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Man of la Mancha

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Jailed during the Spanish Inquisition for offending the church, author Miguel de Cervantes (O'Toole) is forced to act out one of his manuscripts for the entertainment of fellow inmates. Cervantes delivers a rapturous performance as the legendary Don Quixote, the chivalrous knight whose choice to see life as it should be, not as it is, takes him into battles with an imaginary foe and into romance with the beautiful Dulcinea (Loren).

Director:

Arthur Hiller

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

02:09

Lyddie

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"The first step to freedom is schooling," a runaway slave tells Lyddie Worthen. It's the mid-1800s and the working conditions in the Storemont cotton factory are horrific. Lyddie is willing to endure those conditions to earn enough money to bring her family back together. When another worker, Diana teaches Lyddie to read, it opens up a new world of possibilities for her. After Diana dies of cotton lung, Lyddie must decide if she's willing to risk her job to fight for the rights of other workers or stay in the factory as a "wage slave." Based on the book by Katherine Paterson.

Director:

Stefan Scaini

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Length:

01:30

Writing for Students: Editing & Proofreading (2006)

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It's time to dot your i's, and cross your t's and carefully reread what you've written...in other words, it's time to edit and proofread! The conventions of writing, including grammar and mechanics, ensure that what is written accurately conveys what the writer intended to express.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Length:

:23

Writing for Students: Editing & Proofreading

Caldecott Collection 1991 to 1995

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Collection contains:
Caldecott Connections to Language Arts
Caldecott Connections to Social Studies
Caldecott Connections to Science
Raven by Gerald McDermott
Working Cotton by Sherley Anne Williams
Tuesday by David Wiesner
Owen by Kevin Henkes
The Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka
Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault

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Charlotte's Web

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Copies: 25

Wilbur is the runt of a litter born to a pig on the farm of Fern Arable's father. When it is announced that her father is going to kill the pig, Fern rushes forth to save it, asking of her father: "If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?" Her father spares the pig, but only if Fern agrees to care for it. Falling in love immediately with the little pig, she feeds him regularly with a bottle, and names him Wilbur.

Author:

E.B. White

Lexile:

680L

Don Quixote

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Alonzo Quixada, a middle-aged Spaniard, is so enthralled by knights' tales of gallantry, chivalry and adventure in the days of yore, that he renounces his old identity to become Don Quixote De La Mancha. Dressed in ancient rusty armor and mounted on a broken down horse, he appoints Sancho Panza, a neighboring peasant, to be his squire and believes a washerwoman to be the Lady Dulcinea, his muse.

Director:

Peter Yates

Grade Level:

High

Length:

02:20

The Book Thief

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Based on the beloved best-selling book comes an "extremely moving" (Leonard Maltin, Indiewire) story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II Germany. When her mother can no longer care for her, Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) is adopted by a German couple (OSCAR® Winner Geoffrey Rush and OSCAR® Nominee Emily Watson). Although she arrives illiterate, Liesel is encouraged to learn to read by her adoptive father. When the couple then takes in Max (Ben Schnetzer), a Jew hiding from Hitler's army, Liesel befriends him.

Director:

Brian Percival

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

02:11

President Barack Obama, “Back-to-School Speech,” made on September 8, 2009.

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Prepared text of President Barack Obama's “Back-to-School Speech,” made on September 8, 2009.

Link to the video from New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/1247464458756/president-addresses-america-s-students.html

Excerpts from the text can also be found in the Grade 6: Module 2A: Unit 1: Lesson 12 on EngageNY.

Steve Jobs' Stanford University Commencement Speech

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A prepared text of Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford University made on June 12, 2005. This text can also be found within the Grade 6: Module 2A: Unit 1: Lesson 6 on EngageNY.

Link to the video on TED.com: http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die

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Poem by Rudyard Kipling from the Poetry Foundation

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Writing for Students: Editing & Proofreading (2006)

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