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- Dynamic dialect: Horace Kephart and Our Southern Highlanders
- Students will read an excerpt from Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders and explore how language and dialect have changed over the years.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Billie Clemens.
- Let the women do the work
- This photograph appeared in Horace Kephart's 1913 book Our Southern Highlanders with the caption "Let the women do the work."
- Format: image/photograph
- Vietnam: Historical background
- Vietnam has strong historical connections to China and India and has been ruled by both China and France. After turmoil and wars in the twentieth century, Vietnam embarked on a program of reform that has opened relations with the United States.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Mountain dialect: Reading between the spoken lines
- This lesson plan uses Chapter 13 of Our Southern Highlanders as a jumping-off point to help students achieve social studies and English language arts objectives while developing an appreciation of the uniqueness of regional speech patterns, the complexities of ethnographic encounter, and the need to interrogate primary sources carefully to identify potential biases and misinformation in them. Historical content includes American slavery, the turn-of-the-century, and the Great Depression.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Lesson plans for teaching style
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching style, the fourth of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- North Carolina
- “Tarheels”, “the Old North State”, “the Land of the Longleaf Pine”, all mean North Carolina. Here you will find a sampling of instructional resources to teach your students about the history, people and places, government, and economy of the state you live in - North Carolina!
- Format: bibliography/help
- The North Carolina mountains in the early 1900s through the writing and photography of Horace Kephart
- Students will develop an understanding of daily life and culture in the mountains of North Carolina during the early 20th century through photographs and written sources; practice visual literacy skills and gain experience analyzing visual and written sources of historical information; and learn to revise their early analyses of historical sources and to synthesize the information found in different kinds of primary documents by planning a museum exhibit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow describes the Battle of Manassas
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 2.6
- Excerpt from the memoir of the Confederate spy in which she describes the First Battle of Manassas in June 1861 and her role in getting intelligence to Confederate generals. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- The parts of a lesson plan
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 1.4
- If you're thinking of submitting a lesson plan to LEARN NC, this primer will acquaint you with the various parts of a lesson plan and explain what should be included.
- Format: article/help
Resources on the web
- Horace Kephart: Revealing an Enigma
- Online exhibit celebrates the life of Horace Kephart, leading literary figure in North Carolina, whose works center on camping, regional history, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Hunter Library Special Collections and the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University
