Fred L. Taulbee Jr.--Teacher

ACC Brit Lit

2019-09-24T00:45:00.001-05:00

Below are links to most of the documents you will need:

Course Documents
Current Syllabus
Literary Terms Quiz

Novels
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Geoge Orwell 1984

Short Stories
Arthur C. Clarke Nine Billion Names of God
Agatha Christie In a Glass Darkly
Roald Dahl Lamb to the Slaughter
M. Somerset Maugham The Verger
George Orwell Shooting an Elephan
Saki The Open Window
Doris Lessing Old Chief Mshlanga

American Literature

2018-01-27T14:44:00.002-06:00

Revised March 2020

Short Works
Research stories AFTER you've read them and written your journals including watching any videos I have made.

Save these. Download them so you have them. Print them and take notes. Take notes somehow as you read. Or take notes on a document digitally. There are many different ways to do all of these, but most importantly take notes. Those notes are notes for later papers.

Works we have read or about to be assigned.

Robert Bloch "Picture"
Blythe and Sweet “CoitusInterruptis...”
Raymond Chandler “I’ll Be Waiting”
Kate Chopin “Ripe Figs”

William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”
Dashiell Hammett “Bodies Piled Up”
Nathaniel Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown"
Robert Heinlein “All You Zombies”
Ernest Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”

H. P. Lovecraft “The Outsider”
John R. Platt "All Hands"
Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Poe "Cask of Amontillado"
Saki "Open Window"
Norman Spinrad “CarcinomaAngels”
James Thurber “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
Tobias Wolf “Powder”
Roger Zelazny “Naked Matador”

end of list for now

Crane "Episode of War"
D. H. Lawrence "Rocking Horse Winner"
Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Birthmark"
Roger Zelazny "Auto-Da-Fe"
Roger Zelazny "Go Starless in the Night"
Ambrose Bierce "The Damned Thing"
Ambrose Bierce "Horseman in the Sky"
Robert Bloch "Beezlebub"
Ray Bradbury "The Time Machine"
Ray Bradbury "Uncle Einar"
Fredric Brown "Arena"
Kate Chopin "Story of an Hour"
Bel Kaufman "Sunday in the Park"
Tim O'Brien "The Things They Carried"

John Updike "Pygmalion"
David J. Schow "The Thing To Hideous to Describe"
Leslie Marmon Silko "The Man To Send Rainclouds"
Leslie Marmon Silko "The Yellow Woman"
Fredric Brown "The Weapon"
A. E. Van Vogt "Itself"

Edgar Allan Poe “Angel of the Odd”

Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Birthmark"

Video

Stephen Crane “An Episode of War”

Shirley Jackson “The Lottery”

Ursula K. LeGuin “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

Richard Wright “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”

Zora Neal Hurston “Sweat"

Louise Erdrich “The Red Convertible”

“A-Haunting We Will Go” or “Guardian of Regress” or “The Last Tree”

Harlan Ellison “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”

Stephen King “I Am the Doorway”

Longer Works

Ernest Hemingway TheOld Man and the Sea

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

John Steinbeck Of Miceand Men

Mark Twain Adventuresof Huckleberry Finn

Edgar Allan Poe The Major Short Stories

Nathaniel Hawthorne The Major Short Stories

Nathaniel Hawthorne ScarletLetter

J. D. Salinger Catcherin thy Rye

Harper Lee To Kill aMockingbird

Kurt Vonnegut SlaughterhouseFive

Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

S. E. Hinton The Outsiders

L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit451

British Literature

2018-01-27T13:50:00.002-06:00

Short Works

Virginia Woolf “Haunted House”

Oscar Wilde “The Nightingale and the Rose”

Saki “The Open Window”

James Joyce “Araby”

D. H. Lawrence “The Rocking Horse Winner” “

Neil Gaiman “Changes”

Doris Lessing “Old Chief Mshlanga”

Rudyard Kipling "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
W. Somerset Maugham "The Verger"
Roald Dahl "Lamb to the Slaughter"
Agatha Christie "In a Glass Darkly"
Arthur C. Clarke "Nine Billion Names of God"
Charles Dickens “A Case of Identity”
George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"
H. G Wells Story to be Decided
Elizabeth Gaskell Story to be Decided

Thomas Hardy Story to be Decided

E. F. Benson Story to be Decided

M.R. James Story to be Decided

Arthur Conan Doyle “The Speckled Band”

Robert Louis Stevenson “The Body Snatcher”

Longer Works

Beowulf
Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Chaucer Canterbury Tales

Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens A Taleof Two Cities

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Aldous Huxley Brave New World

Rudyard Kipling TheJungle Book
Malory Morte D’Arthur

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage
George Orwell 1984

George Orwell AnimalFarm

Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Robert Louis Stevenson TheStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bram Stoker Dracula

Jonathan Swift Gulliver’sTravels
J. R. R. Tolkien TheHobbit
Oscar Wilde ThePicture of Dorian Gray

H.G. Wells Food of the Gods
H.G. Wells The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells Island of Dr. Moreau
H.G. Wells The Time Machine
H.G. Wells War of the Worlds

How to Set Up a Header in Microsoft Word

2017-09-29T15:53:00.004-05:00

How to Set Up a Header in Microsoft Word

This video explains how to set up a header in Microsoft Word, not an MLA heading. The header is the section of your document usually with the page number, but more information can be put there. Visit my pages.

