The Honors Track for Introduction to Literature 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 a focus text for...
Symbols in The Great Gatsby by Frederick C. Millett Perhaps F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest work, The Great Gatsby is not only a great story, but an insight into the flaws of real life during...
by Rebecca · Published February 16, 2013 · Last modified October 8, 2018
This 1920 American film adaption of The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper’s novel of the same name is the story of two English sisters who encounter danger and heroism on the...
by Rebecca · Published February 16, 2013 · Last modified November 18, 2023
Videos referenced in American Literature (E3): Module 1 William Zeitler plays the glass armonica (an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin) Module 2 Poe’s poem “The Raven” read aloud by Christopher Walken, combined with Gustave...
by Rebecca · Published February 9, 2013 · Last modified November 18, 2023
Videos referenced in Literature and Composition (E2) Module 1 1927 silent film of Robinson Crusoe Theme Music from the 1970s TV show The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe Opera Excerpt Module 2 Walden...
by Rebecca · Published February 8, 2013 · Last modified November 18, 2023
Videos referenced in Introduction to Literature (EIL1 Videos) This list encompasses all currently referenced videos for Excellence in Literature Unit 1 (Introduction to Literature), separated by module. Please check back periodically, as EIL is...
Wuthering Heights Family Trees from Sara Selby Wuthering Heights can prove difficult for the first-time reader. Because names are repeated for characters in different generations, confusion is understandable. A pedigree developed by Charles Percy...
A Wuthering Heights Family Tree from Sara Selby Hareton Earnshaw’s Lineage:
A Wuthering Heights Family Tree from Sara Selby Linton Heathcliff’s Lineage:
A Wuthering Heights Family Tree from Sara Selby Catherine Linton’s Lineage:
A Wuthering Heights Family Tree from Sara Selby The Linton Line of Descent:
A Wuthering Heights Family Tree from Sara Selby The Earnshaw Line of Descent:
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by Rebecca · Published January 29, 2013 · Last modified February 17, 2021
English III: American Literature, A Survey Course What does American Literature cover? American Literature is a college-preparatory chronological literature survey course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for...
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by Rebecca · Published January 29, 2013 · Last modified December 22, 2016
English IV: British Literature, A Survey Course What does British Literature cover? British Literature is a college-preparatory chronological literary survey course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for...
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by Rebecca · Published January 29, 2013 · Last modified April 25, 2021
English V: World Literature What does World Literature cover? World Literature is a college-prep literature survey course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for literary quality, and for...
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by Rebecca · Published January 29, 2013 · Last modified September 27, 2020
Introduction to Literature study guide In this first level of Excellence in Literature, students will become familiar with the lesson format they’ll use through all five years of the curriculum. Introduction to Literature is...
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by Rebecca · Published January 29, 2013 · Last modified January 16, 2021
English II: Literature and Composition What does Literature and Composition cover? Literature and Composition is a college-preparatory literature and composition course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for...
by Janice Campbell · Published January 24, 2013 · Last modified September 27, 2020
Animal Farm is a 1945 allegorical novella by English writer George Orwell. According to Orwell, the book reflects events that led up to the Russian Revolution of 1917, and then to the Stalinist era...
by Janice Campbell · Published January 24, 2013 · Last modified January 21, 2021
Orwell’s famous “Fairy Story”, Animal Farm, has been adapted many times for stage and screen. In choosing an adaptation to watch it is usually helpful to preview the material. To that end, here is...
by Janice Campbell · Published January 24, 2013 · Last modified September 27, 2020
George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works, a Critical Biography by Archibald Henderson is an interesting biography which, while somewhat dated, includes a number of good photographs and a genealogical chart. You may find...
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by Janice Campbell · Published December 28, 2012 · Last modified February 5, 2021
Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene II by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) ANTONY Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after...
In Mr. Flood’s Party, a rhyming narrative poem, Edwin Arlington Robinson tells the story of lonely old Eben Flood and his solitary “party.” Mr. Flood’s Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson Old Eben Flood, climbing...
Poetry by Amy Lowell Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was a poet who, like Willa Cather, beautifully captured the mood of a specific time and place. We have referenced the following four poems by Amy Lowell...
The Garden by Moonlight by Amy Lowell A black cat among roses, Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon, The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still, It is dazed...
Midday and Afternoon by Amy Lowell From the poem “Spring Day” in Men, Women, and Ghosts (1916) Midday and Afternoon Swirl of crowded streets. Shock and recoil of traffic. The stock-still brick facade of...
Bath by Amy Lowell From the poem “Spring Day” in Men, Women, and Ghosts (1916) Bath The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air....
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. by Amy Lowell From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914). They have watered the street, It shines in the glare of lamps, Cold, white lamps, And lies Like a...
THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND by Gerard Manley Hopkins To the happy memory of five Franciscan Nuns exiles by the Falk Laws drowned between midnight and morning of Dec. 7th. 1875 PART THE FIRST...
The Tree by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) 1 Fair tree! for thy delightful shade 2 ‘Tis just that some return be made; 3 Sure some return is due from me 4 To...
John Dryden Poetry John Dryden is a Neo-Classical poet, playwright, satirist, and literary critic. Along with John Donne and John Milton, he is considered one of the three greatest poets of the 17th century....
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