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Life and Works of Herman Melville
http://www.melville.org/
melville.htm
Description: Here is a rich resource about
Melville with links to his work, geographic data, the arts, other 19th
century authors and even Whale conservation.
Comments: Links to primary source documents
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://www.tiac.net/users/
eldred/nh/hawthorne.html
Description: This is a rich compilation of
links to Hawthorne including: his biography, his writing, letters, criticism,
and related art works
Comments: Links to primary source documents
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: High
Old Sturbridge Village
http://www.osv.org/
Description: This virtual museum tour of Old
Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, with music, photos and descriptions
gives a window on life during the early national period of America.
Comments: This site could also serve as a
model for creating a virtual museum classroom project.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
Emily Dickinson
http://www.planet.net/
pkrisxle/emily/dickinson.html
Description: This site has selections of poetry,
some letters and primary source documents related to Emily Dickinson's
life.
Comments: Useful for an interdisciplinary
unit on 19th c. American society but somewhat difficult reading.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
Little Conemaugh River Valley
http://www.ctcnet.net/
scrip/how.htm
Description: This is a description of the
Little Conemaugh River Valley between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh - site
of the Johnstown flood of 1889.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: High
Nipmuc Place Names
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/
ArchNet/Topical/Ethno/
Nipmuc/nipmuc1.html
Description: This site describes the origins
of names like Connecticut and Maine, as well as maps, images, history,
geneology and related web sites.
Resource Type: Other
Graphics Content: High
Sojourner Truth
http://pacific.discover.net/
~dansyr/truth.html
Description: Born into slavery, Sojourner
Truth was easily one of the earliest human and women's rights activists.
Read the simple words that make her one of the great figures in American
history.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
Sufferin 'till Suffrage
http://genxtvland.
simplenet.com/
SchoolHouseRock/
song.hts?
lo+sufferin
Description: These lyrics will make Women's
Suffrage memorable for everyone. Play the song and sing along!
Resource Type: Sound or Music
Graphics Content: High
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Work, Lyddie! Work!
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/lyddie/
Are you thinking that school is boring and
that it would be more fun to be out working? This is a chance for you to
find out what it was like to have to work instead of having the chance
to go to school. Analyze primary source documents about early factory labor
(mill workers during 1840-1860) showing their hours of labor, ages of laborers,
reasons for working, and working conditions. Then read a historical novel
about the time Lyddie by Katherine Paterson and research modern day youth
labor issues to see if the things faced by Lyddie are really so different
today in places where young people do not have the opportunity to go to
school. To share what you learned with others, you will write a poem or
labor song.
Author: Darla Moore
Anti-railroad Propaganda Poster: The Growth
of Regionalism, 1800-1860
http://www.nara.gov/
education/cc/1830rr.html
Regional differences deepened when the national
government began expanding, meeting foreign entanglements and domestic
trouble in the early and mid 19th c. This lesson relates to the struggle
to define the powers of the national and state governments in the expansion
of railroads.
Author: Kerry C. Kelly
Lyddie
http://www.umcs.maine.edu/
~orono/collaborative/
lyddie.html
These history and geography activities support
Katherine Patterson's book Lyddie about the life of mill workers in the
early Industrial Revolution in America.
Author: Betty Pettis and Audrey Conant
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This assessment is based on the ìWork,
Lyddie! Work! lesson plan:
Present the poem or song to the rest of the class. Dress in the style
of the times or accessorize with some item of the era.
After presenting the original poem or song to the rest
of the class, the teacher will grade the performance using the rubric found
on 8.1.
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