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Creativity and Creative Writing (Lecture Notes and PowerPoint Presentation)Content: 1. What is Creativity?2. Creativity as a 21st Century Skill3. Why Creativity?4. What is Creative Writing?5. Purposes and Benefits of Creative Writing

Literary Approaches (PowerPoint Presentation) Table of Concepts: - Structuralist/Formalist Approach - Feminist Approach - Historical Criticism - Marxist Approach - Moralist Approach - Reader-Response Approach

Introduction to Contemporary Literature (Lesson Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) - Introduction - What is contemporary literature? - Difference of the Contemporary Literature to Other Literature

Japanese Literature Complete (Lecture Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) Table of Concepts (Lecture Notes): (Available in PDF File) - Summary - Ancient Japanese Literature: The Nara Period - Classical Japanese Literature: The Heian Period - Medieval Japanese Literature: Kamakura-Muromachi Period - Summary - Early Modern Japanese Literature: The Edo Period - Modern Japanese Literature: The Meiji Period - Modern Japanese Literature: The Postwar to Present Period Table of Concepts (Lecture Notes):

Modern Japanese Literature (Lecture Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) Table of Concepts (Lecture Notes): (Available in PDF File) - Summary - Early Modern Japanese Literature: The Edo Period - Modern Japanese Literature: The Meiji Period - Modern Japanese Literature: The Postwar to Present Period Table of Concepts (Lecture Notes): (Available at Presentation Formatting) - Edo Period - Edo Period: Significant Authors and Works - Meiji Period - Meiji Period: Significant Authors and Works - Postwar

12 Children's Stories (Lesson Note & Powerpoint Presentation w/ 10 Reading Questions)Includes:Hermes and ApolloClever CoyoteWise OwlHow Raven Stole Crow’s PotlatchThe True Story of Mulan The Invisible WarriorThe Hero TwinsHappy TogetherThe Fox and the CrowThe Fox and the GoatThe Fox and the Sick LionChild of Water & Little Blue Rock

Flash Fiction (Lesson Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) - Definition of Flash Fiction - Sub-division of Flash Fiction - Rules for Writing a Flash Fiction - Elements of a Flash Fiction - Purpose of Flash Fiction - Example of Flash Fiction (For Lesson Notes)

Persuasive and Argumentative Writing Techniques (Lesson Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) Outline:- Definition of Argumentative - Definition of Persuasive - Differences between Persuasive and Argumentative - Structure of Persuasive/Argumentative Writing - Example of Persuasive Writing

Literature of the American Revolutionary Period (Lecture Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) Outline:- Introduction - Literature a. Petry b. Prose c. Drama

American Literature in the Age of Reason (Lecture Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) Outline: - Introduction - Literary Characteristics - The Literary Implications of the American Revolution

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost (PowerPoint Presentation & Test Questions and Answer Key)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (Comprehension Test w/PPT and Answer Key)

Historical Criticism (PowerPoint Presentation) Table of Concepts: - Definition of Historical Criticism - Features of Historical Criticism - Literary Analysis under the Historical Criticism

Writing an Independent Critique (Lesson Notes and PowerPoint Presentation)Composing an Independent Critique (Lesson Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) Part IOutline:01 Introduction to an Independent Critique (Lesson Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) - What is a Critique? - Why do we write critiques? a. Advantages of Writing a Critique 02 Structure of a Critique (Lesson Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) - What is the Structure of a Critique? - Structure of a Critique a. Introduction b. Body c.

Ancient Period to the Medieval Period of Japanese Literature (Lecture Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) Table of Concepts (Lecture Notes): (Available in PDF File) - Summary - Ancient Japanese Literature: The Nara Period - Classical Japanese Literature: The Heian Period - Medieval Japanese Literature: Kamakura-Muromachi Period Table of Concepts (Lecture Notes): (Available at Presentation Formatting) - Ancient Period - Ancient Period: Significant Authors and Works - Classical Period - Classical P

Invictus by William Ernest Henley (Test Question w/ PPT and Answer Key) + Included the Poem

Figurative Language (Lesson Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) Outline:- Definition of Figurative Language - Types of Figurative Language a. Simile b. Metaphor c. Hyperbole d. Irony e. Personification f. Metonymy g. Allegory h. Synecdoche i. Paradox j. Rhetoric k. Litotes l. Asyndeton m. Euphemism n. Pleonasm o. Ellipsis p. Aptronym q. Repetition

Hills Like White Elephants (A ready to print Test Questions and Answer Key Included) +++ Different set of questions

The Industrialization under The American Republic (Lesson Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) Outline: - Introduction - Industrial Revolution a. Moses Brown b. Samuel Slater c. Oliver Evans d. Eli Whitney e. Francis Cabot Lowell

The Revolutionary Period Literature (Lesson Notes and PowerPoint Presentation) - Definition of the Revolutionary Period - Prominent Writers a. Benjamin Franklin b. Thomas Jefferson c. Thomas Paine d. Patrick Henry e. Phillis Wheatley.