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Library of Congress

Loc: Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Digitized original scrapbook that was kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and contains approximately 130 items, including newspaper clippings, photographs, and a limited number of manuscript materials, collected between 1855-72.
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Metro Active: "The Dark Corners of Daily Being"

For Students 9th - 10th
This review appeared in "Metro" magazine examines the stories that make up the collection "After Rain." Barra considers Trevor "the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language." This is an interesting look at Trevor's...
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Shakespeare Resource Center: Two Gentlemen of Verona

For Students 9th - 10th
Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" provided for by the Shakespeare Resource Center. Concise synopsis and characters with descriptions.
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Shorter Poems by Thomas Love Peacock

For Students 9th - 10th
Index page for 15 full-text selected poems by the 19th century English poet, including "Beyond the Sea," "A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day," and "Castles in the Air."
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Joseph Conrad

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the life and work of the famous author Joseph Conrad through this informative site.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: J. K. Rowling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teacher guide for J. K. Rowling and her Harry Potter books includes links to a biographical information, lesson plans, and activities.
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Official Site of j.k. Rowling

For Students 3rd - 8th
This J.K. Rowling's official site -- very flashy, media rich, and fun for children. A much livelier, as the author herself admits, after a recent makeover. Read Rowlings biography (includes pictures), check out the Daily News, and...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen

For Students 9th - 10th
Whether she's describing bickering families, quiet declarations of love, or juicy gossip, Jane Austen's writing often feels as though it was written just for you. Iseult Gillespie explores the sly societal satire and unique...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Round Faced Beauty" by L. Adams Beck

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of "The Round-Faced Beauty" by L. Adams Beck, a British-born author who settled in Canada. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Ninth Vibration" by L. Adams Beck

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Ninth Vibration" by L. Adams Beck, a Canadian author with British roots. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Siegfried Sassoon (1886 1967 Ce)

For Students 9th - 10th
Bartleby has made available several volumes of the poet's work. Site includes a very brief biography, the collections themselves, quotations from his work, and several poems which appear in Modern British Poetry.
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World War 1

Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: The Allies Post Caporetto Support of Italy

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an excerpt from the book Touring the Italian Front 1917-1919 by Francis Mackay (also known as Battleground Europe). It describes the ground and operations covered by the British, French and US Expeditionary Forces deployed from...
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Robert H. Sarkissian

Island of Freedom: Matthew Arnold

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides lots of information about the Victorian Age poet Matthew Arnold (1822-1888 CE). A biography of the poet, links to some of his poems, and links to other authors and key figures of the time period are provided here on the site.
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The Book Report

Kids reads.com: Brian Jacques

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site gives you a biography of Brian Jacques as well as an interview with him about his writing.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Anniina Jokinen: On a Drop of Dew

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains the translated version of Andrew Marvell's, On A Drop Of Dew.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Works of John Donne: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

For Students 9th - 10th
Luminarium: Works of John Donne: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning in is the text of one of John Donne's most famous poems which uses metaphors and comparisons to explain the separation of two lovers.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: "The Time Machine" Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teacher guide for "The Time Machine" includes chapter-by-chapter plot summaries, pre-reading journal ideas, vocabulary studies, study questions, discussion topics, figurative language, character studies, themes, and reading strategies.
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The Venerable Bede: Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical note on the Venerable Bede, a monk and historian who lived from 673 C.E. until 735 C.E.
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Aesop's Fables: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site features "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens separated into staves or sections.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Augustus Does His Bit by George Bernard Shaw

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the one-act play Augustus Does His Bit by George Bernard Shaw including an author's note.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: In the Shadow of the Glen by J. M. Synge

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the one-act play In the Shadow of the Glen by John Millington Synge including a list of characters.
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New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Alcuin

For Students 9th - 10th
This Catholic Encyclopedia site offers a very good biography of Alcuin, with extensive information on his work as an educator, a scholar, a theologian, and a liturgist of the 8th century. Please note that "The Catholic Encyclopedia" is a...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the fairy tale novella The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the novel Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley.

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