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"Three Shots": Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams
 3-4 Yes
No
"World enough, and time"—Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
 1-2 Yes
No
A Raisin in the Sun: The Quest for the American Dream
 1 Yes
No
A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic?
 2 Yes
No
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
 2 No
No
A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery 'Alice'
 2-3 No
No
A Wrinkle in Time: The Board Game
 UNKNOWN Yes
No
Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales
 2 No
No
All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing
 3-4 Yes
No
Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"
 1-2 No
No
Animal Farm: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
 2 Yes
No
Animals of the Chinese Zodiac
 3-4 Yes
No
Animating Poetry: Reading Poems about the Natural World
 4-5 Yes
No
Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands
 3 Yes
No
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
 3 No
No
Australian Aboriginal Art and Storytelling
 2 Yes
No
Beatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales
 5-7 Yes
No
Being in the Noh: An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays
 2 Yes
No
Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue
 1-2 Yes
No
Can You Haiku?
 4-5 No
No
Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive
 2-3 Yes
No
Charles Baudelaire: Poète Maudit (The Cursed Poet)
 3 Yes
No
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"—The "New Woman"
 1-2 Yes
No
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"—Writing Women
 1-2 Yes
No
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
 2-3 Yes
No
Childhood Through the Looking-Glass
 1-3 Yes
No
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel
 1 Yes
No
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies
 4 Yes
No
Cinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Character
 2-3 Yes
No
Cinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Plot and Setting
 2-4 Yes
No
Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
 1-2 Yes
No
Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context
 10-15 Yes
No
Death in Poetry: A.E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
 2-3 Yes
No
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
 10-12 Yes
No
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
 5-6 Yes
No
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator
 4 Yes
No
Edith Wharton: War Correspondent
 2 Yes
No
Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad: From Painting to Poem
 3-6 Yes
No
Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense
 2 No
No
Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was…
 2 No
No
Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs
 2 No
No
Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Scroll Paintings
 2 No
No
Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, plashless"
 1-2 Yes
No
Esperanza renace: Aprendiendo a no temer el comenzar de nuevo
 UNKNOWN Yes
No
Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over
 4-5 Yes
No
Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" in Graphical Representation
 1-3 Yes
No
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
 2-3 No
No
Exploring Arthurian Legend
 4-7 No
No
Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World
 3-5 No
No
Fairy Tales Around the World
 13-15 Yes
No
Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit?
 2-3 No
No
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
 7-8 Yes
No
Folktales and Ecology: Animals and Humans in Cooperation and Conflict
 3 Yes
No
George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma: "Shooting An Elephant"
 2-3 Yes
No
Hamlet and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
 7-8 Yes
No
Hamlet Meets Chushingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
 8-10 No
No
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
 11-14 Yes
No
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: Profiles in Courage
 5-8 Yes
No
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and karma in the Jataka Tales
 2 No
No
Hawthorne: Author and Narrator
 2-3 No
No
Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore
 3 Yes
No
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter
 8-12 No
No
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
 3-4 No
No
Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
 1 Yes
No
Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
 2-3 Yes
No
Investigating Jack London's White Fang: Nature and Culture Detectives
 3-4 Yes
No
It Came From Greek Mythology
 4 Yes
No
Jack London's The Call of the Wild: "Nature Faker"?
 2-3 Yes
No
Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Removing the Mask
 2-3 Yes
No
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: The Novel as Historical Source
 4 No
No
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
 1-2 No
No
John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath": The Inner Chapters
 UNKNOWN Yes
No
John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”: Verbal Pictures
 1-2 Yes
No
Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
 1-2 Yes
No
Learning the Blues
 4 No
Yes
Lesson 1: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Images of Faulkner and the South
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 1: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Introduction
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 1: From Courage to Freedom: The Reality behind the Song
 2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 1: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words: Letters and Poems
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 1: Kate Chopin's "The Awakening": No Choice but Under?
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 1: Mark Twain and American Humor
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 1: The Phoenicians and the Beginnings of the Alphabet
 3-4 No
Yes
Lesson 1: Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
 1 Yes
Yes
Lesson 2: "Old Southwest" Humorists and George Washington Harris
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 2: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Family Voices In As I Lay Dying
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 2: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Benjy's Sense of Time and Narrative Voice
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 2: From Courage to Freedom: Slavery's Dehumanizing Effects
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 2: Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in late 19th Century America
 2-3 No
Yes
Lesson 2: Responding to Emily Dickinson: Poetic Analysis
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 2: The Greek Alphabet: more familiar than you think!
