Curated OER
Gripping Details
Fourth graders examine literature for examples of paragraphs that are developed with gripping details. After a lecture/demo, 4th graders utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan which gives them a chance to rate the piece of literature...
Curated OER
Sayings and Phrases
Fourth graders respond to six sayings that are introduced in this lesson. They brainstorm, justify, explain, describe, create and relate as they respond.
Curated OER
Story Quilts
Students create a classroom story quilt based on a story (or series of stories) read as a group.
City University of New York
Maryse Conde
Good introduction for research on Maryse Conde. Features a comprehensive bibliography (primary and secondary) as well as excellent links.
City University of New York
City University of New York: Simone Schwarz Bart
Good point of departure for research on Simone Schwarz-Bart. Features a comprehensive bibliography (primary and secondary) as well as excellent links.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: "Marcus Cato," by Plutarch
A biography of Cato written about two centuries after his death by the famous Latin historian Plutarch.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: George Eliot
This Bibliomania website features a biographical sketch of the life and works of George Eliot, the pseudonym of Marian Evans(1819-1880), and links to the full texts of her novels "MiddleMarch," "Mill on the Floss," and "Silas Marner."
Library of Congress
Loc: Stephen Crane
This Library of Congress site provides a brief description of Crane's life as a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War and then provides some excerpts from some of his war correspondences. A bibliography of related works of...
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon: Project Gutenberg: The Human Comedy (Honore De Balzac)
The entire collection of Balzac's novels and short stories, translated to English, is available here in plain text format.
City University of New York
Banque De Litterature Ilienne Island Literature
This site provides information on writers and poets from francophonic Caribbean and Antilles islands: Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, and Martinique. Includes biographical information on authors and links to excerpts of their work and...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade
Fordham University provides this site with information about Geoffrey de Villehardouin's chronicle of the Fourth Crusade, including the conquest of Constantinople.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Jazz and the African American Literary Tradition
Article explores the influence of jazz on African American literature from the early history of jazz, noted jazz artists, the black-white tensions within jazz, to its literary influence after World War II.
Scholastic
Scholastic: "A Wrinkle in Time" Scholastic Book Files
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle is a Newbery Winning book. The BookFiles offers a excellent reading guide with thoughtful questions. It includes information on the author, vocabulary, as well as summaries on character, setting,...
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go
Find stories, novels, and poems from more than one hundred authors. Download select works as MP3 files or read or listen to them online. Available selections span a wide range of literature, from nursery rhymes to the philosophy of...
University of Washington
Best Site on Colleen Mc Elroy
This site is from the University of Washington, where McElroy is a professor. It has biographical information, a list of her works, and other details about the writer.
Princeton University
The Charrette Project
An outstanding example of what can be done on the web around the editing of a medieval text (Chretien de Troyes's "Le Chevalier de la Charrette"). It includes a critical edition, variants, a modern French translation, manuscript...
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pa: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
This University of Pennsylvania site reproduces the 1846 book here with some enhancements. Icons representing each of the 3 Bronte sisters identify who wrote which poem, and a provenance of the text explains where the information...
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Online Symbolism Dictionary
Great website where you can look up literary symbols in a searchable index. For each symbol there is a brief explanation of its significance and links to other related symbols.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media
PBS's source for teachers, covering all subject areas. This is a site that has so much wonderful information as well as interactive activities that you are sure to find something that would be useful in your classroom.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Latin Amer. In Search of Himself
Summaries and commentaries on five of Garcia Marquez? short stories, ?Death Constant Beyond Love,? ?Tuesday Siesta,? ?One of These Days,? ?Balthazar?s Marvelous Afternoon,? and ?Big Mama?s Funeral? to form this unit. Discusses how these...
University of Glasgow
Czech Literature and the Reading Public
A transcription of a lecture given at the University of Glasgow about literature and the availability of it in Czechoslovakia during the Communist reign. It briefly mentions specific authors and the scarcity of publishing houses.
abcteach
Abcteach: Mystery Book Report Form [Pdf]
Great printable page that helps students write a mystery book report form. Calls attention to characterization and clues.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol, 1843
A scholarly article written about Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: List of Spanish Language Authors
An encyclopedia with a fantastic list of Spanish language authors, organized by country. List is weighted toward authors from Spain but includes at least 1-2 authors for Latin American countries. For some authors, biographical references...