under each word map. You can have students use these lines for a variety of things…such as using the word in a sentence or adding prefixes and suffixes!
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$3.00Buy NowPip is a young orphan who wants nothing more than to become a gentleman and be worthy of the beautiful but snobby Estella. So when he receives a large fortune from an unknown benefactor to undergo training, he’s ecstatic and convinced it must be from Miss Havisham, Estella’s strange guardian. However, the culture of wealth breeds changes in Pip that his loyal friends find insulting. It may take the unsavory criminal from Pip’s childhood to help him get his priorities in order and reset his expectations.
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$3.00Buy NowAbout the Author: John Alexander Hill was a co-founder of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, the predecessor corporation of today’s McGraw-Hill Education
Table of Contents
An Engineer’s Christmas Story …7
The Clean Man and the Dirty Angels …27
Jim Wainwright’s Kid… 45
A Peg-legged Romance… 75
My Lady of the Eyes… 97
Some Freaks of Fate… 151
Mormon Joe, the Robber… 191
A Midsummer Night’s Trip… 227
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$9.99Buy NowTeachers edition to be used with:
Complete English 1 Curriculum – Student Edition for High School (separate resource)Concepts covered in English 1:
– Using Technology / Navigating the Internet
– Reading – Improving a Skill for Life
– Writing/ Making Words Speak
– Writing / Using Strategies to Fine-Tune Writing
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About the book: Barton’s 1904 book “A Story of the Red Cross: Glimpses of Field Work,” recounts the work performed by the Society under her direction.About the Author: Clara Barton (1821 – 1912) was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk. Nursing education was not very formalized at that time and Clara did not attend nursing school, so she provided self-taught nursing care.
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$3.00Buy NowBiography & Analysis of Works – William Faulkner
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About the book: Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father’s death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means of support.About the Author: Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen’s plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security.
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About the book: Cooper’s fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as “the trapper” or “the old man.” Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, though it was published before The Pathfinder (1840) and The Deerslayer (1841). It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier.About the Author: James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances draw a picture of frontier and American Indian life in the early American days which created a unique form of American literature.
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$5.00Buy NowThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (British Romantic Literature) is the basis for this Literary Unit designed for 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students.
The unit is divided into the following sections:
Summaries and More: Includes summary, brief review, symbols of the poem, tone, setting, point of view and more.
Student Handouts: Sound devices in Poetry + Imagery & Figurative Language in Poetry
The Poem Worksheets: Examining and Analyzing Metaphors
Quizzes and Tests: Poetic devices quiz, Multiple choice on the poem, Short Answer and Essay for the poem
Additional Resources: Extended Activities + Albatross illustrationAnswer Keys are provided.
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$2.50Buy NowThis 42 page book is a biography of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
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$3.00Buy NowStudents should understand the significance of a terrible day in American history, September 11th, 2001, otherwise known as 911. This resource has been designed to help students gain factual knowledge of the events of that day, the heroic efforts of first responders and the U.S. military response. This can be used as a standalone mini-lesson or as part of your own curriculum. (Designed for 7th-10th grades)
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About the book: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon was published in 1881 and has also been published as The Giant Raft. Unlike many of his other novels, this story does not have any science fiction elements. It is an adventure novel. This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel down-stream when his past catches up with him.About the Author: Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the “Father of Science Fiction”
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About the book: Written in 1897, it is a response to Edgar Allan Poe’s 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane.About the Author: Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the “Father of Science Fiction”
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