College Board Student AP Site
Advanced Placement Language and Composition Practice
Information about the Exam
Rubric for Assessing Annotations (click here for PDF)
College Board SAT Practice
Khan Academy SAT Practice (Sign in to your school G-mail account first)
College Board SAT Practice
Khan Academy SAT Practice (Sign in to your school G-mail account first)
The 1619 Project
Pulitzer Site on The 1619 Project
Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History Now Journal
Cute Illustrated Timeline of American Literary Periods
History is a Weapon site
What Defines American Literature?
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UNUM: a new way to explore American history through scenes selected from across our over 40 films. From PBS and Ken Burns.
The 18th Century
The Great Awakening vs. The Age of Reason/Enlightenment:
A Philosophical Tug-of-War
A Philosophical Tug-of-War
Puritanism, Theocracy, Government
Control of Individual Behavior Vs. |
Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness
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Liberty! The American Revolution film clips
Great Awakening Introductory Article
Age of Reason Outline
Great Awakening vs. Enlightenment PPT
Young Puritan's Code
Franklin vs. Edwards sheet
Study Guide: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams and John Adams
Jefferson Queries PPT
Jefferson Queries Texts
DeCrevecoeur-Quindlen sheet
DeCrevecoeur SG
DeCrevecoeur excerpt
Age of Reason Outline
Great Awakening vs. Enlightenment PPT
Young Puritan's Code
Franklin vs. Edwards sheet
Study Guide: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams and John Adams
Jefferson Queries PPT
Jefferson Queries Texts
DeCrevecoeur-Quindlen sheet
DeCrevecoeur SG
DeCrevecoeur excerpt
The Romantic Era (c. 1830-1865)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Transcendentalism
(c. 1835-1860)
(c. 1835-1860)
TRANSCENDENTAL OPTIMISM: Emerson and Thoreau
Neighbors in Eden Video
Dead Poets Society film (may work, may not)
Dead Poets Society script on dailyscript.com / pdf
Dead Poets Society film (may work, may not)
Dead Poets Society script on dailyscript.com / pdf
Transcendental Pessimism: Hawthorne and Melville
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Background on Hester's Community in the mid-1600s:
Puritan Life in the New England Colonies from US History.org
Berkshire Eagle article
New England Sources
Hawthorne’s Counterfeiting History in The Scarlet Letter
For the novel itself:
Vocabulary
Searchable on-line text of The Scarlet Letter
Characters
PDF version with slightly modernized text (start at Chapter 1; skip "The Custom House")
Short Biography of the Author
1886 Review by the Author's Son
Eldritch Press-- Reviews
"Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853) by Herman Melville
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Biography
Annotated version of "Bartleby the Scrivener"
Annotated version of "Bartleby the Scrivener"
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
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Information on the 1856 Edition of Leaves of Grass
Slideshow on Children of Adam an Calamus (2018)
New York Episode 2
Chapter 17 of Now the Drum of War by Robert Roper
Voices and Visions biography from Annenberg Learner.Org
The Whitman Archive: Access to All Writings and Much More
How to use the notes in Complete Poems
Slideshow on "Song of Myself" Poems 1,2,5,&10
American Experience: Walt Whitman Transcript
PBS Whitman site
"The Casualties of Walt Whitman" article in VA Quarterly
Short Biography
Passage from Whitman's Poetry of the Body: Sexuality, Politics, and the Text by MJ Killingsworth
Library of Congress Walt Whitman: Revising Himself
Whitman's Wartime Washington: Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War
Graphic Organizer on "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing"
Graphic Organizer for "Song of Myself"
Graphic Organizer for "The Wound-Dresser"
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
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Learner.org site on Dickinson/Voices and Visions film on Dickinson
Voices and Visions Emily Dickinson (on YouTube)
Biography from the Emily Dickinson Museum Website
Poetry Foundation Dickinson Page
Short Bio PDF
Dickinson bio from Heath Anthology
The Belle of Amherst film
Billy Collins' “Taking off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes”
Billy Collins: A Poet's Affection For Emily Dickinson : NPR Podcast
"Wild Nights!" Slideshow
Frederick Douglass on How to stop the Civil War (1861)
Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and W.E.B. DuBoisStudy Guide for Conversations in American Literature Chapter 8 (AP)
Group questions on Ida B Wells-Barnett Life After Slavery The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (Parts 1 and 2 are used in class) Slavery by Another Name PBS documentary |
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Realism and Naturalism
(c. 1865-1920)
Information on Realism and Naturalism--Read and take notes
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Industrial Supremacy Video
The New City Video
A Vital Progressivism
Visual Tour of Chicago Stockyards and Meatpackers
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"Paul's Case" by Willa Cather (1910)
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Original Version
Detailed Biography of Willa Cather
The original 1905 text of "Paul's Case" (Same as in Readings in American Literature)
