Lumen Learning
Lumen: The Romantic Period, 1820 1860: Essayists and Poets
This lesson focuses on the Romantic Period's essayists and poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, the Brahmin Poets, and more.
Read Works
Read Works: "Paul Revere's Ride"
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the ride of Paul Revere. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CommonLit
Common Lit: My Lost Youth
A learning module that begins with "My Lost Youth" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Turn, Turn, My Wheel
A learning module that begins with "Turn, Turn, My Wheel" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Children's Hour
A learning module that begins with the poem "The Children's Hour" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
University of Pittsburgh
U. Of Pittsburgh: "The Skeleton in Armor" Text & Notes
From the Norse Ballads of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow website at the University of Pittsburgh, this web page contains the text of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Skeleton in Armor" and editor's in-text notes. Also includes...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: My Lost Youth
This Bibliomania.com site provides the full text to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, My Lost Youth.
Maine Historical Society
Maine Historical Society: Longfellow Amongst His Contemporaries: The Ship of State Dbq
Using a number of primary source documents, students will assess the validity of a claim. Practice for testing that includes DBQs, and for critical thinking, close reading skills.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Wadsworth Longfellow House
Home of Revolutionary War General Peleg Wadsworth, it was the childhood home of his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Maine Historical Society
Maine Historical Society: Longfellow Meets German Radical Poet Ferdinand Freiligrath
This lesson plan hinges on an essay detailing Longfellow's meeting with Ferdinand Freiligrath. Includes the essay itself, illustrations, excerpts of poetry and suggested discussion topics.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Henry W. Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882) was an American educator and poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline". He was also the first American to translate Dante...
Vroma Project
Cambridge History of Eng. And Am. Literature: Longfellow at Harvard
Examines Longfellow's position at Harvard, his dissatisfaction with the academic life, and his second marriage. Includes a discussion of one of Longfellow's best-known poems, "A Psalm of Life."
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Longfellow's Works
Discusses Longfellow's early life, his tenure at Harvard, and looks at many of his poems such as: "Evangeline," "Hiawatha," "Hyperion," and "Miles Standish." Also, provides a link to a bibliography of Longfellow.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Longfellow at Bowdoin College
Detailed information about Longfellow's years at Bowdoin College, his post-graduate studies in Europe, and his marriage to Mary Storer Potter.
TES Global
Blendspace: American Literature Early Poets
A learning module with twenty-one links to texts, websites, videos, and quizzes on early American poets including Anne Bradstreet, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allen Poe.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: A Psalm of Life
Full text of Longfellow's poem, "A Psalm of Life."
Maine Historical Society
Maine Memory Network: The Acadian Diaspora
Take a fresh look at the Longfellow classic "Evangeline" in its historical context, with a look at a number of primary sources, and a connection with "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882) American poet
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The subject of this sketch was the most popular of American poets. -The Popular Cyclopedia, 1888
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet
"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Simonds History of American Literature
This site presents the full text of the "Simonds History of American Literature." This detailed reference book explores the literature in early colonial times, the eighteenth century, the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Longfellow House
This 1759 Georgian house was used by George Washington as his residence during the 1775-76 Siege of Boston. In the 19th century it was purchased for poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82) by his father-in-law, and is where Longfellow...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Transcendentalism, an American Philosophy
A good look at the first major American philosophy, transcendentalism. Read about the ideas that transcendentalists believed, and find out the members of the Transcendental Club. Many American authors of the time espoused the ideals of...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Introduction: Giovanni Boccaccio's the Decameron
This lesson focuses on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, the Italian precursor to The Canterbury Tales, from which Chaucer drew heavily. It provides links to a Chaucer and Boccaccio essay, the tale "Fedrigo's Falcon," and questions...