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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Scholastic: Nonfiction [Pdf]

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
This is a PDF chart of the types, traits, and purposes of nonfiction provided by Scholastic.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature and Composition: Literary Terms [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a three-page PDF of Literary Terms from Crest, Catherine Bartlett. Teacher's Guide-AP English Literature and Composition. New York: Educational Testing Service, 1999.
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Handout
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Literary Terms #2: Nonfiction [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a three-page PDF of an alphabetic list of literary terms focusing on nonfiction.
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Website
University of South Florida

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find stories, novels, and poems from more than one hundred authors. Download select works as MP3 files or read or listen to them online. Available selections span a wide range of literature, from nursery rhymes to the philosophy of...
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Handout
Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: Dream in Color: Teacher Resources Glossary, Credits [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website contains a glossary with definitions of poetic terms and a bibliography of additional African-American poets and books and recommended reading.
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Handout
Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: Aphra Behn (1640 1689)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Best known as a dramatist in the late seventeeth century, this site highlights the poetry of Aphra Behn and gives a detailed description of her life and influence. Includes bibliography and links to full text of many of her poems.
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Website
Luminarium

Luminarium: Robert Herrick

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Part of the Herrick section of the Luminarium site, this is a concise biography with links to more information.
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Website
Luminarium

Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a selection of major authors and works associated with English literature, ranging from Geoffrey Chaucer to Sir Isaac Newton. Each author's page contains online texts of the author's works, essays about the author and...
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eBook
Luminarium

Luminarium: The Works of John Donne

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A clickable list to selected full-text works by John Donne, including songs, sonnets, elegies, epigrams, and satires.
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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: How Does Writer Organize Nonfiction Text?[pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This poster contains writing craft questions for students to ask when reading nonfiction. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.
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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prose Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing two nonfiction texts and a video. After completing the graphic organizer, students will use its contents to write a constructed...
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Other

Twentieth Century Poetry in English

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The work of many major poets can be reached through links at this site. Includes biographical information on poets and many works.
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Activity
Other

Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Librarians from a group of independent schools in Houston, TX have chosen hundreds of books covering grade levels from Pre-K through 12, and genres from non-fiction to poetry to fiction. Each entry lists title, author, publisher and...
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Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Tornoto: Ben Jonson

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Index page from the University of Toronto offering the complete texts of twenty of Jonson's poems, as well as one work of prose.
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Activity
University of Toronto (Canada)

Selected Poetry of H. D. (Hilda Doolittle; 1886 1961)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Full text of selectes from H.D.'s long poem "Helen" and "The Oread." Also offers a biography and selected bibliography.
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eBook
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Donne's Relation to Petrarch

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Contains full text of "Donne's Relation to Petrarch," as appears in "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature." Explains how Donne broke the Petrarchian poetic style.
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eBook
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: John Donne: The History of His Poems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Traces Donne's progress and success as a 17th century poet. Full text excerpt taken from "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature."
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Beginnings of American Verse

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Describes the beginnings of American poetry, beginning with a publication in 1610. Click through the 18 sections to get the full picture. Extracted from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Guide Nonfiction Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains 17 nonfiction articles that are appropriate for students with a 6th grade reading level, as measured by the Fry Formula. Questions for each passage are provided. These graphic organizers are copyrighted and may be used...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Guide/assess Nonfiction Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains 47 one-page guided writing and reading guides and assessments.The reproducibles are copyrighted materials but may be copied and used for educational purposes.
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Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Longfellow: Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guide to the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including historical context, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with discussion activities, homework assignments, and essay topics.
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Primary
Other

The Poetry Kit: Jim Bennett Interview

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Insightful interview with this imagist poet. He gives some philosophy and characterization of imagery.
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Primary
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: A Literary Survey: Archive

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This search engine provides access to more than 3000 items including visual art, audio files, primary source materials, and additional texts supporting and enriching the understanding of American Literature. RI.9-10.9 US Documents,...
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Article
Other

Newsela

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Newsela offers new current events articles daily in areas ranging from the arts to war and peace. Each article is available at five different reading levels; grade level and word count are displayed for...