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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: "Marcus Cato," by Plutarch

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Cato written about two centuries after his death by the famous Latin historian Plutarch.
Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: George Eliot

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Library of Congress

Loc: Stephen Crane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: Project Gutenberg: The Human Comedy (Honore De Balzac)

For Students 9th - 10th
The entire collection of Balzac's novels and short stories, translated to English, is available here in plain text format.
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City University of New York

Banque De Litterature Ilienne Island Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade

For Students 9th - 10th
Fordham University provides this site with information about Geoffrey de Villehardouin's chronicle of the Fourth Crusade, including the conquest of Constantinople.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Jazz and the African American Literary Tradition

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: "A Wrinkle in Time" Scholastic Book Files

For Students 9th - 10th
"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,...
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University of South Florida

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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University of Washington

Best Site on Colleen Mc Elroy

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Princeton University

The Charrette Project

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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University of Pennsylvania

University of Pa: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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University of Michigan

University of Michigan: Online Symbolism Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Latin Amer. In Search of Himself

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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University of Glasgow

Czech Literature and the Reading Public

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Unit Plan
abcteach

Abcteach: Mystery Book Report Form [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Great printable page that helps students write a mystery book report form. Calls attention to characterization and clues.
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Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol, 1843

For Students 9th - 10th
A scholarly article written about Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: List of Spanish Language Authors

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Victorian Web

Victorian Web: Oscar Wilde an Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Victorian Web provides a neatly organized site with links to information about Oscar Wilde including biography, works, political history, social history, religion, science, genre and mode, visual arts, themes, characters, imagery,...
Unit Plan
Vocabulary.com

"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," Vocabulary From Part I

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a list of words from the first part of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by Junot Diaz. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings,...
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University of Michigan

American Verse Project: Atlanta Offering: Poems, by Frances e.w. Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
Searchable text of poems by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, from the book "Atlanta Offering."
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Interview With Tom Stoppard

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a transcript of an interview with Stoppard that was done on "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." Stoppard talks about his writing process and creativity.
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Other

The Camelot Project: Tristan and Isolt

For Students 9th - 10th
This is part of a literary history reception project. It presents a number of English texts inspired by the Tristan and Isolt legends.