Explains what personification is and gives examples. Includes links to related articles on symbolism, elements of rhetoric, fables, figure of speech, and allegory.
This University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill site provides a wonderful explanation of regionalism and local color as it applies to literature. There is a lot of other good information about Southern Literature at this site!
This collection uses primary sources to explore Louisa May Alcott's novel, Little Women. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
This site describes several ideas and activities to use with picture books and intermediate/middle school age students. Specific title to use are also given.
Emmy award-winning poet, Lucille Clifton, introduces and reads her poem, 'Turning,' about trying to be your own person and taking responsibility for your life.
A clickable list to selected full-text works by John Donne, including songs, sonnets, elegies, epigrams, and satires.
Informative biographical essay focusing on Gorky's political and social activities. Features several quotations from major works, and links to pages on Tolstoy and Chekhov.
The Metis have a multigenerational oral storytelling history involving spirits, supernatural,& the creator. Elders are a connection between the past and future. Learn more about Metis storytellers through the information on this site. Educator Q&As included.
This resource offers a large database with abstracts that describe numerous children's picture books.
A list that provides either the teacher or the student with a list of books that gives a representation of the multicultural society that exists in the United States. A brief synopsis of each book is given along with a suggestion for the grade levels for which each book is appropriate. RL.9-10.6 cultural World Lit
My Family is a downloadable storybook about a typical Metis family unit and the roles each person plays within that family. The reading level is for younger students but older students will appreciate the artwork.
Discusses Indian captivity narratives as the result of "involuntary journeying" and their contemporary appeal. Click on the next three names at the bottom of the page to read about some of the captives.
Describes the shortage of accurate historical accounts of the Indian Wars in Colonial America. Click through the names at the bottom of each page to take you to a short description of individual historians.
This site provides information on virtually every type of cancer. Information can be found on prevention, causes, detection, treatments, research, and support groups.
This resource examines the literature and theology of the New England Puritan clergy. Includes information about Thomas Hooker, Thomas Shepard, John Cotton, Nathaniel Ward, Roger Williams, John Eliot, Richard Mather, Increase Mather, and Cotton Mather. Click on 'Next page' to access this material.
This website, part of the Nobel e-Museum discussing Nobel Prize winners, provides a biography and discussion of Faulkner's contribution to literature. Here, you can read the Prize "Presentation Speech" made by Gustaf Hellstrom as well as Faulkner's "Acceptance Speech." Also included are links to "Other Resources" for further reading and research.
This site from The Nobel Foundation features a presentation of Sartre, the only recipient in the history who declined the Nobel Prize. Features biography and press release.
This the Nobel Foundation page on Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988. You'll find bibliographic information, his Nobel speech, and articles written about him.
The Nobel Prize in Literature website describes the prize and its past winners. Includes information on the authors, as well as acceptance speeches.
At this site read about the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, Par Fabian Lagerkvist (1891-1974 CE), a writer who was honored for his poetry which addressed "the eternal questions confronting mankind." This website is organized into the following sections: "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Acceptance Speech," "Swedish Nobel Stamps," and "Other Resources."