The revised text (same as in Dover Thrift edition)
"Paul's Case" Interpretation/Critical Theory Slide Show
All about Pittsburgh Central High School
Yours, Willa Documentary (also found here)
Audio-book of original version
Why Willa Cather Revised "Paul's Case" by David Carpenter
Film
Clip on "sexual orientation"/gender non-conformity (old)
Shmoop Guide to "Paul's Case"
Historical Background on Pittsburgh
Signs of Trouble: Informational sheet on emotional, social, psychological topics connected to the story (PDF)
Various interpretations by students and educators:
- Response to “Paul’s Case.” The Willa Cather Short Story Project
- Paul R. Bixby's thoughts on the story: Many different essays and informational pages
- "Paul's Case": A Narcissistic Personality Disorder By Rob Saari
- Willa Cather's Lost Boy-- rather far-fetched in spots but also makes some worthwhile points
- Signs and symptoms of Autism in Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" by Hayley Wilhelm
- The Artist in a Hostile Society: A Reading of Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" (not a very appropriate title, but a well-written short analysis -- just replace "Artist" with "Non-Conformist")
- The Homosexual Motif In Willa Cather's "Paul's Case” (1975)
- Sample student essay: Two Readings of "Paul's Case": New Critical and Feminist (author unknown)
- Willa Cather's "Paul's Case": the Adolescent as Tragic Hero
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder in "Paul's Case" -- sample essay using a Psychoanalytic Lens (contains at least one major error about the plot of the story)
- The Significance of the "Flower Scenes" in Willa Cather's "Paul's Case"
Post World War I Literature (from 1920 on)
Prohibition: A Nation of Scofflaws
The Century, America's Time: Boom to Bust ... View BOTH parts 1 and 2
Smithsonian's America in Color: The 1920s
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
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Slideshow (spoiler warning after slide 25)
Ms. Culliton's Study Guide -- PDF version here
Winter Dreams, PBS American Masters Episode on Fitzgerald
A&E Fitzgerald Biography
Great Books: The Great Gatsby
Character Map
Documentary: F Scott Fitzgerald, American Dreamer
2000 Version of Gatsby with Paul Rudd and Mira Sorvino
How Gatsby Went From A Moldering Flop To A Great American Novel (NPR)
Fitzgerald Biography from U of SC
Fitzgeralds' Biographies at PBS
Biography from F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
The Century: America's Time: Boom to Bust Part 1 Part 2
1920s Slang
New York:A Documentary-- Episode 5, Cosmopolis
Vocabulary List and Definitions
Ms. Culliton's Study Guide -- PDF version here
Winter Dreams, PBS American Masters Episode on Fitzgerald
A&E Fitzgerald Biography
Great Books: The Great Gatsby
Character Map
Documentary: F Scott Fitzgerald, American Dreamer
2000 Version of Gatsby with Paul Rudd and Mira Sorvino
How Gatsby Went From A Moldering Flop To A Great American Novel (NPR)
Fitzgerald Biography from U of SC
Fitzgeralds' Biographies at PBS
Biography from F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
The Century: America's Time: Boom to Bust Part 1 Part 2
1920s Slang
New York:A Documentary-- Episode 5, Cosmopolis
Vocabulary List and Definitions
MODERN DRAMA
Inherit the Wind (1955) by Lawrence and Lee
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The Playwrights
The Scopes Trial
Clarence Darrow
Everything You Didn't Know About Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
History.com Bryan site
Bryan on Suffrage
William Jennings Bryan the Great Commoner
Edward Larson Commonwealth Club 2020 Interview
Inherit the Wind: An Historical Analysis
The Scopes Trial: An Account
THE TRUTH ABOUT INHERIT THE WIND by Carol Iannone February 1997
The Century, America's Time: Boom to Bust Part 2 (changing societal mores in the 1920s)
Summer for the Gods
Rewriting History by Dr. Elizabeth D. Mitchell, 2012
1914 Edition of Hunter's Civic Biology
Nietzsche & Evolution
Foes of science faced ridicule at the Scopes trial. We’re paying the price 95 years later (PDF)
The Lingering Impact of the Scopes Trial on High School Biology Textbooks
The Saturday Evening Post History Minute: William Jennings Bryan – Progressive or Demagogue?
Bryan's story at the Library of Congress
Biography video on Clarence Darrow
Bryan's "Flag of an Empire" Speech
Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech
1932 Interview with Clarence Darrow
About the screenplay and film
The Long and Lingering Shadow of the Scopes Trial (pdf)
Scopes Trial Transcript
Whatever Happened to Scopes?
EBSCO for research (User ID= mascenic PW = @03071)
"What the Negro Wants" (1941) by Langston Hughes
"Let America be America Again" (1936) by Langston Hughes
"Beaumont to Detroit: 1943" by Langston Hughes
Common Ground Magazine, 1943
The Crucible (1953) by Arthur Miller
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Study Guide
Major Characters
Film
The Salem Witch Trials
Genesis 1-3 (New International Version)
Documentary Archive and Transcript Project (from UVA)
Film: Witch Hunt
Film: In Search of History, The Salem Witch Trials
Detailed Podcast from Unobscured
Understanding the Salem Witch Trials from NEH
Differences between history and the play
Dramatizing History in Arthir Miller's The Crucible
The Second Red Scare
Hollywood Ten/Hollywood Blacklist/ McCarthy Era
Miller, "Are You Now Or Were You Ever?"
