A Dickens of a Party WebQuest

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson238/dickens_WebQuest.html

Description: You have been invited to a Victorian New Year's Day Party, honoring Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and celebrating the changes that he has made to his life in response to the visits by the three spirits on Christmas Eve. Standard 10.3.7

Author: Patricia E. Carbone, Read * Write * Think

Lesson ID: 1505

How Romantic! Parallels in Music and History

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3955/

Description: Students will explore the ways music reflects contemporary society by focusing on popular music of the 19th and early 20th centuries—orchestral music of the Romantic era. After students conduct research online about musical instruments, they will create an advertisement about a musical instrument and its connection to history. Standard 10.3.7

Author: Theresa Sotto, ArtsEdge

Lesson ID: 172

Neoclassicism and Romanticism

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/subjects/ss/b6u5.html

Description: Use Internet resources to conduct research on Neoclassicism and Romanticism (N/R), two periods in history, each with distinctive components, such as literature, architecture, and music. Gain a general overview of N/R through a series of search and write-up activities that focus on the major defining features of N/R. Develop an in-depth project that demonstrates your mastery of one or two aspects of N/R that are of particular interest to you. The format is up to you. Completed projects will be posted, where possible, to a class Web page to serve as a resource for students at your school. Standard 10.3.7

Author: Jay Horschak, E. W. Seaholm School

Lesson ID: 754