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1. Defining Literature
2. Literary Terms
3. How to Annotate a Text
4. Critical Approaches Chart
5. Video: Teaching Theme
6. Organizing Your Analysis
7. Writing about Literature Handout
8. Listening
9. Symbolism Assignment
10. Comparative Essay
11. The Theme of "Identity"
12. Introduction to American Literature
13. Introduction to Fiction
14. The Difference Between Fiction and Nonfiction
15. Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
16. Introduction to Plays and Film
17. Reading a Play
18. Reading Poetry
19. Poetry Lesson Presentation
20. Poetry Literary Terms: A Guide
21. Free Verse
22. Billy Collins: A Poet Speaks Out
23. Approaching Poetry (Includes Free Verse)
24. Approaching Poetry
25. Elements of Literature
26. The Rough Guide to Literary Style, a Historical Overview
27. Theme
28. Conflict
29. Symbols in Literature
30. Symbolism
31. Characters and Characterization
32. Metaphor
33. Point of View
34. How to Read Like a Writer
35. Modes of Exposition
36. Reading to Write Effectively
37. How to Write With Style
38. Creating an Effective Style
39. Structure in Literary Essays
40. Distinguish Between Primary and Secondary Sources
41. Using Databases: Periodical Indexes and Abstracts
42. Writing an Introduction to a Literary Analysis Essay
43. Creating MLA Works Cited Entries
44. MLA In-Text Citations
45. Annotated Bibliographies: An Illustrated Guide
46. The Nature of Analysis
47. How to Analyze a Novel
48. How to Analyze a Short Story
49. How to Analyze Poetry
50. How to Analyze a Film
51. Finding Literary Criticism
52. Reader-Response Criticism
53. Reader-Response Criticism
54. Introduction to Critical Theory
55. New Criticism
56. Multicultural Societies Explained
57. Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of Morning,” 1993
58. Billy Collins, “The Lanyard,” 2007
59. Emily Dickinson, Poems Series One, 1890
60. Emily Dickinson, “Wild nights – Wild nights!” 1861
61. Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night,” 1923
62. Robert Frost, “The Lockless Door,” 1920
63. Biography: Langston Hughes
64. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
65. Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again,” 1935
66. Edgar Allen Poe, The Complete Poetical Works, 1845
67. Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven,” 1845
68. Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, 1920
69. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Selected Works, 1855
70. Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz,” 1961
71. Reader-response to “My Papa’s Waltz”
72. Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market,” 1862
73. William Shakespeare, Sonnets, 1609
74. Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind,” 1891
75. Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773
76. Walt Whitman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” 1865
77. William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” 1962
78. Additional Poems
79. Omar Khayyam, “The Rubaiyat”
80. Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, Collected Poems
81. Anton Chekhov, “The Bear,” 1888
82. Anton Chekhov, “The Cherry Orchard,” 1904
83. Anton Chekhov, “The Three Sisters,” 1900
84. Susan Glaspell, “Inheritors,” 1921
85. Susan Glaspell, “The Outside,” 1916
86. Susan Glaspell, “Trifles,” 1916
87. Susan Glaspell, “The Verge,” 1921
88. Langston Hughes and Zora Hurston, “The Mule-Bone,” 1930
89. Henrik Ibsen, “A Doll’s House,” 1879
90. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
91. Critical Reviews of Film Version of The Importance of Being Earnest
92. Video: White Zombie
93. Video: Night of the Living Dead
94. Video: Dawn of the Dead
95. Louisa May Alcott, “Scarlet Stockings,” 1869
96. Ambrose Bierce, “The Middle Toe of the Right Foot,” 1890
97. Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Nice People,” 1890
98. Willa Cather, “On the Gull’s Road,” 1908
99. Anton Chekhov, “Peasant Wives,” 1891
100. Kate Chopin, “Regret,” 1897
101. Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour,” 1894
102. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899
103. Joseph Conrad, “The Idiots,” 1896
104. Philip K. Dick, “Beyond the Door,” 1954
105. Charles Dickens, “The Signal-Man,” 1866
106. Arthur Conan Doyle, “Scandal in Bohemia,” 1891
107. F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Ice Palace,” 1920
108. Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Ethan Brand,” 1850
109. Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown,” 1835
110. Critical Responses to “Young Goodman Brown”
111. Kelly Link, “The Specialist’s Hat,” 1998
112. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” 1892
113. Saki, “The Open Window,” 1914
114. Mary Shelley, “The Mortal Immortal,” 1833
115. Jim Shepard, “The Zero Meter Diving Team,” 2007
116. Mark Twain, “Eve’s Diary,” 1905
117. Madhuri Vijay, “Lorry Raja,” 2012
118. Analysis of “Lorry Raja”
119. Seduction of the Innocent
120. I Killed Mary
121. Amazing Fantasy #15: Spider-Man
122. Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
123. Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855
124. Henry David Thoreau, “Walden,” 1854
125. Mark Twain, “Two Ways of Seeing A River,” 1883
126. Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, 1901
127. Zitkala-Sa, “The School Days of an Indian Girl,” 1900
128. Other Creative Nonfiction Readings
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