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Ray Bradbury/Science Fiction
Obituary in People Magazine 2012 People on Ray Some good stuff on Fahrenheit 451 NEA Technology Survey ReadWriteThink Sound of Thunder You Tube Part #1

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Lord of the Flies
How to integrate quotes - Dana Huff Online resource of pictures to help with vocabulary, setting, author etc. Bookdrum

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow website (JA) - PBS Jim Crow introduction/website from Ferris State University - includes caricatures/stereotypes (JA)Jim Crow Museum PBS American Masters video on Harper Lee Hey Boo From The Big Read by NEA - reader and teacher guides (in Spanish!) and audios TKAM

Macbeth
"The Language Of Baseball: In Is Out And Foul Is Fair" by Frank Deford NPR - June 13, 2012 Baseball historians continue to poke around in the 19th century to better explain how the game was originated and developed, but I've always wondered if one of the prime movers wasn't a student of Shakespeare....RB NPR on Baseball & Macbeth A wordle from Dana Huff [|Themes & Topics in the play] Sumaries, photos, best of the web, lots of cool stuff...Shmoop Show me videos - annotating text Show Me

A Lesson Before Dying
Lots of pages to look at from NEA ALBD 100 Death Penalty mistakes (RB) great for persuasion paper PrisonerLife Death Penalty Retains Support (RB) NPR

Poetry

 * Whitman 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" - Shmoop
 * Greatest anti-war poem ever written according to this blog - Wilfred Owen's "Strange Meeting" Better...Beowulf