In addition to thoroughly exploring the purposes and functions of an analytical essay, this resource provides students with step-by-step instructions for reading and analyzing poetry, prose-fiction, and fiction. The site also offers...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson's activities, you will determine the purpose of description, narration, and exposition essays, analyze their literary devices, and examine text features. You...

This lesson is an introduction to an "Outside Reading Made Fun" unit in which students select a book to read for pleasure, write journal questions, write an analytical essay, create a book project, and participate in a book discussion.

Read Brooke Allen who, on the New York Times on the Web, reviews a book on Randall Jarrell and a book of essays by Randall Jarrell. Read some Jarrell quotes.

In this lesson, you will learn how to identify and discuss the use of facts, personal examples, and ideas and how they are woven into a literary essay.

Read the biographical notes, a review of Fauset's major works, a portrait, a reprint of a short essay by Fauset from "Some Notes on Color," a collection of essays on her life and work, and an extensive bibliography.

Site dedicated to Italo Calvino (1923-1985 CE), one of Italy's most famous writers. A brief biography and links to essays about and works by Calvino are included.

Young scholars prepare an already published scholarly article for presentation, with an emphasis on identification of the author's thesis and argument structure.

Four peer-reviewed essays by university students analyzing aspects of Dickinson's poem, "I dwell in Possibility." One essay reveals that Dickinson developed her own philosophy that bridges the conflict between Puritanism and...

This unit focuses on preparing for the AP Exam for AP Literature and Composition. It offers strategies for taking multiple choice questions, essay exams, and exam day. It also provides practice for the essay test using the poem "It's a...

This is the perfect site for the student of Richard Lovelace. It contains famous lines from several of his poems, a brief biography, a list of many of his poems which can be read on-line from this site, critical essays written on his...

This is the perfect site for the student of cavalier poet and clergyman Robert Herrick. It contains famous lines from several of his poems, a brief biography, a list of many of his poems which can be read online from this site, critical...

This thematic unit uses USS Constitution (nicknamed 'Old Ironsides') as a vehicle to explore a wide range of disciplines including language arts, reading, math, science, art, and social studies. Skills covered in the unit include...

At this website, read full-texts of Dresier's "Sister Carrie," essays, and literary criticism. Also includes letters, images, and a silent film.

An intimate look into the poetry of Robert Lowell, with a short biography and links to critical essays on thirteen of his poems. Click on the "Online Poems" link to read the full text of the highlighted poems.

Resource features the full text of Susan B. Anthony's speech along with an essay offering critical analyses, lesson plans for high school teachers, classroom activities, and suggested reading materials.

Edvard Munch's "The Scream" is one of the most iconic human figures in the history of Western art. Since The Scream's first appearance, many critics and scholars have attempted to determine the exact scene depicted, as well as...

Robert Venturi's New Castle County House offers a modest but instructive example of the Post-Modern style set. Even though he never liked the stylistic term Post Modern, his buildings and critical writings helped propel late 20th-century...

Thomas Eakins' most well-known and ambitious work is "The Gross Clinic" which spotlights a local physician. View pictures and read the backstory and criticism of this painting in this essay.

This is the perfect site for the student of cavalier poet and clergyman Robert Herrick. It contains famous lines from several of his poems, a brief biography, a list of many of his poems which can be read online from this site, critical...

At this website, read full-texts of Dresier's "Sister Carrie," essays, and literary criticism. Also includes letters, images, and a silent film.

At this website, read full-texts of Dresier's "Sister Carrie," essays, and literary criticism. Also includes letters, images, and a silent film.

At this website, read full-texts of Dresier's "Sister Carrie," essays, and literary criticism. Also includes letters, images, and a silent film.