Movie Sheets - Teacher Submitted Movie Worksheets for the Classroom HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework Teaching 'The Great Gatsby' With The New York Times Update | April 25, 2013 We now have an all-new version of this post, updated for the new movie with teaching ideas as well as both the resources below and many new ones. Find it here. A few years ago, Adam Cohen noted on the Opinion page that Jay Gatsby was at the top of a list of the 100 best fictional characters since 1900. He went on to discuss how and why Gatsby – the “cynical idealist, who embodies America in all its messy glory” – is still relevant, perhaps more than ever. Do your students still relate to Gatsby? We offer these resources on, and related to, F. Lesson Plans Student Crossword Puzzles Times Topics Resources From NYTimes.com From the Archives: Scott Fitzgerald Looks Into Middle Age Original 1925 Times review of “The Great Gatsby” (PDF).Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Dies at 44 The Times’s obituary on F. On Class and Wealth: What Happens to the American Dream in a Recession? On “Gatsby” Characters: On the Novel’s Setting: On the Fitzgeralds: On Adaptations:
St Catharine's College Cambridge - English From Dr. Hester Lees-Jeffries and Dr. Caroline Gonda Directors of Studies in English St. It’s time to provide you with a list of the preliminary reading required before you join us in October. In your first term of study, you'll be working with Dr L-J on Shakespeare. I would like you to complete a short piece of written work before you arrive, as a way of focusing your reading. You need to have a copy of David Bevington’s Arden edition of Troilus and Cressida (which is the set text for your Faculty Classes in the Easter Term, 2009) and to read it with considerable care, including the notes, sources, appendices, &c, so that you're well prepared for the Faculty Shakespeare classes. There are new editions of Shakespeare appearing all the time, with the Arden 3rd series being almost complete now, and the New Oxford and New Cambridge editions also giving almost ‘complete coverage’. For these classes you will need your own copy of the following texts: Ovid, Metamorphoses (Penguin)
American Writers | Series About this Writer As a member of the Separatist movement within Puritanism, Bradford migrated to Holland in 1609 in search of religious freedom and lived 11 years in Leiden. In 1620 he helped organize the Mayflower's expedition to the New World. To bind the group into a political body, Bradford helped draft the important Mayflower Compact en route to America. Though lacking in formal education, Bradford possessed native literary ability. Featured Works Mourt's Relation Of Plymouth Plantation A Dialog Between Some Young Men & Sundry Ancient Men Featured Place Plimoth Plantation Plymouth, MA Plimoth Plantation is the living history museum of seventeenth century Plymouth Colony.
Homeschool High School | College Admissions Counselors | College Admissions Consulting | College Admissions Consultant | College Admissions Consultants — Aiming Higher Consultants is a college consulting firm dedicated to helping students with high school Literary Resources -- American (Lynch) This page is part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers – Newark. Comments and suggestions are welcome. American Literature See also the Ethnicities and Nationalities page. Calls for Papers From Penn's list. Voice of the Shuttle — American Literature The best set of links. ALB1876: American Libraries before 1876 Nearly ten thousand records on early American libraries. American Authors (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) Very extensive list of links to hundreds of Americanist sites. American Literature (Daniel Anderson, Texas) Hypertext editions of Crane, Faulkner, Gilman, Hansberry, Hawthorne, Hughes, Hurston, Irving, Jewett, Melville, Norris, and others. American Literature on the Web (Akihito Ishikawa, Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages) A usefully organized set of links to Americanist sites, with chronologies. American Studies at the University of Virginia American Studies Electronic Crossroads (Georgetown) Excerpts from the 19th-c. women's magazine. Drama
Tips: How to Consume More Books This Year Over 40% of Americans claim not to have read any books in the previous year. The survey was last conducted in 2002, and noted falling reading rates from previous years. I’m sure if you’re reading through lifehack.org that you probably don’t expect reading to stop after you graduate. Yet, with such dismal statistics, how can you beat the odds and read more books this year? Why Bother Reading More? I’m sure you’ve seen the advertisements where famous celebrities sit next to a stack of books they haven’t read and tell you to read more. I usually read 50-70 books each year and I believe it is one of the best investments of time and money I can make. Knowledge. There are many other reasons for reading and I suggest you come up with your own. How to Read More Books This Year Here are a few tips for boosting the amount of books you can read: Speed Read.
Introduction - Language of the Land | Exhibitions America always! . . . . Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows; Always these compact lands — lands tied at the hips with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes; Always the West, with strong native persons All sights, South, North, East — all deeds, promiscuously done at all times, All characters, movements, growths. . . . Walt Whitman, American Vistas From Robert Frost's New England farms to John Steinbeck's California valleys to Eudora Welty's Mississippi Delta, American authors have shaped our view of America's regional landscapes in all their astonishing variety. They have created unforgettable characters, inseparably identified with the territory they inhabit. Given the country's history as a nation of immigrants, it is not surprising that a major theme of American literature is exploration, the need to see what is over the horizon. The exhibit's four regional sections feature the voices of writers deeply rooted in a particular place.
American Studies @ The University of Virginia E-texts of Fiction and Poetry On-line Journals E-Texts of Fiction and Poetry Introduction: Presently, a variety of different organizations, ranging from large publishing houses to universities, maintain on-line libraries. Large, On-line Compendiums of E-text Sites: Digital Book Index Digital Book Index is connected to a number of the largest on-line archives, thereby allowing its users to access over 80,000 e-texts by noted American and foreign writers. The Online Books Page Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania. Other Important E-text Sites: American Hypertexts Collection Maintained by the University of Virginia. Bartleby Like other on-line libraries, Bartleby contains a large collection of literature and poetry that can be accessed via the Web. Documenting the American South Maintained by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Electronic Text Center Maintained by the University of Virginia. Ibiblio Library Electronic Text Resource Service Maintained by Indiana University. HarpWeek
All Exhibitions - Exhibitions The richness and variety of the Library’s exhibitions reflect the universal and diverse nature of the Library’s collections. Four major themes underlie most of the exhibitions—the presentation of great libraries and written traditions; the exploration of America’s past and character; the examination of world cultures and history; and the celebration of events, individuals, and works that shaped the twentieth century and beyond. See Current Exhibitions at the Library Now By Title (in alpha order) 1492: An Ongoing Voyage August 13, 1992–February 14, 1993 Examines the first sustained contacts between Native American peoples and European explorers, conquerors, and settlers between1492 and 1600. The African-American Mosaic: African-American Culture and History February 9–August 29, 1994 Marks the publication of The African–American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. Al Hirschfeld - Beyond Broadway November 9, 2000–March 31, 2001 America Reads