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103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading. Lesson of the Day: ‘How to Get the Most Out of Art (Even When You’re Not Sure... How do these three questions prompt you to do something similar to some of the suggestions made in the article you just read?

Lesson of the Day: ‘How to Get the Most Out of Art (Even When You’re Not Sure...

Can you apply them to some of the pieces you found in your art collection? If you’d like to practice your visual observation skills, join us Mondays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern when facilitators from our partner organization, Visual Thinking Strategies, come to our site to live-moderate student responses. Or click through the slide show above and choose an image and apply the questions on your own or with others.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

OIB community. iGCSE. Book Summaries, Study Guides, Essays, Lesson Plans, & Homework Help. Teachingliterature / FrontPage. GCSE revision and A level revision. ENG 1001: Writing Resources. Text only The resources linked below are designed for students in the course and should be especially useful as you are working on writing assignments.

ENG 1001: Writing Resources

The Writing Process Guidelines for All Essays Sample Essays and Checklists Thesis, Organization, the Support and Development of Ideas Punctuation, Grammar, Word Choice Style Writing with Sources Evaluation of Essays Miscellaneous External Links The Web pages linked above were prepared by the instructor for the course. Copyright Randy Rambo, 2014. The Elements of Fiction. Andrew Moore's resource site home page - index. Bibliomania: Free Online Literature and Study Guides. Englishbiz - GCSE English and English Literature Revision Guides.

Palgrave Study Skills. Literary Criticism Online. The Victorian Web: An Overview. Discipline: Literature. GCSE Bitesize - English Literature.

Shakespeare

Jane Austen. Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch) Literary Resources on the Net These pages are maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers — Newark.

Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch)

Comments and corrections are welcome. Updated 7 January 2006. Search for a (single) word: Or choose one of the following categories: General Sources These sources are too important to be buried in my miscellaneous pages, and too miscellaneous to be put anywhere else. The Voice of the Shuttle Alan Liu's superb collection of electronic resources for the humanities. Calls for Papers A current list from the cfp@english.upenn.edu mailing list. About These Pages This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics — I've excluded most poetry journals, for instance. This page is maintained by Jack Lynch.

Free English Literature Study Guides - Crossref-it.info. Free Study Guides, free study guide, free book notes, free literature notes. Teaching Literature. BritLit.

Postcolonial Literature

Dr. Wheeler's Literature Resources. British Literature Wiki - home. Literature and civilisation. Poetry. Dickens. Gothic. English Literature Study Guides. Ipl2 Literary Criticism. ComedyTragedyCharacteristics. Samuel Beckett. Commonlit. The 50-Word Fiction Competition. Can you write a story in just 50 words?

The 50-Word Fiction Competition

Each month we’ll provide a prompt to get you started, but where the story goes from there is entirely up to you. The competition includes two categories, All-Age and Young Writers (under the age of 18). All stories will be judged by the same panel and both winning stories will be published on our website. A prize will be awarded to a writer in each category: Whether you're a seasoned writer or you've always fancied picking up a pen, why not give it a go? Need some inspiration or tips? September's prompt Write your own very short fairy tale See the full-size image here How to enter You can submit one entry to either the all-age category or the young writers category. To submit your story, please complete the form below. We welcome entries in Scots or Gaelic for both categories. Entries for September's competition close on Sunday September 27th. Due to the high volume of entries received we are unable to give feedback.

Submit your story. Tusitala – Expert English Tuition. Voice_lessons_full_text.

Thomas Hardy

Teacher's Guides. Irish literature. Level Up. John Lye's Courses and Sources Pages. A Guide Designed for His Year 1 Students by Professor John Lye Copyright John Lye 1996, 1997 This is a guide to what you might look for in analyzing literature, particularly poetry and fiction.

John Lye's Courses and Sources Pages

An analysis explains what a work of literature means, and how it means it; it is essentially an articulation of and a defense of an interpretation which shows how the resources of literature are used to create the meaningfulness of the text. There are people who resist analysis, believing that it 'tears apart' a work of art; however a work of art is an artifice, that is, it is made by someone with an end in view: as a made thing, it can be and should be analyzed as well as appreciated. There are several main reasons for analyzing literature: The ultimate end of analysis is, first and foremost, a deeper understanding and a fuller appreciation of the literature -- you learn to see more, to uncover or create richer, denser, more interesting meanings.

I: Critical Analysis of Poetry 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The Thinking Approach Project Website. Pronunciation guide.