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May 15 | Grades 9–12

Friday on Arizona PBS

11:30 a.m.	The Amazing Human Body – Survive Tuberculosis in America: Antibiotic Treatment of Tuberculosis – Video Science Trek: Blood – Video and Support Materials The Nervous System: Crash Course Biology – Video

12:30 p.m.	Shakespeare Uncovered: The Merchant of Venice w/ F. Murray Abraham Acceptance and the Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare Uncovered – Video and Support Materials The Merchant of Venice: Evaluating Values / Shakespeare in the Schools – Video Learning Media Lesson for Merchant of Venice – Lesson Plan Actor F. Murray Abraham watches an old film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” \| Still from “Acceptance and the Merchant of Venice \| Shakespeare Uncovered” / PBS LearningMedia

1:30 p.m.	Civilizations – Encounters The Japanese-Portuguese Encounter \| Civilizations – Video and Support Materials The Benin – Portuguese Encounter – Video and Support Materials The Spain-Aztec Mexico Encounter \| Civilizations – Video and Support Materials

2:30 p.m.	The Chinese Exclusion Act: American Experience Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and Resource Materials – Image and Background Reading The Chinese Exclusion Act – Teacher’s Guide Before It Embraced Immigrants, California Championed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 “The Chinese Must Go” (1886) by Shober & Carqueville Lith Co. \| Courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

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