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The blind side

2010
Dramatizes the life of All-American football player Michael Oher, who was raised by a crack addicted mother, adopted at the age of sixteen by a wealthy family, and a first-round NFL draft pick.

Freedom Writers

2007
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice.

Iron jawed angels

2004
Dramatizes the story of activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns who played pivotal roles in the fight to win voting rights for women.

Gandhi

2007
Fictionalized biography of Mahatma Gandi, India's man of peace, which follows his life from his simple beginnings as a lawyer in South Africa to his struggle to free India from colonial rule.

Escape to freedom

a play about young Frederick Douglass
1978
Born a slave, young Frederick Douglass endures many years of cruelty before escaping to the North to claim his freedom.

Macbeth

1993
Contains the text of Shakespeare's play in which Macbeth kills Duncan, the King of Scotland, in order to seize the throne for himself.

October sky

1998
True story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

Camelot

1961

Macbeth

2002
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with discussion questions, role-playing scenarios, and other study activities.

The miracle worker

a play for television
1957
A text of the television play, intended for reading, of Anne Sullivan Macy's attempts to teach her pupil, Helen Keller, to communicate.

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