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Mythology Teacher

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A web site dedicated to the teaching of mythology. The Hero's Journey is specifically mentioned in Grade 6 ELA Module 1.

Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

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Grade 6 ELA Module 1 Unit 1 recommends that teachers take their students to a local art gallery or art museum to see the influence of Greek Mythology and culture on artwork across the ages. Here you can browse the collection virtually.

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

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Grade 6 ELA Module 1 Unit 1 recommends that teachers take their students to a local art gallery or art museum to see the influence of Greek Mythology and culture on artwork across the ages. Here you can browse the collection virtually.

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Poem by Rudyard Kipling from the Poetry Foundation

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

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.

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
The Book Thief

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

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

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
Lyddie

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
Man of la Mancha

A Caldecott Celebration

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Copies: 4

To celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the Caldecott Medal and another decade of award-winning picture books, noted children’s book historian Leonard S. Marcus has updated this absorbing and informative picture of the world’s most prestigious illustration award and seven of its acclaimed winners: Robert McCloskey, Marcia Brown, Maurice Sendak, William Steig, Chris Van Allsburg, David Wiesner, and now Mordicai Gerstein.

With All Deliberate Speed: A look at the landmark Brown vs. The Board of Education (2005)

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History Ignored is History Repeated

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education that the concept of "separate but equal" school segregation was unconstitutional. But in this landmark ruling, the Justices used a four-word phrase that many believe has delayed the process of change for over 50 years: "With All Deliberate Speed."

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:51
With All Deliberate Speed: A look at the landmark Brown vs. The Board of Education

Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1999)

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Not For Ourselves Alone tells the dramatic, little-known story of one of the most compelling friendships in American history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were born into a world ruled entirely by men. By the time their lives were over, they had changed for the better the lives of a majority of American citizens.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
03:00
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

Cathedral (1985)

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The great European cathedrals of the Middle Ages are among the finest architectural achievements of all time. Built of stone and glass, they soared to unprecedented heights as the medieval church reached to the heavens to express their devotion.

Grade Level: 
Middle
Length: 
01:00
Cathedral

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