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National Railroad Museum and Hall of Fame

The railroad industry has always been important to the town of Hamlet and the museum celebrates this history. The Railroad Passenger Station is registered as a Historic Landmark and is said to be the most photographed station in the eastern United States.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Hamlet Historic Depot

This historic depot has been moved and renovated and has become the anchor of the city of Hamlet, North Carolina. It is the only Victorian Queen Anne depot in North Carolina. The two story building has two major wings which join at a round lobby entrance....

Format: image/photograph

The Trial of Hamlet

In this lesson students have the chance to research courtroom procedure to try Hamlet for the murder of Polonius. Then, with some students in the roles of characters from the play, the class will conduct the trial of Shakespeare's most famous anti-hero.

Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)

By Ross White.

The Bostick Schoolhouse

Visit a restored 159 year old restored one-room school house near Ellerbe, North Carolina to learn how students were taught in the 19th century.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Lily pads at Hinson Lake in Richmond County, NC

These are lily pads at Hinson Lake in Richmond County, North Carolina.

Format: image/photograph

Alternative discussion formats

In Alternative discussion formats, page 1

Formal debates and question-and-answer discussions are great, but these alternative discussion formats will liven up your classroom and get students really thinking.

By Kathryn Walbert.

Peoples of the Piedmont

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.4

In the years between 1000 and 1200 CE, Native life in the north and central Piedmont hadn’t changed much from prior Woodland times. People still lived in small hamlets whose houses strung out along river and stream banks. At times, the hamlets sat empty when people left to hunt and gather wild foods. But times were about to change. Around 900 CE, corn agriculture began. As a result, population began to grow, people began gathering in larger villages, and conflicts erupted.

Format: article

Alternative discussion formats: The talk show

In Alternative discussion formats, page 2

The talk show is a format with which students are already familiar, and it provides the structure for a great discussion.

By Kathryn Walbert.

Communicating information and ideas: a philosophy of writing

In Writing for the Web, page 2

Many kinds of writing can be adapted for the web, but it's important to know what you're trying to communicate.

By David Walbert.

Conservative opposition

In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.2

Newspaper editorial attacking the Reconstruction-era Republican majority in North Carolina as incompetent and corrupt. Includes historical commentary.

Format: newspaper

The village farmers

In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5

North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.

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"Hamlet" and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film

This lesson contains a set of five activities for students to explore the themes of honor, loyalty, and revenge in selected scenes from Hamlet. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)

Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

Analyzing character in "Hamlet" through epitaphs

Students compose epitaphs for deceased characters in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, paying particular attention to how their words appeal to the senses, create imagery, suggest mood, and set tone. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)

Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Fancy fencing

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students learn about the art of stage-fighting. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 )

Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

In literature, interpretation is the thing

This lesson challenges students to examine the relationship between the text and a reader’s interpretation. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)

Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus

Students use visual and literary tools to identify, analyze, and explain how elements in Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus and examples from Shakespeare's Hamlet illustrate the philosophy... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)

Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Analyzing advice as an introduction to Shakespeare

Students read and analyze the advice given in Mary Schmich's 1997 Chicago Tribune column “Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young,” as an introduction to studying the advice that Polonius gives to Laertes in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)

Provided by: IRA/NCTE

National Railroad Musem

Train lovers and historians will love this site. It celebrates the great American railroad system. The National Railroad Museum, located in Green Bay Wisconsin, is home to the collection and storage of national railroad information. Railroads have been an... (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: City of Hamlet

Memorial Day

This site, sponsored by the Library of Congress: American Memory Collection, uses historic music and photographs to illustrate the features of Memorial Day through history. It also features information about specific events occurring on the access day. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Library of Congress