New Lesson Plans on EDSITEment!

[Caroline Eisner <ceisner@CGCS.ORG>]

EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov) is pleased to announce Learning
Guide #6, with 9 new lesson plans for the humanities.

EDSITEment's new lesson plans look closely at Chaucer and the _Canterbury
Tales_, Lewis Carroll and photography, William Blake and Romantic poetry,
women writers in Africa, the legislative process, Socrates and the law, as
well as lessons on how to evaluate portraits, maps, and eyewitness
accounts. All of the lesson plans appear online at EDSITEment.

EDSITEment and all of its materials are free. If you are on EDSITEment's
mailing list, a hardcopy learning guide has been sent to you. To join
EDSITEment's mailing list, logon on to EDSITEment at
http://edsitement.neh.gov, click on "Talk to Us," and fill in the necessary
information. (To find out more about EDSITEment, scroll down to the bottom
of this message.)

Below you will find brief descriptions of EDSITEment's previous learning
guides and lesson plans, which are available in full on the website.

In Learning Guide #1, you will find lesson plans that look closely at
George Washington, women's right to vote, cultural motifs between
countries, Civil War and World War II photographs and posters, and more.

In Learning Guide #2, we offer lessons in the realm of the literary
imagination, highlighting EDSITEment resources in American and British
literature, French language studies, and the classic heritage of Greece and
Rome. In this guide, lesson plans look at Hawthorne's -_The Scarlet
Letter_, _Beowulf_, Sophocles' _Antigone_, Shelley's _Frankenstein_, and
themes of the city and the country in poetry.

In Learning Guide #3, we offer lesson plans in history, focusing on
websites that invite students to cross the border that separates us from
the past and discover new perspectives on issues we face today. Lesson
plans look closely at Arthurian legends, Galileo and his ideas, the
emancipation of slaves, Depression-era photographs, and the freedom of speech.

In Learning Guide #4, we present lesson plans that explore
crossroads--places, events, and works of art that reveal how competing
ideas and impulses change the landscape of human life. Lesson plans in this
guide look closely at life on the Great Plains, the Holocaust and
Resistance, Mark Twain and American humor, and more.

In Learning Guide #5, we present lesson plans that explore thresholds of
change. Several of these plans focus on the struggles African Americans
faced in crossing such thresholds, others examine internal thresholds that
we cross by courage, faith and love. Lesson plans look closely at slave
narratives, Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas
Edison, spirituals, Dante's Paolo and Francesca, Shakespeare's _Romeo and
Juliet_, and more.
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For those of you new to EDSITEment, EDSITEment is a web site created by the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City
Schools, MCI WorldCom Foundation, and the National Trust for the
Humanities, and serves as a gateway to the best humanities-related
educational content on the Internet.

EDSITEment is a user-friendly site offering one-top shopping for quality
materials on humanities related topics. Each link listed on EDSITEment has
been screened by a rigorous academic review process and endorsed by a
distinguished panel of educators and parents.

Learning Guides: Practical lesson plans that draw directly on the resources
available through EDSITEment, with step-by-step directions to help teachers
implement each learning activity or use it as a template to create their
own lesson plans.

Take-Home Activities: Specially-designed activities that allow students and
their parents to work together on projects that bring EDSITEment into
students' homes.  Activities can be completed with or without home access
to the Internet.

If you have any comments or would like to join our mailing list to receive
hardcopy lesson plans and any updates, use the "Talk to Us" function on
EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov). Or send an email to
EDSITEment@neh.gov.





Caroline Eisner
EDSITEment Project Director
CGCS-Suite 702
1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC  20004
(202) 393-2427
(202) 393-2400 (fax)
ceisner@cgcs.org
http://edsitement.neh.gov

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