Classics-Based Writing Resource
by Janice Campbell · Published January 31, 2013 · Last modified August 27, 2013
“It is sweet and good (or right) to die for your fatherland,” wrote the poet Horace (Odes III.2.13), and echoes of this idea are seen in requiems and memorials throughout history. “Dulce et decorum...
Classics-Based Writing Resource
by Janice Campbell · Published January 31, 2013 · Last modified August 27, 2013
The Bixby letter has long been considered one of the finest examples of letter writing. This letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, a widowed mother thought to have lost five sons in...
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by Janice Campbell · Published January 31, 2013 · Last modified August 27, 2013
In the early days of the American Civil War, American writer Julia Ward Howe penned the lyrics now known as the The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The stirring words were set to the equally lively music of...
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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...
Gulliver’s Travels, the 1939 Movie Gulliver’s Travels, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, was...
George Orwell (1903-1950) is the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), two books which...
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...
Pygmalion is a 1938 British film starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. It is based on the play by George Bernard Shaw, and adapted by him for the screen. The film won an Oscar for best screenplay...
Poetry by Hilaire Belloc In Hilaire Belloc’s Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, Belloc states, “The Moral of this priceless work (If rightly understood) Will make you—from a little Turk— Unnaturally good.” Although many of his...
From Cautionary Tales for Children, a book of verse written by Hilaire Belloc and illustrated by Basil T. Blackwood. Cautionary tales were popular during the Edwardian era, and Belloc’s were considered among the best. Described...
This humorous/serious poetic admonition reminds children to take care of their book and “do not throw this book about”! Hilaire Belloc doesn’t stop with just telling the children what not to do — he...
George Bernard Shaw and G.K. Chesterton were intellectual titans of their age, and they had a very interesting relationship. The photograph at left shows Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, and Chesterton. You can get a sense...
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...
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was a Victorian writer who blended the traditions of Gothic novels with the novel of society and manners, as in her masterpiece Jane Eyre. She grew up in an isolated but...
Winter Stores by Charlotte Brontë We take from life one little share, And say that this shall be A space, redeemed from toil and care, From tears and sadness free. And, haply, Death unstrings...
Mementos by Charlotte Brontë Arranging long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we’ve set ourselves! How still the lonely room appears! How strange this mass of ancient...
On the Death of Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë There’s little joy in life for me, And little terror in the grave; I’ve lived the...
The Missionary by Charlotte Brontë Plough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean’s wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever English ties;...
The Letter by Charlotte Brontë What is she writing? Watch her now, How fast her fingers move! How eagerly her youthful brow Is bent in thought...
Evening Solace by Charlotte Brontë The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed;- The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. And days may...
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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...
Here’s the Everyday Educator — our annual newsletter handout. It has book lists and helpful articles about homeschooling topics. We’d rather be sharing it in person, but for now, you can download the Everyday Educator here. I hope you enjoy it!
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