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Penrod by Booth Tarkington (read online)
Childhood by Leo Tolstoy (read online)
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Written when Tolstoy was only in his early twenties, Childhood, Boyhood and Youth gives us glimpses of the powerful writer that he would eventually become. We see the moralist, the observer and sympathizer even in his younger days. A fascinating portrait of a writer, the times in which he lived, and the evolution of his writer's soul. 319 pages, softcover.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (read online)
Novel Analysis The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Lesson Plans and Activities The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Lesson Plan Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Unit
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer dreams of living an outlaws life - no work, no washing, and no school. With his friends Huckleberry Finn and Joe harper, he runs away to an island on the Mississippi River, where the carefree pirates fish, feast around the campfire, and swim the day away. But the secret of real-life murder haunts Tom and leads to more adventure and danger than he ever imagined... This classic American tale has captivated readers ever since it was first published in 1876.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (read online)
Novel Analysis The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain / Dover Publications
Huckleberry Finn is filled with high adventure and unforgettable characters who are forever getting in and out of trouble along the mighty Missisissippi river. It's a story about a lost boy and a naughty boy whose friendship and mishaps weave a tale you're not likely to forget.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn CD Study Guide
By Gregory Power / Progeny Press
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a combination of adventure story and social satire. Fleeing from an abusive father, Huckleberry Finn joins up with a runaway slave and together the two fugitives float down the Mississippi River. Encountering trouble at every turn and conflicts between societal expectations and their own inclinations and experiences, Huckleberry Finn is considered by many to be the American Novel. Progeny Press Study Guides provide teachers, parents, and students with literary analysis based upon the foundation of the Bible. Examining well-written literature in relation to biblical standards, students will develop and refine how they deal with man's philosophies while learning about the craft of writing. Progeny Press study guides deal with literature as works of art and philosophy as they explain and use literary terms; deal with plot construction; dig into character studies; and bring attention to themes and ideas the author has crafted. Easy-to-use lessons include vocabulary exercises, comprehension and analysis, critical thinking, questions on related Biblical principles, activities, plus a complete answer key. Middle & High School guides take approximately from 8 to 10 weeks to complete. This CD Study Guide contains read-only .pdf files that can be printed as you need them! This is the CD-ROM only, and does not include the booklet. Work must be printed-out, and cannot be completed on the computer.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (read online)
Lesson Plan 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Unit Studies - Parts 1-6 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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Dover Classics: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The "man who invented the future," French novelist Jules Verne fanned mankind's desire to explore earth's hidden territories. His prophetic 1870 adventure novel, featuring a fabulous underwater craft commanded by the brilliant and mysterious Captain Nemo, predated the deep-water submarine.Weaving amazing scientific achievements with simple, everyday occurrences, this memorable tale brims with detailed descriptions of a futuristic vessel and bizarre scenes of life on the ocean's bottom. On-board travelers view Red Sea coral, wrecks of a historic navel battle, Antarctic ice shelves, and the fictional Atlantis. In addition, they confront a giant squid and belligerent cannibals, among other rousing adventures. The crowning achievement of Verne's literary career, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea not only influenced H.G. Wells and further generations of writers, but also inspired numerous films. Recommended for ages 10 and up.
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Twilight Stories by Various Authors (read online)
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Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
This text is filled with classic nursery rhymes that all young children will love. These Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes have been read to children for generations and are now available in this new edition. There are black and white illustrations throughout the book. With so many classic nursery rhymes to choose from, the reading fun will last for a long time. There are all of the well known nursery rhymes like The Queen Of Hearts, To Market, Humpty Dumpty, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and many many others.
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Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington (read online)
Lesson Plan Up From Slavery
Lesson Plan Perspective on the Slave Narrative
Lesson Plan Booker T. Washington
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Up from Slavery
On reading Booker T. Washington's classic autobiography, Up from Slavery, Langston Hughes noted, "(Washington's) story of himself, as half-seen by himself, is one of America's most revealing books." "I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, West Virginia. My life had its beginnings in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings." So begins the famous autobiography that helped make Booker T. Washington the most prominent black spokesman of his time. Simple in its style and anecdotal in its approach, Up from Slavery, published to great acclaim in 1901, vividly recounts Washington's birth into slavery, his yearning for education, and his single-minded vision of building an educational center for black students, the Tuskegee Institute. A shrewd diplomat and a tireless promoter of the importance of education for black Americans, Washington cut a controversial figure in his own day.
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Up From Slavery, audiobook on CD
By Booker T. Washington / Tantor Media Inc.
The history of the African in America has often been personalized or embodied within one individual, one spokes-person who represented the sentiments of the moment. In the South of the 1890s, Booker T. Washington stood as the often controversial personification of the aspirations of the black masses. The Civil War had ended, casting an uneducated black mass adrift or, equally tenuous, creating a class of sharecroppers still dependent on the whims of their former owners. Black Reconstruction, for all its outward trimming, had failed to deliver its promised economic and political empowerment. While an embittered and despairing black population sought solace and redemption, a white citizenry systematically institutionalized racism. From this Armageddon rose this Moses, Booker Taliaferro Washington, who was born in 1856 in Virginia, of a slave mother and a white father he never knew. But he gave no indication in his autobiography of the pain this almost certainly caused him: "I do not even know his name. I have heard reports to the effect that he was a white man who lived on one of the nearby plantations. But I do not find especial fault with him. He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time." After Emancipation, Washington began to dream of getting an education and resolved to go to the Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute in Virginia. When he arrived, he was allowed to work as the school's janitor in return for his board and part of his tuition. After graduating from Hampton, Washington was selected to head a new school for blacks at Tuskegee, Alabama, where he taught the virtues of "patience, thrift, good manners and high morals" as the keys to empowerment. An unabashed self-promoter (Tuskegee was dependent upon the largesse of its white benefactors) and advocate of accommodation, Washington's "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" and "be patient and prove yourself first" philosophy was simultaneously acclaimed by the masses, who prescribed to self-reliance, and condemned by the black intelligentsia, who demanded a greater and immediate inclusion in the social, political, and economic fabric of this emerging nation. Washington's philosophy struck a chord that played like a symphony within the racial politics of the times. It gave a glimmer of hope to the black masses; it created for whites a much-needed locus for their veneer of social concern-funds flooded into Tuskegee Institute; and finally, the initiatives of the black intelligentsia, led by W. E. B. Du Bois, were, for the moment, neutralized. Washington "believed that the story of his life was a typical American success story," and he redefined "success" to make it so: "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in his life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." His powerfully simple philosophy that self-help is the key to overcoming obstacles of racism and poverty has resonated among African Americans of all political stripes, from Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan. Unabridged. 7 hours, 30 minutes. 8 CDs. Read by Norman Dietz.
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Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster (read online)
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