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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Fiction: Alphabetical Search

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website offers the full text for thousands of short stories, novels, drama, and more. This search allows you to search by clicking on the letter of the alphabet of the text you are looking for and then find a link to the full text....
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University of Maryland

Mary Shelley's Short Fiction

For Students 9th - 10th
This index page links to the full text of four Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly short stories, including "The False Rhyme," "Ferdinando Eboli," "The Mourner," and "The Mortal Immortal."
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Fantasy and Science Fiction: Kurt Vonnegut

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Kurt Vonnegut, a science fiction author who is famous for his quotes and satire. It features his short story "Harrison Bergeron," an after-reading quiz, and a writing assignment about it. It also provides the NPR:...
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Other

Ink Pot: A Print Literary Journal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Ink Pot accepts short stories, poetry, and essays. Guidelines for submitting work, as well as samples of previously published entries, are readily available at this site. This site offers a great archive as well.
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Other

Classic Books at American Literature: "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

For Students 9th - 10th
A short synopsis of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" followed by the full text divided by Chapter selection. With links to other short stories by American writers.
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Other

Isaac Asimov Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource covers every aspect of Asimov's prolific writing career. Biographical information, movie connections, short story collections, lists of Asmiov's works are all here.
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Indiana University

Wright American Fiction Collection: Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
The full texts to Twain's lesser-known works can be accessed from this site such as "Celebrated Jumping Frog" and "The Innocents Abroad." Read facsimiles of the original books or plain text versions.
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Other

Write4 kids.com

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a great deal of information on writing children's stories. Contains "Advice, instruction, insider tips, insight and inspiration."
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Other

Nottingham Trent University: Kids on the Net

For Students 3rd - 8th
Visit this site for children's writing made by kids. Kids on the Net aims to help children develop a useful and informed approach to the Internet and how to use it for writing.
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University of North Carolina

Documenting the Amer. South: Kate Chopin: Bayou Folk

For Students 9th - 10th
The Documenting the American South project has made this full text version of Kate Chopin's novel available online. The page includes a link to a biography of Chopin, html files of the work, as well as title page and cover images.
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Sonoma State University

Berkeley Education: List of Works by Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
Superb site from Berkeley Education for finding any work by Jack London. Included are plays, short stories, fiction, non-fiction, and essays.
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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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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

For Students 9th - 10th
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore has created one of the more thorough websites on Poe. It presents many essays on his life and various aspects of his works, as well as the texts of most of Poe's writings, including his poetry,...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Man Without a Country

For Students 9th - 10th
Read Edward Everett Hale's famous short story here. Scroll down and choose "Previous," for criticism and interpretation of the story by Henry S. Canby.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Characters and Setting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces the connection between characters and setting in fiction writing.
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Other

University of Nottingham: d.h. Lawrence Bibliography

For Students 9th - 10th
This selected bibliography lists the novels of D. H. Lawrence, including poems, short stories, plays, travel writings, fiction, translations, essays and more.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In Cures for Heartbreak, Margo Rabb writes a fictional account of a 15-year old girl whose mother dies just days after being diagnosed with melanoma; then her father falls ill, too. Using vignettes - many appeared elsewhere as short...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: William Faulkner

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the encyclopedia Wikipedia provides a brief biography on the life and work of novelist William Faulkner is found on this site. It contains information on his style of writing and the themes of many of his works. There is...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Falling Action

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces falling action in fiction writing.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Climax

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces the climax in fiction writing.
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Other

Authors and Creators Frederic Brown

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, part of the Thrilling Detective Website, a personal site devoted to detective fiction, gives an overview of Frederic Brown's detective fiction from the point of view of a fan. The site includes an extensive list of works by...