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24. Valentine/Christel / Margaux/ Haruka's prezi about NEBRASKA

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24. Valentine/Christel / Margaux/ Haruka's prezi about NEBRASKA

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http://www.city-data.com/states/Nebraska-Climate.html

http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2012/09/13/Great+Plains+Center+announces+top+10+ecotourism+sites+in+region

http://www.infoplease.com/us-states/nebraska.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Nebraska

CLIMATE
Nebraska has a continental climate, with highly variable temperatures from season to season and year to year. The central region has an average annual normal temperature of 10°C with a normal monthly maximum of 24°C in July and a normal monthly minimum of-6°C in January. The record low for the state is -44°C // highest 48°C was recorded at Minden on 24 July 1936.
Blizzards, droughts, and windstorms have plagued Nebraskans throughout their history.

French fur traders first visited Nebraska in the late 1600s. Part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, eastern Nebraska was explored by Lewis and Clark in 1804-1806. A few years later, Robert Stuart pioneered the Oregon Trail across Nebraska in 1812-1813, and the first permanent white settlement was established at Bellevue in 1823.
Western Nebraska was acquired by treaty following the Mexican War in 1848. The Union Pacific began its transcontinental railroad at Omaha which was the capital city of Nebraska in 1865.
In 1937, Nebraska became the only state in the Union to have a unicameral (one-house) legislature. Members are elected to it without party designation.

Population: 1,826,341 (2010) Nebraska, which was admitted to the union as the 37th state on March 1, 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, contains some of the nation's best ranchland and farmland.
Nebraska is the only state with a nonpartisan, unicameral legislature. Nebraska has been governing by a single-house legislature since 1937.Nebraska is a leading grain-producer with bumper crops of sorghum, corn, and wheat.

Seal of Nebraska in gold on an azure field

CAPITAL CITY
Lincoln, located in the southeastern part of the State of Nebraska, is the capital and the second-most populous city of Nebraska.Lincoln was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster.

Black Hawk was a war leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe in what is now the Midwest of the United States. The Chiefs of this tribe fell into three categories: civil, war, and ceremonial, but only the civil chief was hereditary. The other two chiefs were determined by demonstrating their ability or their spiritual power.
During the War of 1812, Black Hawk had fought on the side of the British against the U.S., hoping to push the latter's settlers away from Sauk territory. Later he led a band of Sauk and Fox warriors, known as the British Band, against European-American settlers in Illinois and present-day Wisconsin in the 1832 Black Hawk War. After the war, he was captured by U.S. forces and taken to the eastern U.S. He and other war leaders were taken on tour of several cities. Black Hawk died in 1838 (at age 70 or 71) in what is now southeastern Iowa. He has been honored by an enduring legacy: his book, many eponyms, and other tributes.
The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. The Canadian portion of the Plains is known as the Prairies. The region is about 500 mi (800 km) east to west and 2,000 mi (3,200 km) north to south, and is known for supporting extensive ranching and agriculture. In general, the Great Plains have a wide variety of weather through the year, with very cold and harsh winters and very hot and humid summers. Wind speeds are often very high, especially in winter. People have converted much of the prairies for agricultural purposes or to create pastures. The Great Plains have dust storms mostly every year or so.
THE GREAT PLAINS

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Nebraskastudies.org is a resource for teacher, students and adults interested in Nebraska, its history, geography, culture and people. We feature lesson plans, video, and primary source historical documents.

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Willa Cather Foundation - Red Cloud Nebraska (NE)

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The Willa Cather Foundation invites you to experience the life, times, and work of Willa Cather. Here, you can tour her home, read her work, visit her beloved Opera House, and shop the largest collection of books by and about Willa Cather.

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January 2017. The Willa Cather Archive has added a bibliography of all of Cather's book-length publications, including her novels and various collections. From this index, users can access publication information for each work, as well as all related material currently available on the Cather Archive.

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"My Antonia" by Willa Cather Trivia Quiz | C | FunTrivia

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A beautiful, stirring novel about the immigrant struggle in Nebraskas prairies. (Author pagiedamon)

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This detailed study guide includes chapter summaries and analysis, important themes, significant quotes, and more - everything you need to ace your essay or test on My Antonia!

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My Ántonia quiz that tests what you know. Perfect prep for My Ántonia quizzes and tests you might have in school.

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My Antonia study guide contains a biography of Willa Cather, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

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American Memory from the Library of Congress - List All Collections

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American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

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"My Antonia," Vocabulary from Book One - Vocabulary List : Vocabulary.com

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Answer a few questions on each word on this list. Get one wrong? We'll ask some follow-up questions. Use it to prep for your next quiz!

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Discovering Willa Cather's Letters: Series Overview

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Episode #1 of 10. Because Willa Cather's private writings have never been published until now, her many readers have little direct access to the woman herself. In this series, Andy Jewell, editor of the Willa Cather Archive at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explores Cather's extraordinary personality with brief readings from several of her letters.

