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Other

Charles Dickens: Gad's Hill Place: David Copperfield

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses Charles Dickens's life at the time he wrote David Copperfield.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Quotations of Samuel Butler

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a list of quotes from Samuel Butler, compiled by John Bartlett.
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Website
Emory University

Emory University: History of Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
This Emory University resource provides information about the history of drama in the Neo-Classical time period.
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Website
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the life, story and work of Charles Dickens (1812-1870 CE).
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Handout
New York University

New York University: Bernard Malamud's "Idiots First"

For Students 9th - 10th
This webpage from New York University contains a summary of and commentary on Bernard Malamud's short story "Idiots First." A list of keywords with links to other works with similar subjects is also provided.
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TES Global

Blendspace: 3rd Grade Battle Books

For Students 3rd
Follow links to book-talk videos and descriptions of twelve different books appropriate for third graders.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Wonder a Novel by r.j. Palacio

For Students 4th - 6th
A learning module with forty-four links to images, videos, and texts to use while reading R. J. Palacio's novel Wonder.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Battle of the Books Book Trailers

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to five videos and a web site with trailers to popular adolescent novels.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: 2106 Nutmeg Book Nominees Teen

For Students 9th - 10th
Ten links to videos and images for the 2016 Nutmeg Book Nominees for teens.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Creating Book Trailers

For Students 3rd - 8th
A nine-part learning module with links to texts and videos for students to use while creating book trailers.
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Other

Mary Shelley's "Mathilda"

For Students 9th - 10th
No text is provided, but there are excerpts from letters about the manuscript, as well as other information regarding the manuscript.
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eBook
Other

"The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
Plain text of "The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley.
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Article
Other

Harper Collins: J. R. R. Tolkien Books & Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief biography takes Tolkien through his early years to his marriage and professorship at Leeds and Oxford and his telling stories to his children that would later become the novels so loved by the rest of the world. Also has a...
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Website
Time

Time Magazine: All Time 100 Novels

For Students 9th - 10th
Time magazine presents its picks for the top 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. It includes some original reviews.
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Article
Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Writing Advice: Beginner's Four Faults

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is a personal site from Caro Clarke. The third installment in this series looks at the four major mistakes made by beginning authors. The main idea of this article is that the author needs to be able to combine dialogue with...
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Website
Other

Roger Ebert: Review of Anna Karenina

For Students 9th - 10th
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, reviews the 1997 film version of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina. The movie starred Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean as Anna and Vronsky.
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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Frank Gee Patchin

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site features the author Frank Gee Patchin by providing links to six novels from his Pony Rider Boys Series, adventure stories for boys.