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Curated OER

The Tell-Tale Hearts of Writers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Knock, knock, knock...Creep out your class with a critical thinking lesson focused on word relationships in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." They investigate  the relationship between word choice, mood, and interpretation of a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

An Author Report on Beverly Cleary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine Beverly Cleary as a reader and an author. They write a letter to Beverly Cleary that details their personal journey as readers and writers after reading her work and keeping a reading journal.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Latin Culture Through Art and Literature

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders participate in a lecture on the history of Latin Americans and the role of Latin-American women writers. As a class, they read a story together and identify what lessons the narrator gained throughout the story. In...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A View of Yourself Through Famous Writers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research famous quotes and discover one that describes themselves. They consider topics such as family and hobbies that will help others understand them. They present their information to the class.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Notorious Confusables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Great site! Offers student tons of confusables! Also offers quizzes and a pull-down menu for one "confusable" at a time. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2, L.11-12.2b Spelling, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings
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Website
City University of New York

Maryse Conde

For Students 9th - 10th
Good introduction for research on Maryse Conde. Features a comprehensive bibliography (primary and secondary) as well as excellent links.
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Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies

For Students 9th - 10th
A fantastic resource where you can find biographies of historical figures. You can search by the person's name or by topics, such as Presidents, United States Leaders, Scientists, Inventors, Humanitarians, Explorers and Pioneers,...
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Website
Georgetown University

Georgetown University: N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (B. 1934)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Georgetown professor's perspective on teaching Momaday's work, focusing on "Rainy Mountain." Offers insights on form/style/artistic conventions, and major themes/personal issues/historical perspectives.
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Website
University of Washington

Best Site on Colleen Mc Elroy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from the University of Washington, where McElroy is a professor. It has biographical information, a list of her works, and other details about the writer.
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Activity
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Edwin Arlington Robinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a complete listing of the author's poems, with links that provide the entire texts. Includes a short biography.
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Latin Amer. In Search of Himself

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Summaries and commentaries on five of Garcia Marquez? short stories, ?Death Constant Beyond Love,? ?Tuesday Siesta,? ?One of These Days,? ?Balthazar?s Marvelous Afternoon,? and ?Big Mama?s Funeral? to form this unit. Discusses how these...
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Primary
University of Glasgow

Czech Literature and the Reading Public

For Students 9th - 10th
A transcription of a lecture given at the University of Glasgow about literature and the availability of it in Czechoslovakia during the Communist reign. It briefly mentions specific authors and the scarcity of publishing houses.
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eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Les Trois Mousquetaires

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Alexandre Dumas's Les trois mousquetaires has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Article
Other

Excerpt's From "Why I Write" by Joan Didion

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the essay that was published in the "New York Times" magazine.
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Website
Other

A La lettre.com: Racine (1639 1699)

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed Racine resource, in French. Includes biographical information, a list of his major plays, and a special section on Racine's Jansenist ties.
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Activity
Other

Poesie.webnet: Les Grands Classiques

For Students 9th - 10th
D'Alphonse Allais a Charles Baudelaire, de Victor Hugo a Pierre Corneille, de Marie Stuart a Gerard de Nerval, tous les plus grands poetes representes par leurs meilleures oeuvres. A search engine for French poetry.
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Activity
Other

Redwall Abbey: Personal Website of Brian Jacques

For Students 9th - 10th
This link will lead you to the home page of Jacques' personal site. It contains links to every possible facet of the Redwall series.
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eBook
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Lyrical Ballads (1798)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Toronto features the complete text of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads". It includes Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern...
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Activity
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Dorothy Parker

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a list of poems by Dorothy Parker, all which are linked to the text of each.
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Primary
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Toronto has links to 39 poems written by Percy Shelley, with line-by-line notes for each work. A section of biographical information is provided.
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eBook
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of Lord Byron

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Toronto provides the texts for several poems by Lord Byron, with line-by-line notes.
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Activity
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Toronto site provides information on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The text of some of his works is provided.
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eBook
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: E Text/i Hear America Singing

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the online text for "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman.
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eBook
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: William Wordsworth, "Lyrical Ballads"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Virginia provides the text to the book of poems "Lyrical Ballads," featuring the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth.