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Shmoop: Breaking Dawn

For Students 9th - 10th
Full of interesting information, this site about Breaking Dawn, the book, characters and themes is worth a close look.
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Shmoop: The Bean Eaters

For Students 9th - 10th
This poetry collection, The Bean Eaters, is the title poem of one of Gwendolyn Brook's amazing poetry collections. Read about the poem and the interesting discsussion questions provided.
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Shmoop: The Highwayman

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about this familiar poem, The Highwayman, in this comprehensive site that analyses the themes and characters.
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Shmoop: If We Must Die

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about If We Must Die and find out about the many symbols and the imagery in this poem that looks at injustices to the Black community in the early part of the twentieth century.
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Shmoop: The Lady of Shalott

For Students 9th - 10th
This wonderful poem , The Lady of Shalott, is a poem written about King Arthur. Read the fascinating analysis of this poem in this comprehensive site.
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Shmoop: Musee Des Beaux Arts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a wealth of information on W. H. Auden's famous poem Musee des Beaux Arts. Read about the major themes and refer to the interesting study questions.
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Shmoop: Mutability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read about the themes in Mutability a poem written by William Wordsworth.
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Shmoop: Parsley

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the poem, Parsley, by African American poet, Rita Dove. This site goes into detail examing the poem and its signifciance.
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Shmoop: The Prisoner of Chillon

For Students 9th - 10th
The poem, The Prisoner of Chillon, was written by Lord Byron in 1816. Read about the meaning, and important quotations from the poem in this comprehensive site.
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Shmoop: The Road Not Taken

For Students 9th - 10th
One of Robert Frost's most well known poems, The Road Not Taken, is analysed in detail in this comprehensive site.
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Shmoop: To Autumn

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about one of John Keats' most renowned poems in this interesting site that looks at the themes, and background information on the poem.
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Shmoop: The Call of the Wild

For Students 9th - 10th
This fascinating site on Jack London's famous novel The Call of the Wild is looked at in detail in this site that includes character anaylsis and a discussion of themes in the novel.
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Shmoop: Candide

For Students 9th - 10th
This interesting and informative site looks at Voltaire's humorous criticism of power and wealth. Find out about the characters and their motivations in this comprehensive site.
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Shmoop: The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue and Frame Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Read background information on The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue and Frame Story in this informative site that includes a look at the characters.
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Shmoop: The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale

For Students 9th - 10th
The Miller's Tale is a story contained within The Canterbury Tales. Read about the love triange in the story and the characters involved?
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S Hmoop: The Canterbury Tales: The Second Nun's Tale

For Students 9th - 10th
Found in The Canterbury Tales, the Second Nun's Tale is the story of how a woman converts her husband and brother in law to becoming Christians. Read about the other characters in this fascinating tale.
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Shmoop: The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue

For Students 9th - 10th
A most interesting character in The Canterbury Tales, the wife of Bath reveals much about herself and others. This site analysis the themes and other characters in this fascinating story.
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Shmoop: T He Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and learn more about this fascinating tale in this comprehensive site about The Wife of Bath's Tale.
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Shmoop: The Cask of the Amontillado

For Students 9th - 10th
This fascinating short story considered one of Edgar Allan Poe's best is thoroughly examined in this interesting and informative site.
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Shmoop: Cat on a Hot Tin Roor

For Students 9th - 10th
This Pulizter Prize winning play is analysed in depth in this fascinating look at Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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Shmoop: Catch 22

For Students 9th - 10th
Joseph Heller's Catch-22's famous novel is analysed in terms of characters and themes.
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Shmoop: Cathedral

For Students 9th - 10th
Raymond Carver's most famous story, Cathedral, is looked at in depth in this site that explores themes and characters.
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Shmoop: The Chairs

For Students 9th - 10th
Written in 1952, The Chairs is analysed in depth in terms of character and themes in this interesting site.
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Shmoop: The Chosen

For Students 9th - 10th
Chaim Potok's first novel, The Chosen, of two Jewish boys coming of age is examined in depth in this interesting site. Find out more about the characters, their motivations and the themes in the novel.