 4-5 Yes
Yes
Lesson 2: Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 3: Emulating Emily Dickinson: Poetry Writing
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 3: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Crossing the River
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 3: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Narrating Quentin's Mental Breakdown
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 3: From Courage to Freedom
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 3: Kate Chopin's "The Awakening": Searching for Women & Identity in Chopin's "The Awakening"
 2-5 Yes
Yes
Lesson 3: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 3: Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 3: The Roman Alphabet is our Alphabet
 3 No
Yes
Lesson 4: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Burying Addie's Voice
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 4: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Narration, Voice, and the Compson Family's New System
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 4: The Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, and Us
 2-3 No
Yes
Lesson 5: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Concluding the Novel
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 5: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: April Eighth, 1928: Narrating from an 'Ordered Place'?
 1-2 Yes
No
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
 3 Yes
No
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana
 2 Yes
No
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana: Showing your Dharma
 1 Yes
No
Lions, Dragons, and Nian: Animals of the Chinese New Year
 4 No
No
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
 3-4 No
No
Live from Ancient Olympia!
 2 Yes
No
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence
 2 No
No
Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories
 4-5 Yes
No
Morality "Tails" East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales
 2 Yes
No
More Amazing Americans: A WebQuest
 4-6 Yes
No
Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution
 3 Yes
No
On the Oregon Trail
 1 No
No
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
 2 Yes
No
Pearl S. Buck: "On Discovering America"
 2-3 Yes
No
Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
 3-5 Yes
No
Perspective on the Slave Narrative
 3 No
No
Picture Lincoln
 2-3 Yes
No
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's "My Antonia"
 6-7 Yes
No
Play with Words: Rhyme & Verse
 6-8 Yes
No
Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words
 5 Yes
No
Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost
 4-5 Yes
No
Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?
 3-5 Yes
No
Portrait of a Hero
 2-3 Yes
No
Practical Criticism
 1-2 No
No
Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
 1 Yes
No
Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip
 1 Yes
No
Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies
 1 Yes
No
Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content
 1 Yes
No
Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Fact and Fiction
 2-3 Yes
No
Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Words and Pictures
 2-3 Yes
No
Say Hi to Haibun Fun
 3 Yes
No
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
 4-6 No
No
Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems
 1-3 Yes
No
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind"
 2 No
No
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil
 3 Yes
No
Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language
 8-12 Yes
No
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: 'You Kiss by the Book'
 2 Yes
No
Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources
 3 Yes
No
Sophocles' Antigone: Ancient Greek Theatre, Live From Antiquity!
 2-3 No
Yes
Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
 UNKNOWN Yes
Yes
Sor Juana, la monja y la escritora: Las Redondillas y La Respuesta
 1 Yes
Yes
Sor Juana, la poetisa: Los sonetos
 UNKNOWN Yes
Yes
Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
 1 Yes
No
Steinbeck’s Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath"
 2 Yes
No
Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"
 1-2 Yes
No
Stories in Quilts
 4 No
No
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
 3-4 Yes
No
Tales of King Arthur
 7-9 Yes
No
Tales of the Supernatural
 UNKNOWN No
No
The "Secret Society" and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
 3-6 Yes
No
The Beauty of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to Beowulf
 2-3 Yes
No
The Cuneiform Writing System in Ancient Mesopotamia: Emergence and Evolution
 4-5 Yes
No
The Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States
 3 Yes
No
The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
 1 Yes
No
The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry
 3-4 Yes
No
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
 4-5 No
No
The Magical World of Russian Fairy Tales
 2-5 Yes
No
The Meaning Behind the Mask
 3 No
No
The Olympic Medal: It's All Greek to Us!
 2-3 Yes
No
The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You
 1 No
No
The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage
 2-3 Yes
No
The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism
 2-3 Yes
No
The Statue of Liberty: Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America
 4 No
No
The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol
 4-6 Yes
No
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
 2 Yes
No
The World of Haiku
 3-4 No
No
Thomas Edison's Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From "New" to You!
 4 Yes
No
Thornton Wilder's Our Town: The Reader as Writer
 5-10 Yes
No
To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial: Profiles in Courage
 5-8 Yes
No
Unicorns, Dragons, and Other Magical Creatures
 5-6 No
No
Vengeful Verbs in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
 1 Yes
No
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
 3-4 Yes
No
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: the Sweep of the Universe
 4-5 Yes
No
What is History? Timelines and Oral Histories
 4-6 Yes
No
What Makes a Hero?
 5-8 Yes
No
What Was Columbus Thinking?
 2 No
No
Why Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere's Ride in History and Literature
 3 Yes
No
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Conflict Resolution and Happy Endings
 5-10 Yes
No
Women in Africa: Tradition and Change
 3-4 No
No
Women in the White House
 2 No
No
Writing Poetry Like Pros
 2-3 No

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