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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...
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William & Mary

Inferential Reading Comprehension Considerations Packet

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Don't forget to read between the lines! Educators learn tips and activities to help scholars learn to infer to increase reading comprehension. Activities suggested include think alouds, backwards words, and who's who. the packet includes...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Main Reading Room: Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an annotated list of reference websites for literary criticism.
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, part of the E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore, includes links to more than fifty different sites with literary criticism by and about Edgar Allan Poe.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on how to write a literary criticism, the different theories and approaches to literary criticism, and their standard format.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing About Literature: Finding Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on how to find literary criticism including scholarly journals, citations from other works, a list of useful links to find sources, and TAMU libraries' website.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a detailed history of literary criticism from medieval time up to its current state.
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Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech: Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
The Feminist Theory Website at Virginia Tech University provides a list of all types of feminist literary criticism and theory.
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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University: The Role of Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has information about the role of literary criticism thoroughout time.
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Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Critical Theory: Interpretive Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th
Defines various critical approaches in brief. Click the Critical Theory link at the bottom of the page for more detail.
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Other

Marxist Literary Criticism: Brief Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief overview and guide to Marxist criticism. Easy to digest and fairly comprehensive page.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Introduction to Practical Criticism

For Students 11th - 12th
An in-depth learning module in literary criticism. Students read and listen to a poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt and an excerpt from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and analyze their structure and meaning. Includes multiple-choice quizzes.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Elizabethan Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A discussion of Thomas Campion's literary criticism from the Elizabethan period. From the Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Review Redux: Literary Criticism Through Reception Moments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Literature takes on a life of its own as students take a hands-on approach to exploring A Raisin in the Sun for cultural and historical context.
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University of Pennsylvania

"Black Boys and Native Sons" Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th
This critical essay first appeared in DISSENT in 1963. It looks at the work of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Practical Criticism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A general introduction to literary criticism, this website provides teachers and students with idea about how to derive meaning from poetry through personal interpretation.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: American Literature: Reader Response Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on reader-response literary criticism including the purpose of reader response, the structure of a reader-response essay, how to criticize with examples, and an example of a reader-response essay using "The Secret...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto Libraries: Glossary of Literary Theory

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A glossary of definitions for terms related to literary theory. Click each word in the glossary list and a definition with examples appears.
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Other

University of Texas at Arlington: Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Online collection of articles and excerpts about critical theory from contemporary writers.
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Other

Univ. Of Mississippi: Critical Approaches to Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Here are nine common critical approaches to the study of literature based on X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia's Literature: An Introductionto Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.
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Other

Kristi Siegel, ph.d.: Introduction Modern Literary Theory

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides an overview of literary terms and critical theories, compiled by a professor of English who teaches at the university level.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Models for Literary Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore these links to see models for literary analysis including a model analysis of poetry. "Types of Papers: Literary Analysis" from Roane State OWL and "Deep Desires that Transcend Time" by Alyssa Ensminger, from Roane State OWL....
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-six half hour videos on literary analysis for high school students that feature authors, scholars, actors and noted critics. Topics include The Art of the Essay, Setting and Character in Short Fiction, Responding to Literature and...
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TES Global

Tes: Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is slide show lesson of a cross-century critical analysis of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. It includes context and literary criticism from the 19th and 20th centuries.

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