Language Arts Curriculum Resources

Novels, Short Stories, & Plays
Criticism and Commentary Sites

English I  |  English II  | English III (and Accelerated)
English IV  |  AP Literature




English I

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor)  


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/rollofthunder/


The Odyssey (Homer)   


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey


Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)   


• Literature in Context - Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, and The Pearl
A full-text resource from Greenwood Electronic Media with criticism, web links, and primary materials such as photographs, newspaper articles, etc.  (WHS student access only - ask librarian for remote access ID and password.)
• Of Mice and Men - http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/mice.html
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen


Fallen Angels - (Myer)   


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/fallenangels


Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)   


• Criticism - http://daphne.palomar.edu/Shakespeare/playcriticism.htm#Romeo
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet


Edgar Allen Poe Short Stories   


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories
• The Poe Decoder - http://www.poedecoder.com/

 

English II

Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
 
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database (citations only) - http://access-co2.tamu.edu/hhall/index.htm

A FREE database containing references to articles in magazines and book chapters on science fiction, fantasy, supernatural and (some) horror fiction, including information on authors and criticism.


To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)   


• Literature in Context - To Kill a Mockingbird
  
A full-text resource from Greenwood Electronic Media with criticism, web links, and primary materials such as photographs, newspaper articles, etc.  

(WHS student access only - ask librarian for remote access ID and password.)

• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey)   


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cuckoo


Anthem (Rand)

The Fountainhead (Rand) 

• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/fountainhead


Mid Summer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)   


• Criticism - http://daphne.palomar.edu/Shakespeare/playcriticism.htm#MND
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd


1984 (Orwell)   


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984


Spoon River Anthology (Masters)
 
 

English III

Accelerated English III Reading List

The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)

• Literature in Context - Grapes of Wrath

A full-text resource from Greenwood Electronic Media with criticism, web links, and primary materials such as photographs, newspaper articles, etc.  (WHS student access only - ask librarian for remote access ID and password.)

• The Grapes of Wrath - http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.html
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/grapesofwrath/


The House on Mango Street (Cisneros)   


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mangostreet


The Crucible (Miller)   


• Literature in Context - The Crucible
  
A full-text resource from Greenwood Electronic Media with criticism, web links, and primary materials such as photographs, newspaper articles, etc. 

(WHS student access only - ask librarian for remote access ID and password.)

Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/crucible

Tom Sawyer (Twain) 


•  Tom Sawyer:  a guide to online resources - http://marktwain.about.com/arts/marktwain/library/weekly/aa980407.htm
• Mark Twain - http://marktwain.about.com/arts/marktwain/mbody.htm


Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway) 


•  Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oldman


Our Town (Wilder)   


• The Official Thornton Wilder Website - http://www.thorntonwilder.com/




English IV

Brave New World (Huxley)  


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/bravenew


Dracula (Stoker)   


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula


Macbeth (Shakespeare)   


• Literature in Context - Macbeth
A full-text resource from Greenwood Electronic Media with criticism, web links, and primary materials such as photographs, newspaper articles, etc. 

  (WHS student access only - ask librarian for remote access ID and password.)

• Criticism - http://daphne.palomar.edu/Shakespeare/playcriticism.htm#Macbeth
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth


Secret Sharer (Conrad)

Pride and Prejudice (Austen) 

• Jane Austen's Writings (criticism and commentary) - http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janewrit.html
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pride

 
Treasure Island (Stevenson)
 
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/treasure


Christmas Carol (Dickins)   


• Charles Dickens Information Page - http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
• Charles Dickens - http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/dickens/dickensov.html
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/christmascarol


The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)   


• Oscar Wilde - http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/decadence/wilde/wildeov.html
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/earnest


Hamlet (Shakespeare)   


• Criticism - http://daphne.palomar.edu/Shakespeare/playcriticism.htm#Hamlet
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet


The Tempest (Shakespeare)   


• Criticism - http://daphne.palomar.edu/Shakespeare/playcriticism.htm#Tempest
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/tempest


Pygmalion (Shaw)   


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pygmalion




AP Literature

Advanced Placement Literature Reading List

Jane Eyre (C. Bronte)  


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre
• The Bronte Sisters - http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/cfalk/bronteng.htm#inneh
• The Life of Charlotte Bronte (Elizabeth Gaskell) - The full text of the definitive biography of Charlotte Bronte.  http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Charlotte-1.html


Huckleberry Finn (Twain)   


• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/huckfinn
• HF:  A Guide to Online Resources - http://marktwain.about.com/arts/marktwain/library/weekly/aa980317.htm
• Mark Twain - http://marktwain.about.com/arts/marktwain/mbody.htm


The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)

The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) 

• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby
  

Alice in Wonderland/Alice Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
 

• Lewis Carroll - http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/carroll/carrollov.html
• Spark Notes Study Guide - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/alice
• Lewis Carroll Home Page - http://www.lewiscarroll.org/info.html


Billy Budd (Melville)

Four Tragedies (Shakespeare)

Great Expectations (Dickens)

Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek and Roman Worlds
 
 
 

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