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Ga Virtual Learning: Seventeenth Century British Literature: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a unit Seventeenth Century British Literature including Shakespeare's plays, Sir Francis Bacon's essay form, and the influence of "The King James Bible."
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Ga Virtual Learning: Seventeenth Century British Literature: Francis Bacon

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on Seventeenth Century British Literature focuses on Francis Bacon, founder of the essay form. It features links to his essays: "Of Tribute: Praise of Knowledge" and "Of Parents and Children" and a History of the Essay...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Seventeenth Century British Literature: King James Bible

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on Seventeenth Century British Literature focuses on the King James Bible and its influence. It features links to a brief history of the King James Bible, Online text and audio versions of King James Bible,...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Seventeenth Century British Literature: New Testament

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the New Testament including its contents, writers, parables, and the vivid imagery in Revelations. It features links to two parables, "The Sermon on the Mount," Revelations, Chapter 10, online King James Bible in...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Seventeenth Century British Literature: Paradise Lost

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a lesson on John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. It features links to Books I and VII, audio explanation of chapters, a Book I study guide, "Killing the King" article, "400 Years" anniversary website, a short summary of...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a Restoration and Eighteenth Century, which ranges from the Restoration of King Charles II to the turn of the 19th century. The essential questions for the unit focuses on how the events of the period...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Historical Contexts

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an historical context for the Restoration and Eighteenth Century period in England. It provides a list of dates and titles for sections of the period and discusses the authors and characteristics of each. It provides links to "A...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Augustan Age 1689 1745

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Augustan Age and Alexander Pope, who coined the term. It featues links to a Pope biography, "The Rape of the Lock," text, notes and questions, and "The Rhetorical Organization of the Neoclassical Couplet."
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Ga Virtual Learning: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Jonathan Swift

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Jonathan Swift and his use of satire and irony. It features links to Swift's biography, "A Voyage to Lilliput" and "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" texts from Gulliver's Travels, and a handout with questions about the...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: A Modest Proposal

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focues on "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift in which he uses strong satire and irony as a protest of the English treatment of the Irish. It features links to the text of "A Modest Proposal," an introduction to the work by...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Romantic Poetry: Introduction: The Romantic Period

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an introduction to the British Romantic Period with poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Lord Byron, Shelly, and Keats. It focuses on essential questions such as "How did the shift in perspective and beliefs change the...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Romantic Poetry: The Romantic Period

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on Romantic Poetry focuses on the Romantic Period including the shift in thoughts away from reason and science and toward the power of nature, emotion, imagination, and the individual man. It features links to a vocabulary...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Romantic Poetry: The First Generation: William Wordsworth

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on Romantic Poetry focuses on William Wordsworth who is famous for lyrical ballads. It features links to information about the French Revolution, two of his poems: "The World Is Too Much With Us" and "Lines...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Romantic Poetry: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on Romantic Poetry focuses on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It features links to his biography, both text and audio versions of "Kubla Khan" and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and illustrations of the The Rime of the Ancient...
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Ga Virtual Learning:romantic Poetry:second Generation: Lord Byron, George Gordon

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on Romantic Poetry focuses on the second generation poet Lord Byron (George Gordon). It features links to his biography, and two of his poems both offered in both text and audio forms: "She Walks in Beauty" and "Don Juan...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Prose: Victorian Views on Education

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on Victorian Literature focuses on Victorian views on education. Compulsary education for students ages 5 to 11 was enacted in 1870, and this lessons discusses the works of three Victorians on that topic:John...
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Ga Virtual Learning: 20th Century and Modern Poetry: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to 20th Century and Modern Poetry. It focuses on disillusionment in British attitudes, World War I's influence on the literature, changing role of women in British society, and major writers of the time and their...
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Ga Virtual Learning: 20th Century and Modern Poetry: World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on World War I and war poetry that resulted from the disillusionment and cynicism due to the high casualties and devastation. It features links to the Causes of World War...
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Ga Virtual Learning: 20th Century and Modern Poetry: Wilfred Owen

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on Wilfred Owen and his poetry based on his experiences in WW I. It features links to his biography, his poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" in text and audio, a critical analysis...
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Ga Virtual Learning: 20th Century and Modern Poetry: Siegfried Sassoon

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is part of a unit on 20th Century and Modern Poetry and focuses on Siegfried Sassoon and his realistic "trench poems" about the agonies of war. It provides links to "The Importance of Siegfried Sassoon," an article which...
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Ga Virtual Learning:20th Century and Modern Poetry: Ww Ii: Sir Winston Churchill

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on Sir Winston Churchill and his award-winning speeches during WW II. It features links to a brief history "England in World War II," a Winston Churchill biography, a list...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Nonviolent Resistance and Indian Independence

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a lesson from a unit on 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on Mohondas Gandhi and his nonviolent resistance against British rule of India. It features links to Gandhi's biography, his ejection from a train in...
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Ga Virtual Learning: British Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism in British poetry and short stories. Although the works in this unit vary in style and themes, each reflects disorder and an attempt to create a new reality. The unit looks...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: Modernism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a lesson from a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism; it focuses on Modernism, a period characterized by writers and artists use of new forms in an attempt to find a new truth and a break from existing institutions, forms, and...