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Ah, third grade. The year that Shmoop learned to ride a bike without training wheels, had our first sleepover, and schooled the second-graders on the playground at tetherball.
Good times.
And now, to match teaching the best subject (ELA) and the best...
Subject: Elementary School, English | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 3 -
Quick question: are you an alien?
If you answered yes, this is the perfect course for you to learn everything you've ever wanted to know about life on human-inhabited Earth, including forces that affect motion, interactions between living and...
Subject: Elementary School, Science | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 3 -
According to this article from Time, third grade is the single most important year of a person's academic career.
Uh…no pressure, right?
Luckily, Shmoop is here for you. That's because our 3rd Grade Social Studies curriculum is the perfect double t...
Subject: Elementary School, History and Social Sciences | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 3 -
Has your angst level heading into teaching this year reached Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing-level?
We don't blame you. Teaching fourth grade ELA is no walk in the park—there's lesson planning, creating the perfect worksheet, grading, and mastering t...
Subject: Elementary School, English | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 4 -
What's better than being a rocket scientist?
How about being a biologist, physicist, geologist, engineer, geographer, and rocket scientist all rolled into one?
That's what your students will be by the end of Shmoop's 4th Grade Science course: a Swiss...
Subject: Elementary School, Science | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 4 -
We all know America's origin story: Europeans planting their flag on Native American land; the 13 colonies breaking up with England; the Civil War dividing the country and leading to soldiers that glowed in the dark. But, uh, how did we get from...
Subject: Elementary School, History and Social Sciences | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 4 -
How 'bout a story, Shmoopers?
Once upon a time, there was an educational website that wanted to go to its local soiree but couldn’t because of a lack of glittery pumps (and feet). Instead of waiting around for a fairy godmother, this educational w...
Subject: Elementary School, English | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 5 -
Here's how our morning at Shmoop starts:
- We wake up late, so we have to chow down our breakfast at lightning speed.
- On our way out, we run from the neighbor's dog that wants to steal our bagged lunch.
- As we walk to the bus stop, we get distracted by a...
Subject: Science, Elementary School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 5 -
You teach fifth grade social studies, and you're a superhero.
Your kryptonite-resistant superpower: cramming 10,000 years of human history into one short school year, while managing a class of high-energy 11-year-olds.
Teaching fifth grade social...
Subject: Elementary School, History and Social Sciences | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 5 -
Humans are not like most species: We start life playing and we never stop. Most species stop playing as adults to focus on surviving. We don't. We play with others. We play alone. We play to stop boredom and continue having fun. We play a lot. We play...
Subject: Math, Elementary School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 3 -
Fourth grade…that glorious year in which Papa Shmoop got his first vinyl record. The record was…huge and bulky, which is why we now have HD-sound capable phones. But not even HD-sound capable phones can hold a candle to live music. Live music is more t...
Subject: Math, Elementary School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 4 -
Pop quiz: what do all these ideas have in common?
- An app that will get you a ride to wherever you want.
- A business that delivers food straight to your door.
- An app that alerts you whenever there's bacon nearby.
Answer: They're all wildly successful...
Subject: Math, Elementary School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 5 -
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Get ready to tune in, turn on, and drop out—we're going back to the 1960s. This course will teach you about the history and political movements of the days of hippies and Vietnam—not through statistics or Supreme Court cases, but through popular mus...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Humanities, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Minus a few small changes, studying the 1990s shines a light into current global and domestic affairs.
Think about it:
- A liberal president followed a Bush.
- There were crippling economic recessions.
- Apathetic youth wore Doc Martens and got super-stoked...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Humanities, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
The year is 1984.
And no, not the John Hughes 1984, full of Pretty in Pink screenings, flounced dresses, and argyle vests. We're talking worse. Much worse.
Wait, what could be more devastating than '80s fashion?
Imagine a world where love is outlawed....
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
If there's one thing everyone loves, it's grammar.
…right?
Uh, maybe. But never fear—Shmoop's 5th Grade Grammar Course is here to save the day. This course covers every single 5th-grade Common Core language standard in fifteen action-packed les...
Subject: English, Middle School, Elementary School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 5, 6 -
Making your mark isn't always about holding a world record or winning an Academy Award. Sometimes, it's about building that game everyone loves or that website everyone uses. Or maybe even building a website that changes the Academy votes so that you...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6 -
If this course were a self-help book, we'd probably title it something along the lines of Numbers: How to Identify, Reason, and Negotiate with Them in Order to Win Friends and Influence People.
But clearly, we haven't titled our course that...
Subject: Math, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6 -
It's time to take a leap of faith. Off the rational number line, that is, and into the broader world of coordinate planes, expressions, equations, and inequalities.
If you're looking for an introduction to graphing, geometry, using variables (what's a...
Subject: Math, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6 -
CoffeeScript, HTML, and CSS all have their place in the computer-programming world. Wouldn't it be great if we could use one tool to program in all of these languages?
Actually, we'll answer that for you: we can.
Pencil Code is the answer to all your...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, Middle School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8 -
Fractions and decimals might seem pretty rational, but what happens when we start replacing them with letters? Before you know it, you'll wind up with a math problem that looks more like a Shakespearean play than a number line. Good thing Shmoop's 7th...
Subject: Math, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7 -
Expressions and equations have their place in math, and that place is not here. In this Common Core-aligned course, we'll step back from headache-inducing variables and lines to doodle shapes and add numbers. And no, we aren't kidding.
We'll start in...
Subject: Math, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7 -
This is it. The final middle school computer science course. The last hoo-rah…until high school computer science and a lifetime of professional coding, 1337 speak, and coffee-guzzling.
While you're here closing out middle school-level CS, though, w...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, Middle School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8 -
There comes a time in a young man or woman's life when…
Okay, enough of that old-school stuff. Shmoop's here to give you an up-to-the-minute health course on the birds, the bees, fire escape plans, Instagram safety, and then some. Beyond those s...
Subject: Health, Physical Education, and Counseling, Middle School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8 -
If you've ever thought that math was a bit too irrational—boy, you don't know the half of it. (On second thought, maybe you do.) Thank goodness Shmoop's Common Core-aligned 8th Grade Math course makes it all a little more rational.
Right off the bat, ...
Subject: Math, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8 -
Baffled by how dysfunctional functions can be? Upset that most triangles feel more wrong than right? Dismayed that despite your best efforts, lines of best fit are your worst enemies?
Well, not anymore.
We'll guide you through complex systems of linear...
Subject: Math, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8 -
Think the words “Hemingway” and “love story” should stay as far away from each other as humanly possible? Think again. You may know Hemingway as the brill dude behind many hard-drinking, jaded expats, but he also pens a mean, irony-packed, daiquir...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Ever had a mad crush on someone and that person just wasn't that into you? Don't worry, Shmoopers, we've all been there. Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream has been there too, so she totally gets it.
See, she digs this guy Demetrius. Only he's in love...
Subject: Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
If what you need is an outlined plan to cram every Test Prep strategy imaginable in the form of a short course that you can do with your mom or your teacher, this is what you want. This ACT Crash Course will take you by the hand and teach you exactly...
Subject: College Prep, Test Prep, High School | Course Length: 6 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: Humanities, High School, College Prep | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: College Prep, Humanities, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: Science, College Prep, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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Subject: College Prep, Science, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Acing the AP Calculus AB Exam is integral to conquering the world, mastering your Isaac Newton impression—and, most importantly, getting college credit. So don't limit yourself: have Shmoop help you get the score you want with our calculus cram c...
Subject: College Prep, Math, Test Prep, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: Math, High School, College Prep | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: College Prep, Math, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School, College Prep | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Your life for the past year has been rhetoric, rhetoric, and more rhetoric. You dream about logical fallacies, ethos, pathos, and logos, and you’ve developed carpal tunnel from the amount of essays you’ve written. Now it's time to put it all to the tes...
Subject: College Prep, English, Test Prep, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: College Prep, English, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: College Prep, English, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
You've pondered Jane Eyre, suffered through The Sound and the Fury, and you've picked apart the themes of Heart of Darkness. Your last step toward qualifying as a literary whiz kid (and getting your weight in college credit) is getting a 5 on your AP...
Subject: College Prep, English, Test Prep, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School, College Prep | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: College Prep, History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
So, what's the deal with all the arguing between politicians about tax cuts, economic stimulus plans, and trade agreements? Undoubtedly, part of the answer is that politicians just love to argue with each other. A bigger part of the answer, though, is...
