In this lesson designed especially for girls, learners read a work of realistic fiction and get to know strong female protagonists through online literary circles and writing activities.

This lesson introduces real and fictitious settings in fiction writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

This site features questions for each of the chapters in Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die."

This online book presents an overview of American literature chronologically. Eras and movements are explained and biographies of significant authors are provided. This is a good way to understand the background and influences of...

This fictionalized journal was created by a high school student in Denver, Colorado. It tells the haunting story, through a combination of text and images, of a young woman who is stricken with tuberculosis (and later HIV). This...

Students learn about Deaf Culture through presentations, cultural experts, fieldwork, and reading fiction and non-fiction books. Then students use the information they have learned to create a realistic character and write a character...