How Do I Write a Paper? Expand, Rebut, Emulate

2016-09-22T17:16:00.000-05:00

How Do I Use Quotes In My Essay

2016-09-22T17:14:00.002-05:00

How Do I Cite My Sources and How Do I Write a Works Cited Page

2016-09-22T17:13:00.001-05:00

Ernest Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants" Lecture part 2

2015-01-15T12:13:00.001-06:00

Please watch this video AFTER you have read the story and AFTER you have written about it for journals or discussion forums.

Ernest Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants" Lecture part 2

Back to the Literary and Mainstream Fiction page HERE.

Phantasmagoria Productions creates the teaching videos for Fred L. Taulbee Jr. We are gearing up to shoot a feature film the summer of 2015. If you or anybody you know is interested in filmmaking behind or in front of the camera please let us know. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.

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Feel free to explore our other work too:

Movie Reviews
Fiction of Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Book Reviews
Poetry Classic and Original from Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Best Short Films Ever
Photography by Fred L. Taulbee Jr.

Ernest Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants" Lecture part 1

2015-01-15T12:13:00.000-06:00

Please watch this video AFTER you have read the story and AFTER you have written about it for journals or discussion forums.

Ernest Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants" Lecture part 1

Back to the Literary and Mainstream Fiction page HERE.

Phantasmagoria Productions creates the teaching videos for Fred L. Taulbee Jr. We are gearing up to shoot a feature film the summer of 2015. If you or anybody you know is interested in filmmaking behind or in front of the camera please let us know. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.

We need people from all walks of life and all types of experience from the technical know-how of dslr cameras, lighting, explosives, special effects makeup to the basics of sewing and cooking, so please follow us and if you're interested leave a phone number and name and what you're interested in doing on our Facebook page. Potential actors should send some pictures.

Phantasmagoria Productions on Facebook
Our Filmmaking Blog

Feel free to explore our other work too:

Movie Reviews
Fiction of Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Book Reviews
Poetry Classic and Original from Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Best Short Films Ever
Photography by Fred L. Taulbee Jr.

Ernest Hemingway "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" Lecture

2015-01-15T12:11:00.003-06:00

Please watch this video AFTER you have read the story and AFTER you have written about it for journals or discussion forums.

Ernest Hemingway "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" Lecture

Back to the Literary and Mainstream Fiction page HERE.

Phantasmagoria Productions creates the teaching videos for Fred L. Taulbee Jr. We are gearing up to shoot a feature film the summer of 2015. If you or anybody you know is interested in filmmaking behind or in front of the camera please let us know. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.

We need people from all walks of life and all types of experience from the technical know-how of dslr cameras, lighting, explosives, special effects makeup to the basics of sewing and cooking, so please follow us and if you're interested leave a phone number and name and what you're interested in doing on our Facebook page. Potential actors should send some pictures.

Phantasmagoria Productions on Facebook
Our Filmmaking Blog

Feel free to explore our other work too:

Movie Reviews
Fiction of Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Book Reviews
Poetry Classic and Original from Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Best Short Films Ever
Photography by Fred L. Taulbee Jr.

Kate Chopin "Story of an Hour" Lecture

2015-01-15T12:10:00.000-06:00

Please watch this video AFTER you have read the story and AFTER you have written about it for journals or discussion forums.

Kate Chopin "Story of an Hour" Lecture

Back to the Literary and Mainstream Fiction page HERE.

Phantasmagoria Productions creates the teaching videos for Fred L. Taulbee Jr. We are gearing up to shoot a feature film the summer of 2015. If you or anybody you know is interested in filmmaking behind or in front of the camera please let us know. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.

We need people from all walks of life and all types of experience from the technical know-how of dslr cameras, lighting, explosives, special effects makeup to the basics of sewing and cooking, so please follow us and if you're interested leave a phone number and name and what you're interested in doing on our Facebook page. Potential actors should send some pictures.

Phantasmagoria Productions on Facebook
Our Filmmaking Blog

Feel free to explore our other work too:

Movie Reviews
Fiction of Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Book Reviews
Poetry Classic and Original from Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Best Short Films Ever
Photography by Fred L. Taulbee Jr.

Kate Chopin "Ripe Figs" Lecture

2015-01-15T12:07:00.004-06:00

Please watch this video AFTER you have read the story and AFTER you have written about it for journals or discussion forums.

Kate Chopin "Ripe Figs" Lecture

Back to the Literary and Mainstream Fiction page HERE.

Phantasmagoria Productions creates the teaching videos for Fred L. Taulbee Jr. We are gearing up to shoot a feature film the summer of 2015. If you or anybody you know is interested in filmmaking behind or in front of the camera please let us know. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.

We need people from all walks of life and all types of experience from the technical know-how of dslr cameras, lighting, explosives, special effects makeup to the basics of sewing and cooking, so please follow us and if you're interested leave a phone number and name and what you're interested in doing on our Facebook page. Potential actors should send some pictures.

Phantasmagoria Productions on Facebook
Our Filmmaking Blog

Feel free to explore our other work too:

Movie Reviews
Fiction of Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Book Reviews
Poetry Classic and Original from Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Best Short Films Ever
Photography by Fred L. Taulbee Jr.

Academic Calendars

2015-01-02T16:39:00.006-06:00

Following is information on first day/last day, holidays and drop dates for the Spring of 2015, also known as an academic calendar:

NSU
BPCC
CTC
UIU

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Phantasmagoria Productions creates the teaching videos for Fred L. Taulbee Jr. We are gearing up to shoot a feature film the summer of 2015. If you or anybody you know is interested in filmmaking behind or in front of the camera please let us know. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.

We need people from all walks of life and all types of experience from the technical know-how of dslr cameras, lighting, explosives, special effects makeup to the basics of sewing and cooking, so please follow us and if you're interested leave a phone number and name and what you're interested in doing on our Facebook page. Potential actors should send some pictures.

Phantasmagoria Productions on Facebook
Our Filmmaking Blog

Feel free to explore our other work too:

Movie Reviews
Fiction of Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Book Reviews
Poetry Classic and Original from Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Best Short Films Ever
Photography by Fred L. Taulbee Jr.

The Bedford Guide for College Writers 10th Edition Parts

2014-10-29T17:12:00.000-05:00

Michael Shermer "The Science of Righteousness" link
Russell Baker "The Art of Eating Spaghetti" pdf
Judy Brady "I Want a Wife." This story is on another page of my blog HERE. pdf
Stephen King "Why We Crave Horror Movies." doc

Michael Moore The End of Men

2014-10-29T15:55:00.001-05:00

This is the complete pdf file of Michael Moore's book, Stupid White Men. Click on it and go to the left menu and choose "The End of Men." Be sure when you print to only print the pages you need.

Michael Moore "The End of Men."

How Do I Write a Paper about Literature? The Jumping Off Point

2014-09-10T16:25:00.000-05:00

How Do I Write a Paper about Literature? The Jumping Off Point
This video explains a common technique students use to write a paper that may lead to an entire rewrite if not a poor grade.

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How Do I Write a Comparison Paper?

2014-09-10T16:22:00.000-05:00

How Do I Write a Comparison Paper?
This video explains the proper way to write a comparison paper.

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What Is a Good Paper Topic? Patterns

2014-09-10T16:16:00.001-05:00

What Is a Good Paper Topic?
This video explains ways to think of paper ideas by examining patterns throughout literature, history, culture and much more.

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How Do I Write a Paper About Literature? or What is a Literary Approach?

2014-09-10T16:14:00.000-05:00

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The first cut off word on this video is "literary." This video explains the academic term literary approaches. A literary approach is a way in which we examined a work. Here, we break it down into three categories to better grasp the concept.

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What Do I Write My Paper On? The Big Picture

2014-09-10T16:09:00.003-05:00

What Do I Write My Paper On? The Big Picture

Students can use this video throughout the course applying more and more stories to it and this technique can be used for any literary class. It's complex but if you take notes it will help. With this video we see a much larger picture of fiction, one with which we can discover more paper ideas.
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Grade Breakdown or How Will I Be Graded On

2014-08-27T22:49:00.000-05:00

This video explains how your grades are broken down in Mr. Taulbee's class.
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Definitions of Basic Literary Terms

2014-08-27T15:32:00.002-05:00

This video explains some basic literary terms.

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Leo Tolstoy The Three Hermits Lecture

2014-08-27T15:31:00.002-05:00

This is a lecture on Leo Tolstoy The Three Hermits Lecture.
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Coitus Interruptis: ...Thurber Walter Mitty Lecture

2014-08-27T15:30:00.001-05:00

This is a lecture on "Coitus Interruptis: Sexual Symbolism in 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."
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