Department of Defense
Do Dea: Justice and Injustice
In this self-guided unit, you will be exploring the themes of justice and injustice. Included are lessons, self-assessments, background information, and learning activities. At the end of the unit, you will follow the research process to...
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: Thou Hast Thy Calling to Some Palace Floor
A poem from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Thou Hast Thy Calling to Some Palace-Floor", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Erin Mesdag and can access a printable version of this piece.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: Yes, Call Me by My Pet Name! Let Me Hear
A poem from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Yes, Call Me by my Pet-Name! Let Me Hear", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Erin Mesdag and can access a printable version of this piece.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: The Puritans and the Parliament
This resource provides a brief description of the political battles waged in the English Parliament between the monarchy and the Puritans. Discussion begins with the reign of Elizabeth I and continues through to that of Charles I.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The English, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
Six poems written by navigators and included by George Peckham, and Richard Hakluyt's argument to promote British settlement in North America. Both documents were directed to Queen Elizabeth I in an effort to promote British involvement...
Curated OER
Colourful Cover of Novel, by Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, 1945
Read a brief criticism of Canadian novelist's Elizabeth Smart's popular works. Also, learn about the artwork and miscellaneous materials (journals, correspondence, manuscripts) that reveal "a clearer understanding of a complex person: a...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: English Civil War
An in-depth article regarding the English Civil Wars. The article discusses the events leading up to the war, the dispute between Charles II and Parliament, and details on the First, Second and Third Civil Wars.
Read Works
Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-instructional activity unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to use pictures and context clues to discover a missing word and to draw conclusions about a story. Students...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Matrix Inversion: Finding the Inverse of a Matrix
Inverse matrices are very useful for solving matrix equations. But, given a matrix, how do you invert it? How do you find the inverse? The technique for inverting matrices is kind of clever. For a given matrix A and its inverse A-1, we...
BBC
Bbc Scotland: Mary Queen of Scots
Explore key events from the life of Mary Queen of Scots. There are many easy to use interactive exercises to help test your knowledge of the information you have just read. Great biographical overview, a timeline, and links to...
Other
Shakespeare Resource Center: The Authorship Debate
This site outlines the various "conspiracies" associated with Shakespeare's work.
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: The Tempest: Magic
This activity encourages students to explore Shakespeare's presentation of Prospero and his arts in the light of attitudes to magic in the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period. Included are discussion questions, primary sources, links...
Britain Express
Britain Express: History: Tudor: Elizabethan Life
This site contains small paragraphs with information about different aspects of Elizabethan life.
BBC
Bbc: Mary, Queen of Scots
Poor Mary, Queen of Scots. Read about her life as Queen of a religiously divided country and find out how that affected her reign and death. Archived.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Shifting the Balance of Power
This site introduces ideas about how the English became a naval power and competed with the Spanish in settling the New World.
BBC
Bbc: Burgh Life in Mary's Time
This interactive game leads students through the Royal Burgh of Stirling, Scotland. The students search the burgh for four lost items in an effort to gain entrance to a banquet given by Mary Queen of Scots. There is a non-flash version...
Luminarium
Luminarium: Essays and Research on the Renaissance
Use this comprehensive site to learn more about English Renaissance Literature. This site is a gold mine of information. It has several essays that illuminate this genre. Find out more about this period in literature through this...
BBC
Bbc History: British History: Empire: Symbiosis: Trade and the British Empire
Article examines the factors that drove forward the expansion of the British Empire during the nineteenth century and asks whether it was desire for trade or "thirst of conquest." Archived.
BBC
Bbc: History: Elizabethan Spying Game
An interactive game in which students try to crack the secret code that incriminated Mary Queen of Scots. Archived.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dynasty, Revolution, and the Classical Age
Welcome to Britain, home to one of the biggest empires in history and a rich artistic heritage. We'll start in the 16th through the 18th centuries, years that saw the establishment of Britain and British art as we know it. As you travel...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Henry Iv Part2
Written during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I the themes in this play still resonate. Read about the characters and themes in this informative site.
Walled Lake Consolidated Schools
Loon Lake Elementary School: Sir Martin Frobisher
A biography of Sir Martin Frobisher (1535-1594), one of the first English navigators to search for a Northwest Passage to India and eastern Asia. He became known as one of the greatest seamen during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Purplemath Resources
Algebra teacher Elizabeth Staple offers answers to the question, "How do you really do this stuff?" Detailed and down-to-earth, Purplemath has dozens of graduated and cross-referenced lessons, links to other valuable resources, and...
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