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193 Individual Titles- ’’The Jungle,’’ Muckrakers, and Teddy Roosevelt: Lesson 1: Upton Sinclair, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harvey W. Wiley
- ’’The Jungle,’’ Muckrakers, and Teddy Roosevelt: Lesson 2: Read All About It: Primary Source Reading in ’’Chronicling America’’
- Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales
- African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War
- Afro Atlantic: Exploring Emancipation
- Afro Atlantic: Mapping Journeys
- Afro Atlantic: Paths from Enslavement
- After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North
- American Utopia: The Architecture and History of the Suburb
- Animal Farm: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
- Animals of the Chinese Zodiac
- Anishinabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation
- Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands
- Anne Frank: Writer
- Argument of the Declaration of Independence, The
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Perspectives Within Humanities Education
- Background on the Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy
- Balancing Three Branches at Once: Our System of Checks and Balances
- Beatrix Potter’s Naughty Animal Tales
- Beauty of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, The: A Prelude to ’’Beowulf’’
- Boston Tea Party, The: Costume Optional?
- Browning’s ’’My Last Duchess’’ and Dramatic Monologue
- Can You Haiku?
- Chronicling and Mapping the Women’s Suffrage Movement
- Cinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Character
- Cinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Plot and Setting
- Composition and Content in the Visual Arts
- Composition in Painting: Everything in Its Right Place: Lesson 1: Composition Basics
- Composition in Painting: Everything in Its Right Place: Lesson 2: Symmetry and Balance
- Composition in Painting: Everything in Its Right Place: Lesson 3: Repetition in the Visual Arts
- Composition in Painting: Everything in Its Right Place: Lesson 4: Line in the Visual Arts
- Couriers in the Inca Empire: Getting Your Message Across
- Davy Crockett, Tall Tales, and History
- Day for the Constitution, A
- De Colores
- Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence
- Doing Oral History with Vietnam War Veterans
- Dr. King’s Dream
- Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects in Thornton Wilder’s ’’Our Town’’
- Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller’s ’’The Crucible’’
- Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator
- Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense
- Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was...
- Egypt’s Pyramids: Monuments with a Message
- Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs
- Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Scroll Paintings
- Election of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, The
- Emily Dickinson and Poetic Imagination: Leap, Plashless
- Empire and Identity in the American Colonies
- Esperanza Renace: Aprendiendo a No Temer el Comenzar de Nuevo
- Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over
- Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
- Examining Utopia & Dystopia in ’’The Giver’’
- Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World
- Fairy Tales Around the World
- Federalist Debates, The: Balancing Power Between State and Federal Governments
- First Amendment, The: What’s Fair in a Free Country?
- Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston’s ’’Their Eyes Were Watching God’’
- From Time to Time: Presidents and Communicating with the Public
- Frontiers of the Big Screen
- Genre in the Visual Arts: Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes
- Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail
- Green Book, The: African American Experiences of Travel and Place in the U.S.
- Hamlet Meets Chushingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
- Hammurabi’s Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
- Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
- Harper Lee’s ’’To Kill a Mockingbird’’: Profiles in Courage
- Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
- Hawaii’s Annexation and Statehood: How the Island Nation Became an American Frontier
- Hawthorne: Author and Narrator
- Holocaust and Resistance
- Horse of a Different Color: An Introduction to Color in the Visual Arts: Lesson 1: In Depth with the Full Spectrum
- Horse of a Different Color: An Introduction to Color in the Visual Arts: Lesson 2: Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone
- I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad
- If You Were a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail
- Images of the New World
- Impact of a Poem’s Line Breaks, The: Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks’ ’’We Real Cool’’
- In Her Shoes: Lois Weber and the Female Filmmakers Who Shaped Early Hollywood
- Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
- Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
- Investigating Jack London’s ’’White Fang’’: Nature and Culture Detectives
- It Came from Greek Mythology
- Jack London’s ’’The Call of the Wild’’: Nature Faker?
- Japanese American Internment Camps During WWII
- Jazz Ambassadors: A Model for Cultural Diplomacy
- Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London’s ’’To Build a Fire’’
- La Familia
- Landmark Lesson, A: The United States Capitol Building
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The
- Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Letters from Emily Dickinson: ’’Will You Be My Preceptor?’’: Lesson 1: In Emily Dickinson’s Own Words: Letters and Poems
- Letters from Emily Dickinson: ’’Will You Be My Preceptor?’’: Lesson 2: Responding to Emily Dickinson: Poetic Analysis
- Letters from Emily Dickinson: ’’Will You Be My Preceptor?’’: Lesson 3: Emulating Emily Dickinson: Poetry Writing
- Life in Old Babylonia: The Importance of Trade
- Lincoln Goes to War
- Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address: We Must Not Be Enemies
- Lions, Dragons, and Nian: Animals of the Chinese New Year
- Listening to History
- Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
- Live from Ancient Olympia
- Lu Shih: The Couplets of T’ang
- Magical World of Russian Fairy Tales, The
- Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution
- Mapping Our Worlds
- Mapping the Past
- Marco Polo Takes a Trip
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence
- Martin Puryear’s ’’Ladder for Booker T. Washington’’
- Mexican Revolution, The
- Music of African American History, The
- My Piece of History
- Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages
- Oh, Say, Can You See What the Star-Spangled Banner Means?
