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Poets.org provides a wealth of content on poems and poetry, emphasizing but not limited to contemporary American poets.... see more
This multimedia site from Annenberg Learning provides introductory videos, reading selections, slide shows, and various... see more
Including thousands of Blake's images and texts, this hypermedia archive contains fully searchable and scalable... see more
A teaching resource for digital literacy, stimulus for story telling and creativity that is FREE to download. It has been... see more
This site offers "a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through... see more
This site is an extensive collection of multimedia materials concerning Harriet Beecher Stowes as an American cultural... see more
Using Susan Glaspell's short story "A Jury of Her Peers," this site explores the elements of good literature through the... see more
"This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and... see more
This website is created to support the American Passages project at Annenberg/CPB, created by a partnership between... see more
This lesson from the Folger Library has students examine a Shakespearean Sonnet using SOAPStone (Subject, Audience,... see more
The Folger Shakespeare Library site includes information about the Folger Library and its collections, performances and... see more
Online Poetry Classroom is a program of The Academy of American Poets that is designed to enhance poetry education in the... see more
Various collections for teaching Shakespeare (everything from lifestyle to Tudor music insult kits). See below for the... see more
441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors including Homer, Virgil, Aesop, Aristotle, Plato, and... see more
The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server... see more
USA Literature in Brief pinpoints and describes the contributions to American literature of some of the best-recognized... see more
This site "is an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains over 6000 definitions of gods and... see more
This tutorial explores annotations and abstracts, providing definitions, identifying elements to include, and discussing... see more
Reading tutorial/demonstration about how to find the topic sentence of a paragraph, where the main idea lives. This is a... see more
This site is an archive of primary sources (including songs, letters, poems, images, and speeches) and questions to... see more
From a West Saxon dialect to a global phenomenon, from runes to rap, the development of English follows a fascinating... see more
A video clip of actress Alfre Woodard reading Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman?
This collective of videos provides quick prompts for literature responses to springboard students into analytical... see more
A web site for anyone teaching Arthurian Legend from grade school to adult education. The site provides model lesson... see more