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Search Tools :
- Free Book Notes.com
(freebooknotes.com:80)
- a comprehensive guide to free book notes, free book summaries, literature
notes, and study guides (like "cliff notes")
for over 1600 books, plays, and poems.
- Search the full text of
books (google.com)
- A new search tool : Google
Scholar
"enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including
peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical
reports from all broad areas of research.
Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic
publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities,
as well as scholarly articles available across the web."
Calendar :
- A
calendar with important events in literature
and literacy. (readwritethink.org)
- Today in Literature,
(todayinliterature.com)
a calendar of engaging stories about the great books, writers, and events
in literary history.
Maps :
Pictures :
Vocabulary :
- Famous
Pen Names (squidoo.com) - LIEN MODIFIE
"Many authors have published some or all of their
works under a pseudonym, or Nom de Plume (Pen Name)."
- Pen
name (Wikipedia)
1 In Persian and Urdu Poetry
2 In Japan
3 Famous pen names
4 "House" names...
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Colour
Words - for advanced students
- "article and work that helps to understand , translate/interpret
colour words
as they are found in literary texts and ads." (the_english_dept)
(esp-world.info)
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MYSTERIES
AND OTHER SUSPENSE STORIES (absolutenglish-972)
- VOCABULARY AROUND THE GENRE
- LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER, Roald Dahl
- SILENT NIGHT, Mary Higgins Clark
- SOLVE THE MYSTERY
- READ
- MORE LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHERS
- QUIZZES
- FOR FUN
- LINKS
- GENRES - pdf (literacyrules.com)
-
Common
Themes in Literature - pdf (literacyrules.com)
-
Plot
Chart - pdf (literacyrules.com)
-
Literature
(Wikipedia)
1 Introduction
2 Forms of literature
2.1 Poetry
2.2 Drama
2.3 Essays
2.4 Prose fiction
2.5 Other prose literature
3 Somewhat related narrative forms
4 Genres of literature
5 Literary techniques
6 Literary figures
7 Literature by country, language, or cultural group
8 Literary criticism
9 Story elements
10 Themes in literature
11 Other
12 See also
13 External links
- Storytime
Words with pictures (enchantedlearning.com)
- Analysing
texts - liste d'expressions (englisch-hilfen.de)
The text
The characters
Summarizing the text
My opinion
Information :
Obituary : John Updike
"John Updike's novels, magisterial dissections of the soul of post-World War II middle America, placed him at the very pinnacle of his profession.
Works such as Couples and the Rabbit series chronicled
the obsessions, passions and anxieties of three generations.
Whether writing novels, short stories, essays or poems,
John Updike's work always seemed to find the pulse of modern America...
Updike's themes, though American, were universal."
WATCH  AND LISTEN  TO TRIBUTES.
(BBC)
John Hoyer Updike
(March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009)
"was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and
literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series..."
(Wikipedia)
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Beautiful vowels
"Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thinking". It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.
Mr Bok believes his book proves that each vowel has its own personality, and demonstrates the flexibility of the English language."
+ extracts from each chapter.
(BBC)
- 'Writuals'
- scribes reveal daily routines
"Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and Roald Dahl did it in sheds
at the bottom of the garden.
Shaw's desk was famously on castors, so he could turn it throughout
the day to get maximum light.
Dahl even had one of his own hip bones sitting on the desk. Every writer
will have their own ritual.
Kerry McKittrick examines the modus operandi of some of Ireland's favourite
writers and asks: What are your Writuals?"
(BBC)
Reading and Listening :
-
Greatest writers find their voice
"Rare recordings of some of the 20th century's greatest writers are to be released for the first time."
+ Private recordings and US radio broadcasts.
(BBC)
-
Books
and Reading
"Do you love books? Then this is the page for you!
You'll find lots of links to great websites about the latest books,
book clubs and your favourite authors."
(British Council)
-
LoudLit.org
- Literature for your eyes and ears
(loudlit.org)
-
The
Blue Plaque
A series of talks on a number of historical figures remembered
by Blue Plaques in London.
"Each page has an extras section. In that section you can find
:
- a comprehension quiz based on the talk
- a link to vocabulary definitions (of bold words and phrases from
the text)
- a download of the transcript of the talk
ex : Oscar Wilde - George Bernard Shaw - George Orwell - Florence
Nightingale - Jimi Hendrix...
(BBC)
-
Turning
the Pages, the British Library
"Turning the Pages!" uses the Shockwave plug-in ... to simulate
the action of turning the pages of a real book."
You can magnify the details.
ex. : THE ORIGINAL ALICE, Written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll
(bl.uk:80)
- LibriVox - free audiobooks
(librivox.org)
- MYSTERIES
AND OTHER SUSPENSE STORIES (absolutenglish-972)
- VOCABULARY AROUND THE GENRE
- LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER, Roald Dahl
- SILENT NIGHT, Mary Higgins Clark
- SOLVE THE MYSTERY
- READ
- MORE LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHERS
- QUIZZES
- FOR FUN
- LINKS
- Repeat After Us
- "your online library and language lab" (repeatafterus.com)
Poetry - Drama - Prose - Fiction - Prose - Non-Fiction - Children's
Stories - Nursery Rhymes - Memorable Quotes - Stories From Around The
World
Browse : Authors - Titles - Recorded Texts - Readers
Difficulty Level : Beginning - Intermediate - Advanced
- The
British Library (bl.uk)
- C-Span American writers
(americanwriters.org)
You can select a writer, a work or a place. - with a portrait gallery
and video lessons
- USA
writers - brief biographies with photos and links (spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk)
- 1000+ Free Books for
Children (enregistrés en mp3)
A Christmas Carol - Aesop's Fables - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Aladdin and the Magic Lamp - David Copperfield - The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - etc...