Subject: College Prep, History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: College Prep, History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School, College Prep | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: College Prep, History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School, College Prep | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11 -
Democrat or Republican? Federalist or Anti Federalist? Whig or Toupee? Get all the information you need to pick your side—and get your college credit—by taking our AP US Government and Politics review course.
Our detailed cram course will teach you ...
Subject: College Prep, History and Social Sciences, Test Prep, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Quick, what was the significance of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? How about the Harlem Renaissance? Brain feeling a little fuzzy? Shmoop's here to help you review all the important names, dates, and events you’ll need to know for the AP US History e...
Subject: College Prep, History and Social Sciences, Test Prep, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 4 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
You just bought a bunch of ingredients for brownies. You're not how much you spent, but it was...a lot. Then you baked some of your famous double fudge brownies and sold them at a local bake sale for a certain amount of money per brownie. You sold…oh, ...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, Life Skills, College Prep | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 6 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12, College -
This course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Calculus has...
Subject: Math, High School, College Prep | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
This course has been approved by the College Board, which indicates that the syllabus "has demonstrated that it meets or exceeds the curricular expectations colleges and universities have for your subject." Please contact sales@shmoop.com if you would...
Subject: College Prep, Math, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 14 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Advanced Creative Writing course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: English, Writing, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
So you're taking...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Humanities, High School, College Prep | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
From the baby...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Humanities, High School, College Prep | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Statistics gets...
Subject: College Prep, Math, High School | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
This course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Have you ever...
Subject: Math, High School, College Prep | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 16 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
This course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
They say there...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School, College Prep | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
This course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
In Semester A of...
Subject: College Prep, High School, History and Social Sciences | Course Type: AP | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
A runaway slave, a homeless kid, and a heavy dose of racist language. Here's a book that had all the makings of the most tone-deaf Lifetime movie of all time.
Instead, we ended up with one of the funniest, most enduring, Mark Twainiest novels—one that ...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
In the 17th century, Black slaves weren't allowed to read, write, or educate themselves. And yet they found ways—through song, through spoken storytelling, and finally, through clandestine learning (gasp)—to record the experiences and stories that whi...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12, College -
Sad truth: much of African American poetry started with slavery. A few slaves, tired after a long day's work, sat down and wrote some of the first poems in the African American tradition. This course follows slave narratives, songs, and traditions, as...
Subject: College Prep, English, Humanities, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's African History course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Algebra II course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
We've recently upgraded our Algebra II course in order to give you everything you could ever want from, uh, an Algebra II course. You can still use this version, but we recommend hopping over to the new one here.
You won't be sorry.
And if you are, then...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Algebra II course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
We've recently upgraded our Algebra II course in order to give you everything you could ever want from, uh, an Algebra II course. You can still use this version, but we recommend hopping over to the new one here.
You won't be sorry.
And if you are, then...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Algebra I course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8, 9, 10 -
Shmoop's Algebra I course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8, 9, 10 -
When we think of war—and of books about war—we think of glory, of sacrifice, of heroism. And, of course, of death. True, war has all those things in spades. But war also defies every cliché in the book. After all, it's real life. And real life is anyt...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
This 6-lesson short course will teach students how to identify, interpret, and use primary sources to study history. Each lesson will focus on a different category of primary source (textual, visual, audio, or material), and will include an activity...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Humanities, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Animal Farm is about violent pigs, traitorous dogs, dim-witted cows, and plenty of other four-legged walking, talking metaphors. This 1945 British novel is a pretty straightforward allegory where each animal represents a different cog in the rickety...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Are you ready to take your argument technique to the next level? Screaming stuff at the top of your lungs works really well for professional linebackers and drill sergeants, but everybody else should probably take this course. Here, we introduce you...
Subject: English, Writing, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
William Faulkner was tweeting before tweeting was even a thing. Don't believe us? Check out Chapter 19 of As I Lay Dying:
@addiebundren my mother is a fish #modernism
Okay, we might have added the @ and the hashtag, but Faulkner took care of the rest. ...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Have you ever wondered what those bright twinkly blobs in the night sky actually are? Oh sure, your science teacher says they're stars, but you've always secretly suspected there's more to it than that. (Otherwise why would Jiminy Cricket be so...
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
17th-century Europe wasn't all blood, death, and holy war. Amidst the chaos came a brand new artistic era: the Baroque. And if you're into bling, drama, and realism, then this is the era (and the course) for you. Baroque art was big, bold, and took...
Subject: Humanities, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Advanced Creative Writing course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: English, Writing, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8, 9, 10 -
Beowulf vs. Grendel: it's a tale as old as time. Well, it's a tale as old as somewhere between the 8th and 11th centuries—still pretty impressive.
You probably know Beowulf as a monster story, but this epic poem is way more than just blood and guts. B...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Get ready for the oldest monster story in history. This millennium-old tale will show you how much has changed since those days...and how much has stayed the same.
In this video course, you'll watch videos that cover the gamut of all things Beowulf:
- Its...
Subject: English, Humanities, Literature, Video, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Bestsellers course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
Shmoop's Biology course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: High School, Science | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Hey, how'd you get in here? This is the old, busted, 2014–2015 version of our Biology course. If you want the shiny new hotness, go check out Semester A or Semester B of our new and improved Biology course.
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
Shmoop's Biology course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Hey, how'd you get in here? This is the old, busted, 2014–2015 version of our Biology course. If you want the shiny new hotness, go check out Semester A or Semester B of our new and improved Biology course.
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
Wait, wait, come back. Yes, we know that you saw the words Bleak House and thought, "No thanks. I'll pass on the opportunity to read the biggest book ever about a sad building." But don't be fooled by the size (or name). Bleak House is hilarious,...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
We Americans are obsessed with how we look. We want to have abs like Channing Tatum, legs like Heidi Klum, and look great in our Brandy Melville short shorts.
Looking and feeling great is, uh, great, but there's a dark side to our body obsessions....
Subject: Health, Physical Education, and Counseling, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Meet the World State. Its name might sound a tad ominous, but it promises, it has only your best interests in mind. The World State wants to show you a life without pain or loneliness or sorrow, where the complications of human relationships have been...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
If you're anything like us, Breaking Bad nailed you to your Netflix for weeks, and you burned through all five seasons like it was Heisenberg's Blue Sky.
Maybe you're even a Breaking Bad superfan: you shaved your head, got a tattoo that says "I Am The...
Subject: Humanities, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
When's the last time you met someone with the nickname "The Boss"? Yeah, that's what we thought. Bruce Springsteen is a national treasure, and in this course, you'll find out just what he thinks about that nation of his (spoiler alert: it's not what...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Do you find yourself fantasizing about life after high school? Are you counting down the days until you're handed that sweet, sweet diploma? Then you've probably heard that you have to take a test first. But never fear, Shmoop's CAHSEE Crash Course is...
Subject: Test Prep, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 9 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
In this course, we'll be mushing through the snow with Buck and a team of sled dogs as they try to survive both humans and the wild.
Yep, that's right—"the wild." As in, The Call of the Wild—a heartbreaking, fast-paced exploration of primitivity, hum...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7 -
When you were five, you wanted to be a ballerina or an astronaut. Now that you're older, you may be figuring out that those may not be the most practical career paths (smashed toes hurt). It's time to make some decisions, do a little soul-searching,...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Catch-22 is 42 chapters of black humor, chocolate-covered cotton balls, dudes fist-fighting with cats, and some of the slickest wordplay around. As we read, laugh, and get super confused, we'll think about loads of Big Questions to find out why...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is all about the twisted logic of a totally illogical thing: war.
With a plot that'll make you dizzy, this Great American Novel takes you on a challenging mission. Did Milo just steal half of a bed sheet to fund his...
Subject: English, Humanities, Literature, Video, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Master of the cliffhanger, creator of notorious villains, champion of the oppressed, challenger of injustice. A hero who tackles workhouses, educational reform, judicial bureaucracy, poverty, and prison and class injustices. An ordinary man with...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Chemistry course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Chemistry course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Pinyin? Stative verbs? Flying, shapeshifting monkey gods?
Yep, the first semester of Chinese I truly has it all.
We'll give you a strong foundation by teaching you the basics of pinyin, the ABCs of the Chinese world, as well as tonal pronunciation....
Subject: Foreign Language, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
If you're a fan of fortune cookies, General Tso's chicken, and Kung Fu Panda, then this is the course for you.
Just kidding. Those are not real Chinese things.
