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TeachingBooks (PreK-12)

One stop provides resources for books you are reading and teaching, including author and illustrator interviews, lesson plans, and other enrichment content.

      

      

PBS LearningMedia: Share these smart, funny video essays with students and dive into popular literature topics, like the evolution of manga, the myth of Hemingway, if graphic novels are “real” novels, and so much more. This series will have your students talking about their favorite books and what they love to read.

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​Searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. 

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Caution! Not all resources on this site feature American Lit!

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• Literary​Movements
• Lord of the Flies
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Shakespeare
• Short Story

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Gale Virtual Reference Library includes "Literature and its Times" as well as other good sources.

Literary Movements, Periods, and History

HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature - SCROLL DOWN TO "HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE"  and find your time-frame. Includes biographies of novelists, playwrights, poets & critics, summaries of books & plays, descriptions of characters, definitions of literary terms & movements, & much more.

American Memory Timeline - Primary sources timeline from the Library of Congress.

A Literary History of America - published in 1911!

Shaping the Values of Youth:  Sunday School Books in 19th Century America

Resources for good news, uplifting human interest stories:
The Today Show
The Uplift - CBS News
Washington Post - Inspired Life-Stories About Humanity
ABC News - America Stong
​Good News Network

Kurt Vonnegut discusses Slaughterhouse-Five in this NPR radio interview. 

"Let There Be Light" - incredible 1945 documentary film of actual WWII soldiers and the psychological effects of the war. This film, directed by legendary filmmaker John Huston, was not made public until 1980.

Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library

Crash Course - Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden -Slaughterhouse-Five Part I

Crash Course - PTSD and Alien Abduction - Slaughterhouse-Five Part 2

Lesson plans! Activities! Interviews! Great stuff! David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston, Ian McKellan, Joely Richardson! Check out the resources on this site, then check out the DVD from the Nade Library. And did I mention DAVID TENNANT?

Hamlet 360-Shakespeare in Virtual Reality

Online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field.

Click here for the Short Story resource page