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found on these pages : LITT
- Page 1 - LITT - Page 3 - LITT - Page 4
Nursery
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POTTER - Theatre - Poetry
- LELE : Oeuvres complètes pour le lycée
"LELE : littérature étrangère en langue étrangère.
Cette page en construction et modifiable par tous est le complément de Littérature Anglaise en Langue Anglaise en L.
Elle est destinée à accueillir des ressources sur des oeuvres complètes et des idées de séquence pour la LELE en anglais.
Pour le moment cette page est fortement inspirée du programme d'anglais de complément en vigueur jusqu'en juin 2012."
(agreg-ink.net)
- Free Book Notes.com (freebooknotes.com)
- 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."
- 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.
USA Literary Map
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The Stephen King Universe Flow Chart (tessiedesigncompany.blogspot.com.au)
"Gillian James of Tessiegirl blog mapped the connections between characters in Stephen King universe." (Neatorama)
- A Glossary of Literary Terms (virtualsalt.com)
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An oxymoron (bp0.blogger.com)
- Famous
Pen Names (squidoo.com)
"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) -
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
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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
- Epics and Myths (edcanvas.com)
- Luminarium
"This site combines several sites first created in 1996 to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature."
Medieval - Renaissance - Seventeenth Century - Eighteenth Century - Encyclopedia
(luminarium.org)
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Critical mass: The Independent's cultural picks of the year - with a gallery
"We've seen 12 months of famous returns, fabulous new works, and once-in-a-lifetime exhibitions. Relive the best here..."
(independent.co.uk)
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Famous Authors' Favorite Drinks (flavorwire.com)
- THE GOTHIC NOVEL :
- Elements of the Gothic Novel (virtualsalt.com)
- Gothic novel
"A novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terror pervades the action. The setting is often a dark, mysterious castle, where ghosts and sinister humans roam menacingly. Horace Walpole invented the genre with his Castle of Otranto.
Gothic elements include these..."
(virtualsalt.com)
- A video : Gothic elements in 'Jane Eyre'
(teleclass.free.fr)
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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Liste d'adaptations cinématographiques d'oeuvres littéraires en anglais (angellier.biblio.univ-lille3.fr)
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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)
- Timeline and Characteristics of British Literature
(slideshare.net)
- Literary Periods Timeline (online-literature.com)
- British Literature through Time (studyguide.org)
Reading and Listening / Audio Books :
- CC Prose "is dedicated to making classic literature accessible to people around the world. We make more than just audiobooks.
By combining high quality audio, large print text, synchronized closed captions, and machine translations in multiple languages; we provide something for everyone.
Learn English, learn to read, with free videobooks from CC Prose.
All chapters contain synchronized text, an interactive transcript, and closed captions."
+ CC ProseKids + CC Poems + CC Cartoons
(YouTube)
- Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free (openculture.com)
- Enseigner la nouvelle ; Virginia Woolf et Katherine Mansfield
"Dans le cadre de ses formations académiques, la Clé des langues vous propose cette page de ressources destinée aux enseignants qui souhaitent aborder les nouvelles de Woolf et Mansfield en classe."
TEXTES + FICHIERS AUDIO
(cle.ens-lyon.fr)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Pam Ayres - "a British writer of humorous poetry."
(Wikipedia)
- Wired for Books
"Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century...
Listen to readings and lectures of noted writers."
(wiredforbooks.org)
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iPod SparkNotes (ipreppress.com)
"Read and Listen to SparkNotes on your iPod."
- Read stories or listen to them - slow English (VOA Special English)
- 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
- Food
and Literature (PBS)
- 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 You Should Know (factmonster.com)
- List
of species in fantasy fiction (Wikipedia)
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List of aliens in fiction (Wikipedia)
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List of fictional robots and androids - 1 Theatre 2 Literature 3 Films 4 Television... (Wikipedia)
- List
of fictional birds (Wikipedia)
- Literature - Worksheets :
Blake's poems - Hard Times (Ch. Dickens) - Dracula's Guest (Idée d'exploitation) - The Fifth Child (Doris Lessing) - Macbeth -
The Tell-Tale Heart (Poe)
(Ac. Lyon)
- Phyllis Dorothy James
"Do you like mysteries?
Here are five pages about P.D. James and her books. Do the activities, read, listen, watch , learn and play."
Activities created by Renée Maufroid.
(Pour 4ème ou 3ème européenne)
P. D. James, (born in 1920), is an English crime writer. (Wikipedia)
- 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)
- In
Affection and Esteem - a short story by Mary Webb (redted.us)
- with exercises on 2 pages
(Alain GAYER - Ac. Bordeaux)
- 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)
" 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) - This website is temporarily unavailable. Try
again!
- 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"
- Children's Literature Activities for the Classroom - Niveaux et Genres très variés (marcias-lesson-links.com)
- American writers with lessons and activities (americanwriters.org)
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Timeless Authors - Match each famous author with their book! - interactive crossword (surfnetkids.com)
- MYSTERIES
AND OTHER SUSPENSE STORIES - interactive exercises (absolutenglish-972)
- VOCABULARY AROUND THE GENRE
- LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER, Roald Dahl
- SILENT NIGHT, Mary Higgins Clark
- SOLVE THE MYSTERY
- READ
- English Literature (iteslj.org)
- Culture (iteslj.org)
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10 Ways to Use The New York Times for Teaching Literature
"Classics, contemporary fiction, young adult and graphic novels, sequels and adaptations:
Here are 10 ideas that will help any teacher use the vast resources of NYTimes.com to show students the connections between any type of literature and life."
(learning.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Vampires : my own Gothic tale - This website is temporarily unavailable. Try again!
- 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"
- C-Span American writers -
You can select a writer, a work or a place. - with a portrait gallery and video lessons
- 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
- Literature - a web quest (3ème - lycée)
(Chloé Thivin - Isère)
- Songs Inspired By Literature (fiql.com)
- 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...
- List of songs that retell a work of literature (The Free Dictionary)
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Literature Games (learninggamesforkids.com)
- British books and authors - interactive crossword (BBC)
- 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)
- Author Signatures
& Illustrator Signatures
ex : William Styron
(purplehousepress.com)
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What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler
"What trials unite not only Harry Potter or Frodo Baggins but many of literature's most interesting heroes?
And what do ordinary people have in common with these literary heroes?
Matthew Winkler takes us step-by-step through the crucial events that make or break a hero."
(ed.ted.com)
- Links between our landscape and literature
"From the London suburbs, through the rolling Cotswolds, and out to the rugged coastline of western Scotland - the UK's landscape has influenced authors for centuries.
In turn, their literary works have helped define how we think of Britain both culturally and geographically..."
(BBC)
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CliffsNotes Films Trailer
"As an extension to the yellow and black study guides, CliffsNotes Films reinvents the fastest way to learn with a new hip, irreverent, animated video series featuring Cliff. Come study the classics and leave with basic knowledge of the plots, themes, characters, and the confidence to pass the test."
- Watch CliffNotes films
Currently Playing:
A Midsummer Night's Dream »
Hamlet »
Julius Caesar »
Macbeth »
Othello »
Romeo and Juliet » - UPDATED
etc...
(cambio.com)