While Semester A built up your foundational Chinese skills, Semester B will kick it up a...
Subject: Foreign Language, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
This short and sweet course is the perfect crash course in how to cite sources. Ever wondered what the point of it all is? What the heck MLA and APA stands for? When to use footnotes and when to use in-text citations (*shudder). This course will give...
Subject: College Prep, Writing, Life Skills, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10 -
So, you want to be an American.
What's that you say—you already are an American?
Well, give yourself a pat on the back and fist-bump your neighbor in celebration of your membership in one of the most diverse human families on Earth. (Then, tell your ...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Humanities, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
Shmoop's Classical Literature course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Shmoop's College and Career Readiness course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, College Prep, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's College and Career Readiness course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, College Prep, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
These days, the only thing stopping computers from getting smaller is how small of a screen we're willing to look at. Sure, the size of our hands might slow us down, but there are ways to get around it. Looking at a screen that's at least 15 inches...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Contemporary Literature course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
War and Peace, The Hunger Games, Moby Dick, Harry Potter: they didn't pop out of nowhere. Whether you're out to achieve fame, gain literary immortality, or just tell a story that will nail people to their Kindles, you've got to start somewhere. This...
Subject: English, Writing, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Poets are the sages of the ages, the voices of generations, the obscure geniuses of yore. And it's that kind of reputation that scares people away from trying their hand at it.
Little do these folks know that all poets start out by doodling (or...
Subject: English, Writing, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Critical Thinking and Study Skills course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the...
Subject: English, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
"Yeah, yeah," you're thinking. "I know—don't cyberbully. I get it."
And we'll give you that: hopefully, you do get it. But that doesn't mean everyone else gets it, too. This course will help you navigate the slippery world of online bullying—from bot...
Subject: Health, Physical Education, and Counseling, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10 -
Yeah, you've heard it before: don't cyberbully.
We're not here to tell you that.
Well, we kind of are, but we're gonna real talk it. No sugar coating. No rainbows and butterflies. Just the cold, hard facts.
This here's a video course, so you'll be...
Subject: Health, Physical Education, and Counseling, Video, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
This ain't your grandma's digital literacy course. Good thing, too, because you'd have some trouble accessing the Internet via a typewriter.
We skip all the duh-moments and go straight for the meat in these ten lessons. Sure, we'll do a little how-to,...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10 -
Dinosaurs ruled the world for millions and millions of years.
This course neatly explains them in fifteen lessons.
In our project-based course, with activities for all learning types ranging from diorama-building to skit-performing to analytical pop...
Subject: Science, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8 -
Everyone loves them a vampire. Some folks more literally than others. But what if we told you that the original bloodsuckers didn't have abs of steel? That they didn't fly around through trees? That they didn't…sparkle?
In this short course on Bram S...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Long before vampires invaded our horror films, tween romance novels, and HBO guilty pleasures, Bram Stoker was crafting one of the first famous vampire thrillers.
Count Dracula may not have been as hunky (or as glittery) as his modern counterparts,...
Subject: English, Humanities, Literature, Video, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Dramatic monologue. It might be a fancy term, but it describes something pretty simple: a dude or lady showing their true colors in a poem.
You could spend years studying dramatic monologues, but in this short course, we'll worm our way through...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Drugs in Literature course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Dystopian Literature course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
So, completed Semester A and back for more?
Or are you just super-stoked on our Semester B offerings?
(If it's the latter, we don't blame you. The Giver and Greek mythology in the same course? We're all in.)
Semester B of ELA 6 further develops the...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6 -
When Junie B. isn't cool anymore, and every Goosebumps book on the shelf has been read, what is there to whet a sixth-grade reader's whistle?
Of course there's always the Harry Potters, but those are all movies now. And The Hunger Games trilogy—but oh ...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6 -
Semester B of ELA 7 develops the global seeds we planted in Semester A and continues to explore texts, speeches, and works of literature from around the world. At the same time, we'll continue to develop and build upon the reading, writing, and...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7 -
It's a great big world out there. And you live in just a small part of it. It's hard to truly understand another culture's perspective until you've walked in another culture's shoes, and that means listening and reading to thoughts and texts from...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7 -
Whether you're a mega-fan of Semester A returning for more, or a first timer, the second semester of our ELA 8 course has something for everyone.
Each of the units in our eighteen-week Semester B course focuses on a different informational, literature,...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8 -
Eighth grade: it's a transitional time. Think about it: there's the transition from…
- tween to tween.
- middle schooler to high schooler.
- learning from a teacher to learning from a…computer?
Shmoop's online eighth-grade English course, American Voices, wi...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8 -
Everything you need to know you learned in kindergarten and the first semester of your freshman year, right?
…Not quite. And no offense to Semester A of ELA 9 Foundational, but there are miles to go before you sleep, and Shmoop will be your guide. In ...
Subject: English, High School | Course Type: Remedial | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9 -
Over the course of the next four years, you're going to learn everything there is to know about literature. But you have to start somewhere, right? And that's what ELA 9 Foundational is all about—and freshman year's much less painful when it's a...
Subject: English, High School | Course Type: Remedial | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9 -
Shmoop's ELA 9 course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9 -
Shmoop's ELA 9 course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9 -
Shmoop's ELA 10 course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10 -
Shmoop's ELA 10 course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10 -
Shmoop's ELA 11 course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11 -
Shmoop's ELA 11 course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11 -
Shmoop's ELA 12 course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 12 -
Shmoop's ELA 12 course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 12 -
If you're one of those people who sees terms like "historical skills" and dies a little on the inside, let us assure you that historians are more like Indiana Jones than Professor Binns. Okay, you won't be running from a giant rolling boulder in this...
Subject: High School, History and Social Sciences, Writing | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
You're here because want to teach tiny, adorable children, before they're corrupted and jaded by high school and—even worse—middle school.
Hey, we don't blame you. It's rewarding to enrich young minds with the most brilliant art projects and snack t...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, High School, Life Skills | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Economics course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Emily Dickinson and Kate Chopin were as different as they come:
- Dickinson wrote poetry while Kate Chopin spilled her ink in prose.
- Dickinson refused to publish her works, and Chopin published reams of hers in popular magazines like Vogue.
- Dickinson...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Ethan Frome is the kind of book designed to make you feel better on your worst day—but not because it's cheery or chipper or even the slightest bit optimistic. No, it will make you feel better because you will never be as miserable as the characters i...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Need a break from the seemingly endless flood of dystopian novels and vampire/zombie books? Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir about an equally unbelievable but very real and little-known history of America.
During World War...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7 -
You don't have to be a USC film student to start your path toward becoming a film expert—in Shmoop's Film Studies course, we've got fifty lessons on everything from Alphaville to Zoolander.
Well, we'll be honest…neither of those films are actually stu...
Subject: Humanities, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Being an adult is a drag. But you know what's worse than wearing mom jeans? Having no money to finance your adult life. Thankfully, our course will help you afford jeans of any cut. Shmoop's Financial Literacy course is an introduction to the...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, College Prep, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Finite Math course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Finite Math course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Want to be published in The New Yorker? Vanity Fair? Your school's lit magazine? Your mom's annual Christmas letter? Well, you have to start somewhere. And that somewhere is here.
This course will walk you through the basics of the five-paragraph...
Subject: College Prep, Writing, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 -
Between school, homework, extracurriculars, and, you know, breathing, it's no surprise that sometimes you end up eating pizza for dinner—and breakfast. Despite how tasty a New York slice can be, do you ever wonder how that pepperoni will affect you i...
Subject: Health, Physical Education, and Counseling, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
"The world today is more connected by technology than ever before."
Yawn.
Admittedly, this obvious sentiment might sound like something someone with a deep, booming voice would say at the beginning of an IBM commercial and…it probably is. That doesn't ...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Well over a hundred years before Hollywood's horror industry got its hands on the story, 19th-century readers were getting their pants scared off of them by a short little book written by an 18-year-old girl.
Yep, we're talking about Frankenstein.
This...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Don't turn your nose up at the 19th-century date, the emo Romanticism, or the complex narration.
When it comes down to it, 18-year-old (yup, you read that right) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was ahead of its time. Long before Hollywood's horror scene...
Subject: English, Humanities, Literature, Video, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Many consider French to be the most beautiful language in the world.
...To which we say: come on, have you even heard Klingon?
French may be a more practical choice than Klingon in the long run, though. In addition to being considered très belle, it's ...
