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Cengage Learning

Gish Jen (B. 1955)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site, from publisher Houghton Mifflin's online syllabus assistance for college instructors, provides helpful information for the study of Jen's works, including commentary on themes and style and questions for analyzing the works.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: The Outcasts of Poker Flat

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Bibliomania contains the full and complete text to Francis Bret Harte's story, The Outcasts of Poker Flat.
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Arlington Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery: Dashiell Hammett

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Arlington National Cemetery has information about Dashiell Hammett and his service as a sergeant in the Army. Includes great biographical information along with several helpful pictures of this sergeant and author.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Louisa May Alcott: Four Complete Texts Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete online text of Louisa May Alcott's novels "Good Wives," "Eight Cousins," "Little Women," and "An Old Fashioned Girl." Follow the drop down link to Louisa M. Alcott to access these complete texts.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Oliver Wendell Holmes Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
Ths Bibliomania site provides a biography of the 19th century American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894). Discusses his ancestry, childhood, education, and career in medicine and literature. Includes analyses of his works and a...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Nathaniel Hawthorne

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania site provides a biographical note about Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). Includes links to four full texts of his works: Mrs. Bullfrog, Rappaccini's Daughter, The Great Carbuncle, and The Scarlet Letter.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Bibliomania houses a transcription of the full and complete text of Walt Whitman's classic "Leaves of Grass."
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Walt Whitman

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical note on Walt Whitman that discusses his verse form, his life, and the influence of his poetry. Includes link to Leaves of Grass.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Cmc Magazine: A Snake, Some Oil

For Students 9th - 10th
CMC magazine provides a review of Cifford Stoll's novel, Silicon Snake Oil, which is "A first attempt to compile a database on every negative aspect that could possible be attributed to cyberspace."
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Author and Narrator

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The National Endowment for the Humanities offers a lesson plan exploring the use of narration in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Provides objectives.
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Digital History

Digital History: Avant Garde

For Students 9th - 10th
Synopsis of the huge cultural shifts that occurred in America in the 1920s in art, music, literature, and among intelligentsia.
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Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Arna Bontemps (1902 1973)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Find interesting ways to teach the poetry of Arna Bontemps at this website from the Heath Anthology of American Literature.
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Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site is a professor's guide for students. This guide features information on how to distinguish between Poe and his narrators in his stories.
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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains ten ten question quizzes over works by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Philosophy and Literature: History and Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discusses the state of literature and written history in the 1800s as they related to the development of a national identity, and the role Romanticism played. With the passage of time, more serious literature emerged and authors began to...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Democratic Origins Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
The hard-fought American Revolution against Britain (1775-1783) was the first modern war of liberation against a colonial power. The triumph of American independence seemed to many at the time a divine sign that America and her people...
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Digital History

Digital History: American Ethnic Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Educated white men weren't the only ones contributing to a truly American literature. Read about the literature written by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Irish Americans. All added to the melting pot of...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Jack London's the Call of the Wild: "Nature Faker"?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, learners will consider "Jack London's The Call of the Wild: "Nature Faker"?." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath": The Inner Chapters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider "John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath": The Inner Chapters." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Curated OER

Neh: Edsit Ement: Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson plan, students will consider "Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Curriculum Unit, students will consider "Kate Chopin's"The Awakening"" in 3 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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University of Michigan

University of Michigan: Harlem 1900 1940: Countee Cullen (1903 1946)

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography on author Countee Cullen gives details on his literary works along with all of his accomplishments throughout his life.
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University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Classics for Young People

For Students 9th - 10th
A launching point from the University of Calgary for several classic stories that are available online. Alphabetical by author, the list includes Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Rudyard Kipling.
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University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo: Jean Toomer Unpublished Works

For Students 9th - 10th
You can see the texts of unpublished works at this site.