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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Wave by Todd Strasser

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide for the novel The Wave by Todd Strasser including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Giver by Lois Lowry

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the young-adult dystopian novel The Giver by Lois Lowry Free including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Life of Pi by Yann Martel

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the Canadian fantasy adventure novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the young adult novel Twilight by Stephenie Meyer including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes: April Morning by Howard Fast

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel April Morning by Howard Fast including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes: Lost Horizon by James Hilton

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes: The Contender by Robert Lipsyte

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel The Contender by Robert Lipsyte including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes: The Things They Carried by Tim O'brien

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes: A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

For Students 4th - 9th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes: The Member of the Wedding by Carson Mc Cullers

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Online: Number the Stars

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
This detailed unit includes author biography, ideas for introducing the novel, related reading suggestions, reproducibles and more. Acrobat Reader required to read the study guide.
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The Best Notes: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Other

Bible Study guide.org; Death of Jacob and Joseph

For Students 9th - 10th
Tells the story of Joseph burying his father, Jacob. Provides study questions as well.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing About Literature: Additional Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is "'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow': An Allegory for a Young America," an exceptional student example of literary analysis as well as an explanation to the main body of her paper. A link to the MLA website is also provided.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: American Literature: Reader Response Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on reader-response literary criticism including the purpose of reader response, the structure of a reader-response essay, how to criticize with examples, and an example of a reader-response essay using "The Secret...
Primary
Lumen Learning

Lumen: American Literature: "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the text and the video "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant to identify and understand the characteristics of American Romanticism.
Primary
Lumen Learning

Lumen: American Literature: "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the text excerpt and video "Wakefield" by Nathaniel Hawthorne to identify and understand the characteristics of American Romanticism.
Primary
Lumen Learning

Lumen: American Literature: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, an anti-slavery novel published in 1852, that was said to "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War." It was the best-selling novel of the 19th...