Have you ever seen a movie about the romance of the American West with its buffalo, horses, cowboys, and endless frontier? The 13th installment of a 22-part series on American history presents the myths associated with the American West....

Students study the topics of love and romance as they are related to the Valentine's Day holiday. They think of associated vocabulary, read well known quotes, and discuss how people in their own country meet. They read about contemporary...

What were the virtues and values that helped form America? Pupils watch and discuss a video, read biographies of early Americans, chart the differences between early American religious movements, write journals and letters, draw, and...

Many American writers in the late nineteenth century wanted their writing to reflect real life. Individuals watch and discuss a video, read and explore author biographies, write a journal entry and a poem, and complete a multimedia...

The Lord of the Flies and The Kite Runner are the core texts in a unit that asks learners to examine various texts that show how fear can be a destructive force or it can be an agent of change. Individuals they design a project that...

Aladdin, Disney's Broadway musical comedy, is a magic carpet ride. Prepare your class for a field trip to the show with a study guide that is a treasure trove of activities, cultural connections, and background information.

Discover the brilliant Bronte sisters, who defied the limited options for women in 19th-century Britain to create some of the most iconic novels in English literature, in these three video excerpts from To Walk Invisible: The Bronte...

This document is a guide to an Annenberg video, but it contains a wealth of information that is also useful independently. These thirty-four pages offer background information and activity suggestions relating to Gothic undercurrents in...

Introduction to Shakespeare and "Hamlet." Includes introduction, scene by scene synopsis with elaborate illustrations. Also background information concerning historical Hamlet, Saxo Grammaticus. "Historia Danica," Belleforest's...

This learning module features "genre" as the topic for PowerPoint presentations, lessons, and quizzes. Numerous projects with the "genre" theme are available for further exploration as opportunities for more in-depth investigations.

Beyond giving the world dozens of English language masterpieces and inventing countless words (including the word countless), William Shakespeare, ever the overachieving bard, especially had a way with the romantic turn of phrase....

This is an online study guide for the novel A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This is an online study guide for the novel The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

Written in 1940 this classic war romance is set in Spain. This site provides fascinating insights into the characters, themes and quotations found in the novel.