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This page contains resources that may be of use in studying high-school or college-level literature.

We've used many resources for literature. When our children were young, they read books from the library and we read books to them. Our daughter has continued reading books from the library into her teens while our son prefers nonfiction. He's had to take Literature for college and I've given him some of my German Literature books to read in addition to these more common textbooks:

Perrine's Literature, Eighth Edition by Arp and Johnson
The Bedford Introduction to Literature by Meyer
Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry

We had the kids read portions of the books and gave them a few writing assignments.

Of course our daughter borrows lots of books from the library to read for enjoyment and they've read many, many children's books over the years but we haven't kept track of their reading over the years.

One interesting website that might be useful for parents in working with their children in literature is SparkNotes which has detailed information on many works of literature useful to students of literature. They provide context, plot, characters, character analysis, themes, symbols and summaries of chapters and other information useful to study the works.

English Writing II/Literature Course Materials. These generally use the Bedford Introduction to Literature by Meyers.

English 1B ONLINE, a course by Jeanne Guerin which contains weekly lessons, descriptions of types of essays, assignments and links to reference materials.
Dr. Gavin t. Richardson at Union University - Literature and Writing resources
Westchester University Literature resources - contains a lot of notes linked at the left side of the page.
University of Maine Eng 102 Intro to Literature Syllabus and resources
The Bedford Introduction to Literature Book site - registration is required.

Other resources:

ENGL1010 - Introduction to Writing: Academic Prose, Spring 2007 at Utah State University (OCW)

A Day in the Life of an English literature Student from a student studying at the University of Wales. A set of YouTube videos following a literature student around college.

Videos:

St Petersburg College AML 2010 American Literature I - Literature through the 19th century. (registration required)
St Petersburg College AML 2010 American Literature II - Literature from the 20th century to the present. (registration required)
St Petersburg College ENC 1102 Composition II - includes writing the paper of literary interpretation. (registration required)

Music

I think that music videos that explain a lot about culture, history or feelings may be useful in a literature program.

Don McLean - The meaning of American Pie

Video Lectures

Indiana University L384 Topic: Comics in American Culture (3 cr.) - Survey of American comic art and artists (1950s-1990s). See http://english.iupui.edu/downloads/coursedescriptions.doc for a partial list of course materials. (video, see lecture titles)
Indiana University ENG L390 Children’s Literature(3 cr.) - 19th and 20th century children's literature. (video, see lecture titles)

Poetry

Yale University ENGL 310 Modern Poetry. Our daughter loved this and our son found it boring though it gave him an idea of what a university poetry class is like.

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