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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two (Unabridged)

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Although the mission school bans all that is Navajo, Ned secretly clings to his native language and culture. Proudly joining the U.S. Marines in 1943, he becomes a top-secret Navajo Code Talker. During bloody battles for Japanese islands, Ned and his brave band of code-talking brothers save thousands of lives using Navajo encryption the enemy never cracks.

Author:

Joseph Bruchac

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Middle

High

Length:

05:55

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two (Unabridged)

Return to Auschwitz (#108)

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Auschwitz was the most notorious Nazi death camp of World War II. After returning there for the first time in more than 50 years, several Holocaust survivors tell the stories of their forced incarceration and the horrors they endured.

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Middle

High

Length:

00:14

Lessons of the Holocaust (#104)

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Examines the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and demonstrates that the ideas and opinions of that time are still prevalent in our society today.

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Middle

High

Length:

00:14

Nuclear Energy: The Issues (2008)

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Nuclear power produces almost a fifth of the world's electricity. Supporters say it's safe, cheap and - best of all - the answer to global warming. Critics say it's not safe or cheap, and it won't really help with the global warming problem. So who's right? This program presents the arguments for and against, with relevant background information.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:31

Nuclear Energy: The Science (2008)

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This program covers a number of advanced topics. Understand the use of water to vary reactor power, as well as different methods of mining uranium, and witness a specific example of a fission reaction.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:27

The Cask of Amontillado and The Tell Tale Heart

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The Cask of Amontillado 20 min.

Author:

Edgar Allan Poe

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:40

Speak

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Speak is a documentary film about the fear of public speaking, and the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking. Filmmakers Paul Galichia and Brian Weidling embarked on an almost two year journey - conducting hundreds of interviews about public speaking anxiety, and capturing every stage of the tense, highly competitive World Championship of Public Speaking. It all culminates in a week of fascinating human drama in Calgary, Alberta, after which one person is crowned "World Champion of Public Speaking".

Director:

Paul Galichia and Brian Weidling

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:29

Discovering Shakespeare's Language

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Copies: 1

Presenting the very best ideas from the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, this collection of activity sheets will enable you to develop your own sequence of lessons to focus on the study of Shakespeare's language. Copy this material as much as you wish for use in your classrooms. Each lesson is designed to encourage active learning in students of all abilities, providing plenty of opportunities for collaboration and individual exploration. The activities are all based on examples from the whole range of the plays in the canon as well as the Sonnets.

Author:

Rex Gibson and Janet Field-Pickering

Unlocking Shakespeare's Language: Help for the Teacher and Student

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With this book, your students can learn to understand the language of Shakespeare by learning to recognize and translate unfamiliar words and syntactic patterns.

Author:

Randal Robinson

Unlocking Shakespeare's Language: Help for the Teacher and Student

Life in the Elizabethan Theater

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Discusses theater in sixteenth-century England, describing playwrights, plays, the audience, and Queen Elizabeth's sponsorship.

Author:

Diane Yancey

English

Nuclear Energy: The Issues (2008)

Nuclear Energy: The Science (2008)

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