Humor is not the first thing people associate with Poe, but this essay offers a look at the humor that Poe attempted in his writing. Good for a different look at an often-studied author. Offers a bibliography and links to online texts.

After sharing Margie Palatini's charming "bad-situation-that-only-gets-worse tale", Tub-boo-boo, writers will plan a story about a humorous household accident that gets worse before it gets better. Borrowing Palatini's exciting idea from...

Learn about Franklin's career as a writer and about his particular brand of humor in this five-part essay. Includes examples from his letters and from "Poor Richard's Almanack."

In this activity, students will complete humorous fill-in-the-blank prompts. After students complete each blank, students will view an automatically-generated story that contains their sentences organized ways that will be funny.

Students understand that specific structures and literary elements create humorous effects in a variety of print and nonprint sources. Students explore the development of humor to determine a text's deeper meaning and purpose, and apply...

Here you will find a wide variety of enrichment activities, information and games to enhance the book "Honus and Me."

The children's author Dan Gutman hosts this website devoted to his baseball stories. It even includes rejection letters, an original poem, and some book excerpts, and some puzzles and games.

A humorous and detailed tutorial for using Microsoft PowerPoint 2000. Includes meeting PowerPoint, creating slides, making changes, adding images and charts, adding motion and sound, timing and rehearing for a presentation. Tutorials can...

A humorous explanation of syntax and sentence structure, and how meaning in language is made up of so much more than words.

Read the text of the first letter Franklin wrote to the "New England Courant," in 1772, under the Silence Dogood pseudonym.

This lesson introduces puns in writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

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.

This is a comprehensive unit introducing speech including key words, lessons, discussion of audience, purpose, analyzing speeches, speech components, planning a speech, quizzes, and a final assessment with rubric.

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

This site describes Basho's writing style, including his sense of humor. It also provides several examples of his poetry.

Short definitions of techniques that persuade: bandwagon, glittering generality, and more.

Whether she's describing bickering families, quiet declarations of love, or juicy gossip, Jane Austen's writing often feels as though it was written just for you. Iseult Gillespie explores the sly societal satire and unique...

Students will write a tall tale narrative including larger than life characters with unusual skills or abilities using exaggeration, humor, surprise endings, and story elements (setting, characters, conflict, resolution).

This site describes Basho's writing style, including his sense of humor. It also provides several examples of his poetry.

An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....

An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....

An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....

An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....

An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....