- On the Home Front
- On This Day with Lewis and Clark
- Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
- Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus
- Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!: Simulating the Supreme Court
- Path of the Black Death, The
- Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton’s ’’Ethan Frome’’
- Perspective on the Slave Narrative
- Play with Words: Rhyme & Verse
- Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost
- Poet’s Voice, The: Langston Hughes and You
- Portrait of a Hero
- Preamble to the Constitution, The: A Close Reading Lesson
- Preamble to the Constitution, The: How Do You Make a More Perfect Union?
- Preparing for Poetry: A Reader’s First Steps
- President’s Role and Responsibilities, The: Understanding the President’s Job
- Presidential Inaugurations: I Do Solemnly Swear
- Raisin in the Sun, A: The Quest for the American Dream
- Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
- Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip
- Red Badge of Courage, The: A New Kind of Courage
- Red Badge of Courage, The: A New Kind of Realism
- Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies
- Revolutionary Tea Parties and the Reasons for Revolution
- Robert Frost’s ’’Mending Wall’’: A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
- Scottsboro Boys and ’’To Kill a Mockingbird’’: Two Trials for the Classroom
- Scraping the Sky: Architecture and American History
- Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems
- Shakespeare’s ’’Julius Caesar’’: Leadership and a Global Stage
- Shakespeare’s ’’Macbeth’’: Fear and the Dagger of the Mind
- Shakespeare’s ’’Macbeth’’: Fear and the Motives of Evil
- Shakespeare’s ’’Othello’’ and the Power of Language
- Shakespeare’s ’’Romeo and Juliet’’: You Kiss by the Book
- Si, Se Puede: Chavez, Huerta, and the UFW
- Socrates and the Law: Argument in an Athenian Jail
- Sophocles’ ’’Antigone’’: Ancient Greek Theatre, Live from Antiquity
- Stars and Stripes Forever: Flag Facts for Flag Day
- Statue of Liberty, The: Bringing ’’The New Colossus’’ to America
- Statue of Liberty, The: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol
- Story of Epic Proportions, A: What Makes a Poem an Epic?
- Supreme Court, The: The Judicial Power of the United States
- Symmetry in ’’Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’’
- The Music of African American History
- The Secret Society and Fitzgerald’s ’’The Great Gatsby’’
- Their Eyes Were Watching God: Folk Speech and Figurative Language
- Then and Now: Life in Early America, 1740-1840
- Thornton Wilder’s ’’Our Town’’: The Reader as Writer
- Through the Looking Glass: Transparency in Modern Architecture
- Toni Morrison’s ’’Beloved’’: For Sixty Million and More
- Trip to Wonderland, A: The Nursery Alice
- Twelve Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
- Under the Deep Blue Sea
- Unicorns, Dragons, and Other Magical Creatures
- Using Textual Clues to Understand ’’A Christmas Carol’’: Lesson 1: Language Analysis Based on Stave 1
- Using Textual Clues to Understand ’’A Christmas Carol’’: Lesson 2: Scrooge as He Is Revealed During the Ghostly Experiences
- Using Textual Clues to Understand ’’A Christmas Carol’’: Lesson 3: Theme Analysis
- Vengeful Verbs in Shakespeare’s ’’Hamlet’’
- Visual Records of a Changing Nation
- Voices of the American Revolution
- Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage
- Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
- What Is History? Timelines and Oral Histories
- What Makes a Hero?
- What Masks Reveal
- What Was Columbus Thinking?
- What’s in a Picture? An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts
- Where I Come From
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- Who Belongs on the Frontier: Cherokee Removal
- Who Were the Foremothers of Women’s Equality?
- Why Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere’s Ride in History and Literature
- William Golding’s ’’Lord of the Flies’’: Lesson 1: Characterization in ’’Lord of the Flies’’
- William Golding’s ’’Lord of the Flies’’: Lesson 2: Symbolism in ’’Lord of the Flies’’
- William Golding’s ’’Lord of the Flies’’: Lesson 3: Themes in ’’Lord of the Flies’’
- William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom
- William Shakespeare’s ’’A Midsummer Night’s Dream’’: Conflict Resolution and Happy Endings
- Women and Revolution: ’’In the Time of the Butterflies’’
- Women’s Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
- Women’s Suffrage: Why the West First?
- World of Haiku, The