University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: On the Ezra Pound
Maintained by the "McLuhan Studies Journal," this article by Edward Barton from the University of Toronto focuses on Pound's influence on Marshall McLuhan during their years of correspondence. This site is more useful for McLuhan studies...
C-SPAN
C Span American Writers: The Fountainhead
A brief summary of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Does not include an on-line text of the work but does provide links to informational websites.
University of Pennsylvania
William Carlos Williams: The Barroness
Full text of a chapter from William Carlos Williams's autobiography, "The Baroness," which provides a personal view poetry and culture after World War I.
TESL Journal
The House on Mango Street: Experiencing Poetical Prose
What do you know about poetical prose? Experience this type of writing when you read "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros. This resource features wonderful interactive for all types of learners.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Reading Guide to Langston Hughes
This guide discusses Langston Hughes's body of poetry, as well as briefly analyzing characteristics in several individual poems. The site also offers an interview with writer Afaa Weaver regarding Hughes's works, discussion questions, a...
PBS
Pbs: Kate Chopin Chronology
This chronology provides key events in the life of the New Orleans author Kate Chopin (1850-1904).
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Gertrude Stein
This encyclopedia entry for Gertrude Stein reveals her influence on modernism in American literature as well as her partnership with Alice B. Toklas, her involvement in the avant-garde, Cubism movement, and her own writing.
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: 6 X Texto + Contexto
Read the biography of the following famous people: Francisco Hinojosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jose Agustin, Ann Martin, Clayton Bess and Jordi Sierra I Frabra and John Lennon.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Issues: Texting While Driving
This lesson focuses on the issue of texting while driving; it features links to articles and a video about the dangers of texting and other distractions while driving and a teen survey with their attitudes on the subject. Students read...
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Black History: Wole Soyinka
This entry from Encyclopedia Brittanica's Guide to Black History features Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He sometimes wrote of modern West Africa in a...