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The College Board

Ap English Literature and Composition: Exam Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice exams for AP English Literature and Composition.
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W. W. Norton

Norton Anthology: Restoration/british Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The period between 1660 and 1785 was a time of amazing expansion, when Britain became an empire and its society and literature had to adapt to circumstances for which there was no precedent. The topics in this Restoration and Eighteenth...
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature: Sir Philip Sidney

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the biography of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586); his works included Arcadia, The Defence of Poesy, and Astrophil and Stella.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature: John Dryden

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a biography of John Dryden (1631-1700). It discusses his life and his works of poetry, satire, and drama.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
A Child's History Of England by Charles Dickens offers the opportunity to learn the history of England as told by one of the finest storytellers of English literature. The book begins with Roman Britannia and proceeds chronologically to...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Internet Shakespeare Editions: Women Writers of the English Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of women writers during the English Renaissance. Related links to different writers.
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British Library

British Library: Using Discovering Literature in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Written by the English and Media Centre with the Learning Team at the British Library, this free pack shows you how to make the most of the wealth of materials on the Discovering Literature website. Alongside digitized manuscripts and...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Early American and Puritan Literature: The Pilgrim's Progress

For Students 9th - 10th
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan (1628-1688) and published in February 1678. It is regarded as one of the most...
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: 18th Century Resources Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this incredible site full of resources and links to the world of literature in 18th-century Britain. This site holds the key to learning more about the authors, works, and topics of this time period.
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Other

Literature of India: Indian Writing in English

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site looks at Indian literature in English. Tracing the beginning of Indian literature from the 18th century this site analyses key literary figures up to present day.
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Other

Brock University: Some Attributes of Modernist Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A nice discussion of the characteristics and attributes of modernism in literature.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Elizabeth George Speare

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Web English Teacher has put together a terrific resource featuring links to Elizabeth George Speare's life and work. These links provide lesson plans, teaching ideas and more.
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British Library

British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks

For Students 9th - 10th
View a series of extracts from eighteenth-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this period of overseas expansion, urbanization, and early industrialization. Accompanying essays explain various...
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British Library

British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: 1800s Food

For Students 9th - 10th
View a series of extracts from ninetheen-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this century of change. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the Victorian period,...
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British Library

British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: Medieval Food

For Students 9th - 10th
View a series of extracts from some of the oldest known cookbooks written in English. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the medieval English diet, including the differences in food eaten by peasants and by medieval elites at...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: New English Poetry: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

For Students 9th - 10th
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry discusses the English renaissance poetry of Henry Howard (1517-1547).
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W. W. Norton

Norton Anthology: Twentieth Century Topics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the world of Twentieth Century British literature through this informative site. Find out how and why Georgian and Modernism movements developed. Includes a quiz.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Mining Literature for Deeper Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Writing a great English paper can be tough because literature doesn't always reveal its deeper meanings immediately. Amy E. Harter offers a few tips on how to read and write more critically and thoughtfully. [4:12]
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Other

Brock University: Psychoanalysis and Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting intro to psychoanalysis and its place in literature. Very accessible to students. Good place to start research on the subject.
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Other

Anglo Saxon Period: Characteristics of Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
This concise survey of Anglo-Saxon poetry is part of a larger site in English for Chinese university students.
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The English Teacher

The English Teacher: Description in Dracula

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extracts from Bram Stoker's Dracula reveak his powers of description that help to establish a sense of "versimilitude" or of being "true to life." It is important to establish verisimilitude in the beginning pages of a novel as this...
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University of Maryland

Teaching Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a terrific resource for teachers of British Literature, which includes instructions for using FrankenMoo yourself and/or with students.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Bridging Literature and Mathematics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to write about math-related, informational books such as "Actual Size" (Jenkins, 2004) and "If You Hopped Like a Frog" (Schwartz, 1999). Students use books...
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Johnson on the History of the Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Critical analysis of Johnson's use of literary sources in his dictionary, and his contribution to the development of modern English. Includes extensive notes and bibliography.

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