Resources

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This video is short film about what would happen if you stopped going outside. I have used it as a jumping off point to get students talking about how life has changed over the last 3 or 4 generations. Their grandparents or great-grandparents often relied on outdoor work for work or food. What are the things that have changed? Why have we become an indoor world? []

This video is a look at Emily Dickenson and her work. I have used this to introduce a closer study of her work in high school English class. I have also used it to introduce a reading of scenes from the "Belle of Amherst" by William Luce. []

The Library of Congress is creating a growing digital database. It is well worth your time to spend perusing what they have to offer. They have amazing photographs available digitally, many of them government pictures making them free to use. I found pictures of one of my aunts working in a lab in a small town in Illinois during World War II. The government had sent a photographer there to document the war effort, and now through this website, my family is able to see these images for the first time. []