1. Free Online Curriculum to Spread Peace!!
(News/News)

... roll out in the six Northeast States. The curriculum, recommended for grades 6-12, aims to foster discussion among young people about peace and nonviolence in their schools, local communities, and the ...

2. Role playing the civil war (5 & 7)
(Lesson Plans/Elementary School (K-5))

... Confederacy. 2. Identify three reasons of the North and three reasons of the South for the Civil War. 3. Identify and comprehend feeling experienced by both northern and southern states. 4. Identify ...

3. March
(Lessons/Simple Stories For Kids)

... it this way. The wind comes from the north. The wind is north. It is a cold wind. The wind was west yesterday: then it was warmer. Here is a lady-bird upon a leaf. It is red, and has black spots. Ah! ...

4. ON THE SOLANDER WHALING GROUND
(Lessons/Short Stories)

A bright sunny morning; the gentle north-easterly breeze just keeping the sails full as the lumbering whaling-barque "Splendid" dips jerkily to the old southerly swell. Astern, the blue hills around ...

5. THE COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... He has an appearance of benignity, and is really kindhearted, according to what they say who know him. (If the people of Fez [Footnote: Fez: a city in northern Morocco.] are to be believed, he is even ...

6. A NIGHT IN THE PINES
(Lessons/Short Stories)

The trees were not old, but they grew thickly round the glade: there was no outlook, except northeastward upon distant hill-tops, or straight upward to the sky; and the encampment felt secure and private ...

7. A GREEN DONKEY DRIVER
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... two miles an hour, to tug, push, shoulder, and re-adjust the load. And at last, in the village of Ussel, [Footnote: Ussel: a town about one hundred miles northwest of Alais.] saddle and all, the whole ...

8. TWENTY YEARS OF ARCTIC STRUGGLE
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... given to rest, Peary dreaded lest he should meet with some obstacle, such as open water or impassable ice, that would put an end to the journey northwards. Delayed by gales and open water, and driven ...

9. THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... will not be here again!" And that night the North Fork suddenly leaped over its banks and swept up the triangular valley of Roaring Camp. In the confusion of rushing water, crashing trees, and crackling ...

10. SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which ...

11. THE ARCHERY CONTEST
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... archery was never seen since a bow was first bent in Britain." "And now," said Locksley, "I will crave your Grace's permission to plant such a mark as is used in the North Country; and welcome every brave ...

12. THE LAST CLASS
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... river just beyond the northeast border line of the province of Lorraine.] My books, which only a moment before I thought so tiresome, so heavy to carry--my grammar, my sacred history--seemed to me now ...

13. THE WHITE TRAIL
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... of the north drove them to shelter, snowed them under, and passed on shrieking. The wind opposed them. At first of little account, its very insistence gave it value. Always the stinging snow whirling into ...

14. FOR THOSE WHO LOVE MUSIC
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... middle three ragged little children crouched together around a half-extinct braziero, [Footnote: Brazier: a pan for burning coals. Tuscan. Tuscany is one of the divisions of northern Italy.] in the corner ...

15. AN ADVENTURE
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... a savage tribe of northern Africa.] made forced marches and rested only during the night. They then encamped around a well shaded by palm-trees, under which they had previously concealed a store of provisions. ...

16. RECAPITULATION.
(Lessons/Geography)

RECAPITULATION. OCEANS. Where is? Pacific Ocean     West of America. Atlantic Ocean     East of America. Northern Ocean     North of North America. Southern Ocean     South of South America. ...

17. LESSON LIV.
(Lessons/Geography)

LESSON LIV. Q. What Desert in the northern part of Africa? A. Sahara, or Great Desert. Q. What Mountains in the centre? A. Mountains of the Moon. Q. What Isthmus joins Africa with Asia?  ...

18. LESSON LIII.
(Lessons/Geography)

LESSON LIII. Q. What Country in the northeastern part of Africa? A. Egypt. Q. What Country south of Egypt? A. Nubia. Q. What Country south of Nubia? A. Abyssinia. Q. Which are the largest ...

19. LESSON LII.
(Lessons/Geography)

LESSON LII. Q. What Division of land is Africa? A. A Peninsula. Q. Between what two Oceans is Africa? A. Atlantic and Indian. Q. What Division of the Earth north of Africa 2 A. Europe. ...

20. LESSON XLIX.
(Lessons/Geography)

LESSON XLIX. Q. What Division of the Earth is west of Asia? A. Europe. Q. What Division southwest? A. Africa. Q. What large Country in the northern part of Asia? A. Siberia. Q. What Empire ...