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Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart - 0 views

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      Students, do you agree with this statement?  How would you use textual evidence to support this author's claim?
  • All too many Africans in his time were ready to accept the European judgment that Africa had no history or culture worth considering.
  • hroughout the novel he shows how African cultures vary among themselves and how they change over time. Look for instances of these variations as you read.
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      Cite these sources.  Note them as you read and post to moodle.  Let's see how many we can find.
  • He also wrote a famous attack on the racism of Heart of Darkness which continues to be the subject of heated debate.
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  • levated diction which is meant to convey the sense of Ibo speech
  • n this edition, a glossary of Ibo words and phrases is printed at the end of the book. Be sure to consult it whenever you encounter a new Ibo word or phrase.
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The Thomas Gray Archive : Primary Texts : Poems : "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyar... - 6 views

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    Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" with explanatory notes and references.
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Barbican - Can I Have A Word? - 1 views

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    resources for inspiring creative writing in the classroom.
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Shmoop Literature: Summary, Analysis, Themes, Characters, Paper - 0 views

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    Shmoop wants to help you become a better lover (of literature and history). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time.
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Starter Sheet - Mixbook | Educational Origami - 0 views

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    Mixbook - an online publishing tool that allows the user to create, edit, share and publish their work in a digital or hard copy format.
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English Pronunciation Poem - English Magazine Poetry and Jokes Page - 1 views

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    Englih pronunciation poem
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Boys and Girls Together by Neil Gaiman - 0 views

  • Boys don't want to be princes. Boys want to be shepherds who slay dragons, maybe someone gives you half a kingdom and a princess, but that's just what comes of being a shepherd boy and slaying a dragon.
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      I love this part
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Would Life Be Better If We All Spoke Shakespeare? : NPR - 0 views

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    Shakespeare died almost 400 years ago, but if blogger Joe Muldoon had it his way, we would all still speak like the Bard. Muldoon talks about his op-ed, "We Can't All Be Shakespeare - But We Could Try to Be," which appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot as hypertext - 2 views

  • Eliot's original notes have been supplemented by additional notations, which appear in green like so. I have taken several notes directly from M. H. Abrams et al., eds., The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th ed., vol. 2 (NY: Norton, 1993). I have also drawn heavily on A Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot by B. C. Southam.
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    Annotated The Waste Land
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Poem Flow for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store - 9 views

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    app for iPhone or Touch for reading poems
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Bardfilm: The Shakespeare and Film Microblog: The Ten Best Uses of Shakespeare Sonnets ... - 7 views

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    Some of these videos would be great for teaching sonnets, especially if you want students to act them out.
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Additional Step-by-Step Method of Thoroughly Explicating a Poem - 11 views

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    Helpful information about poem explication.
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The Word Exchange: Anglo Saxon Poems in Translation / Poems Out Loud - 8 views

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    Anglo-Saxon poems translated and read out loud by folks like Seamus Heaney and Billy Collins.
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