UCLA LiteratureApril 6, 2015 – 01:09 pm
If you visit New York City over the holidays or shortly thereafter, be sure to take in a terrific new exhibition at the Grolier Club: “Powerful narrative, unforgettable characters, illustration that stirs the imagination, and insights that engage the mind and heart – literature for children is forged from the same enduring elements as literature for adults . Children’s books with these qualities often shine for generations, with some achieving landmark…
Popular novels for high school studentsMay 12, 2015 – 03:39 pm
Neil Turner/Flickr As high school English classes start up again across the United States, teenagers will be taught today s version of the “canon”-some Mark Twain here, some Nathaniel Hawthorne there, and perhaps some Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The past 100 years may have seen John Steinbeck, Ray Bradbury, and even such recent works as Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight added to the…
Amazon Windows Literature and LatteMay 21, 2015 – 04:58 pm
“The biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.” — Michael Marshall Smith Grow your ideas in style Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives you complete control of the formatting, its focus is on helping you get to the end of that awkward first draft. Write, structure, revise Scrivener puts everything you…
Online LiteratureAugust 16, 2015 – 03:01 pm
Literature Online provides both scholars and students with texts, criticism and search tools which open up new possibilities for academic research, teaching and undergraduate learning. Integrating over 350, works of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th to the 21st century with a huge library of criticism and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries, Literature Online represents an…
World Literature high school CurriculumFebruary 2, 2015 – 03:51 pm
The core high school curriculum at SciCore Academy is designed to provide all students with a challenging liberal arts and sciences curriculum to help prepare them for their college years. All students must take or meet these core course requirements. Elective courses are also offered to add depth to students’ knowledge base and practical experience in the sciences and the humanities. Courses are generally conducted at an honors level. Courses in…