(free-books.org)
Great characters :
Activities :
- What
are they like?
"Look at the pictures. Which books and characters can you identify?
There are 11 writers you should think of...
Did you find the 11 writers? Just look at the next pic to see if you
found them all.
Now do you know what they look like? Do the activity, I am sure you
will be surprised!
Activity created by: Renée Maufroid
- Exercises
:
1. A Piece of Wood by Ray Bradbury
2. The Landlady by Roald Dahl
3. In Affection and Esteem by Mary Webb
4. The Telegram
(clickenglish)
- Quiz:
Writing New Orleans - interactive
(PBS)
"From the peddlers on the street described in Faulkner's
'New Orleans Sketches' to the mysterious Creole traditions that inspired
Anne Rice's vampires, New Orleans has constantly stimulated the artistic
mind.
Learn more and test your knowledge on the writers who have captured
the essence of New Orleans in their work."
- The
Copy By Paul Jennings (a
British humorist 1918 - 1989) - LIEN MODIFIE
" Like most of Jenning's tales it centres on a hapless school
student who, in this case, tries to find an ingenious way to shake off the bully
who has been tormenting him
and, at the same time, keep his girlfriend. His friendship with an eccentric
inventor leads him into an unexpected adventure."
- with pre-reading activities, reading activities and after
reading activities.
(British Council)
- Literary
terms bingo (teachit.co.uk)
"To practise recognition of similes, metaphors, alliteration
and onomatopoeia."
REGISTER FIRST.
Click on Starters, 'ways in' and plenaries
- Cliches
(mac.com)
- ENGLISH
LITERATURE QUIZ - interactive (world-english) ex :
"Which is the first Harry Potter book? a) HP and the Goblet of
Fire b) HP and the Philospher's Stone c) HP and the Chamber of Secrets"
- The
Queue
- "To perform a one-act play." (insideout.net)
Conversation questions :
Lesson plans :
-
Vampires : my own Gothic tale - Séquence pour 4ème section Européenne par Jean-Sébastien Dot
"Cette séquence comprend 16 séances, et autant de documents prêts à l’emploi.
Tâche finale : écrire une fiction de style gothique pour aboutir à un recueil de fictions en version papier et version numérique.
Les tâches intermédiaires comprennent la lecture d’une oeuvre complète (le Dracula en version simplifiée de Penguin Readers), une introduction au style gothique, un travail sur les discours direct et indirect, des repères méthodologiques pour devenir des lecteurs plus efficaces, des repères historiques et géographiques pour ne pas confondre le Dracula "historique" et la création de Bram Stoker, une comparaison du début du livre de Stoker et du début du film de Coppola..."
(Ac. Toulouse)
- It's A Mystery To Me - a unit with :
- 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe
- 'The Red-Headed League' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 'And Then There Were None' by Agatha Christie
(cis.yale.edu)
- MYSTERIES
AND OTHER SUSPENSE STORIES (absolutenglish-972)
- VOCABULARY AROUND THE GENRE
- LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER, Roald Dahl
- SILENT NIGHT, Mary Higgins Clark
- SOLVE THE MYSTERY
- READ
- MORE LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHERS
- QUIZZES
- FOR FUN
- LINKS
- Classic
Tales of Horror
- Lesson plans (teachervision.fen.com)
Your middle and secondary students will enjoy exploring these classic
tales of horror from W.W. Jacobs and Edgar
Allan Poe :
"The Monkey's Paw" - "The Raven" - The Black
Cat"
- How
much do you know about Mystery Fiction?
- a lesson plan (niveau 4ème) :
Activity 1 : Mystery fiction
Activity 2 : 'And Then There Were None' (Agatha Christie)
Activity 3 :Two Famous Detective Story Writers : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Agatha Christie
Activity 4 : Mystery Writers
Activity 5 : Alfred Hitchcock
Activity 6 : 'Your House' (Alanis Morissette)
Activity 7 : A Phone Call
Activity 8 : 'North By Northwest' Alfred Hitchcock
Webquests :
Songs :
- List
of songs that retell a work of literature (Wikipedia)
ex :
- 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' is an Alan Parsons Project
LP which retells several Edgar Allan Poe stories
- "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane partially retells 'Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll...
Games :
- MYSTERIES
AND OTHER SUSPENSE STORIES (absolutenglish-972)
- VOCABULARY AROUND THE GENRE
- LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER, Roald Dahl
- SILENT NIGHT, Mary Higgins Clark
- SOLVE THE MYSTERY
- READ
- MORE LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHERS
- QUIZZES
- FOR FUN
- LINKS
- A
Writer's Crossword - "vocabulary connected with
the art of writing" - occupations
(handoutsonline.com)
Signatures :
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(Ac. Amiens)
