Personal correspondence in the form of letters is not as common as it once was. This resource presents an opportunity for you to introduce your class to letter writing and cover topics in social studies. Learners read a letter written in...

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...

Pauline Johnson, "a reader or reciter of talent as well as a writer," performed in Winnipeg in 1897, and this is an account of that performance from the "Winnipeg Free Press." Read about Johnson's costumes, her portrayals of a "heathen...