Subject: High School, Foreign Language, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, College -
You've taken French I Semester A, and mastered the oh-so-French arts of greetings, the weather, and how to order cheese.
So, are you ready for something un peu more complicated?
In French I Semester B, we'll continue our work in the present, past, and...
Subject: High School, Foreign Language, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Anything can be made into a game. Games can be as complex as the Final Fantasy series and as simple as Filer, an app that shows you just how long it takes to cut through a metal bar with a nail file. (It's literally hours of entertainment.)
Anyone can...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 4 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12, College -
What if, as we were trying to make a choice, the very thing we were choosing was anticipating our choice and trying to ruin it?
Meet game theory.
Game theory refers to the branch of math that tries to pick the outcome of an event where multiple factors...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Geometry course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11 -
Shmoop's Geometry course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11 -
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Subject: Foreign Language | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks -
Looking for free grammar resources? Head on over to our Grammar Learning Guides to get the lowdown on all things grammar.
The internet is a scary place for grammar; it's chock-full of grammar villains: comma splices, fragments, misplaced modifiers. So...
Subject: English, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7 -
Looking for free grammar resources? Head on over to our Grammar Learning Guides to get the lowdown on all things grammar.
The internet is a scary place for grammar; it's chock-full of grammar villains: comma splices, fragments, misplaced modifiers. So...
Subject: English, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 8 -
Looking for free grammar resources? Head on over to our Grammar Learning Guides to get the lowdown on all things grammar.
In Grammar Rules I, you stalwart Shmoopers conquered the 7th-grade Common Core Language Standards, getting groovy with parts of...
Subject: English, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
When you think Charles Dickens, you probably think of sad orphans, unbelievably British names (Benedict Cumberbatch has got nothing on Georgiana Podsnap), and people dying during the French Revolution.
Great Expectations has all of these classic...
Subject: English, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Greek and Roman Mythology course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: Humanities, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Technology has brought us many glorious things, like iPads, rocket ships, and Shmoop. But nothing is more glorious than the opportunity to learn about health and physical fitness from Shmoop.
In this Health Opportunities Through Physical Education...
Subject: Health, Physical Education, and Counseling, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Technology has brought us many glorious things, like iPads, rocket ships, and Shmoop. But nothing is more glorious than the opportunity to learn about health and physical fitness from Shmoop.
Does that mean that Shmoop's Health Opportunities Through...
Subject: Health, Physical Education, and Counseling, High School | Course Type: Honors | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
In the first semester of our HOPE course, you learned all about fitness, nutrition, and mental/social health. You embarked on your fitness journey like a fledgling.
In the second semester of our Health Opportunities Through Physical Education course,...
Subject: Health, Physical Education, and Counseling, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
In the first semester of our HOPE course, you learned all about fitness, nutrition, and mental health. You followed Shmoop's workouts as you developed your fitness wings.
In the second semester of our HOPE course, aligned to Florida state standards,...
Subject: Health, Physical Education, and Counseling, High School | Course Type: Honors | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Without Hamlet, there'd be no Lion King. And for that, Shmoop is very, very thankful.
Wait, let's back up for a second.
Hamlet is Shakespeare's tragedy about a Danish prince, his dead father's ghost, his conniving uncle, and his conniving uncle-loving...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Welcome to Earth Science, Shmoop-style. Come on in, make yourself at home. After all, this course is all about the giant blue marble we all call home. That's right, we're talking about the ins and outs of our favorite planet:
the sunEarth. It's like...
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Captain Kirk said that space is the final frontier, but we think that exploring Earth has its own charms. In Shmoop's Earth Science course, you'll boldly study what makes our planet tick. If you want to know what makes it tock, consider taking a...
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Science is just like ice cream: it's cool, it makes your head hurt sometimes, and there is never enough of it. It is the tool for getting reliable knowledge about the world. Er, we mean science, not the ice cream. Anyway, it turns out that there's a...
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Behold, Semester B of physical science. This is the really physical bit of physical science. Now that we've vanquished any fears about the properties of matter, atoms, chemical bonds, organic chemistry, and radiation, it's time to put the world into...
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
From the latest Disney adaptation of a fairy tale to an edgy Subway commercial, animation is everywhere these days. But have you ever wondered where it comes from? What's the big deal with Toy Story? Why did two animated movies about ants come out ...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, High School, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
At the risk of sounding like a west coast surfer, energy is like, everything, man.
But seriously, it is. We're not exaggerating when we say that all technological history was about 1) finding new kinds of energy, or 2) using the energy we have more...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Technology isn't all iPhones, nuclear fission, and the Internet. Technology is everything from the first cave paintings to the zipper, and it has a long, dirty history full of failed inventions, unforeseen consequences, and world-changing ideas.
In...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School, Technology and Computer Science | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
This is a story about killing people faster, cheaper, from farther away, and in greater numbers. In short, it's a huge bummer. But it's one of those huge bummers that's also integral to the study of our past, because like it or not, we can't truly...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
The internet: the land of quickly-changing design principles (thank goodness) and even quicker meme fads (we repeat, thank goodness). But it wasn't always that way. There was a time before the internet had pictures, color, or even cats.
We'll let that...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Holocaust Literature course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: English, Humanities, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
Imagine a day without the internet for us. Go ahead. You wouldn't be able to Google, "What do those numbers on the top of the milk carton mean?" or check your math on Wolfram Alpha. To buy plane tickets, you'd probably have to call someone on the...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
You're 16. You have a driver's license. You've got a hankerin' for the open road. Now what?
Shmoop is here to help, with our free crash course on how to buy a car. Geared for the first-time car buyer, we've got the skinny on everything from how much...
Subject: Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Like all good folks, you liked The Avengers and loved The Dark Knight. But these characters didn't just emerge from some Hollywood bigwig's noggin. No, they've been around for decades in the pages and panels of comic books.
You may think that comics...
Subject: Humanities, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
Okay, so you know how to read. But do you know how to read well?
Being a good reader is just as important as being a good writer, and we here at Shmoop think you need to be the first in order to be the second. This course will turn you from a lover of...
Subject: English, Humanities, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 8, 9, 10 -
No matter what your dream job is—and we're talking anything from A-list celebrity to personal assistant for a Smurf—you need a cover letter to get it.
It's a daunting task, we know, but this course will walk you through the process step by step unt...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
You can't avoid it. Someday, somewhere, you will have to be the best man or maid of honor at a dear friend's wedding. And when that time comes, you will have to stand up and give a speech. This course is your ticket to making sure that your speech has...
Subject: English, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
No matter what your dream job is—and we're talking anything from A-list celebrity to personal assistant to a Smurf—you need a résumé to get it.
It's a daunting task, we know, but this course will walk you through the process step by step until you...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Considering how much time we spend in our bodies, it's a little ridiculous how little most of us know about how they work. It's kind of like driving the same car you whole life and never figuring out how to adjust the mirrors and use the high beams....
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
If the idea of citing Wikipedia or Yahoo Answers doesn't make you cringe in horror, then this is the course for you. If "what did alexander the great do that was so great" sounds like a great search phrase, then this is the course for you. If "tiger...
Subject: College Prep, History and Social Sciences, Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Everybody wants to give a killer interview, one that changes them from "candidate #26" to "oh yeah, that guy." That guy is just cooler. He has nice clothes, a firm handshake, and gosh darn it, people like him. Plus, he gets the job.
This course teaches...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
We know what you’re thinking: why bother with Illustrator when there’s a perfectly good program called Photoshop out there already?
Well, sure, if you’re working with photos (it’s there in the name, people) and other pre-rendered images. But what i...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
In this semester-long Introduction to Art History course, we'll cover everything from the first cave paintings to the Renaissance to pop art. Along the way, we'll learn all about how sociopolitical and technological changes are visible in the work....
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Humanities, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Sentience is a big deal in philosophy, computer science, and cartoon franchises. Whether you're talking about language translation or the dolls you play with every day, people have spent a long time wondering, can the dog think the way I do? What...
Subject: Math, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
You want to program and you're tired of the training wheels like memory management and concatenation operators.
…Did we scare off the newbs with our jargon yet? Good.
Not that we don't love beginners, but if you're looking for a programming language t...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
C is nice, but you know what's better? C++.
No, we aren't talking about a new way of saying you got a B-. We're talking about the incrementation of C into a whole new, fancier language. You'll need some C under your belt before you're ready to start on...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
The real costs involved in running a business are often deceptive. It takes a little art to see what's going on beneath the surface.
