J-Term 2014 Heart of Darkness Annotation Project Goal: Students will create rich and informative annotations for passages from Heart of Darkness on Poetry Genius, making intertextual connections with other works of literature, literary criticism, and primary sources related to nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperialism. Assessment: Throughout...Learn More

Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules Of Hector and Lysander, and such great names as these But of all the world’s great heroes There’s none that can compare With a tow, row row row , row row row To the British Grenadiers None of these ancient heroes ne’er saw a cannon ball Nor knew the force of powder to slay their foes with...Learn More

WISHING, in a spirit of good and mutual accord, to regulate the conditions most favourable to the development of trade and civilization in certain regions of Africa, and to assure to all nations the advantages of free navigation on the two chief rivers of Africa flowing into the Atlantic Ocean; BEING DESIROUS, on the other hand, to obviate the...Learn More

But should not the German nation who is fundamentally so very capable, so seaworthy, so industrially and commercially minded ... successfully pave the way for this new course? ... It would be wise if we Germans would learn about colonial skills from our Anglo-Saxon cousins and would begin - in a friendly competition - to strive after them. When...Learn More

“They had endured such ill-treatment at the hands of the Government officials and soldiers that nothing had remained but to be killed for failure to bring in rubber or to die in their attempts to satisfy the demands.” “A widow came and declared that she had been forced to sell her daughter, a little girl about ten.… I found on returning that the...Learn More

When Britain first, at heaven’s command Arose from out the azure main Arose, arose, arose from out the azure main This was the charter, the charter of the land And guardian angels sang the strain Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves Britons never, never, never shall be slaves The nations not so blest as thee Must in their turn to...Learn More

"I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in motley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic, fabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had...Learn More

"One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard voices approaching -- and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling along the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost myself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: 'I am as harmless as a little child, but I don't like to be dictated to. Am I...Learn More

Against the deceit, fraud, robberies, arson, murder, slave-trading, and general policy of cruelty of your Majesty’s Government to the natives, stands their record of unexampled patience, long-suffering and forgiving spirit, which put the boasted civilisation and professed religion of your Majesty’s Government to the blush. During thirteen years...Learn More

The NELLIE, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the...Learn More

Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. Take up the White Man's burden-- In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show...Learn More