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Defining tyranny

Students will focus on gathering support for and elaborating on ideas for an essay of definition on tyranny. Students will use examples from history and from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)

By Bethany Hill.

Books cannot be killed by fire (World War II poster)

This World War II propaganda poster published by the U.S. government depicts enemy soldiers setting fire to a book that looms over them like a building. The book's cover reads: Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books...

Format: image/poster

Lesson plans for teaching support and elaboration

A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching support and elaboration, the third of the five features of effective writing.

Format: bibliography/help

Nat Turner's Rebellion

In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.1

In 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved man in Southampton, Virginia, led an insurrection in which a small band of slaves and free African Americans killed fifty-five whites. After the revolt, white militias and mobs hunted down blacks suspected of taking part in this or other insurrections, and southern states passed harsh new laws restricting the freedoms of both slaves and free blacks.

Format: article

By L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.

Grouping skills for mastery

In Math for multiple intelligences, page 4

Thematic planning helps relate mathematics to students' lives.

By Gretchen Buher.

The Declaration of Independence

In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.11

Text of the Declaration of Independence with historical commentary.

Format: declaration

Remembering the Revolution

An analysis of the painting The Apotheosis of Washington in the U.S. Capitol rotunda, and a discussion of how it reflected the values of Americans on the eve of the Civil War.

Format: article

“Discoverie of Guiana”

In Sir Walter Raleigh and South America, page 5

Raleigh's 1596 account of his search of El Dorado became a sensation when it was published in England. The book describes Raleigh's motives of treasure hunting and empire building. Some excerpts with annotations are included below.*...

By William M. Wisser.

The United States in the 1790s

In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 1.3

The new national government began in unity, with George Washington's election to the presidency. But divisions within Washington's government, between Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, led to the creation of the nation's first political parties.

Format: article

Kennedy's speech on space, May 1961

President John F. Kennedy, Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered before a joint session of Congress, May 25, 1961.

Format: audio/speech

The First Provincial Congress

In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.6

After the Boston Tea Party in December 1773, Britain retaliated with a series of punitive measures that colonists called the "intolerable acts." In August 1774, North Carolina's colonial leaders met at New Bern to set out their princples, to plan further opposition to Britain, and to choose delegates to a Continental Congress. This excerpt from the proceedings of that First Provincial Congress includes historical commentary.

Format: document

Rip Van Winkle

The classic short story by Washington Irving, in which the title character walks into the Catskill Mountains, drinks a magic draught, and falls asleep for twenty years, missing the American Revolution and the changes it wrought.

Format: story

Resources on the web

North Carolina Council on the Holocaust

The Council provides broad and diverse rsources, educational materials and commemorative services to remind us never to forget the Holocaust and to teach our children about the horror of this historic period so that it will never happen again. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction