Acalanes Library Homepage: Resources by Department: English

Welcome to the resources page for Acalanes' English department. Choose from the following links to find subject guides for specific assignments within the department.

English 1:

• English 1 - Imperialism (Honda)
• English 1 - World Lit Final Presentation (Honda)
• English 1 - Maus Synthesis Activity Articles (Honda)
• English 1 - The Joy Luck Club Project (Barth, Honda)
• English 1 - Election Project: Candidate Websites (Honda)
• English 1 - Imperialism & Apartheid in South Africa (Barth)
• English 1 - Born a Crime & Apartheid (Johnson)
• English 1 - Maus and Analyzing Primary Sources (Honda)
• English 1 - Victorian Investigations 
• English 1 - Anti-Semitism & Night (Barth)
• English 1 - World Mythology (Barth, Johnson)

English 2:

• English 2 - Community Engagement (Honda)
• English 2 - Research Paper (Honda)
• English 2 - Native Americans & National Parks (Honda, Munoz)
• English 2 - The Things They Carried & Critical Lenses 
• English 2 - Monuments Project (Honda) 
• English 2 - Election Project: Candidate Websites (Honda)
• English 2 - Ethnic Literature FINAL Resources (Honda)
• English 2 - Analyzing Primary Sources (Honda) 
• English 2 - Authors' Websites
• English 2 - Persepolis & The Kite Runner 
• English 2 - 1984 & America Today (Challacombe)
• English 2 - War on Terror 
• English 2 - 1984 Research Paper (Munoz)

English 3:

• English 3 - American Authors Preliminary Research Doc (Granskog)
• English 3 - Literary Criticism Articles of "Hills Like White Elephants"
• English 3 - Literary Criticism for The Great Gatsby
• Engl 3 Honors - Images for WIMTBAA (slide show)
• English 3 - American Authors Project 
• English 3 - "Their Eyes Were Watching God" Lit Circle Topics 
• English 3 - Essay Topics "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (Munoz)
• English 3 - Ethnic History (Honda)

English 4:

• English 4 AP - Utopia Project (Honda)
• English 4 AP - Election Project: Issues Website (Honda)

Creative Writing/Public Speaking:

• Speech: Issues (Honda)

• Poetry Videos (Honda)

• Poetry Video: Editing and Uploading Info (Honda)

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• Folger Digital Texts

Full, digital and searchable text of Folger edition plays and poems to read online or download.

From Author John Green's Crash Course in English Literature

Other videos in this series cover Romeo and Juliet, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Frankenstein, Things Fall Apart, To Kill a Mockingbird, Slaughterhouse-Five, Jane Eyre, Beloved and the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath and Langston Hughes.  

The above PDF document is a list of films available to check out from the library. A few older ones are VHS (these are in the process of being replaced); the majority are DVD format. The beginning of each call number in the list will tell you if the material is VHS or a DVD.