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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: N. Scott Momaday

For Students 9th - 10th
Home page for a wealth of resource links on Momaday and criticisms of his work.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: T. S. Eliot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents information on T.S. Eliot's (1888-1965) life and career (including a biographical timeline), a bibliography of his works, a discussion of selected works, and links to related sites.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Sherman Alexie

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A useful collection of information on Alexie and by Alexie, covering both biography and his work, this site includes excerpts from interviews as well.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Archibald Mac Leish

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site houses three poems in full text from the great American poet Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982 CE), as well as criticism on two of his most famous. The three pieces are 'Baccalaureate', 'Two Poems from the War', and 'An Eternity'.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Claude Mc Kay's Life

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise and in-depth biography of the American poet known as Claude McKay (1890-1948 CE). McKay was one of the key members of The Harlem Renaissance Movement.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: On "The Weary Blues"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features four different reviews of Langston Hughes' debut award winning volume of poems "Weary Blues". Compiled by the University of Illinois.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This well-organized site offers a useful discussion of all phases of his life and work. Suggested motivation and influences of the author's work. Includes critical discussion of several popular poems.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Amy Lowell (1874 1925)

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to the full texts of selected poems by Amy Lowell as welll as related resources.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Written in Pencil in the Sealed Freightcar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Dan Pagis experienced the horrors of the Holocaust as a young child and only addresses the trauma he experienced through poetry. In the poem "Written in Pencil in a Sealed Freightcar" he uses Genesis and the murder of Abel by Cain as a...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Time

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided unit, you will be working with literature which is centered on the themes of past, present and future. You will experience several different literary perceptions of the past and the future by reading ancient...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Simonds History of American Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents the full text of the "Simonds History of American Literature." This detailed reference book explores the literature in early colonial times, the eighteenth century, the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New...
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Leonard Bernstein Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The online version of the Library of Congress' collection. Content includes more than 400,000 items, including music and literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, audio and video recordings, fan mail, and other types of...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Poetry of Liberation

For Students 9th - 10th
This unit examines poetry of the postmodernism period, focusing on the Beat Movement, Black Arts Movement, feminism, and other related movements and periods in recent literary history. An extensive list of authors, time line, video, and...
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The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: The World of Don Quixote

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learning module using primary resources in which students explore how Cervantes' Don Quixote respond to the social conditions and literary traditions of early modern Spain.
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University of Maryland

University of Maryland: Romantic Circles

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive site dedicated to Romantic Studies. Best to use the search function. Includes modern poets reading Romantic poetry.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
Site has over 60 links to authors, periodicals, literary background, theater and Irish science fiction.
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Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: George Meredith

For Students 9th - 10th
From a detailed biography, list of works, and political history to essays about themes, setting, and characterization, this site offers an excellent variety of resources related to Victorian author George Meredith.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Signet Classic: "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

In the Moonlight a Worm Haiku Homepage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Rhythms in Poetry: T. S. Eliot

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: The Search for Identity: Sandra Cisneros

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 Year 7

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Sun, Stone, and Shadows

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Ozick: The Shawl

For Students 9th - 10th
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...

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