ELA

Riverside's Mine' Okubo

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Teachers may have trouble opening this link as it is a blog post, but this is directly listed inside of the Grade 8 Module M3A - Japanese American Relations in WWII.

The blog post provides an overview of Mine' Okubo's life and character.

The Folger Shakespeare Library

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Web site for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.

In Search of Shakespeare

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PBS resource for teaching Shakespeare in the Classroom.

The Messenger

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Six years earlier, Matty had come to Village as a scrappy and devious little boy. Back then, he liked to call himself "the Fiercest of the Fierce." But since that time, Matty has grown almost into a man under the care of Seer, a blind man whose special sight had earned him the name. Now Matty hopes that he will soon be given his true name, and he hopes it will be Messenger.

Author: 
Lois Lowry
Grade Level: 
Middle
Lexile: 
720L
Length: 
03:44
The Messenger

Alas, Babylon

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This true modern masterpiece is built around the two fateful words that make up the title and herald the end - "Alas, Babylon." When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly.

Author: 
Pat Frank
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Lexile: 
870L
Length: 
11:11
Alas, Babylon

Throne of Blood

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The greatest screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth is arguably Akira Kurosawa's visceral Throne of Blood (Kumonosu jô), starring Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada as the ambitious warrior and ruthless wife who try to murder their way to power and glory. Featuring some of the Japanese master's most unforgettable, hallucinatory imagery, and inspired by Noh theater as much as the classical source, this is Kurosawa at his atmospheric best.

Director: 
Akira Kurosawa
Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
01:49
Throne of Blood

Macbeth

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Following a London West End run in December 2007 and a sold-out limited engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in March 2008, Shakespeare's "Scottish play" went on to enthrall Broadway audiences yet again with a gripping production starring Sir Patrick Stewart in a triumphant, Tony®-nominated performance. Originating at England's innovative Chichester Festival Theatre, director Rupert Goold's cinematic re-interpretation of his stage production also stars the Tony®-nominated Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth.

Director: 
Rupert Goold
Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
03:00
Macbeth

Digital Commons Network

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The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

Timeless Thomas

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What do record players, batteries, and movie cameras have in common?

All these devices were created by the man known as The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison.

Author: 
Gene Barretta
Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:17
Timeless Thomas

The Story of Buildings

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We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them, go to school in them, and work in them. We're surrounded by buildings practically every moment of our lives! But why and how did people start making buildings? How did they learn to make them stronger, bigger, and more comfortable? And why did they start to decorate them in different ways?

Author: 
Patrick Dillon
Lexile: 
1060L
The Story of Buildings

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