Excerpt from The Century:America's Time-- "Picture This"-- on the Hollywood Blacklist
Excerpts from Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
"Why I Wrote The Crucible" by Arthur Miller
Brief Documentary on the Hollywood Ten
Arthur Miller Interviews on the Blacklist and The Crucible Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Information on the Hollywood Blacklist
Brief Article on the Hollywood Ten
Victims of Hollywood's Blacklist brief documentary
The Hollywood Blacklist from University of Pennsylvania
The Lavender Scare: Anti-Gay/Lesbian Witch Hunts in the McCarthy Era
Major Characters
Film
The Salem Witch Trials
Genesis 1-3 (New International Version)
Documentary Archive and Transcript Project (from UVA)
Film: Witch Hunt
Film: In Search of History, The Salem Witch Trials
Detailed Podcast from Unobscured
Understanding the Salem Witch Trials from NEH
Differences between history and the play
Dramatizing History in Arthir Miller's The Crucible
The Second Red Scare
Hollywood Ten/Hollywood Blacklist/ McCarthy Era
Miller, "Are You Now Or Were You Ever?"
Excerpt from The Century:America's Time-- "Picture This"-- on the Hollywood Blacklist
Excerpts from Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
"Why I Wrote The Crucible" by Arthur Miller
Brief Documentary on the Hollywood Ten
Arthur Miller Interviews on the Blacklist and The Crucible Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Information on the Hollywood Blacklist
Brief Article on the Hollywood Ten
Victims of Hollywood's Blacklist brief documentary
The Hollywood Blacklist from University of Pennsylvania
The Lavender Scare: Anti-Gay/Lesbian Witch Hunts in the McCarthy Era
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Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
Interview with playwright Arthur Miller
BBC 1996 Performance of the play
Study Guide
Audio recording
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) by Shirley Jackson
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1997 Critcal Essay by Dale Peck
Study Guide (Word) (PDF)
Dining Room Scene Graphic Organizer
Family Tree
"The Lottery"
In the 1950s, There Were Lots of RULES -- short video
Joyce Carol Oates on the novel (NY Review of Books)
Examples of Room Boxes
Making dollhouses, room boxes and miniatures for fun and relaxation
Study Guide (Word) (PDF)
Dining Room Scene Graphic Organizer
Family Tree
"The Lottery"
In the 1950s, There Were Lots of RULES -- short video
Joyce Carol Oates on the novel (NY Review of Books)
Examples of Room Boxes
Making dollhouses, room boxes and miniatures for fun and relaxation
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Vocabulary
The Pentagon Papers
Moral Injury in War
Veterans Day Spotlight: The Life & Works of Tim O'Brien
Not Just Pretty Faces - The Women of the Vietnam War
C-rations--YUM
LRRP Rations
Starlight Scope Technology
Starlight Scope pics
Big Read KC 2017 Interview with Tim O'Brien
Big Think 2010 interview with Tm O'Brien
Interview with the author on how he wrote the novel (PBS Newshour 2010) Transcript
Interview from VT PBS
Interview with Idaho PBS (2015)
NEW Interview of Tim O'Brien about the new Vietnam Documentary (7 min)
Arlington Reads lengthy discussion with the author about the novel
2015 PBS Dialogue with Tim O'Brien on Truth, Memory, and What it Means to go to War (1/2 hr)
Primary Source Set: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Reading of the last pages of "The Lives of the Dead"
PBS The Vietnam War series
Clips from the series
Vietnam: A Television History
Lyndon B. Johnson: Speech on Vietnam (September 29, 1967)
Tim O'Brien on What We Still Don't Get About Vietnam
Lives of Emerson and Thoreau
"On the Rainy River," Emerson and Thoreau
Desmond Doss This is Your Life Episode
Emerson and Thoreau Excerpts and information
The Underground Tunnels of Cu Chi, Vietnam (article)
Tunnels in Vietnam (short informational video)
Tunnels in Vietnam (Modern Marvels, detailed film)
Morley Safer's watershed report from Cam Ne (CBS)
Vietnam after 1975 (Library of Congress)
Vietnam Under Communism (Commentary Magazine, STEPHEN J. MORRIS / SEPT. 1, 1982)
What Vietnam Is Like 40 Years After the Fall of Saigon (NBC)
Vietnam’s Communist Party Calls For Public Dialogue on Governance (Radio Free Asia)
Vietnam: a Canadian who went to Vietnam an American who came to Canada Part 1 Part 2
Martin Luther King, “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam”
Narrative Checklist
Punctuating Dialogue
Vocabulary Assignment for pp. 85-90