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Our Language Arts Lesson Plans written by Donald Donn  Freshman English Poetry Slam  (2-3 days) Lesson Plan Harlem Renaissance/ Poetry of Langston Hughes  (3-4 days) Lesson plan Haiku (1-2 days) Learning Module, Lesson Online Stories & Powerpoints written by Lin Donn  Illustrated by Phillip Martin All Rights Reserved All our original presentations in PowerPoint format  and Lin's original stories posted to the web are copyrighted.   Feel free to use these materials in your non-profit classroom.  All other use is subject to restrictions.  See RESTRICTIONS posted at the bottom of this page for details.  Stories written by Lin Donn,  some loosely based on ancient myths & folklore (word format) Anansi the Spider  (Africa, Ghana) The Lion's Whisker (Africa, Kush/Nubia) Place of the Prickly Pear Cactus (Aztec) Journey of a Princess (Aztec, grades 6-12) Wise Owl (Iroquois Myth) How Raven Stole Crow's Potlatch  (Northwest Coastal Pacific Myth) Clever Coyote (Comanche Buffalo Myth) Child of Water and Little Blue Rock (Apache Myth) Theseus and the Minotaur (Minoan/Greek) Little Io (Greek Version)  The Oracle at Delphi (Greek Myth)  Hades and the King of Corinth (Greek Myth) Apollo and Cassandra (Greek Myth)  Pandora's Box (Greek Myth)  Demeter and Persephone (Greek Myth)  Hercules (Greek Myth)  How Aphrodite Caused the Trojan War (Greek) Legend of the Trojan Horse (Greek) The Cyclops Cave & The Sirens  (Greek, from "The Odyssey" by Homer)  Loawnu the Wise Woman  (Xia Times, Ancient China) Wang the Peddler (Han Times, Ancient China) The Legend of the Shadow Puppet (Han Times, Ancient China) The Legend of Gilgamesh (Sumerian) How Marduk Became the King of ALL the Gods (Babylonian) Little Io (Roman Version, which is exactly the same  as the Greek version with Roman god names,  because that's how the Romans did things) The Legend of Romulus and Remus (Ancient Rome) Horatius at the Bridge (Ancient Rome)  The Punic Wars & Hannibal of Carthage (Ancient Rome) The Warrior Well (Ancient Mongolia) The Hero Twins (Maya) Happy Together (Russian Folktale)  Walking Home (US Homefront, WWII) Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Civil Rights, 1955) The 1962 Seattle World's Fair Written by Lin Donn for Askacop.org The Flyer   The Babysitter   Joey's Turn   The Coldest Day   The List  Was Columbus Smart about Safety?  Written by Lin's author/artist Mom  - Dorothy Jones Scalzo  1930's Life on the Farm during the Great Depression Back of the Bus (Civil Rights, 1935) Welcome Home (Civil Rights, 1945) FREE POWERPOINTS  Written by Lin Donn; illustrated by Phillip Martin  All Rights Reserved Please see restrictions posted at this bottom of this page prior to use Ancient History, Myths, & Fables for Kids (PowerPoint format) Archaeology for Kids Early Humans Rameses II (Egypt)  Hermes & Apollo (Greece)  Nero at the Circus Maximus (Rome)  Nero Goes Insane (Rome)  Ancient Chinese Dragons (China)  Warrior Well (China/Mongolia)  The Story of Mulan (China)  Happy Together - The Story of the Nesting Dolls (Russia) Native American Stories for Kids (PowerPoint format) The Hero Twins (Mayas)  The Invisible Warrior (Woodland Indians, A Cinderella Story) Wise Owl (Northeast Woodland Indians, an Iroquois Myth) Clever Coyote (Plains Indians, a Buffalo Story) Child of Water & Little Blue Rock (Southwest Indians, An Apache Myth)  How Raven Stole Crow's Potlatch (NW Pacific Coastal Indians)  Holiday & Seasonal Stories for Kids (PowerPoint format) Groundhog Day  Presidents Day Black History Month April Fool's Day Mother's Day Father's Day The Ghost with the Most! Halloween Bats  Kwanzaa  Aesop's Fables for Kids (PowerPoint format) Aesop and His Fables  The Fox and the Crow  The Fox and Sick Lion  Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (PowerPoint format) The Seven Wonders (Index)  Great Pyramid at Giza   Hanging Gardens of Babylon  Statue of Zeus at Olympia  Temple of Artemis at Ephesus  Mausoleum at Halicarnassus  Colossus of Rhodes  Lighthouse at Alexandria    African Stories for Kids (PowerPoint format) The Most Ancient Race, the San People  Bee-ware from Bee-hind  (retold and illustrated by Phillip Martin)   RESTRICTIONS Is your material copyrighted and may I use it? Answer: Yes, our material is copyrighted. Most of it is copyrighted by our publisher. But nearly all the original material on the web is copyrighted thanks to new laws that immediately copyright original work loaded to the web. If you copy someone's work and post it on any other site, even if it is not your own site - that work is still copyrighted by its original author. 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