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ASSET has searched Discovery Education streaming’s extensive video library and selected resources to specifically support developing cross curricular connections to PBS’s "The Complete Jane Austen." These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards.

ASSET recommends the following from Discovery Education streaming* …

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Famous Authors: Jane Austen: 1775-1817* (30:00)

Like most women of her time, Jane Austen lived out her life at home. Her adventurous brothers, however, kept her very much in touch with her age. Coupling this with her own remarkable personality, she produced some of the finest novels in English literature.

Curriculum Standards available

Grade: 9-12
©2004 United Learning
This video contains 7 segments

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Jane Austen's Life* (1:00:00)

Jane Austen was born in 1775 and died in 1817. It may have been a short life, and seemingly uneventful, but for the world of literature it was a very valuable one. This program embraces the places which shaped her vision and which inspired her to write some of the best loved classic novels worldwide. Explore Steventon, the villages of Jane's birth, discover what she thought about Bath and Cassandra's revelations about Jane's mystery seaside admirer! Combine this with the fascinating Jane Austen Museum at Chawton together with a journey through the same glorious English countryside that Jane herself loved and experienced nearly 200 years ago.

Grade: 9-12 ©1997 Lucky World Production, LTD
This video contains 11 segments

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Great Books: Pride and Prejudice* (27:00)

The perfidious nature of first impressions is at the heart of this Jane Austen classic. The complicated love story of Elizabeth and Darcy, caught in the matchmaking machinations of Elizabeth's mother, paints a brilliant tableau of middle-class English life while exploring the universal themes of love, marriage, and social expectations.

Teacher's Guide and Curriculum Standards available

Grade: 9-12
©2000 Discovery Channel School
This video contains 10 segments

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Industrial Revolution (1750-1915), The* (19:58)

This video examines the historical background to the first Industrial Revolution which began in England around 1750. The invention of labor-saving machinery, the spread of factories, the use of steam power, the iron and coal industries, and the rise of capitalism are all explained. Also examined are some of the social and cultural changes resulting from Industrialization. The decline of cottage industry, growth of cities, changes in working conditions and social class, education plus the ideas on Newton, Marx, Darwin, Dickens, and the romantic poets and artists are presented. Contemporary Industrial Revolutions taking place in Third World countries today are examined.

Blackline Masters, Teacher's Guide, and Curriculum Standards available

Grade: 6-8
©1994 United Learning
This video contains 8 segments

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Assignment Discovery: Revolution: The Call to Battle* (1:00:00)

This episode of the series on innovations in war and civilization explores how revolutions in military deployment and in political thought affected Europe and the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Teacher's Guide and Curriculum Standards available

Grade: 9-12
©2004 Discovery Channel School
This video contains 23 segments

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*Discovery Education Streaming and Recipes4Success resources are located in the IDEAL Learning Environment under the Curricular Resources link. These resources are provided to all AZ K-12 public and charter school educators through the Arizona Department of Education's IDEAL initiative. For information on creating your own IDEAL account and accessing these resources go to https://www.ideal.azed.gov.