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Lesson Plan
The New York Times

The Horror! The Horror!

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Gear up for Halloween by studying the horror genre with your class and analyzing films and texts to uncover the genre's traditional conventions.
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Interactive
Curated OER

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive reading comprehension activity, students respond to 31 short answer and essay questions based on The Picture of Dorian Gray. Students may also access an online quiz on the selection using the link at the bottom...
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Interactive
Curated OER

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 14 multiple choice questions about Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: The Picture of Dorian Gray

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania site features the full text of Oscar Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Includes a summary note about the context, plot, and characters as well as a link to other full texts of Wilde's work on Bibliomania.
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eBook
Planet eBooks

Planet E Book: The Picture of Dorian Gray [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde is available here in PDF format. The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was first released in 1890, is 198 pages pages long.
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Gender and Sex

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of articles that research how gender roles were defined in the 19th century, and how they were represented in the literature of the period.
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Primary
Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: The Wildean Dandy, and Comedy, and the Picture of Dorian Gray

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Victorian Web essay provides insight on writer Oscar Wilde's personality and how it relates to his comedy. The article is entitled, "The Wildean Dandy, Comedy, and the Picture of Dorian Gray." This site also gives excerpts from some...
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Fin De Siecle

For Students 9th - 10th
Read articles that address the following questions about the end of the 19th-century literature: What are the key tropes of late 19th-century literature? How did writers respond to the desires and anxieties of the time? How did...
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians London

For Students 9th - 10th
From Wordsworth's Westminster Bridge to Blake's Chimney Sweepers; from Dickens's pickpockets to Jack the Ripper; and from Wells's War of the Worlds to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes; discover the diverse ways in which writers in this...
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians the Gothic

For Students 9th - 10th
Gothic fiction has intrigued and unsettled readers for more than two centuries. These articles research how these works reflect the political, social, and cultural contexts in which they were written.
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eBook
Other

The Oscar Wilde Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Full-text collection of the works of Oscar Wilde. Easy to read and find, but there is no commentary offered.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.