That art...is cost accounting.
You run a popular fish n' chips food truck. You sell 500 meals every day at $10 each....
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, College Prep, Life Skills | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 6 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12, College -
Critical reading and writing. Contrary to popular belief, it's not flying through the latest pot-boiler only to post a scathing review of the author's comma placement on Amazon (though we've been known to do that). It's not even texting your BFFL...
Subject: College Prep, English, Writing, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
Shmoop's Introduction to Drama course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: English, Humanities, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Introduction to E-Commerce course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
The internet is infinitely large. And it's everywhere. Yes, even on your grandmother's SmartFridge.
But what if we told you that you could make websites yourself? No fridge necessary. (Though it is nice for keeping your food from spoiling.)
Web design...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Designs are everywhere: whether you're looking at a political propaganda poster or watching this week's USA marathon of CSI, everything you see and use was made to get your attention for once reason or another. At the end of the day, though, all you...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Interaction design is a lot like literature: everyone loves talking about it and hardly anyone has actually read it.
Understandably so: interaction design is hard to define, mainly because you don't really notice it when it's done well. This branch of...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, Life Skills, High School, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Have you ever noticed how quick people are to blame computers and the internet for all of society's problems? Computers don't really have feelings (thank goodness), but if they did they might be feeling a little hurt right about now. Hurt enough to...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 4 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Websites are great. All from the same browser, you can
- check out the latest Taylor Swift music video with earbuds on as your best friend listens to a Pentatonix cover right beside you.
- plug your English essay into WordCounter.net at 2 a.m. just to make...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, College -
Question: Why would someone who lives in Barbados buy the Snuggie? Because they're so stylin'? Nope. Turns out, we buy useless stuff because we fall for someone's line...a.k.a. their rhetoric. This course teaches you how to use rhetoric so you, too,...
Subject: English, Humanities, Writing, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
Microsoft Excel: the program, the myth, and the very formulaic legend. You might have heard businesspeople discussing the greatness of Excel over tall, non-fat lattes, but don't let that scare you away—every time you start a new Excel document, you'll ...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
PowerPoint. The very word implies bad clip art, confusing graphs, walls of text, and presentations that make you nod off. Or worse: presentations that make you jump up and scream, "Am I the only one here who'd rather be eaten alive by snapping turtles...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
You're tech savvy. You've heard the words, big data, cloud, and computer, and you probably know what they mean, too. The internet wasn't born yesterday, and you know your way around a mouse and keyboard.
But do you really know what Microsoft Office is?...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Photography seems to be an art form everyone and his or her great grandparent is into these days. From photographing (and posting) what we eat for breakfast to capturing every movement of some distant cousin's baby's first five months, many of us have...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Everyone and his or her great grandparent seems to be into photography these days. From photographing (and posting) what we eat for breakfast to capturing every movement of some distant cousin's baby's first five months, many of us have jumped on the...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Introduction to Poetry course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
Programming is programming, but not all programming languages are created equal. Even if they are named after adorable animals.
Maybe you've
- heard "friends don't let friends code in Java" and wondered, "What's the alternative?"
- seen an xkcd comic about...
Subject: High School, Middle School, Technology and Computer Science | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 4 weeks | Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Whether you like it or not, any time you log in to your favorite social network, someone's sitting behind your monitor taking detailed notes on your love for Doritos Locos Tacos and your interest in the promise of a Pusheen movie. After all, that's...
Subject: High School, Technology and Computer Science | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Introduction to Shakespeare course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: English, Humanities, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
You can't get much more romantic than Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: poor, unloved, and unattractive orphan uses her awesome personality to win over a wealthy sort-of-aristocrat and live happily ever after. Oh, and by "awesome personality" we mean ...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
John Donne (pronounced: done) is tricky, that's for sure.
But he's also mysterious, alchemical, erotic, violent, scientific, obsessive, startling, religious, enchanting, confusing, and seriously weird. We guess that's what you get when you cross a...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Journalism course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Subject: English, Humanities, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Journalism course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Subject: Humanities, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Nothing gets our attention quite like good ol' fashioned political intrigue. Betrayal. Lies. Politics. Sounds like the latest episode of Scandal, doesn't it? Ah, but we're talking Julius Caesar, folks. You know, that old dude who lived in Rome? Yeah,
Subject: Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Looking for a nice, uplifting read? Then you've found yourself in the wrong spot—Franz Kafka just wasn't about the smiles.
This is a guy who could turn a human into a bug in the course of a sentence and who wasn't afraid to ask Deep Questions about t...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Literature is everywhere in media—in fact, it's actually a type of media itself. That's why we're starting this course with a deep dive into literature: everything from bestsellers to comics to Shakespeare. And of course, we'll spice it up with other t...
Subject: English, Humanities, Literature, High School | Course Type: Honors | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Think about your dream class. What would it involve? Watching TV? Screening movies? Playing video games? Well then, welcome to your dream class.
Semester B of Literature in the Media provides in-depth readings and interactive assignments that will...
Subject: English, Humanities, Literature, High School | Course Type: Honors | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Before Young Shmoop ever read Lord of the Flies, we thought it'd make nice, light summer reading.
"A bunch of little boys on an island? Sign us up."
Clearly we didn't read the book jacket all the way through. As it turns out, William Golding's 1954...
Subject: Literature, High School | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
Let us guess. The words "Shakespearean play" probably make you think of...
- nigh-inscrutable 17th-century verse, complete with "thees" and "thous" and the odd "yonder."
- angsty monologuing, usually to no one in particular.
- tights.
Macbeth has all of these...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
"The Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program mission is to instill in students in United States secondary educational institutions the values of citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility and a sense of...
Subject: Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
We all remember those classically handsome, irresistibly green TV heroes, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The only thing more impressive than their insatiable appetite for pizza was their decidedly awesome names: Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo,...
Subject: Humanities, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 4 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Mathematics III course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Mathematics III course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Mathematics II course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11 -
Shmoop's Mathematics II course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11 -
Shmoop's Mathematics I course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8, 9, 10 -
Shmoop's Mathematics I course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8, 9, 10 -
If you're reading this, you're literate. Congratulations! But are you media literate? Can you read TV, ads, music, and Facebook posts as well as you read everything else?
In this lightning-fast fifteen-lesson course, we'll break down the main topics in...
Subject: Humanities, Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Welcome to our foray into the world of media literacy—a.k.a. the study of stuff that's in our face all day, every day.
It's easy to overlook media as a platform of study, because…well, because it's everywhere. But in this course, we'll look in-depth i...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, High School, Middle School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
From Grandma's dose of nightly news to your secret obsession with that blog about Harry Styles' haircuts, mass media encompasses a lot—and we mean a lot—of different stuff. In fact, media is such a big part of our everyday lives that it can seem to j...
Subject: Life Skills, Video, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, College -
Considering that this course is called "Age of Empires," we kick things off in a pretty surprising way: by looking at the fall of one of the greatest empires in human history—good ol' Rome—and tracing the progression of a largely empire-free western Eu...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8 -
Empires: they come in all shapes and sizes, like people. Every one is a special, imperial snowflake. For example, medieval Japan may have largely kept to itself and its archipelagic borders, rather than fee fie foe-ing all over Asia like some other...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8 -
Fun fact: the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
Modern human beings? Eh, we've only been around for 2.5 million years.
And the first civilizations didn't turn up until 10,000 or 12,000 years ago.
When you consider how old the earth is (old), and how...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 5, 6, 7, 8 -
In the spirit of the marauding Mongols (except with less marauding and more…cultural sensitivity), Semester B of Shmoop's Ancient Civilizations steps beyond the Cradle of Civilization, beyond the Greeks and the Egyptians, and heads on over to Asia. <...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 5, 6, 7, 8 -
So, you totally learned everything there is to know about writing in elementary school?
Uh, of course not.
But we can promise you this—by the end of this unit, you will have accomplished everything a fifth grade writer has in a whole year.
It may s...
Subject: Writing, Middle School, Elementary School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 -
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: you've probably heard of it as a huge, long, difficult novel about hunting an insanely bloodthirsty whale. Well, we at Shmoop are here to show you that it's also an insanely bloodthirsty novel about hunting a huge, long,...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: it's one of the heftiest American novels ever written, and one that instills a deep fear in the bones of readers. This massive, tough novel about a massive, tough whale stirs up a tsunami of musings on God, morals,...
