Sixteen-page teacher guide for Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" contains enlightening introductory, overview, and language information. Also included are excellent writing activites and list of...

Learn the form, inspiration and spirit of haiku poetry and learn to write it yourself. An in-depth discussion of the philosophy behind haiku, as well as the literary structure.

Nobel Prize winner, T. S. Eliot is presented in this brief biography highlighting his life and literary contributions to modernist poetry. See "T. S. Eliot Activities" for related artifacts and activities.

Sandra Cisneros is featured for her literary prose, drawing on her personal heritage as a Chicana to exhibit her "Americanness" in order to share hope for other minority women. See "Sandra Cisneros Activities" for related materials.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" asks students to mark the rhyme scheme and highlight similes and metaphors, to respond to a modern letter with a message similar to the sonnet, and to...

Resource provides a description, questions, essay topics, lesson plans, biographies, and notes guide a reading of Sun, Stone, and , Shadows, a compilation of short stories by twentieth-century Mexican authors Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz,...

Readers guide to Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl, including historical context, author biography and discussion questions. Included teachers guide contains a ten-lesson unit with discussion activities, homework assignments, essay topics, and...

Great insight into Arthur Miller's play "A View from the Bridge". Intended for students preparing to take the British GCSE test, this site is beneficial to all students studying Miller and the play. With links to context, plot,...

Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers My Name Is Red, by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamluk. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt from the novel and find...

Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the novel. Read an excerpt from the work and find...

If you are interested in learning more about Korea this website includes resources to do just that!

A German Government user-friendly site that gives links to sites with excellent, up-to-date maps of Germany.

Site examines Elie Wiesel, his writings, and his life's work. Site also offers an excellent interview with Wiesel.

This site provides text from a lecture that looks at European culture after WWI. Looks at the literary and artistic developments during and as a result of the war. With links to several biographical websites on authors and philosophers...

Use the following resources to teach students how to analyze a modern work of fiction that draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including...

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Edwin Dickinson is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with integrating themes of modernism into his paintings.

New Arts Library offers a rewritten version of Milton's summary of "Paradise Lost." Features less complicated, more modern language.

Space dedicated to prose, where you can find numerous Spanish literary passages, as well as author biographies and pictures. You can also read about art (organized by countries, periods, museums), music (organized by countries, periods,...

A guide to contemporary art around the world, themes, types of modern art, conceptual art, performance art, famous modern artists. We should at least pull out the artists we have in our famous persons bank. Should be cross-checked...

The BBC's Study Ireland features a wide range of contemporary poetic voices that explore five themes to give students a clear idea of how and why poems are written. The site provides the text and audio versions of the poems, along with a...

Poet Allen Ginsberg is featured in this brief biography for his literary contributions to the Beat movement. See "Allen Ginsberg Activities" for related resources.

Unfortunately, "literary" writing was not as simple and direct as political writing. When trying to write poetry, most educated authors stumbled into the pitfall of elegant neoclassicism. The epic, in particular, exercised a fatal...

This site gives facts about the original Beowulf manuscript, its authorship, and its ties to archeology and culture. One may also read Beowulf in Old English or its translation to Modern English along with summaries of text portions and...

Overview of the Postmodernist literary movement. Describes the characteristics of Postmodern literature and gives some examples.