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.
Articles
A Biographical Sketch of W.E.B. DuBois, Gerald Hynes
"A New Sappho Poem," TLS: The Times Literary Supplement, Martin West
Claude Debussy and the Poets, Ch. 7 - "Mallarme", Arthur Wenk
"Moon Man: What Galileo Saw," in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik
On Politics and Violence: Arendt Contra Fanon, Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberly Hutchings
On the Sublime, Longinus
On The Threepenny Opera, Ronald Sanders
Pericles' Funeral Oration, N/A
Picasso and Braque Q & A, Joan DelPlato
"Prospero's Staff," Shakespeare, Our Contemporary, Jan Kott
Q&A: Cranach's Portrait of Martin Luther, Joan DelPlato
Quotes from "Hearing Debussy Reading Mallarmé", David Code
"Renaissance Man: A new translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron." The New Yorker, November 11, 2013., Joan Acocella
René Descartes (1596—1650) from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Justin Skirry
"Royal Bodies." London Review of Books, Vol. 35 No. 4, Hilary Mantel
Some Observations on Ibsen, Bernie Rodgers
The Answer Man: An ancient poem was rediscovered—and the world swerved, Stephen Greenblatt
"The Founding Indian Fathers", Jack Weatherford
The Other Vitruvian Man: Was Leonardo da Vinci's famous anatomical chart actually a collaborative effort?, Toby Lester
"The Parthenon," Art and Experience in Classical Greece., Jerome Pollitt
The Scientific Revolution in the West, Franklin Le Van Baumer
The Scientific Revolution: The History of a Term, Steven Shapin
The United States Constitution and the Iroquois League, Elisabeth Tooker
"Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway", Peter Filkins
When the Light Came on: The Epic Gilgamesh, Mark Jarman
Why Machiavelli Still Matters, John T. Scott and Robert Zaretsky
Women and Political Revolution in Paris, Darline Gay Levy and Harriet Branson Applewhite
Women and Science, Bonnie Anderson and Judith Zinsser
Assignments
Seminar 1, Paper 1, Joan DelPlato
Seminar 1 Paper Checklist, Joan DelPlato
Seminar 1 Paper Style Sheet, Tom Martin
Seminar 1, Week 4, Joan DelPlato
Seminar 1, Week 5, Joan DelPlato
Seminar 1, Week 6, Joan DelPlato
Seminar 1, Week 7, Joan DelPlato
Audio/video
"400 Years Later: Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Early America," lecture at Boston University, William Carroll
Intro to the ARTstor Image Viewer, Brian Mikesell
Martin Luther: Driven to Defiance, PBS
Martin Luther: Reluctant Revolutionary, PBS
Seminar 3 Faculty Training Videos, Segment 1, Bard College at Simon's Rock
The Doubt Essential to Faith, Lesley Hazelton
Venus of Willendorf video, n/a
Forms
Peer Review Form, Jamie Hutchinson
Peer Review Form, John Weinstein
Handouts
Citing Images in MLA Format, Brian Mikesell
Citing TV & Film in MLA Format, Brian Mikesell
Finding Primary Sources, Brian Mikesell
Moodle: Assignments and Forums, Brian Mikesell
Moodle: Feedback and Choice, Brian Mikesell
Moodle: Getting Started, Brian Mikesell
Moodle: Gradebook, Brian Mikesell
Moodle: Settings, Brian Mikesell
Moodle: Student Activity and Attendance, Brian Mikesell
Plagiarism, Brian Mikesell
Zotero Basics, Brian Mikesell
Response journal prompt
Parthenon Short Assignment, Joan DelPlato
Possible Approaches to Sem 2 Response Journals, Peter Filkins
Possible Approach for Response Journal Using Secondary Sources, Peter Filkins
Research on Mary Wollstonecraft, Peter Filkins
Response Journal Prompt, Seminar 1, Block 2, Joan DelPlato
Response Journal Prompt, Seminar 1, Week 3, Joan DelPlato
Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Week 10, Joan DelPlato
Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Week 2, Joan DelPlato
Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Week 8, Joan DelPlato
Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Week 9, Joan DelPlato
Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Week 9.5, Joan DelPlato
Sample Response Journal Prompt, Seminar 1, Block 1, John Weinstein and Sam Ruhmkorff
Sample Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Block 2, Sam Ruhmkorff and John Weinstein
Sample Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Block 3, John Weinstein and Sam Ruhmkorff
Sample Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Block 4, John Weinstein and Sam Ruhmkorff
Sample Response Journal Prompts, Seminar 1, Block 5, John Weinstein and Sam Ruhmkorff
Notes
An Outline of Psychoanalysis Notes, Anne O'Dwyer
Battleship Potemkin Notes, Larry Burke
Capitoline Venus Notes, Joan DelPlato
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Notes, Jenny Browdy
Cubism & Einstein, Joan DelPlato
Darkwater Notes, Francisca Oyogoa
Death and the King's Horseman - Notes, Francisca Oyogoa
Einstein, Mike Bergman
Gaugin Q & A, Joan DelPlato
Genesis Notes, Wendy Shifrin
Gilgamesh Notes, Jamie Hutchinson
Hannah Arendt Notes, Asma Abbas
Hiroshima Mon Amour Notes, Larry Burke
Jazz Background Info, Larry Wallach
Le Sacre du Printemps Notes, Larry Wallach
Mallarme and Debussy Q & A, Larry Wallach
Mallarme Notes, Maryann Tebben
Man at the Crossroads Q & A, Joan DelPlato
Minute on Indian Education Notes, Chris Coggins
Mosque at Cordoba Notes, Joan DelPlato
Mosque at Cordoba Notes, Tom Martin
Nietzsche, Geneaology, History Notes, Nance Yanoshak
Notes on 3 Virgin & Child Artworks from the Clark, Joan DelPlato
Notes on Byzantine Ivory Icon, Joan DelPlato
Notes on Chartres Passion Window, Joan DelPlato
Notes on Conrad and Achebe, Brendan Mathews
Notes on integration of de Pizan with other texts in the course, Seminar Revisions Committee
Notes on Italian Renaissance Ojbects, Joan DelPlato
Notes on Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, Joan DelPlato