Instructional Video12:13
PBS

Unraveling the Myth of Ernest Hemingway (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)

12th - Higher Ed
Here’s the problem with tackling Ernest Hemingway—Ernest Hemingway himself. While the iconic author is mostly known for his feats of literary prowess, from The Sun Also Rises to For Whom the Bell Tolls, to countless short stories—perhaps...
Instructional Video28:44
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Comparing Hemingway to Young Adult Literature

7th - 12th Standards
Challenge groups to create a recommended reading list of contemporary young adult fiction that explores the same themes found in Ernest Hemingway's short stories and novels. After examining a list Hemingway created and a list put...
Instructional Video10:23
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The Old Man and the Sea: Critical Interpretations

7th - Higher Ed Standards
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; however, the critical interpretations of the novel have called it everything from "ordinary" and "schoolboy writing" to a "masterpiece." Readers are allowed to...
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Alexander Petrov: The Old Man and the Sea

9th - 10th
A film by Alexander Petrov based on the novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. [19:55]
Instructional Video
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Old Man and the Sea

9th - 10th
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, this video discusses the plight of getting older and feeling useless. Explores the character of Santiago, the Old Man, and how he may have felt and why he acted as he did.