Subject: Literature, English, Humanities, Video, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Modernist Literature course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Frederick Douglass, an American slave, was one righteous dude. He tricked his way into literacy, escaped his master, and then used his powers of persuasion to fight the good fight against slavery.
Oh, and later in life, he rallied hard for women's...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
On a list of things we hope never happen to us, "organ harvesting" would be high up there. Somewhere between "getting eaten alive by evil unicorns" and "having our going-to-school-naked dreams come true.
But for the kids in Never Let Me Go, that's...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
They say truth is often stranger than fiction.
It's also, on occasion, much more horrific.
This is the guiding principle of Night, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's legendary memoir, which details his and his father's imprisonment and abuse at the hands...
Subject: English, History and Social Sciences, Literature, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9 -
You've been scouring the interwebs for the utmost in engaging, character-driven, historical fiction that focuses on the Holocaust and World War II. Time to start rejoicing—your search has ended. Number the Stars by Newbery Medal-winning author Lois L...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School, Elementary School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 5, 6 -
So you'd like to buff up on your ancient classics, but The Odyssey is a little intimidating? Oedipus the King (a.k.a. Oedipus Rex) to the rescue—this text will provide you with a Greek tragedy you can actually understand…and, uh, finish. Sophocles was ...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Everyone loves a banned book. Not just because there's the fetching air of taboo about it (although that's fun, too), but also because, in order to get banned, books have to be able to ruffle people's feathers, to make them feel something, to move...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Being a tragedy, Othello doesn't end in hearts and flowers and rainbows and unicorns. It ends in death and destruction and a one-way trip to Guiltville.
So why would you waste your time reading a play that you know will be sad? Well, why do you watch...
Subject: Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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Ever since two paddles plunked a square ball across a grainy screen in Pong, video games have celebrated achievements. Arcade games in the '80s had high score...
Subject: PBIS, High School, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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Different roles call for different attitudes. The president has a different attitude than a heavy metal singer. The CEO of a tech company has a different...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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We want you and your students to be committed. No, put away the straight jacket...even though there are probably a few people you want to restrain.
We're...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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Let's all join hands—if you can find our hands —and sing, shall we? Ah, how harmonious, how lovely, how it makes us want to jump off a cliff and drag everyone ...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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Smokey the Bear's cousin, Flame War the Cyber Bear*, has a similar slogan: Only you can prevent cyberbullying. Unlike a forest fire, there isn't always smoke...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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Once Google or Apple replaces a significant part of our brain with a computer (i.e., about six months from now) tapping into our inner determination to finish...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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It's safe to assume you already know a lot about the internet. After all, you are using Shmoop (smart move). But did you know that it only took about 5 years...
Subject: PBIS | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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Integrity and honesty are "invaluable" qualities, right? Well, maybe not to everybody. If you're in marketing, you can put a price on anything.
The word...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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Being involved in the world around you can make life a little more fun. But sometimes getting involved is tough, and some ways to get involved are better than...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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Without leaders, where would we be? Many of us would be milling around aimlessly like sheep, not accomplishing anything, but not really bothering anyone...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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It's easy to make jokes about the job of a "professional organizer." That can't be a real job, can it? What do they do, take your credit card to Bed, Bath &...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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If you're looking for prejudice, try our PBIS course on tolerance. If you're looking for Pride and Prejudice, click here. If you're looking for a PBIS course...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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You've heard the phrase, "don't drop the ball." But why is dropping a ball such a big deal? Sure, it stinks when your favorite quarterback throws a pass that...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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You've heard it all before. "Just do your best." "Keep your chin up." "You can do it."
We know that's all much easier said than done. But it's not impossible....
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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Someone in charge of a military operation, whether it's on land, at sea, or in a galaxy far far away, is called a commander because they command respect—not b...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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They say that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. With that in mind, we'd like to take this opportunity to remind you about one of the most...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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It's important to be safe. Put on a hard hat. Wear safety goggles. Strap on a life vest. Lace up your iron-toed boots. Don't forget your knee pads and elbow...
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
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America isn't a melting pot. It's a salad bowl. And there are many different kinds of salad. Garden salad. Fruit salad. Caesar salad. Egg salad. Potato salad....
Subject: PBIS, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Dollars. Benjamins. Moolah. Cash money. Dough. Greenbacks. Smackers. Big bucks. Bread. Gravy. Loot. Bling bling. Stacks on stacks. Cabbage. Chicken feed.
Whatever you call your legal tender, we want to help you make it rain.
This course on Personal...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, Life Skills, College Prep | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 6 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12, College -
Want to have a big house, five cars, and live large? We won't make any guarantees, but this course will at least marginally boost your chances of becoming so rich that you have a Bentley as your P.O.S. (piece of something-smelly) car. And it will...
Subject: College Prep, Life Skills, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Hey, we're with you: Cheetos and the latest Madden are, no doubt, excellent purchases. But we're willing to bet you've got some #adulting purchases in your future, like a car, a house, and maybe even an inside slide for that house (just us?).
This...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, Life Skills, Middle School, High School, Video | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Physics course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Physics course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Science, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Everyone—and yes, we do mean everyone—can use a boost when it comes to college and career planning during those formidable high school years. Shmoop's course on Planning and Achieving Career and College Goals delivers Common Core-aligned activities a...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, College Prep, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
It's in your computer. It's on your phone. It's inside your mailbox. It's right behind you! It's the media.
The media is like a gigantic set of glasses through which we look at the world. This is especially true when it comes to politics and civic life...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Ever looked at a piece of contemporary art and gone "I miss when Pablo Picasso was still alive and I didn't have to think so hard about what I was looking at"?
Or "I'm not sure why this counts as art…it's literally a trash can. From Ikea"?
Or "Oh man, ...
Subject: Humanities, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Pop culture's got a weird reputation in America. Most people like it (by definition), but those same people also seem to be a little guilty about it: TV rots your brain, video games make you violent and nerdy, pop music all sounds the same,...
Subject: English, Humanities | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
The United States: Land of Opportunity, where anyone can achieve The American Dream...right?
Then why does a huge percentage of the population remain stuck in poverty? This short course explores the causes and drivers of poverty, inequality, and social...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
What do modern Afghan women, the American founding fathers, and African-American slaves have in common (other than all having an "A" in their names)? Answer: motivated by a desire for freedom, they've written nonfiction that's changed the world. But...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
At some point, you've probably seen a romantic comedy where the hero won back the object of his affection by writing her a poem. But would it have worked out as well for the hero if he'd written, say, an email? We don't think so. For some reason, love...
Subject: English, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
"Money, Money, Money." "Material Girl." "Mo Money Mo Problems." From ABBA to Madonna to Notorious B.I.G., everybody's singing about the power of money. It is all about the Benjamins. If you've ever wondered why our culture is so obsessed with money,...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
This Power in Literature course is all about Hollywood celebrities. We can stop there, right? After all, do we really have to convince you that a course about Hollywood celebrities is super fun and relevant? You've pretty much already decided you're...
Subject: English, Literature, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
If math just sat still, like a bump on a log, it wouldn't be of much use to anyone. Not even mathematicians would get excited about it—and you should see some of the things they get worked up over. Lucky for everyone, then, that math is full of sound a...
Subject: Math, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8 -
People often ask, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" as though it were some kind of super stumper. It's really not, though; you kind of need an egg before you can get a chicken. Hatching from eggs is something they are kind of famous for.
It's...
Subject: Math, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8 -
Since elementary school, you've always been sort of a math whiz. Fractions were freakishly easy, times tables took no time at all, and geometry was practically art class. Honestly, you don't even need your calculator anymore; it's really just a...
Subject: Math, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7 -
We know why you're here. Either you thought that last semester was a blast and you're ready for more, or you're one of those nosy types with a magnifying glass and a funny detective hat, always looking for the final clue, that last unknown that solves...
Subject: Math, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7 -
Shmoop's Pre-Calculus course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Pre-Calculus course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Mysterious disappearances, huge stone monuments of frowning heads, and ritual human sacrifice—this course truly has it all.
In nine lessons, we'll cover the remarkable and millennia-long civilizations of the pre-Columbian Americas. That includes t...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Sharpen those claws, Shmoopers, because it's about to get catty in here. Jane Austen may have a reputation for writing about demure ladies in fancy dresses sitting around and talking about getting married, but Pride and Prejudice is more than that.
...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
This college-level course is all about how to become an investment banker. Or an investor. Or uh, someone who knows what a stock is. It's about wealth, retirement excess, and how to read The Wall Street Journal and actually understand what it...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, College Prep, Life Skills | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 6 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12, College -
So you want to learn to program. Maybe...
