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Biography / E5-Resources / Resources for Teaching
by Janice Campbell · Published March 22, 2022 · Last modified March 24, 2022
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547-1616), Spanish novelist (Don Quixote and others), playwright, and poet was born at Alcalá de Henares in 1547. The attempts of biographers to provide him with an illustrious genealogy are...
Odysseus and his crew escape the cyclops, as painted by Arnold Böcklin in 1896. Wikimedia. Guide to the Classics: Homer’s Odyssey Chris Mackie, La Trobe University The Odyssey of Homer is a Greek epic...
E3-Resources / Resources for Teaching
by Janice Campbell · Published July 21, 2020 · Last modified February 1, 2021
Outline of American Literature: Chapter 4 The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets By Kathryn VanSpanckeren TRANSCENDENTALISM Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) THE BRAHMIN POETS Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)...
A story is not a problem to be solved, but a continent to be explored. Dr. Randy Laist Using the Cinderella story, Dr. Randy Laist of Goodwin College discusses some approaches to literary interpretation,...
Resources for Teaching / Writer's Handbook
by Janice Campbell · Published February 4, 2020 · Last modified December 30, 2020
Grading papers is usually not a favorite chore, but have you ever thought of writing evaluation as a teaching tool? That is exactly what it can be! Every writing assignment can help a student...
What is an argument? An argument is an attempt to persuade someone of something. It is prompted usually by a disagreement, confusion, or ignorance about something which the arguers wish to resolve or illuminate...
Reading / Resources for Teaching
by Janice Campbell · Published May 11, 2017 · Last modified April 14, 2020
This 1910 reading list first appeared in How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin. Beginning with the greatest works of all time, he offers a reading list of great books and poetry that...
Resources for Teaching / Writer's Handbook
by Janice Campbell · Published March 7, 2017 · Last modified May 11, 2017
Schemes and Tropes Schemes and tropes are figures of speech, having to do with using language in an unusual or “figured” way: Trope: An artful deviation from the ordinary or principal signification of a word....
Resources for Teaching / Writer's Handbook
by Janice Campbell · Published January 17, 2017 · Last modified May 11, 2017
Literary devices that create humor As you read, you will encounter many types of humor, and you will find some types funnier than others. If you want to learn to use humor in writing, it helps...
Style: Canons of Rhetoric Style concerns the artful expression of ideas. If invention addresses what is to be said; style addresses how this will be said. From a rhetorical perspective style is not incidental,...
Here’s Everyday Education’s annual conference newsletter handout with book lists and articles. We’d rather be sharing it in person, but for now, you can download the 2021 Everyday Educator here.
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