Ontario OER Collection: Recent submissions

  • Introduction to Field Placement 
    Jones, Melanie (Sault College, 2022-02-28)
    This Introduction to Field Placement resource includes three interactive online modules designed to prepare community services students, specifically Child and Youth Care students, for field placement. The modules ...
  • Second Treatise of Government 
    Locke, John (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Second Treatise (1689)—the second essay in Two Treatises of Government—is a work of political philosophy by English philosopher and physician John Locke. Using natural rights and contract theory as the basis, the essay ...
  • Oedipus Rex 
    Sophocles (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Written by Sophocles and first performed around 429 BC, Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy. Originally, to the ancient Greeks, the title was simply ...
  • On Liberty 
    Mills, John Stuart (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    On Liberty (1859) is a philosophical essay by English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Using Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism in application to society and state, he suggests standards for the relationship between ...
  • Oroonoko 
    Behn, Aphra (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Oroonoko (1688)—full title Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave—is a short work of prose fiction by English poet and writer Aphra Behn. This text is a first-person account of Oroonoko's life and his ensuing journey after the ...
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray 
    Wilde, Oscar (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) is a philosophical novel by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde; it is his only novel. The story centre's on Dorian Gray, the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist ...
  • Poems by Claude McKay 
    McKay, Claude (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    This poetry anthology contains poems from Claude Mckay's Songs of Jamaica (1912), Constab Ballads (1912), Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920), and Harlem Shadows (1922).
  • Poetics 
    Aristotle (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Poetics (circa 335 BC) by Aristotle is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first surviving philosophical essay to focus on literary theory. Aristotle divides the art of poetry into three genres: verse ...
  • Roughing it in the Bush 
    Moodie, Susanna (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Roughing It in the Bush (1852)—full title Roughing It in The Bush: or, Forest Life in Canada—is a novel by English-born writer Susanna Moodie who immigrated to Upper Canada, near modern-day Peterborough, Ontario during the ...
  • Sketches of Southern Life 
    Harper, Frances (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    Sketches of Southern Life (1872) is a poetry anthology by American abolitionist and writer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Using topics like family, education, religion, slavery, and Reconstruction, the anthology is a ...
  • The Awakening 
    Chopin, Kate (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Awakening (1899) is a novel by American author Kate Chopin; it marks early feminism as it was one of the earliest American novels to focus on women's issues without condescension. The novel centers on Edna Pontellier ...
  • North and South 
    Gaskell, Elizabeth (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    North and South (1854) is a social novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The novel follows Margaret Hale as she is forced to leave her home in the tranquil, rural south and settle with her parents in the fictional ...
  • The Book of Small 
    Carr, Emily (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Book of Small (1942) is a novel by Canadian author and painter Emily Carr. It is an early childhood memoir consisting of thirty-six word sketches in which the author relates anecdotes about her life as a young girl ...
  • The Cask of Amontillado 
    Poe, Edgar Allan (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846) is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Set in Italy in an unspecified year, the story is about a man, Montresor, luring his former friend Fortunato to a fatal immurement for ...
  • The Communist Manifesto 
    Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Communist Manifesto (1848)—originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party—is a pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Manifesto was commissioned by the Communist League and first published ...
  • The Federalist Papers 
    Hamilton, Alexander; Madison, James (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Federalist Papers (published between October 1787 and May 1788) is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by statesmen and Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. The articles were ...
  • The Future of the American Negro 
    Washington, Booker T. (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Future of the American Negro (1899) is a novel by American educator Booker T. Washington. The novel presented his opinions on the history of enslaved and freed African-American people, as well as his ideas regarding ...
  • The Great Gatsby 
    Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Great Gatsby (1925) is a novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel follows Nick Carraway, a young bond salesman, and his strange interactions and ensuing friendship with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby ...
  • The Island of Doctor Moreau 
    Wells, H.G. (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The novel follows Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is then left on the island home of Doctor ...
  • The Life History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, 1847 
    Copyway, George (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022-02-15)
    The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847) is a published memoir by Native American author George Copway. The novel centers on his life and time as a missionary. Not only did the novel make him Canada's ...

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