Articles for tag: Literature

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How to Prepare for College Literature Courses

Taking your first college literature course can be rather intimidating, especially if you attended a high school that didn’t fully prepare you for such a class. Many students take it for granted that their high school has done everything possible to prepare them for a college literature course. Unfortunately, this isn’t always true. While you ...

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Tuberculosis’ Influence on 19th Century Literature

“The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.”-John Bunyan: The Life and Death of Mr. Badman Tuberculosis, for a very brief time in history, became a symbol for a tragic beauty that marked ...

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Free Literature and Reading Lesson Plans – Elementary School

Why spend hours clicking through the over 1,000 sites that are dedicated to Elementary School Literature and Reading Lesson Plans? You waste valuable time perusing sites that don’t relate to your subject matter, whose material is sketchy at best, and where you cannot find a single resource to help you. Here we have listed some ...

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English Literature in the Middle English Period (1100-1500)

Literature during the Middle English period experienced tremendous growth and change. Numerous discrepancies in language and culture added to the difficulties of the day. Here we will explore this phenomenal period in history. The Anglo-Saxon period of English ended in the 11th century with the Norman conquest of England. England became tri-lingual. Norman French was ...