LITERATURE
LITERATURE
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LITERATURE SEARCHLa Doucette Index provides access to books and websites that contain useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and young adults, and the creators of those books http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/ ONLINE BOOKSTurning the pages Turn the pages of some great books from the British Library (requires shockwave) http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation1.html Classic Reader
- "can read, search, and annotate." The collection is mostly fiction, short stories, and poetry and includes children's
literature. be read online or downloaded. Free registration is required for downloading and annotating. CRITICAL COMMENTARIESCliff notes http://www.cliffs.com/index.html Sparknotes
A variety of resources, including plot summaries and
quizzes, Bartleby.com http://www.kevinsplayroom.co.uk/ (go to Englih/literature ) GENERALPenguin Readers teachers' guide to using best sellers www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/prteachersguides/ PRTGUsingBestsellers.pdf English literature Timeline http://www.literatureclassics.com/ancientpaths/englishlit.html American authors, timeline, literary movements, links to American literature sites http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/litfram.html online sites on American literature compiled by the U.S. government. http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/amlitweb.htm Brief biographies of seventy-eight writers born in the United States. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwriters.htm PERIODSMedieval , Middle English and Renaissance English literature Don Juan or Europe Unmasked Europe in the XVIIth century a study of art, litterature, religion and society Victorian literature http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/victoria.html POETRYA few words about prosody (in French) http://www.llsh.univ-savoie.fr/lea/Perdrieau/Lettres/poetry.htm BBC poetry Read and listen as poets perform their own works http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/index.shtml Poetry archive Poetry4kids Lovely poems for children (click on poems to find 40 gems by Kenn Nesbitt) Academy of American Poets their creators or search for
information on your favorite poet. The poetry showcase Love poems get your pupils to read , write and publish love poems You will also find many interesting links on the subject . http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/myeurope/content.cfm?lang=en&ov=12871 Langston Hughes particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=84&CFID=12862051&CFTOKEN=25472831 Poems on the Metro Inspired by the London based 'Poems on the Underground', the 'Poems on the Metro' project was established to coincide with the opening of the new Metro in Porto, Portugal in 2003. In addition to displaying posters of British and Portuguese poems on stations and metro carriages,a small teachers' resource kit was produced to encourage teachers to use the poems in class,and to develop language skills based on a variety of poetry inputs. This kit contains the English language poems, by Levi Tafari, John Agard, Carol Anne Duffy and John Hewitt, and a series of useful projects to develop in the classroom. http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/britlit/metro/metro.shtml Nursery rhymes http://www.love-poems.me.uk/a_children's_nursery_rhymes_index.htm http://www.eaglesweb.com/Mother_Goose.htm AUDIOThe Library of Congress Guide to poetry and literature webcasts Read, listen, watch: these are the options for visitors to the website, Wired for Books. The offerings range from scholarly discussions to children's stories, from Shakespeare to Anne Rice. In-house audio productions of Macbeth and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland attract the audio book lovers, as do CBS Radio's famous author interviews, conducted by Don Swaim from the 1970s to the 1990s. The writer's almanach : a daily program of poetry and
history broadcast on public radio . Includes an archive of
the audio and text . http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/ http://www.psychicworld.net/Pots.htm AFRICAN AMERICANA guide to African American Literature during the Twentieth Century. over 75 novels, poems, autobiographies, and essays along with summaries of the selected literature. Some significant events of each decade and the literary themes that African American authors were writing about during that decade. http://www.geocities.com/afam_literature/index.html WAR LITERATUREAn
anthology of over 100 extracts, both prose and poetry,
dealing MYSTERYMystery.net http://www.mysterynet.com/timeline/ A guide to classic mystery and detection http://members.aol.com/mg4273/classics.htm Definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_fiction Detective Fiction on Stamps http://www.trussel.com/detfic/detect.htm AUTHORShttp://www.roalddahl.com/index2.htm Roald Dahl's life and work. with a detailed biography, the huge database, news from the world of Roald Dahl, as well as games and competitions. lesson
plans and classroom activities with suggestions for classroom activities http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5113/ his life and workwith a timeline, an interactive map of 19th century London, an article on Dickens' journalistic career and a message board where you can post questions http://www.fidnet.com/%7Edap1955/dickens/ http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/index.html
and animation http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bleakhouse/animation.shtml
worksheets http://www.editions-hatier.fr/anglais_exercices/index.html http://www.lostgeneration.com/hrc.htm The Hemingway Resource Center http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/hemingway/ A complete account of Hemingway’s life Shakespeare's life and times http://www.webenglishteacher.com/steinbeck.html There are four activities in this CyberGuide. The first activity is about Steinbeck's life and times. The second activity explores the history of migrant labor. The third activity explores facts about mental retardation. The final activity is an essay on characterization in the novel. The Mongoose Some of the fables read by Peter Ustinov TITLESJabberwocky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky The Autobiography of Malcolm X Study aids http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/malcolmx/ http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/books/index.htm some reproducible activities in pdf format and even a pronunciation guide! Where does Joanne Rowling get her ideas? An interview http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/stories/stories/rowling/interview.htm quiz http://encarta.msn.com/quiz/quiz.asp?quizid=56 worksheet and resources http://www.ac-dijon.fr/pedago/langues/anglais/harrypot/accueil.htm http://www.nytimes.com/specials/advertising/movies/tolkien/index.html The Tolkien archives. With extracts from the book read by J.R.R.Tolkien himself. Sparknotes http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/
a webquest
http://www.fsu.edu/~CandI/ENGLISH/webquest2/enter451.htm
and more
particularly : The text on line http://www.literature.org/authors/shelley-mary/frankenstein/ Summary, main characters, explanation of the subtitle, other gothic novels ... http://home.tiscali.nl/%7Ehamberg/
Woksheets
based on the Macmillan
elementary reader http://www.macmillanenglish.com/default.aspx?id=476 Video show http://www.thebakken.org/Frankenstein/show.htm a site for the the National Library of Medicine's exhibit, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html see films too some lesson plans http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/grapesofwrath/index.html Reading comprehension and java script exercises by Lucy Georges http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/grapes.htm a comparison of the film to the book, and a short history of Route 66. http://angam.ang.univie.ac.at/roadcult/grapes/frontpage.htm a chapter by chapter summary, list of characters and related links http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.html the setting, characters, plot, themes, mood, background, and literary/historical aspects http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmGrapes01.asp Tom Joad (Woody Guthrie) http://shorty.mudcat.org/!!-song99.cfm?stuff=fall99+D+12316409 Woody Guthrie and the Grapes of Wrath lesson plans from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. http://www.rockhall.com/programs/plandetail.asp?id=529 (see films too) The Glass Menagerie - Tenessee Williams study + interactive exercises using Hot
Potatoes. short text + vocabuary quiz http://dwc.hct.ac.ae/fnd/engread/read-quiz/dorian-mc.htm online version http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/dorian_gray/ Spaksnotes |