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Eserver

E Server: Anti Slavery Literature Project

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Antislavery Literature Project is a collaborative electronic publishing venture that provides educational access to the literature and history of the antislavery movement in the United States that is crucial to understanding African...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the 1958 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960 CE), a writer who was honored for "his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: 10th Lit/comp

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Contains learning modules on the following topics: Research and MLA Foundations, Novels and Short Stories, Poetry: the Sonnet, Shakespearean Drama, Informative and Argumentative Essays,Research and MLA Review, Narrative Nonfiction,...
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Ludovico Ariosto

For Students 9th - 10th
The biography on this Italian poet is thorough and contains a selected bibliography.
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Harvard University

The Harvard Chaucer Page: "Piers Plowman"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of William Langland's (1332?-1400?) middle English narrative poem "Piers Plowman." Includes scholarly introduction that notes parallels between the poem and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: American Romanticism: "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, a narrative poem first published in January 1845, and is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere.
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: Bullies Be Gone [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students write narratives, poetry and dialogue about their experiences with bullying. Through observation and reflection, their work becomes a readers' theater production to share with their peers on how to make their school a safe...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
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Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Alfred Lord Tennyson

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of resources provides access to variety of scholarly works related to the Victorian writer. Includes a detailed biography, a list of works, social and political histories, and essays about themes, setting, imagery, and...
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Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Victorian Web provides information from a detailed biography and social and political history to essays about narrative, characterization, and more. This site provides a variety of excellent resources relating to...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Emancipation: Death as Freedom

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem, narratives, and newspaper selections that examine black suicide and death generally as the only dependable source of freedom for slaves. This grim resource provides links to two separate accounts of these experiences.
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Other

University of North Carolina: Glossary of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is provided for by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Over forty literary terms defined by college students, each with thorough examples.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Differentiated Reading Instruction Worksheets, Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of differentiated reading activities are provided in this collection. Worksheets for the following reading topics are included: climax, story structure, elements of a story; fact and opinion; summarizing, narrative sequence;...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Romance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These two paragraphs describe the medieval narrative romance, contrasting it with the epic.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Heroes of the Middle Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
Approximately half-way through this essay is an intriguing paragraph dealing with Sir Gawain's spiritual battle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." This is contrasted with the more traditional physical battle of many epic heroes....
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms F R

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The second of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, F - R, covers forty-seven terms from "Fable," to "Romance."
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Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of William Shakespeare, an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminate dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminate dramatist. This portrait is attributed to Joseph Taylor, and dated to...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
The Stratford portrait of William Shakespeare, an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminate dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets,...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
Homer. Of all the writings that describe this Heroic Age, the most important are the two great narrative poems,- the Illiad and the Odyssey, -attributed to Homer.-Colby, 1899
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: An Introduction to Analytical Text Structures

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many students are used to writing narratives - stories, description, even poetry, but have little experience with analytical writing. This article is an introduction to six analytical text structures, useful across content areas. See...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Unique Metaphor Collections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is used as a mentor text. Students will identify metaphors and then create their own unique metaphorical descriptions that they will begin to collect in their...
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Brown University

Brown University: The Decameron Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Few great books like the Decameron have shaped our very notion of storytelling and its crucial role in the negotiation and production of shared social and cultural values. In its hundred stories, shared in ten days by ten young people...

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