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Writing Promotes Thinking


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American Literature students enjoy exploring the theme of dreams in poetry. We read A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe, I Dream’d in...

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W. B. Yeats

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English Language Arts Resources for 8th Grade

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"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
Ernest Hemingway

"Story is what stirs us, terrifies us, breaks our heart."
Loehr

Poetry

  • American Verse Project
  • The Beat Generation
  • Blake Archive
  • Robert Browning ebook
  • Roald Dahl ebook
  • Robert Frost ebook
  • Poet Seers
  • Poets.org
  • Ezra Pound
  • Carl Sandburg
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Twentieth Century Poetry in English
  • William Wordsworth ebook

Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

  • Claude McKay
  • Countee Cullen
  • Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • James Weldon Johnson
  • Jean Toomer
  • Langston Hughes
  • Nella Larsen
  • Wallace Thurman
  • W.E.B. DuBois
  • Zora Neale Hurston
"To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart."
Aberihani

Native American Literature

  • 20 Native American Authors You Need to Read
  • Native American Authors
  • Native American Myths and Legends
  • Native Web

"It does not require many words to speak the truth."

Chief Joseph, Nez Perce


William Shakespeare

  • Folger Library: Shakespeare In American Life
  • MIT: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  • The Shakespeare Resource Center
  • The World of Shakespeare WebQuest
  • William Shakespeare Background Information & Teaching Ideas
"O none, unless this miracle have might:
That in black ink my love may still shine bright."
Shakespeare

Greek Mythology

  • BBC Ancient Greece
  • Greek Mythology
  • Greek Mythology for Kids
  • Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
  • Hercules
  • The Myth Man Presents Myth Mania
  • Myth Web
  • NatGeo Quiz: Which Greek God Are You?
  • Theoi Greek Mythology
"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."
Joseph Campbell

Explore a Culture: Irish Literature

  • Celtic Mythology
  • Irish Authors and Writers You Should Know from James Joyce to Oscar Wilde
  • Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama
  • Irish Myths and Legends
  • Island Ireland: Irish Literature
  • John Boyne
  • Online Irish Literature
"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
James Joyce

Integrate American Literature: American History

  • American Memory from the Library of Congress
  • History Matters
  • History of the USA
  • High School Social Studies Lesson Plans Using Technology
  • Interactive Multimedia Moments in American History Timeline
  • Timeline of American Literature and Events
  • USHistory.com
  • William Bennett--America: The Last Best Hope
  • Women's History in America


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