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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Should you ever find yourself on a raft, floating down the Mississippi River, you're going to want something to do. Reading Mark Twain's classic, T...

Moby-Dick
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The book is as big as the whale.

Moby-Dick (Spanish)
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Moby-Dick - una ballena extraña. Nuestro amigo capitán Ahab la había perseguido para años, pero no es el mejor lider en el mundo. Piensas que p...

Moby-Dick Summary
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Are you a leader or a follower? The herder, or the herded? Unfortunately for Ishmael and crew, they let themselves be Ahab’s flock in this story....

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Summary
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River raft. A good friend. Adventures. Tricks. Lots and lots of surprise feelings. Basically, our boy Huck has 'em all.

The Awakening
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Dig up your trench coat, grab your magnifying glass, and stick on that fake mustache (we know you have one): it's time to unleash your inner Sherlo...

The Awakening Summary
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This novel is all about finding yourself, which hopefully you can accomplish before you find yourself smack dab in the middle of an ocean without a...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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The title is pretty ironic when you consider how little sleep you'd be getting if you had a headless horseman chasing you.

The Masque of the Red Death
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We know we say this for all of his stories, but here's Edgar Allan Poe at his creepiest. Well, if you don’t include that time you went into the b...

The Raven Summary
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This video summarizes Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven—in rhyme. This first-person poem follows the narrator’s descent into madness as he tal...

The Red Badge of Courage
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Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage about the Civil War not long after the war had ended. And get this: he didn't even fight in the war. W...

The Scarlet Letter Summary
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Puritan adultery=big scarlet “A.” Puritan's know how to keep it simple. What’s not so simple? Hester Prynne’s adamant refusal to reveal who...

The Story of an Hour
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In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard has a rather peculiar response to the news of her husband's death: instead of mourning for...

The Telltale Heart
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"The Telltale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe is the epitome of creepy. (We know we could say that about all of EAP's stories, but it's especially true f...

Tom Sawyer
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How much skill does it take for Tom to get someone to pay him so that they can do his chores? We know it sounds confusing, so just think about how...

Walden
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Can you really learn about human nature by removing yourself from the company of other humans? Henry David Thoreau thought it was a possibility and...

The Tell-tale Heart
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What would YOU do if the heart of the person you buried under the floorboards started making noise? Only one way to find out... (Note: Shmoop does...

ELA 11: 4.10a Emily Dickinson
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We're going to pardon Emily Dickinson's sister for publishing Em's personal diary after she died... We did get some pretty sweet poetry out of the...

ELA 11: 4.6 The Hudson River School
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Use this video to defend yourself when your teacher asks why you've drawn the same picture of your cat four different times.

ELA 11: 4.1 Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Where's Waldo? Well, if you're talking about Ralph Waldo Emerson, chances are he's out in the woods somewhere communing with God by talking to a st...

ELA 11: 4.2a Henry David Thoreau
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If you ever feel like taking off, living in the woods alone, and refusing to pay for anything, just tell people you're a transcendentalist. They'll respect you more.

ELA 11: 4.8a Walt Whitman
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For one of the most important poets in American and Civil War history, Walt Whitman sure wrote a lot about the birds and bees.

ELA 11 5.1: Harriet Jacobs
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Harriet Jacobs' narrative gave Americans an unprecedented account of what it meant to be a fugitive of slavery. Check out this video for more about her story.

ELA 11 5.2: William Lloyd Garrison
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Oh, William Lloyd Garrison and his radical ideas... like... you know... freedom and equality. Weird, right?

American Literature: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, abridged. Ready? Go.

American Literature: Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson: Along with Van Gogh, proof that you’re never really famous until you’re dead.

American Literature: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, But I'd Prefer Liberty
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We’ll take one order of liberty, but hold the death.

American Literature: Whit and Wisdom
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Introducing the father of free verse, the poet of patriotism, the world’s wittiest Walt… Mr. Whitman.

ELA 11: 5.3 Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass? He's basically the Captain America of the Social Justice League... Yeah, that's a thing, don't question it.