Grammardog Guide to Anthem
Title | Grammardog Guide to Anthem PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570118 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this dystopic tale. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes use short sentences characteristic of the futuristic genre. Figurative language contrasts nature with the sterile world of dystopia ("blue as morning," "puddle of light," "the trees have swallowed the ruins"). Allusions reflect the conflict between government and technology and mythology and archetypal symbols that stir the emotions.
Grammardog Guide to Song of Myself
Title | Grammardog Guide to Song of Myself PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2008-10 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570010 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this poem. All sentences are from the poem. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("I stop somewhere waiting for you." "I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake." "I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world." "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses and to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.").
Grammardog Guide to Macbeth
Title | Grammardog Guide to Macbeth PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2005-02 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570649 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Shakespearean tragedy. All sentences are from the play. Quizzes feature famous quotes ("Fair is foul and foul is fair." "Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble." "Something wicked this way comes." "But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail." "Is this a dagger I see before me?" "False face must hide what the false heart doth know." "Out, damned spot." "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.").
Grammardog Guide to Frankenstein
Title | Grammardog Guide to Frankenstein PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2003-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 160857041X |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this Gothic novel. All sentences are from the novel. Elements of Romanticism include descriptions of the power of nature to revive the human spirit, the nobility of the common man, the joy of country life, and the conflict between science and the supernatural realm. Religious and literary allusions include Adam, Eve, Satan, Homer, Shakespeare, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Paradise Lost," King Arthur and Dante.
Grammardog Guide to Emma
Title | Grammardog Guide to Emma PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2007-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570851 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes metaphors about class, manners and courtship ("a cloak of politeness," "broad wreath of gallantry," "Young ladies are delicate plants"). Sentences dispense advice on marriage ("A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked," "One cannot love a reserved person," "You must be the best judge of your own happiness").
Grammardog Guide to Middlemarch
Title | Grammardog Guide to Middlemarch PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2007-04 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570762 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes "harness of routine," "the swamp of awkwardness," "the long valley of her life," "the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship," "feelings had gathered to an avalanche," "Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand").
Grammardog Guide to Walden
Title | Grammardog Guide to Walden PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jane McKinney |
Publisher | Grammardog LLC |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2007-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1608570843 |
Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this essay. All sentences are from the essay. Quizzes feature famous quotes: "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in." "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." "When a man dies he kicks the dust." "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." "In the long run men hit only what they aim at." "Simplify, simplify." "It is never too late to give up prejudices." "Our life is frittered away by detail."