|
| Lesson plans/Course Syllabi |
VirtualLit: tutorials on close reading
Bedford/St. Martin’s Press |
critical approaches |
literary critics/theorists |
literary movements
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED |
Literary Theory and English Teaching |
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism |
Media Theory |
| |
| Study Guides/Lessons |
| IRA/NCTE
ReadWriteThink lesson plans
|
| New
York Times Lesson Plans
|
Bilbiomania
[study guides]
|
High
School Hub [study guides]
|
Novel
Guide [study guides] |
Lesson
Plans: Literature adaptations on A&E Channel |
Linda’s
Links [12,000 books organized by title] |
Sparknotes
[summaries organized by title] |
Freebooknotes
[study guides (free registration)] |
Bookrags
[study guides] |
Booknotes
[study guides] |
| Collaborative
Lesson Archive |
Doucette
Index [useful teaching suggestions related to books for children
and young adult] |
Study
guides for teaching novels |
Study
guides for novels, especially world literature |
Sparknotes
[study guides for novels] |
Pinkmonkey
[summaries/study guides] |
RandomHouse
[study guides] |
Litplans
study guides/lesson plans |
Chico
High School [guildes/lesson plans] |
English
Online [teaching units/resources]
|
Discovery
Channel [lesson plans]
|
Cyberguides
[grades 9-12]
|
Lessons
for teaching young adult literature
|
Web
English Teacher [activities for texts organized by author]
|
Links
to literature [activities for texts organized by author]
|
| Web
English teacher [lessons organized by author]
|
| Teacher’s
Net |
| Outta
Ray’s Head [literature lessons]
|
Marco-Polo
resource site |
Mr.
Dietrich’s study guides |
| Paul
Brian’s study guides
|
|
Inquiry/problem-based Unit Design |
For examples of high students’ work based on literature
inquiry-based projects:
ed.psu.edu
|
For video-modules on project-based learning produced by the George
Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF):
glef.org
|
For examples of hypermedia inquiry project work by high school
students cited in Beach and Myers (2001):
ed.psu.edu/k-12/socialworlds/
ed.psu.edu/k-12/teenissues/
(focus on issues of love, relationships, family)
|
Inquiry
web site at the University of Illinois
|
| YouthLearn:
Inquiry-Based Learning
|
| Institute
for Inquiry [hands-on activities]
|
How
to Develop an Inquiry-Based Project
|
George
Lucas Foundation: Project-based Learning
|
inquiry-based
teaching
|
National
Science Foundation monograph about inquiry-based learning
|
Annenberg
Foundation [frequently asked questions about inquiry-based learning]
|
28
questions to promote the inquiry process
|
Use
of technology such as Inspiration mapping to foster inquiry
|
| Problem-based
learning [Maastricht University]
|
| The
Learning Tree [Problem-based learning]
|
Center
for Educational Technologies
|
|
Copyright/ “fair use” Information sites: |
| The
Copyright Website
|
The
University of Texas Intellectual Property Office
|
| PBS:
Fair Use Guidelines for Off-Air Recording of Broadcast Programming
for Educational Purposes |
Information
about Extended Taping Rights of PBS programs
|
Information
about teachers’ or students’ multimedia projects employing
copyrighted material
|
|
Developing literature Webquests |
Bernie
Dodge Webquest taskonomy for designing webquests
|
Berhane Teclehaimanot and Annette Lamb, “Reading,
Technology, and Inquiry-based Learning Through Literature-Rich WebQuests,”
Readingonline |
Webquest design
webquest.sdsu.edu
ozline.com
[WebQuests and More]
ozline.com
[WebQuest Design Flow]
|
Filamentality
webquest design site
|
Webquest collections (mostly English)
sesd.sk.ca
webquest.sdsu.edu
james.rtsq.qc.ca
teach-nology.com
|
Webquests
[literature]
Poetry, Amanda Bekkum and Michelle Schneekloth
|
Beth O’Hara, To
Kill a Mockingbird
|
The
Great Gatsby |
The
Crucible |
Of
Mice and Men |
The
Scarlet Letter |
Julius
Caesar |
Romeo
and Juliet |
The
Bluest Eye |
The
House on Mango Street |
Holes |
Call
of the Wild |
Webquest: The
American Dream |
Webquest: Victims
of Mass Hysteria
|
Webquest: Does
Social Rank Matter? |
Webquests:
teaching literature
|
|
Video Resources |
Film for the Humanities: On-line catalogue organized by topics:
films.com
|
| Videos/training sites from Annenberg: The
Learner Channel
|
|
Literature units/course syllabi |
english.unitecnology.ac.nz
richmond.k12.va.us
teachtheteachers.org
colorado.edu/English/amlit/
colorado.edu/English/mispag/
linkstoliterature.com
