ELI Publishing
Whitman and the American ‘Romantic’ Nature
Pupils read a short biography of Walt Whitman and a portion of Whitman's epic poem "Song of Myself." Readers then respond to a series of comprehension questions.
Curated OER
The Spread of Enlightenment Ideas
Looking for a simple and straightforward reference on the Enlightenment for your young historians? Check out this list of key terms and important figures from the period, followed by a traditional assessment where your learners will be...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Sixth Grade Poetry
Study some of the most prominent poets and works of poetry in history with a language arts poetry unit. From Virgil to Shakespeare to Dickinson to Angelou, the resources present biographies and examples of poetic elements to...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Charles Baudelaire: Poète Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
After learning the main ideas of the Decadent movement, students work in small groups to read and translate poems by the French poet Charles Baudelaire using basic etymology skills. They then read the accurate English translations to see...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
High schoolers analyze modernist poetry and the role of speaker in example poems. Learners study modernist poems from the Romanticism and Victorian periods as well as Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Using a...
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Romanticism
Learning game provides 19 questions about the cultural and artistic movement that predominated in Europe during the first half of the XIXth century. See if you can match the correct answer with the correct picture.
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton & Company: Norton Anthology: Introduction to the Romantic Period
The major Romantic poets cannot be understood, historically, without an awareness of the extent to which their distinctive concepts, plots, forms, and imagery were shaped first by the promise, then by the tragedy, of the French...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Goya, the Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Quiz)
How much do you know about Goya's work The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters? Find out by answering this four-question multiple-choice quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Goya, the Third of May
How much do you know about The Third of May by Goya? Find out by answering this five-question multiple-choice quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ingres, La Grande Odalisque
How much do you know about the painting La Grande Odalisque by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres? Find out by answering this four-question multiple-choice and true/false quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are...