Lumen Learning
Lumen: Romanticism: "Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Self-Reliance" is an essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid...
University of California
History Project: The Pullman Strike of 1894
Given background information and primary source documents, young scholars will write an essay describing the events of the Pullman Strike of 1894 organized around a theme.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Modeling Academic Writing
Learners prepare an already published scholarly article for presentation, with an emphasis on identification of the author's thesis and argument structure.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: A Raisin in the Sun
This site features discussion questions to go along with each scene of the play "A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry. Students will gain a broader perspective of Hansberry's work when they visit this site.