The Instructional Resources collection is a repository of items shared among Simon's Rock faculty for collective use in the classroom and the instructional process. It includes a wide variety of resources, from writing prompts, exemplars of student writing, sample exams, and General Education resources to videos and more.

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Articles

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A Biographical Sketch of W.E.B. DuBois, Gerald Hynes

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"A New Sappho Poem," TLS: The Times Literary Supplement, Martin West

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Claude Debussy and the Poets, Ch. 7 - "Mallarme", Arthur Wenk

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"Moon Man: What Galileo Saw," in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik

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On Politics and Violence: Arendt Contra Fanon, Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberly Hutchings

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On the Sublime, Longinus

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On The Threepenny Opera, Ronald Sanders

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Pericles' Funeral Oration, N/A

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Picasso and Braque Q & A, Joan DelPlato

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"Prospero's Staff," Shakespeare, Our Contemporary, Jan Kott

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Q&A: Cranach's Portrait of Martin Luther, Joan DelPlato

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Quotes from "Hearing Debussy Reading Mallarmé", David Code

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"Renaissance Man: A new translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron." The New Yorker, November 11, 2013., Joan Acocella

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René Descartes (1596—1650) from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Justin Skirry

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"Royal Bodies." London Review of Books, Vol. 35 No. 4, Hilary Mantel

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Some Observations on Ibsen, Bernie Rodgers

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The Answer Man: An ancient poem was rediscovered—and the world swerved, Stephen Greenblatt

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"The Founding Indian Fathers", Jack Weatherford

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The Other Vitruvian Man: Was Leonardo da Vinci's famous anatomical chart actually a collaborative effort?, Toby Lester

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"The Parthenon," Art and Experience in Classical Greece., Jerome Pollitt

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The Scientific Revolution in the West, Franklin Le Van Baumer

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The Scientific Revolution: The History of a Term, Steven Shapin

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The United States Constitution and the Iroquois League, Elisabeth Tooker

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"Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway", Peter Filkins

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When the Light Came on: The Epic Gilgamesh, Mark Jarman

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Why Machiavelli Still Matters, John T. Scott and Robert Zaretsky

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Women and Political Revolution in Paris, Darline Gay Levy and Harriet Branson Applewhite

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Women and Science, Bonnie Anderson and Judith Zinsser

Assignments

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Seminar 1, Paper 1, Joan DelPlato

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Seminar 1 Paper Checklist, Joan DelPlato

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Seminar 1 Paper Style Sheet, Tom Martin

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Seminar 1, Week 4, Joan DelPlato

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Seminar 1, Week 5, Joan DelPlato

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Seminar 1, Week 6, Joan DelPlato

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Seminar 1, Week 7, Joan DelPlato

Audio/video

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"400 Years Later: Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Early America," lecture at Boston University, William Carroll

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Intro to the ARTstor Image Viewer, Brian Mikesell

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Martin Luther: Driven to Defiance, PBS

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Martin Luther: Reluctant Revolutionary, PBS

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Seminar 3 Faculty Training Videos, Segment 1, Bard College at Simon's Rock

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The Doubt Essential to Faith, Lesley Hazelton

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Venus of Willendorf video, n/a

Forms

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Peer Review Form, Jamie Hutchinson

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Peer Review Form, John Weinstein

Handouts

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Citing Images in MLA Format, Brian Mikesell

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Citing TV & Film in MLA Format, Brian Mikesell

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Finding Primary Sources, Brian Mikesell

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Moodle: Assignments and Forums, Brian Mikesell

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Moodle: Feedback and Choice, Brian Mikesell

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Moodle: Getting Started, Brian Mikesell

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Moodle: Gradebook, Brian Mikesell

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Moodle: Settings, Brian Mikesell

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Moodle: Student Activity and Attendance, Brian Mikesell

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Plagiarism, Brian Mikesell

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Zotero Basics, Brian Mikesell

Response journal prompt

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Parthenon Short Assignment, Joan DelPlato

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Possible Approaches to Sem 2 Response Journals, Peter Filkins

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Possible Approach for Response Journal Using Secondary Sources, Peter Filkins

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Research on Mary Wollstonecraft, Peter Filkins

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Response Journal Prompt, Seminar 1, Block 2, Joan DelPlato

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Response Journal Prompt, Seminar 1, Week 3, Joan DelPlato

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Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Week 10, Joan DelPlato

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Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Week 2, Joan DelPlato

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Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Week 8, Joan DelPlato

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Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Week 9, Joan DelPlato

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Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Week 9.5, Joan DelPlato

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Sample Response Journal Prompt, Seminar 1, Block 1, John Weinstein and Sam Ruhmkorff

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Sample Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Block 2, Sam Ruhmkorff and John Weinstein

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Sample Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Block 3, John Weinstein and Sam Ruhmkorff

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Sample Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Block 4, John Weinstein and Sam Ruhmkorff

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Sample Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Block 5, John Weinstein and Sam Ruhmkorff

Notes

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An Outline of Psychoanalysis Notes, Anne O'Dwyer

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Battleship Potemkin Notes, Larry Burke

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Capitoline Venus Notes, Joan DelPlato

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Notes, Jenny Browdy

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Cubism & Einstein, Joan DelPlato

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Darkwater Notes, Francisca Oyogoa

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Death and the King's Horseman - Notes, Francisca Oyogoa

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Einstein, Mike Bergman

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Gaugin Q & A, Joan DelPlato

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Genesis Notes, Wendy Shifrin

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Gilgamesh Notes, Jamie Hutchinson

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Hannah Arendt Notes, Asma Abbas

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Hiroshima Mon Amour Notes, Larry Burke

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Jazz Background Info, Larry Wallach

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Le Sacre du Printemps Notes, Larry Wallach

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Mallarme and Debussy Q & A, Larry Wallach

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Mallarme Notes, Maryann Tebben

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Man at the Crossroads Q & A, Joan DelPlato

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Minute on Indian Education Notes, Chris Coggins

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Mosque at Cordoba Notes, Joan DelPlato

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Mosque at Cordoba Notes, Tom Martin

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Nietzsche, Geneaology, History Notes, Nance Yanoshak

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Notes on 3 Virgin & Child Artworks from the Clark, Joan DelPlato

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Notes on Byzantine Ivory Icon, Joan DelPlato

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Notes on Chartres Passion Window, Joan DelPlato

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Notes on Conrad and Achebe, Brendan Mathews

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Notes on integration of de Pizan with other texts in the course, Seminar Revisions Committee

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Notes on Italian Renaissance Ojbects, Joan DelPlato

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Notes on Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, Joan DelPlato