vms.cc.wmich.edu/~careywebb/
wvaworldschool.org
www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
educ.ucalgary.ca
lionselect.chadwyck.com
andromeda.rutgers.edu
tnellen.com
sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy912.html
teachervision.com
edsitement.neh.gov/subject_categories_all.asp
edsitement.neh.gov/lesson_index.asp
teachers.net
members.aol.com/DonnAnCiv/Literature.html
sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score
school.discovery.com
teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/literature/high/
teacherslounge.editme.com
members.aol.com/MrDonnLessons/2LessonPlans.html#Literature
monmouth.com
members.aol.com/DonnAnCiv/Literature.html
|
| Syllabus
finder
|
Teaching
literature courses
|
MIT
undergraduate Literature courses
|
Introduction
to Literature Online
|
College
literature
|
Literature
courses offered at Virtual High
|
First
World War Poetry
|
| Richard Regan: Shakespeare
faculty.fairfield.edu/rjregan/rr255f04w.htm
faculty.fairfield.edu/rjregan/rr355f03.htm
faculty.fairfield.edu/rjregan/rr12s04.htm
faculty.fairfield.edu/rjregan/rr356s04.htm
faculty.fairfield.edu/rjregan/rr372s04.htm
|
| James Hunter:
Shakespeare
James Hunter: Science
Fiction
James Hunter: The
Quest in Literature
|
Charlotte Meyer: Literature
of the American Minorities
|
Tim Green:
Dimensions of Literature [thematic aspects]
|
Ann Warren: English
Literature
|
Ann Warren: Contemporary
Literature
|
John Corbally: World
Literature
|
Nete Schmidt:
Introduction to the Short Story
|
Greg Ulmer, Hypermedia
|
| Jeanne Po: Asian-American
Literature
|
| John Lye: Modern
Fiction |
Al Filreis: Contemporary
American Poetry
|
Ann Woodlief: American
Nature Writing
|
Patricia Ferguson: Literature/Humanities, Columbia University
columbia.edu/itc/lithum/ferguson/c1002/
columbia.edu/itc/lithum/ferguson/c1002/
|
Paul Brians:
Science Fiction |
Kathleen Dinneen and Maryanne O’Connor:
Elements of the Short Story |
Maria Pennacchio: Short
Stories Reflections of Two Worlds |
Jane K. Marshall:
The Short Story: A Slice of Life
|
Introduction to Poetry
facstaff.bucknell.edu
onlinepoetryclassroom.org
|
| British
literature
|
American
literature, 1820-1890
|
19th
Century British Poetry
|
|
Thematic literature instruction/units |
Planning
a Themed Literature Unit
|
| Cyberguides:
Teaching American literature
|
Thematic units
lessonplanz.com
edhelper.com
edsitement.neh.gov
query.nytimes.com
eduref.org
teach-nology.com |
PBS
Teacher Resource: Teaching literature
|
Designing
thematic literature units: Kathleen Noe: Teacher Education 521 [Seattle
University]
|
America
Dreams [theme of the American dream]
|
| ASLE;
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
|
Inner
Space/Outer Space, Cyberspace: A Unit
|
American
Dream Songs |
King
Lear |
The
Literature of War |
Humor
as a Device for Criticism |
The
Sonnet |
Women
in Poetry |
The
Crucible in the McCarthy period |
| Catch-22
|
To
Kill a Mockingbird [historical perspectives]
|
Unit: Male/female
relationships |
Webquest: True
Love
|
Webquest: Good
and Evil in Lord of the Flies |
Webquest: Tragic
Heroes in Literature and Life |
|
Genre Resources |
Google
[literary genre sites]
|
Fantasy/science fiction literature
uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/index.html
sfwa.org
sff.net
hycyber.com
FantasyReaders.com
scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/v28n2/bucher.html
web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/sf/pop/sf.html
wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction
dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Genres/Science_Fiction/Authors/
books.ratatosk.org/
dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Genres/Fantasy/Authors/
fantasylibrary.net
locusmag.com
springlea.com
locusmag.com
|
Historical fiction
uts.cc.utexas.edu/~soon/histfiction/
home.midsouth.rr.com/ochsner/
geocities.com/hifiguide/
home.midsouth.rr.com/ochsner/
angelfire.com/il/ofagespast/index.html
dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Genres/Historical_Fiction/Authors/
uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7esoon/histfiction/list/listmain.html
histfiction.net
dorset-lea.org.uk
scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall98/brown.html
|
Historical
fiction authors
|
Tarry Lindquist: How
and Why I Teach with Historical Fiction
|
Historical
Fiction for adolescents
|
Romance
directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Genres/Romance
dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Genres/Romance/Authors/
rwanational.org
rna-uk.org/site.html
likesbooks.com
rwanational.org/
|
Young
Adult Romance
|
Mystery
MysteryNet.com
sldirectory.com/mystery.html
mysteryinkonline.com
stopyourekillingme.com
mysterywriters.org
themysteryreader.com
umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject
dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Genres/Mystery/Authors/
members.aol.com/MG4273/classics.htm
classiccrimefiction.com
mysterywriters.org
magicdragon.com
thrillingdetective.com
|
Crime
and Mystery Fiction Journal
|
Mystery authors
mysteryauthors.com
dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Genres/Mystery/Authors/
|
| Nancy
Drew
|
Horror
dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/Horror/
classichorrorstories.com
darkecho.com
users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/GS.html
horrorworld.org
members.aol.com/eyesonweb/
fright.com
|
Ghost
stories on film: British Film Institute |
|
Young Adult Literature Lesson Plans/Units |
|
The New York Times Daily Lesson Plans |
|
Lynch Multimedia Adaptations of Shakespeare's Plays |
Lesson: Studying Holes |
Lesson: Evaluating a book by its cover |
Lessons for teaching young adult literature
|
Unit: The Giver
|
Unit: The Chocolate War
|
Unit: Fallen Angels
|
Unit: Johnny Tremain
|
| |
|
General Literature Lesson Plans |
Lesson Plans: Literature adaptations on A&E Channel |
Litplans study guides/lesson plans |
Chico High School [guildes/lesson plans] |
English Online [teaching units/resources]
|
Discovery Channel [lesson plans]
|
|
Web English teacher [lessons organized by author]
|
|
Teacher’s Net |
|
Outta Ray’s Head [literature lessons]
|
| |
Thematic Units |
American Dream Songs |
King Lear |
The Literature of War |
Humor as a Device for Criticism |
The Sonnet |
Women in Poetry |
The Crucible in the McCarthy period |
|
Catch-22
|
To Kill a Mockingbird [historical perspectives]
|
Unit: Male/female relationships |
Unit: Studying themes across different texts |
Unit: Theme of growing up |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Using graphics to respond to literature |
Lesson: thematic unit: Human Nature: Good or Evil? |
Lesson: History and literature: A Walk through the 20 th Century |
|
American Literature |
Unit: Ethan Frome
|
Unit: Fahrenheit 451
|
Unit: Cannery Row
|
Unit: My Antonio
|
Unit: The Awakening
|
Unit: Huck Finn
http://www.nashville.k12.tn.us
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us
pbs.org
|
Units: The Crucible
classzone.com
sdcoe.k12.ca.us
aresearchguide.com
edsitement.neh.gov
|
Unit: The Bean Trees
|
Unit: Catch-22
|
Unit: Catcher in the Rye
|
Unit: The Things They Carried
|
ReadWriteThink lesson: Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby |
Lesson: The Red Badge of Courage as a New Form of Realism |
Lesson: Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers |
Lesson: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying : Form of a Funeral |
Lesson: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury : Benjy's Sense of Time |
Lesson: Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit? |
Lesson: Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Lesson: Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia |
Lesson: Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird |
|
British Literature |
Units: Animal Farm
classzone.com
sdcoe.k12.ca.us
teachervision.fen.com
|
|
Units: 1984
teachervision.fen.com
school.discovery.com
classzone.com
sdcoe.k12.ca.us
|
Lesson: "You Kiss by the Book": Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet |
Lesson: Hamlet Meets Chushingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy |
Lessons: MacBeth |
Lessons: MacBeth |
Lesson: Othello |
Yale University Library: English Literature bibliography |
Lesson: Beowolf |
Lesson: Sir Gawain and The Green Knight |
Henry James |
Lesson: George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" |
| |
World Literature |
Lesson: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart : Teaching Through the Novel |
Lesson: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart : Oral and Literary Strategies |
Lesson: Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal! |
Lesson: Japanese Noh plays |
Lessons: Indian epics
edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=589
edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=591
edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=599 |
| |
|
Shakespeare |
The Folger Shakespeare Library [lesson plans/resources]
folger.edu [teaching]
folger.edu [archive]
worldshakesbib.org
|
Units/resources: Hamlet
lausd.k12.ca.us
sdcoe.k12.ca.us
viterbo.edu
pathguy.com
netcomuk.co.uk [Course Contents]
allshakespeare.com
clicknotes.com
netcomuk.co.uk [A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet]
sparknotes.com
|
Units/resources: King Lear
allshakespeare.com
gradesaver.com
pathguy.com
netexplosure.com
home.pacific.net.au
|
Units/resources: Julius Caesar
virgil.org
allshakespeare.com
gradesaver.com
juliuscaesar.future.easyspace.com
members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/caesar/
|
Resources/Units: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ulen.com
quarles.unbc.ca/midsummer
allshakespeare.com
gradesaver.com
pathguy.com
|
Resources/Units: Othello
allshakespeare.com
gradesaver.com
clicknotes.com
|
Resources/Units: Henry V
ulen.com
gradesaver.com
sparknotes.com
|
Units/resources: Romeo and Juliet
cln.org
lausd.k12.ca.us
teachers.net
teachersfirst.com
allshakespeare.com
bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us
wsu.edu:8000/~brians/love-in-the-arts/
|
Units/resources: Macbeth
pathguy.com
allshakespeare.com
geocities.com/Athens/Styx/5025/
gradesaver.com
angelfire.com/tx3/
sparknotes.com
|
Units/resources: The Tempest
allshakespeare.com
gradesaver.com
geocities.com/tempestnet/
|
|
Units/resources: Richard III
thinkquest.org
allshakespeare.com
gradesaver.com
r3.org/mckellen/
|
Unit: Performing Julius Caesar |
Unit: Hamlet |
Unit: The Crucible |
Lesson: Creating programs for Shakespeare plays |
| |
Literature Discussions/Circles |
ReadWriteThink lesson: The Pros and Cons of Discussion |
Unit: discussion of survival of the fittest |
| |
Reading Strategies |
Unit: A high-interest novel helps struggling readers confront bullying in schools |
Unit: Word maps: Developing critical and analytic thinking about literary characters |
Unit: Reading response in hypertext: Making personal connections to literature |
Unit: Teaching plot structures through short stories |
Unit: Reading response in hypertext: Making personal connections to literature |
Unit: Teaching plot structures through short stories |
| |
Poetry |
Poetry unit: Conflict and War |
Unit: Poetry writing |
Unit: Reading poetry for pleasure |
Poets.org: Poetry lessons |
Poets.org: Essays on teaching poetry |
Poetry lessons for 12 familiar poems |
Figurative language [Lots of links] |
Webquest: Ars Poetica |
Unit: Discovering Robert Frost |
Understanding the Basics of Poetry |
Unit: Teaching found poems |
Virtual Poetry Workshop [lots of activities] |
Outta Ray's Head [Lots of poetry lessons] |
Poetry lessons for middle school students |
WhyPoetryWhat: Internet poetry for middle school students |
Lesson: Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet |
Lesson: Poetry of World War I |
Lesson: Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" |
Lesson: Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess" |
Lesson: Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy |
Lesson: Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: the Sweep of the Universe |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Studying the Harlem Renaissance |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture through Art and Poetry |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Discovering a Passion for Poetry with Langston Hughes |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Discovering Poetic Form and Structure using Concrete Poems |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Poetry: Sound and Sense |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Different perspectives on America in poetry |
Lesson: Introducing Metaphors through Poetry |
Lesson: Introduction to Modernist Poetry |
Lesson: Emily Dickenson poems |
Lesson: Analyzing Emily Dickenson's letters |
Lesson: The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You |
Lesson: Using visual poetry |
Lesson: Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes |
Lesson: A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic? |
Lesson: Japanese Poetry |
Lesson: The World of Haiku |
| |
Theater |
|
Theater Lesson Plan Exchange
|
|
Edsitement: Drama lesson plans
|
|
Drama lesson plans
|
|
Drama lesson plans
|
|
Drama units
|
|
