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LITERATURE
The English Renaissance
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Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun by W. Shakespeare
SONNETS
HAMLET
KING LEAR
MACBETH
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
OTHELLO
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
The 19th Century
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The Raven (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe
COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth
Break, Break, Break by ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
XLIII. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..." by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
R.L. Stevenson (1850-1894)
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Waiting for the Barbarians by Constantine P. Cavafy (1898)
Modernism
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Futurism / Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Harlem Renaissance / Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Dadaism / Tristan Tzara (1896-1963)
Stream of consciousness
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
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THE LADY IN THE LOOKING-GLASS: A REFLECTION
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
James Joyce (1882-1941)
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Araby
Eveline
The Dead
The Lost Generation
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The Great Gatsby (1925) by F.S. Fitzgerald (1896-1940) / Study Guide
Excerpt from Paula McLain's The Paris Wife (2011)
Review of the 2013 Screen Adaptation of The Great Gatsby
Utopias/Dystopias
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Except on proles from G.Orwell's 1984
Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
The 1950s - 1960s
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Symbolism
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
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Review of Cinderella by Anne Sexton
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
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The Fish
The Beat Generation
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Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
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Lady Lazarus
Daddy
Best Plays of the 20th Century
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Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
Best Poems of the 20th Century
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Irving Layton (1912 - 2006)
Best Short Stories of the 20th Century
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Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
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Skin / Study Guide
James Hurst (born in 1922)
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The Scarlet Ibis / Study Guide
Sinclair Ross (1908-1996)
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The Lamp at Noon
E. M. Forster ( 1879 - 1970)
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The Rock
Tim O'Brien (born in 1946)
Postmodernism
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Fred Chappell (born in 1936)
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Narcissus and Echo
Michael Ondaatje (born in 1943)
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The English Patient (1992) / Study Guide
Ian McEwan (born in 1948)
The 21st Century
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The Song of Achilles by Medeline Miller (2012)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
What Do We Think of America / Selected Essays
Best Short Stories of the 21st Century
LITERARY THEORY
Definition of the tragic hero
Setting
Characterization
Narration, types of narrator and focalization
Narrative plot structure: Freytag scheme
Introduction to rhetoric
Discovering Rhetorical Structure by Mel MacKay
Limericks
COMPOSITION
Articles on Writing
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Anais Nin on writing
Academic College Essay
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How to write an analytical essay on fiction
How to write a synthesis essay
How to write about an extract from a Shakespearean text
How to write about poetry / the TPCASTT template
How to discuss an iconographic document
How to analyze an ad
How to discuss elements of the Gothic
Structuring the College Essay
How to format texts using the MLA style
Bac-Type Composition
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How to write a Bac-type composition
Summary
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How to write a summary
Résumé / Letter of Intent
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General Purpose Résumé Template
How to write a letter of intent for college
Some questions on writing a personal narrative answered
Quotation Integration
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How to integrate quotations
Punctuation
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How to punctuate quotes
How to punctuate dialogue
How to use colons, semicolons, etc. efficiently
How to use commas efficiently
Editing
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Editing for economy
Advanced-Level Grammar
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McGraw -Hill's Essential Grammar Skills
TOPICS
Myths and Heroes
Spaces and Exchanges
Visions of the Future: Progress
Power
Identity
CONTESTS
Creative Communication
Examples of poems published
COURSES
Terminale C1-A
Terminale SPE
1re C1-A
1re SPE
6e INT
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