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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Politics and Religion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Civil Wars and the Restoration of the monarchy, the Enlightenment or 'Age of Reason', and British colonialism: investigate the political and religious contexts of Restoration and 18th-century literature.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Johnson and Boswell

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
First section of a longer discussion on the Age of Johnson. Taken from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

For Students 9th - 10th
An online copy in plain text format of Kipling's work, easy to search and to use with online text readers.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Keats

For Students 9th - 10th
Keats' poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" with notes.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Mimi" by Arnold Bennett

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Mimi" by Arnold Bennett, a British author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the life and work of Charles Dickens through this educational resource.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a great and informative site. This lesson uses Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Noyes's "The Highwayman" to teach vivid imagery and figurative language. Don't miss out.
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Nagoya University (Japan)

Nagoya University: Victorian Ghost Stories: "The Body Snatcher"

For Students 9th - 10th
This Nagoya University site provides the text to Robert Louis Stevenson's ghost story "The Body-Snatcher." Provides other interesting Victorian ghost stories at this site also.
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Teachers.net

Teachers.net.: Animal Farm

For Teachers 11th - 12th
This site features a complete project guide for George Orwell's book "Animal Farm."
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Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Bring Your Character in a Bag Animal Farm

For Teachers 7th - 9th
The main objective is for students to be able to interpret a chosen character from the novel Animal Farm. Students will then have an opportunity to represent that character in original symbolic form and present it orally to the class.
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BBC

Bbc History: Historic Figures: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 1822)

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, including personal background and history as a writer.
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BBC

Bbc History: Historic Figures: William Wordsworth (1170 1850)

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of English romantic poet William Wordsworth.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Dickens of a Party

For Students 9th - 10th
Come to a party honoring Ebenezer Scrooge! This WebQuest is a complete "Party in a box," -- with a planning worksheet, specific tasks and roles, rubrics for evaluation and guidelines for presentation and party-going.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill. He was a British-Jewish author who wrote about ghetto life in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "When Doctors Disagree" by p.g. Wodehouse

For Students 7th - 9th
Read the full text of "When Doctors Disagree" by P.G. Wodehouse on this site.
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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: John Keats (1795 1821)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of sonnets written by John Keats: "On the Sonnet," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "On the Grasshopper and Cricket," "On Sitting down to Read King Lear Once Again," and others.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

For Students 9th - 10th
The whole text of the famous novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, taken from the second edition, formatted for online reading.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope available in multiple formats.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson Plan: Monsters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Following a reading of the epic poem Beowulf and the contemporary text inspired by it, Grendel, students create their own monster. Lesson plans provide assessment criteria, extension ideas, and a list of resources.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the fairy tale novella The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the novel Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Dialstone Lane by w.w. Jacobs

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the novel Dialstone Lane by W.W. Jacobs
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Man" by Bram Stoker

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the novel "The Man" by Bram Stoker.
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The English Teacher

The English Teacher: Beowulf Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These teaching notes for Beowulf provide a model for your own lesson plan and as a basic resource to study Beowulf. These notes can help you remember the pertinent points of Anglo-Saxon epic poem and help to deepen your understanding.

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