Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: An Author Study: Christopher Paul Curtis
This five-day lesson will introduce the learners to the author of the novel as the beginning of a unit. The students will conduct research to obtain biographical information about the author and read/analyze summaries and critiques of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Author Study
During this lesson, students will learn more about their favorite authors by researching them on the Internet and presenting to the class, school, and community. Students will see that authors are real people thereby developing an...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Using a Jigsaw for an Author Study
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for an author study. Students will work in a jigsaw activity during a 9-week author study. Downloadable graphic organizers accompany this author's study.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Madame Bovary : Study Guide
This study guide provides information on the plot, themes, author, and context of the novel, "Madame Bovary." Here, refresh your knowledge of the book's major characters and events and study important themes and ideas through "Sample...
Texas A&M University
American Transcendentalism Web: Walden Study Text
This Virginia Commonwealth University site contains study notes that explain the text to each chapter of Thoreau's "Walden."
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: Work Study Live: The Resident Youth Centers of the Nya
This essay will take its readers on a journey through the development and subsequent closing of a National Youth Administration (NYA) resident youth center in Lima, New York. Author Gordon Halstead, director of the center, provides a...
Other
New Testament Study Helps: Mark's Gospel
An analysis of the Book of Mark which provides historical information, a short description of the book along with details about the possible author.
Other
New Testament Study Helps: Luke's Gospel
An analysis of the Book of Luke which provides historical information, a short description of the book along with details about the possible author.
Other
New Testament Study Helps: John's Gospel
An analysis of the Book of John which provides historical information, a short description of the book along with details about the possible author.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Celebrate Cynthia Rylant's Birthday!
This site provides the opportunity to celebrate the birthday of Cynthia Rylant, a famous children's author. Activities related to the understanding of "plot" are included, along with links to other websites about Cynthia Ryland and her...
University of Maryland
Voices of Democracy: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, "Inaugural Address" January 1961
John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech is one of the most famous speeches in American history. Teachers can use this activity to teach Language Arts standards, as well as Social Studies standards. This lesson plan includes pre-reading ideas,...
Emory University
Postcolonial Studies at Emory: Michelle Cliff
This site has a biography and description of Cliff's work.
Other
Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Koosje: A Study of Dutch Life" by John Strange Winter
Text of the short story "Koosje: A Study of Dutch Life" by John Strange Winter, which was the pen name of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard, a Victorian author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to...
Grade Saver
Grade Saver: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the play Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett including author information, literary elements, act summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Cengage Learning
Gish Jen (B. 1955)
This site, from publisher Houghton Mifflin's online syllabus assistance for college instructors, provides helpful information for the study of Jen's works, including commentary on themes and style and questions for analyzing the works.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonio
The objective of this site is to guide students through a self-directed exploration of pioneer life in reference to the book, "My Antonio." Students will have an opportunity to work on combining the study of history and literature...
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: Summary of Holes by Louis Sachar
This is an online study guide for the young adult novel Holes by Louis Sachar including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Grade Saver
Grade Saver: Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the Russian novel Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Other
Virgil.org
This site is devoted entirely to the study and appreciation of Virgil and his work. A great place to start a study.
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina: Tar Heel Reader
Students can create, illustrate, and publish books for beginning readers, which are made available for the public to read. Authors must go through the free registration process in order to create a book.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe.online: American Literature
Discover the world of American Literature when you visit this site. This resource offers lessons, units, genre studies and more.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin: The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
Explore this informative teachers' guide for the book, "The Garden of Abdul Gasazi," by Chris Van Allsburg. Students and teachers will enjoy this comprehensive source.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: John Strange Winter
This site provides a link to the full text of the short story "Koosje: A Study of Dutch Life" by John Strange Winter.