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Odyssey of Ezra Pound

At the end of World War II, the U.S. Government accused one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century of treason.

Grades 9-12
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Anne Frank III

After twenty-five months of hiding from the Nazis in the secret annex behind their home in Amsterdam, Anne Frank and seven other Jewish fugitives were betrayed.

Grades 6-8 | 9-12
English | History-Social Science
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Dante's Inferno I

Dante, one of the world’s finest and most influential poets of western literature, was born in Florence, Italy, in 1265. He got caught up in the economic and political upheavals of his day.

Grades 6-8 | 9-12
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Dante's Inferno II

After Dante was banished from Florence in 1302, he wrote his great masterpiece "The Divine Comedy." By writing it in Italian, the language of the people, he helped drag readers out of their slavish devotion to Latin.

Grades 6-8 | 9-12
English | History-Social Science
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Anne Frank II

June 1942, Amsterdam: Anne Frank received a gift for her thirteenth birthday--a red plaid book with blank pages. It became her diary--the most famous diary in the world.

Grades 6-8 | 9-12
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Herman Melville

After early acclaim as a young writer, Herman Melville, the author of the majestic novel Moby Dick, passed many years in relative obscurity.

Grades 9-12
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Anne Frank I

Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929 (June 12), Annelies Marie Frank would not live to see her 16th birthday, but she left a powerful memoir of Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Europe, a legacy for the victims of the Holocaust.

Grades 6-8 | 9-12
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Anne Frank IV

Just hours after Anne Frank and her family were discovered in their hiding place--the “secret annex”--and arrested by the Gestapo, two of the family’s helpers rescued Anne’s diary.

Grades 6-8 | 9-12
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Lost and Found

"Lost and Found" by Brooklynne E. was the Kindergarten, third place winner for the 2010 WHTJ PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest.

Grades K-2
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Designing a Tombstone

Some of the students go back to Mt. Olivet to get some ideas for designing their own tombstones. The cemetery guide tells them more stories about some of the people buried there.

Grades 3-5 | 6-8
English
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