Unit Plan
McGraw Hill

Glencoe.online: American Literature

For Students 6th - 8th
Discover the world of American Literature when you visit this site. This resource offers lessons, units, genre studies and more.
Activity
Other

Database of Award Winning Children's Literature

For Students 4th - 9th
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
Online Course
Science Museum, London

Making the Modern World: War, Literature, and Technology

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a content-rich interactive site which guides you through the literature of war. Access the history of war literature to take you to a timeline, study authors' writings about war, learn about metaphorical language, and put into...
Primary
Lumen Learning

Lumen: American and Puritan Literature: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

For Students 9th - 10th
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by British Colonial Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts to an unknown effect, and again on July 8, 1741, in...
Article
University of North Carolina

Re Integrating Europe: Perception of Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A discussion of the complexity of studying central European literature due to the different interpretations, expectations, values, and approaches of other cultures.
Primary
Lumen Learning

Lumen: American Literature: "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the text excerpt and video "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne to identify and understand the characteristics of American Romanticism.
Primary
Other

Study Questions: Ecclesiastical History & Caedmon's Hymn

For Students 9th - 10th
Medieval English literature course study questions that provides excellent critical thinking on Bede's "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" and Caedmon's "Hymn."
Website
Virginia Tech

Literature in an Interdisciplinary Unit

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A good resource for teachers, this website describes an interdisciplinary unit through which Linda Crew's novel, "Children of the River," is used as part of project on the study of rivers.
Website
Universal Teacher

Moore's Teacher Resources: Henry Iv, Part 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This study guide is intended for university and AP students as well as the general reader studying Shakespeare's history play, Henry IV, Part I.
Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: The Great Gatsby

For Students 9th - 10th
Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, with historical information about the novel's Jazz Age setting, an author biography, and access to a radio program (audio plus transcript) of excerpts from the novel and analysis of its...
Lesson Plan
Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Literature Unit: The House of Dies Drear

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
"The House of Dies Drear," is a powerful novel by Virginia Hamilton.
Unit Plan
Cengage Learning

Gish Jen (B. 1955)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site, from publisher Houghton Mifflin's online syllabus assistance for college instructors, provides helpful information for the study of Jen's works, including commentary on themes and style and questions for analyzing the works.
Article
Lumen Learning

Lumen: American Literature: Resistance and Abolition

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the resistance and abolition of slavery in the United States. It discusses the ways in which the slaves resisted slavery and the role abolitionists played.
Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing About Literature: Finding Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on how to find literary criticism including scholarly journals, citations from other works, a list of useful links to find sources, and TAMU libraries' website.
Website
African American Literature Book Club

African American Literature Book Club: John Henrik Clarke

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on the historian John Henrik Clarke including a biography, the full video of "John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk" [134:00], and links to ten of his books.
Handout
Emory University

Postcolonial Studies at Emory: Michelle Cliff

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a biography and description of Cliff's work.
Website
Other

Business plans.org: Demographics

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers links to many resources needed for demographic studies, including population studies, consumer demographics, U.S. Census data files, a reference tool to the world's population literature, World Wide Web visitor...
Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will examine the relationship of man and nature as portrayed in "The Open Boat," based on Crane's suffering from a shipwreck on The Commodore in which he spent thirty hours on a small boat at sea before being...
Website
Other

Virgil.org

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is devoted entirely to the study and appreciation of the Roman poet Virgil and his work.
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: Period 6: 1865 1898: Politics in the Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th
The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. The politics in the Gilded Age is discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Fahrenheit 451

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A description and guide to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio...
Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

For Students 9th - 10th
Guide to Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay...
Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: A Farewell to Arms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guide to Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with activities, assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show, with...
Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles: Fatalism & Sexuality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will explore sources related to two key ideas in Thomas Hardy's work: that of people being unable to control their fate, and the imbalance between a man's place and a woman's place in society. Through their...

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