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making inferences and drawing conclusions

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Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's "My Antonia" | EDSITEment

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Willa Cather's classic pioneer novel My Antonia fuses two stories to produce a powerful literary work that details nineteenth-century pioneer life in Nebraska, with all its hardships and beauties, and explores traditional American pioneer values, such as hard work, self-reliance, and the refusal to submit to adversity.

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The Prairie Life

My Antonia, written by Willa Cather, is one of the most recognizable stories of both immigrant and prairie life. Published in 1918, the novel is the last in what has been called Cather's Prairie Trilogy, consisting also of O Pioneers! and Song of the Lark. Set mainly in Nebraska, the author's home state, My Antonia is a kind of memoir - a young man's recollection of his childhood in the Midwest. Specifically, the narrator, Jim, focuses his first-person storytelling lens on the Shimerdas, a traveling immigrant family whose daughter Antonia becomes one of his most dear childhood friends. Structured into five sections, the novel follows Antonia from girlhood through motherhood in her life on the prairie. Immediately received as a masterpiece in writing and an innovation in story structure, this modernist novel holds a very unique place in the literary tradition of this country - one that highlights the very American concept of frontier living, independence and individualism through the life of a resilient immigrant woman.

Synopsis

The novel opens with some background given by a nameless female narrator. Basically, this narrator tells us that, growing up, she knew a young Bohemian immigrant girl named Antonia Shimerda. The narrator intended to write a story about this interesting girl (who came from the region we now know as the Czech Republic). After all, Antonia was worthy of a story. But we come to find out that the narrator believes that her friend Jim Burden would be better suited for the task. He knew Antonia better. So Jim writes a memoir focused on his life in relation to Antonia (and the remainder of the novel is this memoir).

Jim begins his memoir as a ten year old on his way to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska. Having just lost his parents, he is on his way to start a new life in what feels like, once he arrives, an empty place and a lonely land. It is on this train that he meets the Shimerda family - a family of six who are also traveling to Black Hawk and who end up being his grandparents' closest neighbors. Antonia, the eldest daughter, seems to know the most English, and it is with her that Jim quickly creates a bond. He finds her confident and spirited and, as their friendship grows, he admires her a great deal.

While Jim's childhood is full of the discovery and wonder of both the Nebraskan landscape and his new companion, he finds that his experiences with Antonia are grounded in a harsher reality. After dealing with a difficult time over the winter without much money or many connections, Antonia's father finds himself even more depressed and homesick. Sadly, he commits suicide. Antonia takes on more responsibility in the family and in the fields, which means when Jim goes to school, she does not - their lives begin to look very different. Jim and Antonia don't see each other as much.

By the time Jim reaches high school, he and his grandparents have moved off the farm and into town. Antonia is still working quite a bit. In fact, she is hired by a family in town to be a part of their housecleaning staff. This is where we are also introduced to Lena Lingard - a young girl who is also earning money for her family on a farm. The differences between Antonia and Lena and the other girls Jim knows from school are clear. Socially, Antonia and Lena are known as hired help, the working immigrant girls. But Jim's friendship is true.

Jim shows an outward interest in Lena, although Antonia's beauty is apparent to all. But it is only when Jim goes off to college at the University of Nebraska (and Lena eventually moves to the same town to pursue a career as a dressmaker) that a relationship between the two comes to fruition. This lasts until he decides he needs to make a change and he transfers to Harvard for his last two years of college.

After graduating, Jim returns back to his grandparents to visit. He hears of Antonia, who has been engaged to a man who basically leaves her at the altar. Antonia deals with the pain of rejection while covering up the fact that she is pregnant - this would have been a huge disgrace to her family. But she gives birth to a baby girl, resolved to care for her the best she can. While he is home, Jim decides to visit Antonia and is quite happy to find her the same resolute and spirited girl he once knew. He leaves with the promise that he will visit again soon.

But Jim does not visit again soon. In fact, twenty years pass before he sees her again. When Jim, who has become an attorney in New York City, finally returns back to Nebraska, he finds Antonia happily married with many children. Where he was once fearful that he would find his beloved Antonia weighed down in years and finally broken in spirit, he sees now that she is unchanged. The fact that she still resembles the girl he once knew, fiery and resolute even after much sadness, is the greatest possible outcome.

After sharing stories and laughter, Jim leaves with the promise that he will keep in touch. Jim feels at peace with the memories he shares with Antonia, the person she is and all that they've experienced together. The novel ends with a consideration of all that Antonia has meant to him.

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willa cather's my antonia: summary and analysis - video & lesson transcript | study.com

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Willa Cather's My Antonia: Summary and Analysis - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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My Antonia , written by Willa Cather, is one of the most recognizable stories of both immigrant and prairie life. Published in 1918, the novel is the last in what has been called Cather's Prairie Trilogy, consisting also of O Pioneers! and Song of the Lark.