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Study guide.org: Writing an Approach Paper
This study tutorial shows how to do an "approach paper" concerning novels read in class. This web page explains the assignment and offers a sample approach for the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides Strategies: Reading Fiction: Narrator and Character Types
A clear explanation of the various types of narrators in fiction, as well as some questions a reader can ask to determine narrator type and make other analyses about a piece of literature.
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Madeleine L'engle: A Wrinkle in Time: Resources for Teachers
Featuring Madeleine L'Engle, this module provides numerous learning resources for teachers. Study guides, curriculum guides, reader's theater story adaptations, instructional videos, and spaces for student exemplars are provided.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Chance and the Butterfly Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Chance and the Butterfly, a novel written by Maggie deVries, looks at a foster child's struggles to fit in at school. He becomes fascinated by the caterpillars being studied in his classroom and takes one home. This teacher's guide...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Five Stars for Emily Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Five Stars for Emily, a novel written by Kathleen Cook Waldron, looks at a young girl's experience of leaving modern comforts behind and going to live in a log cabin without electricity. This teacher's guide includes a book summary,...
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the children's novel Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: The Stranger by Albert Camus
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study
Contains plans for two lessons that examine different translations of "Beowulf" in order to study the nature of translation and examine the verse structure of the original text. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
Universal Teacher
Moore's Teacher Resources: Henry Iv, Part 1
This study guide is intended for university and AP students as well as the general reader studying Shakespeare's history play, Henry IV, Part I.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Guide
This guide to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream began as the From Stage to Screen: Shakespeare and the World Wide Web project with the Moscow Alternative School Center in Idaho. This guide will walk you through the steps we took at...
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Novel guide.com: "The Prince"
NovelGuide.com provides a thorough study guide including summaries, character profiles, metaphor and theme analysis, quotes, and an author biography.
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Bless Me, Ultima
Guide to Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, including historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show,...
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: The Call for the Wild
Guide to Jack London's, The Call of the Wild, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show...
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: The Great Gatsby
Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, with historical information about the novel's Jazz Age setting, an author biography, and access to a radio program (audio plus transcript) of excerpts from the novel and analysis of its...
University of Calgary
The Children's Literature Web Guide
This resource is a children's literature web guide.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Introduction to Ap Literature and Composition
This an introduction to an AP Literature and Composition online course; it explains the advantages to taking an AP class and the rigor involved. It provides links to the AP Literature Course Description and practice tests, Registering...
Science Museum, London
Making the Modern World: War, Literature, and Technology
This is a content-rich interactive site which guides you through the literature of war. Access the history of war literature to take you to a timeline, study authors' writings about war, learn about metaphorical language, and put into...
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Random Acts of Kindness: What People Are Doing: Teacher's Guide [Pdf]
Learn about kindness through activity ideas for students of all ages and ideas for encouraging positive behavior in the classroom and community. Learn what a "Random Act of Kindness" is, and find ways to talk about this character trait...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Signet Classic: "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" Teacher Guide [Pdf]
Sixteen-page teacher guide for Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" contains enlightening introductory, overview, and language information. Also included are excellent writing activites and list of...
University of South Florida
U. Of South Florida: A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
This comprehensive project provides information on many aspects of the Holocaust. There is an excellent timeline with narrative, pictures, and web links. The People section provides a study of people involved in and affected by the...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Penguin: David Copperfield Reading Guide
A reading guide to the novel David Copperfield along with biographical tidbits about Dickens and discussion questions for reading groups.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Introduction to Writing About Literature
This is an introduction to writing about literature; it includes a list of learning objectives for writing about literature including finding and using historical sources to discuss the historical context, finding and using literary...
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Lumen: American and Puritan Literature: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by British Colonial Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts to an unknown effect, and again on July 8, 1741, in...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Early American and Puritan Literature: The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan (1628-1688) and published in February 1678. It is regarded as one of the most...