Shakespeare's Plays
Thomas Klise
This program provides a bright and thoughtful analysis of five of Shakespeare’s most important and influential plays: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo...
View full detailsThis program provides a bright and thoughtful analysis of five of Shakespeare’s most important and influential plays: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo...
View full details“Show me a hero,” Scott Fitzgerald once said, “and I’ll write you a tragedy.” And while Fitzgerald’s life was as heroic as any he ever created for ...
View full detailsFour hundred years ago, there lived in England an actor, poet, and playwright named William Shakespeare. This superb two-part set offers a look at ...
View full detailsShakespeare’s Hamlet is a work of drama and movement, full of stalking ghosts and fencing matches, pirate ships and dark castles. Despite this cons...
View full detailsThis presentation of the life and works of George Orwell offers a portrait of a political writer whose major themes are man and his state, surely a...
View full detailsWhen The Great Gatsby appeared in 1925, it was hailed by T.S. Eliot as the first step forward in American fiction since Henry James, and the interv...
View full detailsGeoffrey Chaucer was the first major personality in English literature, and his accounts of the medieval world are unmatched by an historian. Part ...
View full detailsThe name “Rome” today conjures up images of a cosmopolitan city in Italy. But almost 3,000 years ago, Rome was more than just a city ... it was the...
View full detailsThe name “Rome” today conjures up images of a cosmopolitan city in Italy. But almost 3,000 years ago, Rome was more than just a city ... it was the...
View full detailsThe name “Rome” today conjures up images of a cosmopolitan city in Italy. But almost 3,000 years ago, Rome was more than just a city ... it was the...
View full detailsDuring ancient times, the people of Greece enjoyed a culture in many ways more vibrant, more civilized, and more artistic than any we know today. T...
View full detailsThe impact of ancient mythology on modern thought and culture can hardly be overemphasized. And it’s no small wonder, for the world of mythology is...
View full detailsThe impact of ancient mythology on modern thought and culture can hardly be overemphasized. And it’s no small wonder, for the world of mythology is...
View full detailsThe impact of ancient mythology on modern thought and culture can hardly be overemphasized. And it’s no small wonder, for the world of mythology is...
View full detailsIn this program, students will review twelve individual lessons on the basic terms in literature including plot, setting, theme, character, conflic...
View full detailsFought on American soil between the United States and Britain, the War of 1812 was certainly one of the strangest wars in history. It was a war tha...
View full detailsThe Monroe Doctrine stated that European interference in the Western Hemisphere would be considered interference in the affairs of the United State...
View full detailsThis program that will introduce students to the settling of the American West, from the 17th century when “the West” meant several miles from the ...
View full detailsFor the teacher of poetry, this transparency program will bring the most commonly used terms into focus. Each transparency defines a term, gives co...
View full detailsFor the Native Americans, the long and bitter trail of tears had become one more dreadful example of man’s inhumanity to man. This program explores...
View full detailsHere we explain the most common literary terms encountered in typical units of poetry, short story, novel, and drama. Terms for poetry classes incl...
View full detailsThe seventeenth century in England was an age of political, religious, and intellectual upheaval. This program examines this era and captures the s...
View full detailsOften when we hear the word “Victorian,” the images that come to mind are those of obsessive propriety, prudery, hypocrisy. But if we take a closer...
View full detailsThis program helps teach process, comparison, classification, cause and effect, and persuasion, as well as writing descriptively, stimulating the f...
View full detailsHere’s a book bursting with 500 language arts questions designed to be used in a number of different ways. Use the sheets of questions as the basis...
View full detailsThe Quiz Bowl questions are written in the spirit of the scholastic quiz bowl programs. Over 500 questions are based on material presented in schoo...
View full detailsThe English Fun Factivities curriculum guide represents a compendium of over 500 in-class activities, discussion topics, research projects, and cro...
View full detailsHere are 50 activities that can be used as supplementary aids in teaching units on prefixes and suffixes, alphabetizing, silent letters, compound w...
View full detailsWorld War I opened with a dizzying rush in the summer of 1914 and soon Europe was plunged into its most destructive struggle ever. In 1917, Preside...
View full detailsWilliam Wordsworth is the greatest figure of the Romantic Age in English literature, and ranks with Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton as one of the ...
View full detailsThis program provides an in-depth discussion of the four basic types of point of view: omniscient, limited omniscient, first person, and objective....
View full detailsThis production reveals America’s Economic miracle that transformed the workbench of one day into the factory of the next. It shows how shrewd deve...
View full detailsThe War of 1812 signified the end of Colonial America, and firmly announced to the world that his new Republic could stand on its own. Fought on Am...
View full detailsPoetry can take many different forms – from the rolling and easy-to-memorize ballad, to the compact, suggestive haiku, to the artful rambling of fr...
View full detailsWhile the novel as a literary form has existed for only 300 years, there can be no thorough study of literature without an examination of this lite...
View full detailsThis program provides an introduction to the Constitution of the United States and, as such, to the general structure of American government. It di...
View full detailsThe French and Indian War involved the struggle between England and France for control over the eastern part of the North American continent. This ...
View full detailsThe rise of capitalism in the United States occurred when immigration and increasing prosperity created seemingly endless markets for goods and ser...
View full detailsBy 1840, there were more than five hundred abolitionist groups in America, including as members statesmen like Washington and Jefferson and poets l...
View full detailsThis unit seeks to acquaint students with figures of speech and how they work, with definitions of such writing tools as hyperbole, antithesis, iro...
View full detailsAleksandr Solzhenitsyn symbolizes the conscience of the Soviet Union, and his literature presents the inhumanity of any society that fails to value...
View full detailsForming the plurals of English singular nouns represents yet another case in which our fascinating language displays great diversity, if not always...
View full detailsThis fascinating program examines such important American inventors as McCOrmick, Whitney, Jefferson, Franklin, Evans, Fitch, Morse, Bell, and Edis...
View full detailsJane Austen is one of the few writers that is a favorite of both literary scholars and the reading public, and her six novels rank among the classi...
View full detailsThe United States Congress is the branch of the federal government with the primary and essential purpose of making laws. This program details the ...
View full detailsThe plot of a novel or story represents its structure, the mechanism that propels it from beginning to end. It is plot that keeps a reader turning ...
View full detailsThis program shows how phrases add richness and clarity to our language. It teaches the importance of phrases, their different uses, and the vital ...
View full detailsGuy DeMaupassant fashioned many unforgettable stories and characters and, for himself, a place in history as the father of the modern short story. ...
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