![]() ![]() You can read it or listen to the 5 minute podcast every day. A great resource for Today in Literature/History type topics.Examples: The Kite Runner, The Aeneid, Grapes of Wrath, Macbeth, Night, The Odyssey, Fever 1793, Walk Two Moons. Currently it doesn't cover a ton of titles, but has some good ones. Students use Google Earth to explore literature.Some examples: an entire course on Tolkien lectures on Oedipus the King, Candide, Hamlet, and the Aeneid from Stanford (Literature of Crisis) The American Novel Since 1945 from Yale, etc. Lots of great audio and video courses and lectures available on literature and writing.Includes writers like CS Lewis, Flaubert, Auden, Kafka, Munro, Morrison, and Hemingway. Might have some good snippets for writing classes. It's a collection of interviews of authors asking them about their writing routines. Not sure how useful this is, but I find it cool.It's awesome to hear the different ways the same poem can be read. For every poem it covers, it offers the full text, some " points to ponder," analysis, and - best of all - two different (professional) readings (usually one from a man and one from a woman). This site has two anthologies of English language poetry (all great titles, including poets like Shakespeare, Keats, Tennyson, Dickinson, Hopkins, Blake, and Browning). ![]() This is a site from the UK, but I think it's totally helpful for US ELA teachers and students as well.(Also has lots of fun pop culture characters, like Darth Vader and Cartman.) It doesn't cover a huge number of characters, but it has some good ones, including Henry Fleming (Red Badge), Willie Stark (All the King's Men), Troy Maxson (Fences), Captain Ahab (Moby-Dick), Hester Prynne (Scarlet Letter), Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye), and others from American lit. Often also includes links to video clips. ![]()
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