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$10.00Buy NowStudent will encounter a comprehensive collection of American Literature from 1865 to the present and includes over seventy-five short stories, poems, and novel selections that encompass the distinct writing styles of the writers and eras. The text takes students on an academic journey from the period of Late Romanticism to Modernism and the present. Each chapter begins with brief writer bios and includes a concise introduction to the time period and how certain societal, economical, and political factors influenced writers in that era.
Featured authors and poets include favorites such as Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and Flannery O’Conner among many more. This anthology provides an opportunity for students to engage in extensive analysis of American works, both past and present.
Want American Literature prior to 1865? Exploration of American Literature
World Literature also available!
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$10.00Buy NowAn Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution features sixty-nine authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the diverse voices in early American literature. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that is embedded in American history and has helped shaped its culture.
Features:
- – Contextualizing introductions from Pre- and Early Colonial Literature to Early American Romanticism
- – Over 70 historical images
- – In-depth biographies of each author
- – Instructional Design, including Reading and Review Questions
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Recommended for upper-level High School studentsAlso available: Introduction to American Literature | 1865 to the Present
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Original price was: $13.50.$9.99Current price is: $9.99.Buy NowThis resource is a BUNDLED product of the following:
Combined, these three .pdf books have over 1400 pages of world literature for High School Students.
Part 1 – The Ancient World includes selections from the Middle East, Near East Greece, China, India and Rome
Part 2 – The Middle Ages includes selections from Europe, the Middle East, China, Japan and South Asia
Part 3 – The Renaissance includes sections from Korea, Europe and Native AmericaSee description below for additional information!
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$4.00Buy NowWorld Literature Part 3 is a 379 page .pdf book of compiled literature from around the world.
Part 1 is entitled: The Renaissance and includes:
Korea:
– Sijo Poetry
– The Tale of Hong Gil-Dong
From Europe:
– Don Quixote
– Gargantua and Pantagruel
– Hamlet
– The Journals of Christopher Columbus
– The Prince
– The Tempest
– Utopia
From Native America:
– Myths of the Cherokee
– Aw-aw-tam Indian Nights: The Myths and Legends of the Pimas
– Of Cannibals
– Popol VuhSee description below for additional information!
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$4.50Buy NowWorld Literature Part 2 is a 517 page .pdf book of compiled literature from around the world.
Part 1 is entitled: The Middle Ages and includes:
Europe:
–The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)
– The Parliament of Birds and The Canterbury Tales
– The Decameron
– The Divine Comedy: Inferno
– The Song of Roland
– The Lais of Marie de France
– Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
– The song of the Cid
– The Travel of Marco Polo
From the Middle East:
– The Rose Garden (Golestan or Gulistan)
– The Quran
– Divani Shamsi Tabriz and Masnavi
– Shahnameh
– The Thousand and One Nights
– Autobiography of Usamah Ibn Munqidh
From China:
– Selected Poems
– The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
From Japan:
– Noh Plays
– Pillow Book
– The Tale of Genji
From South Asia:
– Tukaram’s Selected PoemsSee description below for additional information!
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$5.00Buy NowWorld Literature Part 1 is a 661 page .pdf book of compiled literature from around the world.
Part 1 is entitled: Ancient World and includes:
From the Middle East, Near East Greece:
– “Genesis” and “Exodus” of the Hebrew Bible
– The Epic of Gilgamesh
– The Iliad and The Odyssey
– Medea
– Oedipus the King
– The Apology of Socrates
From China:
– The Analects
– The Art of War
– The Book of Songs
– The Mother of Mencius
– The Zhuangzi
From India:
– The Bhagavad Gita
– The Mahabharata
– The Ramayana
From Rome:
– The Aeneid
– MetamorphosesSee description below for additional information!
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$9.00Buy NowThis is an in-depth novel study of Louis Sachar’s Holes in which students will delve into literary elements of the book, analyze various topics and themes, write arguments and opinions, conduct research and more! This unit is designed for advanced 6th-8th graders and High School students.
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$4.00Buy NowLooking for only a way to test student reading comprehension and understanding as they read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice? The resource will give you 5 quizzes for students to take while reading the novel and then after they have completed the entire novel, an essay assessment as well as a 20 question, multiple choice test. Answer Keys included!
This resource is not a complete novel study guide but only provides assessments to measure student understanding. If you are looking for a complete novel study, go to:
Pride and Prejudice Novel Study
(Please Note: This assessment resource is contained within the complete novel study. You do not need this resource if you have the complete novel study.)
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$15.00Buy NowComplete novel study for Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (196 pages). Includes:
– Author’s Biography
– Novel Introduction
– Characters and Themes
– Quotes and Analysis
– Teaching Guides dividing the novel into 5 sections w/
* Chapter Summaries, Thought Questions and Vocabulary
* Student Handouts
* Student Worksheets, Assessments & Keys
– Final AssessmentsClick here for a pdf preview instant download!
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$5.00Buy NowStudents can use this notebooking unit as they student the poem: Beowulf
The unit is designed for students to record vocabulary and definitions, summaries (by assigned lines), characters, answer essay questions, as well as write about symbols and themes of this epic poem. The unit also comes with teacher pages which correspond with the student pages.
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$2.50Buy NowBeowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important works of Old English literature. The date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the only certain dating pertains to the manuscript, which was produced between 975 and 1025. The anonymous poet is referred to by scholars as the “Beowulf poet”.
This copy comes with an introduction section and the poem. (121 page download)
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$2.00Buy NowGive your students a fun way to strengthen their knowledge of literary terms. This Elements of Literature Crossword puzzle will give students definitions of 20 terms and students must complete the puzzle using the correct terms. I have included an optional word bank (separate page), for students who may need the terms.
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$3.00Buy NowTwelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night’s entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man.
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$3.00Buy NowThis large resource (300+ pages) is filled with poems that are sought by teachers to use in the classroom. Poems from authors such as Tennyson, Van Dyke, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Kipling and many more!
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$2.50Buy NowExcerpt from Paul Revere: The Torch Bearer of the Revolution
It has been Wisely said that Time must lay a finger on events to make them into history. The further away we stand from certain pictures, the more distinct they appear. The events we read of in today’s newspaper are not history, but twenty years, or fifty, or a century hence, our descendants will pore over the musty, dusty files, and history will be born.Paul Revere never imagined that he was living in an epoch – making period; yet the story of his eventful life holds a fascination of its own, appealing strongly to the interest of readers, old and young. He stood for so much in the history of our country in those stirring Revolutionary times, that we cannot lightly pass over the many services he rendered to the cause of Liberty.
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$2.50Buy NowThis is a downloadable copy of the book.
About the book: Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of “buccaneers and buried gold.” Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an “X,” schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders. The story was originally considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action. It is one of the most frequently dramatised of all novels.About the Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child’s Garden of Verses. A celebrity in his lifetime, Stevenson’s critical reputation has fluctuated since his death, though today his works are held in general acclaim. He is currently ranked as the 26th most translated author in the world.
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$2.50Buy NowDavid “Davy” Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet “King of the Wild Frontier”.
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$3.00Buy NowPip is a young orphan who wants nothing more than to become a gentleman and be worthy of the beautiful but snobby Estella. So when he receives a large fortune from an unknown benefactor to undergo training, he’s ecstatic and convinced it must be from Miss Havisham, Estella’s strange guardian. However, the culture of wealth breeds changes in Pip that his loyal friends find insulting. It may take the unsavory criminal from Pip’s childhood to help him get his priorities in order and reset his expectations.
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