- some number-based cop dramas showed you how interesting and high stakes coding can be.
- someone said, "If you love your computer so much, why don't you marry it?" and you decided to do the next best thing.
- you...
Subject: Technology and Computer Science, High School, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Nirvana might ask you to "Come As You Are," and Madonna might want you to "Express Yourself," but when push comes to shove, humans are crazy-inclined to follow the crowd. (How else do you explain your Furby collection?)
In this course, we'll enjoy some...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
How did the Grinch become so mean? Why don't children understand that they make better doors than windows? Does Apple want our grubby paws all over the iPads in their showrooms? How does the aroma of fresh rainfall signal that spring is in the air?...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
No matter what field of work you go into, chances are good that at some point in your career, you're going to have to stand up in front of a bunch of people and jabber at them. (By "jabber," of course we mean, "speak intelligently and eloquently about...
Subject: Humanities, Life Skills | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 6 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12, College -
Let's face it: the PERT—Postsecondary Educational Readiness Test—isn't easy. Not only do you have to wake up in the morning to take the test, but there's analysis, critical reading, and a lot of fancy-vocab-word-deciphering.
Luckily, you Floridian h...
Subject: College Prep, English, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 12 -
This is a safe space, so you can be honest. How much reality television do you watch? Some Real Housewives here and there? An episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians every few weeks? Every single episode of Survivor as soon as it airs?
Or maybe...
Subject: English, Humanities, Video, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Romeo and Juliet: Maybe you've heard of it?
Oh, wait…you haven't? Well, let us fill you in. Back in the very late 1500s, an actor, director, and over-involved stage manager named William Shakespeare was cranking out plays left and right. His specialty w...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 8 -
If time is of the essence and you need an SAT Test Prep Course that gives you all the review you need by your test date, then this is the course for you. Our SAT Crash Course throws you into the passenger seat and then goes fast and furious through...
Subject: College Prep, Test Prep, High School | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Lifted directly from the fine folks at FINRA (ffF), this course is a read better than The Firm, Liar's Poker, and Hunger Games all rolled into one.1 (We’re prepping you for a sales job here).
1Not really better than Liar's Poker.
This is a test. This ...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 6 weeks -
Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex.
"Sex" is one of the most taboo words in the English language, and regardless of your feelings on (or experience with) the subject, it's something adults and teens don't usually love discussing with each other.
Enter: Shmoop's...
Subject: Health, Physical Education, and Counseling, High School, Middle School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Shakespeare's Plays course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Meet Billy Pilgrim, a WWII veteran and time-traveler who survived both the Battle of the Bulge and the bombing of Dresden, but who can't escape the trauma of his past. Traumas like popping back into his prisoner-of-war days when he least expects it,...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Everyone has an idea of what the ideal state would look like. Maybe you get to keep more of the money you earn at the expense of government programs (go Republicans!). Or maybe higher taxes but a strong safety net—is more your speed (Democrats FTW). ...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Humanities, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
You know all about social media (and have the worn-out computer keyboard and discarded iPhone 3 to prove it). But…how much do you really know?
Social media pops up everywhere, but it can do a lot more for you than you think. Did you know that social m...
Subject: Life Skills, Technology and Computer Science, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8 -
Sociology: where you learn that you can totally tell your teacher that you didn't do your homework because you've been systemically oppressed.
Okay, so maybe that wouldn't fly with your teacher. But this course will give you insight into all the ways...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word sonnet? No seriously, we're asking.
Did you think "love poem"? Or "Shakespeare"? Or maybe you think something as simple as "a type of poem." We know there's at least someone out there...
Subject: Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Spanish II course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Subject: Foreign Language, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Spanish II course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Subject: Foreign Language, Middle School, High School | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Spanish I course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Subject: Foreign Language, High School, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Spanish I course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California system.
Subject: High School, Foreign Language | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, College -
Listen up, everyone who shoved young Shmoop into a locker during high school: that was totally not okay.
Speaking of torment… Speak is a coming-of-age novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's written for anyone who's ever endured the trials and t...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8 -
Think adults don't understand the incredibly tragic depths of teen suffering?
Shmoop's gonna let you in on a little secret: All adults were teens once. Even your teachers were. Even Shmoop was. And Speak's author, Laurie Halse Anderson, recalls the...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8 -
Let's face it. Studying is hard work. It's even harder if no one ever taught you how to do it right. That's where Shmoop comes in. Our goal in this course is to give you the tools you need to make school just a tiny bit easier, or at least keep you...
Subject: College Prep, Life Skills, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Are we talking suicide? Def. Most people who've heard of Sylvia Plath know two things about her:
- Sylvia Plath was a poet.
- She killed herself.
Because Plath was notoriously depressed, had complicated feelings about her deceased daddy, and ended her life...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
In Shmoop's Tennessee Bridge Math course, we'll take you through all the New TN Bridge Standards, including the following:
- The Real Number System
- Quantities
- The Complex Number System
- Seeing Structure in Expressions
- Arithmetic with Polynomials and Rational...
Subject: Math, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 36 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Ever felt trapped? Like you don't belong? Like you deserve more out of life? If yes—or even if you said no—you'll find something that hits home in Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. (Not to be confused with Shmoop's
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8 -
New Orleans. Rich people. Large bodies of water. Extra-marital affairs. French words. Music. Sounds like a good time, right?
Uh, wrong.
It's Kate Chopin's The Awakening, a text that roused and riled its readership and effectively ended its author's...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's The Bible as Literature course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: Humanities, High School, Literature | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
A guy walks into a bar... and lands himself a spot on a tour with the most colorful cast of characters ever to fill the pages of English literature.
In this course on The Canterbury Tales, we'll dig in to the life and times of Chaucer and meet a few...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like…"
With a first line like that, you'd better believe Holden Caulfield would've made for the world's most i...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
If you've ever been flummoxed by an essay prompt that goes
- Explain what _________has in common with ___________ .
- How are ________ and _________ similar and different?
- What's the difference between __________ and ______________?
Or, if your teacher's...
Subject: English, Writing, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10 -
When someone says "17th-century Puritan village," you probably think bonnets, buckled shoes, a church on every corner, and a whole lot of praying.
But you could fill a whole book with what that rosy-eyed conception of the goodly Puritans of yore is...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest story in the Western world. Once more, for emphasis: The. Oldest. Story. In. The. Western. World.
And you know what? It holds up.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is to ancient literature what Indiana Jones is to...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Get ready for the ultimate throw down.
Influenced by European philosophers' deep thoughts about man's nature, Federalists wrote a constitution that bound states together to form a representative public. But the Anti-Federalists protested our...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Imagine, if you will
- a world in which everything's completely, entirely fair
- a community in which nobody stands out, or is teased, or strays too far from the norm
- a family in which everyone listens and shares, and where every problem is easily...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 5, 6, 7
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Babes, booze, and beautiful cars. Not quite how you'd imagine the description of a classic American novel, is it? Well, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has all three in spades—not to mention, some of the most famous bits of writing and dialogue ...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Whether or not you actually think Gatsby is great, this video course will fill you in on why the rest of the world does.
You'll watch a series of videos—a conversation between experts—and then answer some questions to prove your wits. Over the course of...
Subject: Literature, English, Humanities, Video, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
From The Hunger Games to Bioshock to Star Trek, pop culture has tons of fantasy-filled visions of distant worlds that bear little resemblance to our own. But what if one of those fantasies suddenly came true in your lifetime?
With Margaret Atwood's...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Remember when you realized that Avatar was a little too much like Pocahontas? Or that The Matrix was eerily similar to Star Wars? Well, you weren't the first person to think so.
In the late 1940s, folklorist Joseph Campbell drove a gravy train right...
Subject: Humanities, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
What makes a book Young Adult (YA) Lit? If you've checked out the YA section at your local bookstore in the last two years, you might think it has something to do with vampires and wizards, but we're here to tell you that's not the case—not e...
Subject: Literature, Middle School, Elementary School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 5, 6, 7 -
Both Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games (2008) and Koushun Takami's Battle Royale (1999) are overflowing with ultra-violence as their characters engage in a pastime that seems to be both an American and Japanese favorite: kids slaughtering kids for...
Subject: Humanities, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Let's face it: job hunting sucks. After about the twentieth time being rejected for yet another position because you don't have the experience that you'll only get if someone gives you a job that you can't get without having experience...we don't...
