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Teaching Literature

General
Teaching European Literature and Culture with Communication and Information Technologies
This is a collection of articles dealing with teaching literature and culture in the classroom using technologies. There are some reference links on each article.
Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature
This site is for teaching World War I and other war poetry, and it contains much related information about them. A lot of information on how to teach literature on the web is also shown.
The Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
This site provides essays, syllabi, bibliographies, lesson plans, pedagogical strategies, and other resources for teaching American literature.
Literature Circles
This site suggests using "literature circles," which is a reading workshop where students read independently and interact on a collaborative project, in the classroom with the Internet. The site provides many examples of handouts and other information.
GUMBO: teaching ideas for English teachers
Much information on teaching literatures, such as lesson plans and book projects are provided on this site.
Young Adult Literature: Middle & Secondary English-Language Arts
This site provides a large number of resources to support the curriculum in English and Language Arts for K-12 educators. The links on this site cover almost all aspects of literature education.

 

Japanese

Blue Sky Collection
This site provides hundreds of works of Japanese literature whose copyrights has already expired. The literature can be seen on the web or downloaded into one's own PC.
Web Sites for Literature
There are many links related to Japanese literature. Learners can explore some sites to study famous Japanese authors and their literature, both in English and Japanese.
The University of Virginia / The University of Pittsburgh: the Japanese Text Initiative
There are many electronic texts of classical Japanese literature. Because there are dictionary functions, learners can easily read Japanese literature on the web.
Japan
This site shows reference guides of Japanese literature, the history of Japan, literature, and poetry. There is some online classical Japanese literature. This site, including online-texts, is written both in English and Japanese.

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: 100 Poems by 100 Poets
"Ogura Hyakunin Isshu" is a collection of Japanese poetry from the 7th through the 13th centuries, and it is also played as "Uta Karuta," an interactive card game. The site provides all poetry with Japanese, Romaji (pronunciation using English alphabets), and English translation.