Barbies, Baseball, and Shakespeare: Beginning drama unit
|
|
Unit: The Crucible
|
|
Witchcraft unit: The Crucible
|
ReadWriteThink lesson: Character, Conflict, and Plot in Dramatic Tragedy |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Exploring the Role of Perspective in Narrative: To Kill a Mockingbird |
ReadWriteThink lesson: The Peace Journey: Using Process Drama in the Classroom |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Characters for Hire: Studying Characters in Drama |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Analyzing theme and symbolism in drama |
ReadWriteThink lesson: using before/during/after reading strategies |
ReadWriteThink lesson: using prediction strategies |
Lesson: Using drama to teach Of Mice and Men |
Lesson: Using drama to teach The Canterbury Tales |
Lesson: Colonial Broadsides: A Student-Created Play |
|
Writing |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Exploring Literature through Letter Writing Groups |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Writing literary parodies |
Units: teaching formal writing |
| |
Narratives |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot? |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Responding to stories through multimedia |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Teaching Plot Structure through Short Stories |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Creating word maps in responding to stories |
Lesson: Studying a Poe short story |
Lesson: Creating story totems |
Lesson: Story maps |
Lesson: Tales of the Supernatural |
Lesson: Hawthorne: Author and Narrator |
Lesson: Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" |
Lesson: Jack London: "To Build a Fire" |
Lesson: Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories |
Lesson: Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost |
Lesson: Perspective on the Slave Narrative |
Unit: fugitive slave narratives |
Unit: From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography |
| |
High School Literature Lesson Plans |
Teach-Nology: High School literature lesson plans |
Kathy Schrock: High School literature lesson plans |
Lots of resources/lesson plans |
| |
Censorship |
Unit: The Shawshank Redemption |
Unit: Multimedia Poetry |
Unit: filming To Kill a Mockingbird |
ReadWriteThink lesson: adopt scenes from a text and create a film adaptation |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Literacy Scapebooks Online: An Electronic Reader-response Project |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Book Report Alternatives: Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Critiquing Films using Sight and Sound |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Analyzing political cartoons |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate Over Downloading Music |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Exploring Satire through The Simpsons |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Using blues music to study "Gift of the Magi" |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Analyzing fallacies in advertising |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Naming in the Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Creating a news broadcast about a character |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Analyzing portrayals of technology in fiction |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Writing a review of technology |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Writing technology autobiographies |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Star-Crossed Lovers Online: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age |
ReadWriteThink lesson: Creating a hyperlinked multigenre response to literature |
Lesson: Hamlet and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film |
Free samples of literature/media units from the English and Media Centre |
| |
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Studying Places/Spaces |
Sacred Space: Learning About and Creating Meaningful Public Spaces
|
Perception of Place |
The Evolution of Cultural Landscape |
Explore the Spatial Patterns of Your Hometown |
Cultural Symbols and the Characteristics of Place |
School Space: An Analysis of Map Perceptions |
There's No Place Like Home: Examining Tourism and Cultural Opportunities in Your State |
Places in the West |
Spaces and Places (younger students) |
