Grade(s): 9
Subject(s): English Language Arts
Year: 2015
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Julia Mood Peterkin’ stories of plantation life and realistic African American characters captured the world’s attention. Julia Mood was born in Laurens County on Halloween in 1880. Her mother died...
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This lesson integrates English Language Arts and Social Studies using the award winning text, Going Down Home with Daddy. Students will develop an understanding of this literary text by analyzing the...
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Teachers in this lesson have students evaluate current events surrounding racial discrimination. Teachers lead students through why and how historians use a historical lens to discuss racial issues in...
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Students will learn the colors and animals by reading Brown Bear Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr.
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John Jakes is a well-known author of historical fiction. He is also a research fellow in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina. He discusses his trilogy, Love and War. He...
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Tom Feelings was both a writer and an illustrator. He taught illustrating at the University of South Carolina. Usually, the process is that a manuscript is submitted to a publisher, and the publisher...
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Students speak with poet, storyteller and writer Tommy Scott Young. Mr. Young starts with The Gingerbread Man. One of his secrets is to read outloud. The characters do not come fully alive without...
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As a result of spending her childhood in the Missouri Ozarks, Beth Horner developed an interest in telling traditional stories from that region. She also tells folk, contemporary, and original tales...
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From the Jazz Age to the Digital Age: Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina - Celebrating Pulitzer Commentary with Kathleen Parker and Jim Hoagland, Moderated by Charles Bierbauer. Two Washington...
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From the Jazz Age to the Digital Age: Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina - Celebrating Pulitzer Novelist Julia Peterkin. Julia Mood Peterkin was South Carolina’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning...