From the
interview section: Remembering Ernest Hemingway was published
in the summer of 1999 to coincide with Hemingway's 100th birthday
celebration. The authors, both teachers, answer questions.
A Hemingway
Retrospective
A CNN Special Report. Offers a pictorial biography, an interactive map
that highlights places he made famous, a tour of the Hemingway House
in key West, a quiz to see if you can identify the people responsible
for quotes about Hemingway.. Papa Cornycopia is a an interactive quiz
about Hemingway that is part challenging, part easy.
Studying " A Farewell
to Arms"
This web site on Ernest Hemingway's early career was created for the
Virginia Community College System. Select sections:
Study Guide: Questions and research topics for each part of
the novel.
Assignments: Suggestions to teachers about ways to assign the
study questions and the research questions
Modules: Objectives and activities beyond the study guide questions
and research topics on what makes good quiz responses and good research
writing and analytical essays.
Reading the Novel: Here are 14 objectives with 6 tasks each
that range from simpler information, interpretation, competency, and
model-building tasks to more complex "transfer" and "research"
tasks. The focus is on making inferences, figuring things out solo and
with discussion, as well as answering multiple-choice and open-ended
questions.
A Farewell to
Arms: Modern Critical Interpretations
An introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of the Humanities
Yale University
Ernest
Hemingway: Classroom Issues and Strategies
Brief Guide with three questions for A Farewell to Arms
Lesson
Plan: The Life of a Soldier and Women Day
Describe the daily life of a World War I soldier and discuss his values
and expectations, comparing and contrasting Hemingway’s life to
the norm. PDF document
Suggestions
for Position Paper: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Kansas City Star
Special on Hemingway
Download the Kansas City style
sheet that gave Hemingway his foundation for his writing style
Ernest Hemingway's
Kansas City Star stories
Links to six newspaper articles written by hemingway between 1917
and 1918.
A Newspaper Life:
Quotes, Anecdotes and Letters From Hemingway's Days
Michael
Palin's Hemingway Adventure
This companion website to Palin's PBS Frontline program is full of valuable
information, photos, biographical info, video clips, original book covers,
and more. Tour WWI sites, Paris, Cuba, Spain, Key West, and more.
video
clip of area where Hemingway was injured
video
of Paris neighborhoold where Hemingway lived
video
of Key West home
video
re Hemingway in American West
Ernest Hemingway,
A Farewell to Arms, and the Internet Connection
The web site link that is central to this secondary Language Arts lesson
plan from the Omaha Public Schools is not active, but there
are plenty of questions and acitivities that teachers could adopt for
their classroom. A Grade 11 lesson plan, students read and discuss
A Farewell to Arms as an example of Ernest Hemingway's style and
philosophy.
Ernest
Hemingway television programming on C-Span American Writers II,
the Twentieth Century
Based on Sun Also Rises. Iincludes forty-minute video interview
with the late Hemingway biographer Michael Reynolds.
The Hemingway
Society: Virtual Hemingway
Virtual Hemingway provides persons with links to scholarship and other
information about Hemingway on-line as well as to selected manifestations
of Hemingway's appearances in popular culture.
An audio
web site for hearing Hemingway read selections from his own works.
Readings include a recording by a Havana , Cuba, radio station of
Hemingway reading his "Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech", followed
by a speech Hemingway gave to introduce a production of his play "The
Fifth Column."
Ernest
Hemingway In His Time: An Internet source page and online exhibition
from the University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware. Topics: Introduction | Earliest Writing | Honing the
Craft of Writing | Placed in Paris | Appearing in the Little Magazines
| From Liveright to Scribner's | The Sun Also Rises | A Farewell
to Arms | Death in the Afternoon | Green Hills of Africa |
To Have and Have Not | The Spanish Civil War | For Whom the Bell Tolls
| The Old Man and the Sea | Stories | Louis Henry Cohn | Death of a
Legendary Writer | Posthumous Works
"He
Remembers Papa" (an interview with Hemingway friend Milton
Wolff)
“Valerie
Hemingway: Inside the Cuadrilla” by James Plath from his 1999
book Remembering Hemingway
Valerie Danby-Smith came by the Hemingway name by marrying--and later
divorcing--Gregory, Ernest's youngest son. For two decades she worked
in publishing and public relations in New York City and her articles
have appeared in Saturday Review, The New York Times, and Ski Magazine.
The interview was conducted on February 19, 1996.
The
Nobel Prize in Literature 1954
Text of presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary
of the Swedish Academy
Reading
Hemingway in a War Zone
NPR commentator Christian Bauman shares memories of reading Ernest Hemingway
late into the night while serving on guard duty with the U.S. Army in
Somalia.
Hemingway,
Shakespeare Might Flunk SAT Essay Test
NPR's Scott Simon talks to John Katzman about the new SAT essay test.
Katzman makes the case, in an article in the Atlantic Monthly, that
Ernest Hemingway and Shakespeare would not score well on the essay.
95 questions
and answers on the life and works of Ernest Hemingway
99
Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway
Chronology
Death
of Ernest Hemingway audio clip
"A
Farewell to Arms (To Queen Elizabeth)," the poem by George
Peele from which Hemingway took the title for his novel
Student Guides (and possible "cheat sheets!")
SparkNotes: A Farewell
to Arms
bookrags.com
Farewell to Arms
Reference Books suggested by Kingswood College Library:
* REF PN 41 .D5 - The Dictionary of Literary Biography - Volumes 4
and 9 contain information on Hemingway's life.
* REF PS221 .T834 - Twentieth Century American Literature - Volume 3
has an article on Hemingway and some discussion of the novel.
* REF PS374 .C43 M35 - Major Characters in American Fiction - includes
information on Frederic and Catherine.
* REF PN50 .L574 - Literature and Its Times - Places the novel into
the time it describes.
* D521 .K57 - The First World War: an eyewitness history - a personal
view of the war.
* REF D523 .G634 - Chronicle of the First World War - A two volume chronology
of the WWI.
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