Subject: Business and Career Preparation, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
If there's one thing we can say about author Upton Sinclair, it's that he holds no literary punches. A social crusader devoted to exposing the seedy underbelly of American capitalism, Sinclair fills his famed novel with fun things, like
- people dying of...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
The Middle Ages: Plague! Castles! Knights! The Magna Carta!
Stop. Stop. Stop.
Not everyone in medieval world was a Western European toiling peasant, plump lord, or chivalric knight. So much happened the thousand years after the decline of the Roman...
Subject: High School, History and Social Sciences | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Whether you're a Greaser or a Soc, a Cherry or a Ponyboy, you'll be a fan of The Outsiders. Although written by a bookwormy fifteen-year-old during the 1960s, the issues it covers—loneliness, identity, family, gangs, and teen passion—are everlasting. ...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 6 -
You've seen it before: that ginormous table of letters and numbers hanging on the wall in just about every high school science classroom ever. Did you know that it holds the key to your triumph over all things elemental?
Ah, the beautiful, the...
Subject: Science, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 -
Here's the thing about Dorian Gray: He's gorgeous. Like, really, really, really, stupidly gorgeous. And, at the beginning of the novel, he's also innocent. But as history (and literature) tell us, beautiful, innocent people are often prime targets for...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
At some point in life, a teacher or employer will tell you to go out into the world, gather information, and come up with your own ideas in the form of a research paper. Rather than run, hide in a closet, and bawl your eyes out in fear of coming up...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Writing, Life Skills, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Get ready for a road trip, brought to you by America's favorite master of bleak violence and horror, Cormac McCarthy. In The Road, he gives us a vision of a post-apocalyptic American landscape populated by roving bands of cannibals and our two heroes:...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
If The Road were an attraction on TripAdvisor, it would get zero stars. The weather's a bummer, there's a pesky ash problem, and the bloodthirsty cannibals really put a damper on things.
We're firm believers in the buddy system for this road trip. With...
Subject: English, Humanities, Literature, Video, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
A Puritan colony in the 1600s may not be your idea of a good time (to be honest, it's not the Puritans' idea of a good time either), but we have to give these folks some credit. They really knew how to turn an unforgiving New England winter into…an u...
Subject: High School, English, Literature | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12, College -
Have you ever felt like you just didn't get it?
You have something in common with Meursault, the un-heroic hero of Albert Camus' The Stranger. Even if you've never dozed through your mother's funeral, killed a man in Reno (er, Algiers) just to watch...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
You ever feel like the only people who understand you are people your own age?
Well, Ernest Hemingway would like to prove you wrong. We know this Santa-looking beardo probably doesn't seem like he can appreciate anything besides a nice glass of milk...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
It's a dark and stormy night, and people on a boat are worried for their lives. But then—ta-da—they magically land on an island safe and sound.
Suspicious?
Um, yeah. Prospero, the main man in The Tempest, has been orchestrating this whole shipwreck ...
Subject: Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
What are the two things you're never supposed to talk about in polite company? Politics and religion. And the first five books of the Bible have them both—in spades.
So yeah, the Torah can be a touchy subject. Nothing can derail a nice evening out w...
Subject: Humanities, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
We won't lie: The Waste Land is a doozy. It's generally considered the 20th century's most important poem—and as you might expect, that means it's also one of the most challenging. Fortunately for us, it's a challenge we're well equipped to conquer. A...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
In The World According to Dr. Seuss, you'll be in for much more than just goofy rhyming (though there's plenty of that). Over the course of three weeks, we'll go behind the scenes and see how Dr. Seuss tackles all sorts of issues, from war, racism,...
Subject: Humanities, Literature | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks -
Forget the stuffy, straight-laced novels that often take center stage in the literary world. Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is straight-up hilarious, with characters so real that they jump off the page and experiences so true that...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Their Eyes Were Watching God follows the courageous Janie as she takes a journey on the path toward self discovery. (We don’t know what took her so long...we discovered her in the very first paragraph...)
Anyway, in this course, you'll watch ten v...
Subject: Literature, English, Humanities, Video, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Once upon a time, European imperialists showed up uninvited on the doorsteps of the Igbo peoples of Nigeria, who were probably all like, "are you lost?" The imperialists told the Igbo that their gods were false, their ways were primitive, and their...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Are you afraid of the boogeyman? Do you check under the bed before you go to sleep to make sure there aren't any monsters waiting for you?
Of course not. That's kids' stuff.
Well, what if we told you that being afraid doesn't go away when you get...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 8, 9, 10 -
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all U.S. history courses should possess certain inalienable qualities, that among these they should be engaging, sprinkled with puns and pop-culture references, and filled to the brim with fun facts that...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8 -
Daniel Day-Lewis will tell you that the Civil War was all about slavery, and largely it was. But like everything in history, it was a lot more complicated than even an awesome movie could explain. But you know what can explain it? Shmoop, of course!...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Middle School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 8 -
Shmoop's U.S. History: 1877-Present course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Shmoop's U.S. History: 1877-Present course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 11 -
We wish we could tell you that Uncle Tom's Cabin is the feel-good story of an old man named Uncle Tom and his stately cabin, where he learns to live, laugh, and love.
Unfortunately, Uncle Tom spends very little of the novel in his cabin…because he's s...
Subject: English, History and Social Sciences, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 10, 11, 12 -
Up until the 1970s, we experienced practically every form of popular entertainment in just about the same way. You sit in a living room, theater, or stadium, and you take in what's going on. You could cheer, boo, or leave, but it wasn't really going...
Subject: Humanities, Technology and Computer Science, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Unless you've been living under a rock, we're guessing you're not a total noob when it comes to the internet. Maybe you play online games with your pals. Maybe you surf the web for the latest John Cena merchandise. Or maybe you have a secret YouTube...
Subject: Life Skills, Video, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's Women's Literature course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10 -
Shmoop's Women's Studies course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of California...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, Humanities, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
World Geography à la Shmoop is not:
- Memorization
- Dressing up in costumes for a few rounds of Model UN
- Letting Europe get off the hook for that whole imperialism thing
On the other hand, Shmoop's World Geography is a full year of multi-faceted study ...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
And you thought the Americas and Europe were messed up: Semester B of Shmoop's World Geography takes on the following heavies:
- Exploited resources everywhere from Africa to Antarctica
- Centuries of unresolved Asian infighting
- Determining your tax-write...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Shmoop's World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10 -
Shmoop's World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 10 -
If you're looking for political backstabbing, advanced military strategy, and literal flamethrowers, then you've come to the right place: Shmoop's
Dungeons & Dragons campaignWorld War I course.Lasting four years, WWI was an earth-shattering...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
Just twenty years after the end of World War I—which was supposed to be the "war to end all wars"—the planet found itself embroiled in yet another world war. You'd think people would've learned their lesson the first time around, arewerite?
Yet, t...
Subject: History and Social Sciences, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 2 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
So you know how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich…but can you write about it?
You have to admit that there's more to writing than just telling someone how to satisfy the PB&J munchies. What if your reader isn't interested in getting their n...
Subject: College Prep, English, Writing, High School | Course Type: Basic | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 12 -
Writing a college entrance essay is intimidating, and it frequently rates a seven on most students' lists of "Ten things that are only slightly better than getting a root canal in a gas station bathroom." You probably feel like your essay can make the...
Subject: College Prep, Writing, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
Welcome one and all to the wonderful world of SAT Essay writing! To a good portion of us that world isn't so wonderful. Think the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog's bloodied lair—nightmarish. So, we created this short SAT Essay course to assuage your e...
Subject: College Prep, Writing, Test Prep, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 1 weeks | Grade Level: 11, 12 -
When Emily Brontë set pen to paper to write Wuthering Heights, she probably had no idea that she was about to change the face of romance forever. Heathcliff was the hot shot heard 'round the world, and almost two centuries later, even Bella Swan is ...
Subject: English, Literature, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 -
History = yawn.
Okay, not really, but sometimes it seems that way. Well, Shmoopers, we have a surefire way to make history come alive: historical fiction. By looking at history through the eyes of imaginary characters, we're able to think about the...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Short Course | Course Length: 3 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10 -
Shmoop's Young Adult Literature course has been granted a-g certification, which means it has met the rigorous iNACOL Standards for Quality Online Courses and will now be honored as part of the requirements for admission into the University of...
Subject: English, Literature, Middle School, High School | Course Type: Elective | Course Length: 18 weeks | Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10