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Campfire. In Search of Shakespeare. Dickens . Life & Career . Introduction. Quackin' Rhythms. Overview Help!

Quackin' Rhythms

Having trouble with a level, or want to return to the place you left? On the title screen, type "UNLOCK" to pull up the level select screen. Don't just skip forward though, the later levels get super hard! This interactive explores the beats and rhythms associated with different music notes. Age range: Good for 7-10 year olds Estimated Time: Give yourself some time! Key Technology: This interactive is most effective when each student has access to a computer on which he or she can play the game independently. Think About Playing Strategy: As you play, stay focused on your purpose. Before you get started, think of what you already know about music notes and their values.

As you play, compare and contrast the different effects of each type of note. After you play the game, make some flash cards. Comprehension. Anglo-Saxon - The History of English (1/10) English Language. Explore.

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Watch, listen, debate & discover with our experts Free OpenLearn courses. Free extracts from OU course materials Become a student. The faster, downloadable alternative to SparkNotes. How Far We've Come. Poetry Foundation. English_11/Crucible/main.htm. Salem Witch-Hunt. SECRETS OF THE DEAD . The Witches Curse. The trouble in Salem began during the cold, dark Massachusetts winter, in January of 1692. Eight young girls began to take ill, begining with 9-year-old Elizabeth Parris, the daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris, and his niece, 11-year-old Abigail Williams.

But theirs was a strange sickness: the girls suffered from delirium, violent convulsions, incomprehensible speech, trance-like states, and odd skin sensations. The worried villagers searched desperately for an explanation. Their conclusion: the girls were under a spell, bewitched -- and, worse yet, by members of their own pious community. And then the finger pointing began. On October 29, by order of Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips, the Salem witch trials officially ended.

In Search of Myths & Heroes . Myths & Archetypes. An archetype is a universal symbolic pattern.

In Search of Myths & Heroes . Myths & Archetypes

Examples of archetypal characters are the femme fatale, the trickster, the great mother and father, and the dying god. There are archetypal stories as well. Examples are stories of great floods, virgin births, creation, paradise, the underworld, and a final apocalypse. True to their universal nature, archetypal characters and stories appear again and again in myths across many diverse cultures. Archetypal myths explain the nature of the world and life. While some aspects of these myths have remarkable similarities across cultures, others have peculiarities specific to that land. Resource. Discovering Sherlock Holmes - A Community Reading Project From Stanford... In 1891, Sherlock Holmes was a character very much of his time and place, who appealed to British readers directly by confronting the messy, changeable world they lived in.

Discovering Sherlock Holmes - A Community Reading Project From Stanford...

Rather than dwelling in romance or in an idealized past, as many of Arthur Conan Doyle's other characters did, Holmes was grounded squarely in Victorian London. The Sherlock Holmes mystery stories, written over a forty-year span from 1887 to 1927, represented the good, the bad, and the ugly of Victorian society: its ideals, its accomplishments, and its deepest fears. Arthur Conan Doyle's birth year, 1859, fell 22 years into Queen Victoria's 64-year reign, a time of unparalleled growth and optimism for the British Empire. Resources and labor taken from colonies worldwide had made England prosper, and the time of serious independence struggles lay in the distant future. Since 1844, the government had struggled with various solutions to the sewage problem.