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Grade 8 Humanities investigates, "What is worth fighting for?"

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Brilliant Blogs

  • The Gold of Real Service
  • Harder the Conflict, More Glorious the Triumph
  • Victory is Always Possible
  • Make a New Ending
  • Man Must Evolve
  • Truth is On the Side of the Oppressed
  • Every Teardrop is Precious
  • Speak Your Mind Even if Your Voice Shakes.
  • What is Worth Fighting For?
  • Fight For Your Rights
  • Man Grows Most Tired While Standing Still
  • An Ounce of Action

Current Event Resources

  • Scholastic Scope Magazine
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  • PBS NewsHour Extra
  • New York Times Learning
  • BBC Student
  • CNN Student News

Fact Resources

  • BBC Debate Issues
  • Research Source Links
  • Education Index
  • Middle School Public Debate Program
  • International Debate Education Association

Those Fighting for Change

  • CNN Freedom Project: Ending Slavery
  • Kevin Sites: A World of Conflict
  • Children's Peace Prize Winners
  • CNN Heroes
  • CNN's Young Wonders

Literature Resources

  • PBS Poetry
  • Middle School Poetry 180
  • Poetry

Words! Words! Words!

  • Dictionary.com
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  • Visuwords
  • Word Searcher
  • Etymology Dictionary

Works of Art

  • Incredible Art Department
  • National Gallery of Art for Kids
  • Guggenheim
  • Famous Paintings
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art

Popular Posts

  • This I Believe: I Am Still the Greatest ~ Muhammad Ali
    Despite having won the heavyweight boxing championship three times, boxing extraordinaire, Muhammad Ali, is fighting his greatest opponent ...
  • What is Worth Fighting For? Historical Upstanders
    "The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."  ~ Klee Paul Klee, the artist showcased on our class w...
  • Human Duty
    Miep Gies Amsterdam, 1942. The German occupation of Holland has commenced. The Nazi Gestapo oversees the deportation...
  • Imagine - A Perfect World
    "In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private...
  • "Is life a thorn or a flower?"
    "Ms Ghimire has published four volumes of poetry, two books of short stories and many newspaper columns."       Thomas Bel...
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    Read or listen to the following essay found on the This I Believe website, "Growing up with dyslexia, William Wissemann learned how ...
  • 5 Themes of Geography: Minneapolis, Minnesota
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    Malala Yousafzai: Portrait of the Girl Blogger Malala Yousafzai is a 15 year old Pakistani girl recovering from an attack by the Taliba...
  • Human Rights: Making the Invisible, Visible
    According to the  Universal Declaration of Human Rights ,  Article 29 , it states we have a responsibility to other people to protect th...
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    Sometimes, small steps result in big accomplishments. Read on to discover how three young adults took that first small step towards making a...

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Mrs. P's Book Nook :)

Sharon's bookshelf: read

What I Loved
The Sorrows of an American
The Summer Without Men
A Plea for Eros: Essays
The History of Love
Great House
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Gilead
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Disgrace
Olive Kitteridge
Room
Freedom
Black Dogs
Saturday
The Power of One
The Great Gatsby


Sharon's favorite books »
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Mrs. Turner's Good Reads

Megan's bookshelf: read

The Kite Runner
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Lovely Bones
Angels & Demons
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Winner
Water for Elephants
The Secret Life of Bees
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Help
Twilight
Untamed
The Notebook
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Wedding
The Big Sleep
Slaughterhouse-Five
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Giver
A Walk to Remember


Megan Turner's favorite books »
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Smith's Faves

Alexandra's books

The Namesake
Corelli's Mandolin
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
Fleshmarket Close
The Piano Tuner
The Crimson Petal and the White
Under the Skin
The Sea
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Lord of the Flies
A Scots Quair: Sunset Song / Cloud Howe / Grey Granite
Never Let Me Go
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
A Malaysian Journey
The Gift of Rain
Aftermath
Case Histories
When Will There Be Good News?
Started Early, Took My Dog
The Lady and the Unicorn


Alexandra's favorite books »
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