Category: Excellence in Literature: The Curriculum

Virginia Woolf Radio Recording

Virginia Woolf Radio Recording

Listen to this delightful 1937 BBC recording of English author Virginia Woolf talking about words. Her love for words clearly comes through — be sure to notice her use of personification and metaphor. Just...

World Literature Videos

World Literature Videos

Videos referenced in World Literature (E5) Study Guide: World Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 5) Module 1 Ancient Greek Music – Macedonia Module 2 Antigone on stage Module 3 Roman Water Wheel, London Museum Roman Weapons...

British Literature Videos

British Literature Videos

Each module has a page with links from the British Literature study guide, and those pages will have the most complete listings of all the helpful resources you’ll use for that module. However, I...

Emily Brontë, the author of Wuthering Heights and "No Coward Soul is Mine."

No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Brontë

“No Coward Soul is Mine” by Emily Bronte was first published in Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell in 1846. Although the Bronte sisters had published this poetry collection in the hope of...

Longfellow's poem "Evangeline" tells the story of the Acadians driven from their Louisiana homes.

Evangeline Part One by Longfellow

Evangeline, Part One A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This story poem is based on the story of the Acadians’ expulsion from their homeland. The Maine Historical Society provides a helpful summary of...

Evangeline searched despondently for Gabriel after they were separated on their wedding day.

Evangeline Part Two by Longfellow

Evangeline, Part Two A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow PART THE SECOND. I. MANY a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand-Pré, When on the falling tide the freighted vessels...

Honors Texts for World Literature

Honors Texts for World Literature

Honors Texts for World Literature (E5) The Honors Track for World Literature is outlined in the study guide and involves additional reading and writing and an optional exam. Another way you can use the honors texts is if you...

British Literature- Excellence in Literature: English 4 by Janice Campbell

Honors Texts for British Literature

Honors Texts for British Literature (E4) The Honors Track for British Literature is outlined in the study guide and involves additional reading and writing and an optional exam. Another way you can use the honors texts is if you’ve...

Honors Texts for American Literature

Honors Texts for American Literature

Honors Texts for American Literature (E3) The Honors Track for American Literature is outlined in the study guide, and involves additional reading and writing and an optional exam. Another way you can use the honors texts is if...

Honors Texts for Literature and Composition

Honors Texts for Literature and Composition

Honors Texts for Literature and Composition (E2) The Honors Track for Literature and Composition involves additional reading and writing, which is described in the study guide. Another way you can use the honors texts is if you’ve already read...

Notes From American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Notes From American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From An American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the originial ed., with a prefatory note...

Appendix 2 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Appendix 2 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Appendix 1 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Appendix 1 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From An American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 12 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letter 12 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur  COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the orginial ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 11 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letter 11 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 10 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letter 10 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Colophon Text: Letters from an American farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 9 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letter 9 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer  J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original edition, with a prefatory note by W.P....

Letter 8 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letter 8 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note by...

Letter 7 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letter 7 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 6 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letter 6 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 5 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letter 5 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letter 3 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letter 3 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur LETTER III. WHAT IS AN AMERICAN. I WISH I could be acquainted with the feelings and thoughts which must agitate the heart and present...

Letter 2 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letter 2 from American Farmer Letters by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur COLOPHON Text: Letters From an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, reprinted from the original ed., with a prefatory note...

Letters from An American Farmer by Crevecoeur

Letters from An American Farmer by Crevecoeur

Letters From An American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur What then is the American, this new man?…He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives...