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Website
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: On the Ezra Pound

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
C-SPAN

C Span American Writers: The Fountainhead

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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eBook
University of Pennsylvania

William Carlos Williams: The Barroness

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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TESL Journal

The House on Mango Street: Experiencing Poetical Prose

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Reading Guide to Langston Hughes

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Kate Chopin Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
This chronology provides key events in the life of the New Orleans author Kate Chopin (1850-1904).
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Gertrude Stein

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa

Red Escolar: 6 X Texto + Contexto

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Issues: Texting While Driving

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Black History: Wole Soyinka

For Students 9th - 10th
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...