Web Activities

About Fiction: Fairy Tales  Isaac Asimov

Canadian Fiction
A Television-Watching Artist   J.J. Steinfeld
A Matter of Balance   W.D. Valgardson
The Wedding Gift   Thomas Raddall
The Dead Child   Gabrielle Roy
A Bolt of White Cloth   Leon Rooke
The Leaving   Budge Wilson
Wandering   Maureen Hynes

International Fiction
An Incident at Law   Anton Chekhov
Rudolph the Nasally Empowered Reindeer   James Finn Garner
The Peacemaker's Journey   Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Legend
A Handful of Dates   Tayeb Salih
The Fog Horn   Ray Bradbury

Novel Excerpts
Marley's Ghost   Charles Dickens
Alias Grace   Margaret Atwood

About Nonfiction

Presenting Facts
Canadian English
Reading, writing … and going to work   Bruce Owen
Teens' Top Homework Tool   Bonnie Sherman
Makonnen Hannah   John Turner
A World Free of Poverty   World Bank

Presenting Opinions
The Great Cheese-Off   Robin Harvey and David Graham
Thanks for Not Killing My Son   Rita Schindler
Man, You're a Great Player!   Gary Lautens
Finding Their Own Groove   San Grewal

Presenting Experiences
Back to the Future   Jill Lawless
Mother Tongue   Amy Tan
Voices of the Grandmothers: Reclaiming a MÉtis Heritage
     Christine Welsh
Better or Worse?   David Macfarlane
My Old Newcastle   David Adams Richards
The Vikings Are Coming ... Again!   Terry Moore and John Abbott
Turned on to Sound   Beverly Biderman

About Poetry: How to Read a Poem   Edward Hirsch

Canadian Poetry
Winter Uplands   Archibald Lampman
Confessions of a Woman Who Burnt Down a Town   Afua Cooper
Newfoundland Sealing Disaster   Michael Crummey
The Hoop   Elizabeth Brewster
Lament for the Dorsets   Al Purdy
For My Great-Grandmother   Danielle Lagah
Did I Miss Anything?   Tom Wayman
The Old Man's Lazy   Peter Blue Cloud
Another Story Altogether   Anne Le Dressay
Common Magic   Bronwen Wallace
Roller Coaster   Jay Ruzesky
A Kite Is a Victim   Leonard Cohen
Activities: Canadian Poetry

International Poetry
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter   Li Po
On Monsieur's Departure   Elizabeth I
Sonnet cxvi: Let me not to the marriage …   William Shakespeare
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
      Jonathan Swift
Ozymandias   Percy Bysshe Shelley
If You Were Coming in the Fall   Emily Dickinson
The Wild Swans at Coole   William Butler Yeats
Birches   Robert Frost
My Song   Rabindranath Tagore
Where Are Those Songs?   Micere Githae Mugo
Colombe   Kamau Brathwaite
The Prison Cell   Mahmoud Darwish
Little Ruth   Yehuda Amichai
The End and the Beginning   Wislawa Szymborska
Activities: International Poetry

About Drama: Scribe's Paradox, or The Mechanical Rabbit
      Michael Feingold

Drama
The Bush-Ladies   Molly Thom
Hunger Striking   Kit Brennan
Land of Trash   Ian Tamblyn
One Ocean   Betty Quan

About Media: Listening to Marshall McLuhan

Interviews and Speeches
Since You Asked   Pamela Wallin
Move East   Rick Mercer
Eulogy for Canada's Unknown Soldier   Adrienne Clarkson
Blood & Laundry: An Interview with Margaret Atwood  
      Laura Miller

Reviews
But I Love Him …   Jennifer Bain
Titanic: Cheers and Jeers   Bruce Kirkland and Tilman Ganzhorn
Seaman   Bret Dawson

Visuals
Photographs and the Truth   Marcelle Lapow Toor
Animal Magnetism   Peter Goddard
How to Read a Sign   Paco Underhill

Cyberspace
Advocacy and Marketing on the Web   Crawford Kilian
Videogaming: An Interview with J.C. Herz   Dave Thomer

Media Issues
Angels Online   Hal Karp
Finders Keepers   Elizabeth Larsen
Kids and TV Violence   Kathleen McDonnell

Fine Art and Media Images
Oedipus and the Sphinx
October   Paul, Herman, and Jean Limbourg
Women Returning Home at Sunset   Katsushika Hokusai
Couple on Bridge   Alex Colville
Zunoqua of the Cat Village   Emily Carr
BMW Art Car   Esther Mahlangu
Eggs in an Egg Crate   Mary Pratt
Flight of an Eagle   Jane Ash Poitras
Canada and the Call   J.E.H. Macdonald
Millennium Coins
The Ratings Crunch   Brian Hughes
Equal Exchange
Zits   Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Toyota
Platinum Protection
Inuksuk Postcard

Artist Biographies
Activities: Fine Art Images
Activities: Media Images