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Constitution USA with Peter Sagal
Gr 9 Up—Sagal, the find-humor-in-our-everyday-lives NPR host, broadly examines our Constitution in both historical and contemporary contexts in a manner that will transfix viewers...
The Burning Sky
Gr 9 Up—When her guardian purposefully ruins her meticulously prepared potion to prevent her from performing a rite at a local wedding, 16-year-old Iolanthe Seabourne tries to revive it by bringing down a bolt of lightning and instead brings down a load of trouble...
Orchestra of Exiles
Gr 10 Up—One of Hitler's less well-known maniacal movements in the 1930s was to purge orchestras of their Jewish musicians...
The Central Park Five
Gr 9 Up—Filmmaker Ken Burns turns his well-documented talents to a more contemporary topic: the beating and rape of a white woman in New York's Central Park during racial and class strife in the late 1980s...
Never Give Up! Ama's Journey to Freedom on the Underground Railroad
Gr 5–10—The first segment of this three-part program is an account of Ama, an African Ashanti girl captured from her village in the 1850s to be sold into slavery in America...
The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights
Gr 8 Up—One of the hallmarks of the tumultuous 1960s in our country was the Civil Rights Movement...
Mao's Great Famine
Gr 10 Up—Following the Communists' 1949 takeover of mainland China, Mao Zedong found himself at the helm of a war-ravaged country that had more in common with the 15th century than the 20th century...
Wash-a-Bye Bear
PreS-Gr 1—When Bear gets too sticky, glittery, sandy, dirty, and stinky, it's off to the washing machine for him...
Dealing with Feeling Angry
Gr 1–2—This community-minded series aims to help readers identify common emotions they or others might have...
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