Curated OER
St. Patrick's Day: James Joyce
Whether it's St. Patrick's Day or not, this instructional activity can be a great way to study James Joyce and how his heritage has influenced his writing. The instructional activity is meant to be used with the Gale database,...
Curated OER
Voice and James Joyce
After reading a text written by James Joyce, middle and high schoolers find examples of passive voice. They share their findings with the class. Use this lesson to emphasize the effect of passive voice in writing.
Planet e-Book
Dubliners
The Dubliners contains 15 short stories all bound in one book. The stories begin with narration by young children, and as they progress, so do the ages of the narrators. The author, James Joyce, focuses most stories on characters that...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
True passion can drive you mad. Stephen Dedalus, the main character in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man straddles many lines, including those between sanity and insanity, piety and sin, and individuality...
Curated OER
English Literature Authors and Their Works
Students participate in completing a worksheet where they have to match the authors to the short story or book that they wrote. They have studied English Literature Authors, so this is an assessment piece type of lesson.
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Revising/Editing (3-5): Editing Marks. Part II and Literary Tools. Part II
Familiarize your class with commonly used editing marks. They apply the use of editing marks to a letter and examine different types of literary tools before making a note card resource for the tools. They add their own examples for each...
Curated OER
Britain and the British
For this Great Britain worksheet, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about British history and culture.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: Postmodernism: Short Stories: James Joyce
This is a lesson from a unit on Postmodernism; it focuses on James Joyce, his life and works including the short story "Araby," which is offered in a PDF link for students to read. A link is also provided to a more in-depth biography of...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: James Joyce: Dubliners, Complete Text
This site has the complete text of James Joyce's collection of short stories, "Dubliners."
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Classic Reader: Authors: James Joyce
This site features the author James Joyce including a biography and the full text of 15 short stories including "The Boarding House" and "An Encounter." He is known for his unique use of language.
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Classic Reader: "An Encounter" by James Joyce
This is the text of the short story "An Encounter" by James Joyce, the adventures of two boys who skip school and go out to the Pigeon House and play "Indian's".
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Classic Reader: "The Boarding House" by James Joyce
This is the text of the short story "The Boarding House" by James Joyce, a tale of misdirection.
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Classic Reader: Book: "Araby" by James Joyce
This site features the full text of the short story "Araby" by James Joyce.
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Classic Reader: "After the Race" by James Joyce
"After the Race" is a short story by the Irish author James Joyce. In it, we see the themes of money, status, class, politics, and paralysis.
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Classic Reader: "The Dead" by James Joyce
This is the complete text of the short story "The Dead" by James Joyce.
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Creighton University: James Joyce: The Dead
This site has the complete text of James Joyce's short story, "The Dead."
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Dubliners, by James Joyce
Includes a discussion of the short stories comprising Dubliners. Also includes a number of possible discussion questions and a short biography of Joyce.
Other
James Joyce's Dubliners: An Introduction by Wallace Gray
Detailed introduction to the collection of short stories. Includes many direct references to the individual stories in the collection.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Painful Case" by James Joyce
Text of the short story "A Painful Case" by Irish author James Joyce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Classic Reader: Clay by James Joyce
Read the short story "Clay" by James Joyce which encompasses the themes of poverty, conflict, disconnection, escape, and paralysis.
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Classic Reader: Grace by James Joyce
Read the full text of the short story "Grace" by James Joyce about a conversation among men about Catholics, religion, Jesuits, and the Pope.
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Classic Reader: "The Sisters" by James Joyce
The full text of the short story "The Sisters" by James Joyce. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
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Classic Reader: "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" by James Joyce
Text of the short story "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" by James Joyce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Classic Reader: "A Little Cloud" by James Joyce
Text of the short story "A Little Cloud" by James Joyce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)