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American Slanguages is the Hick-to-Hip translation guide. More than you ever wanted to know about slang (in several different languages). A Glossary of Rhetorical Devices is the place to go if you ever need to know what a chiasmus is. A Glossary of Literary Theory is organized alphabetically and defines hundreds of literary terms. Library of Congress Exhibitions are sort of amazing. For example, the Language of the Land exhibition includes an object list -- downloadable images, including literary maps, original illustrations, timelines, and authors photographs. Don't overlook the Thomas section, legislative information on the internet. Poetic Terms has nearly a hundred pages of terms, with examples and cross-referenced lnks. Online Books Page is a large, searchable list of 11,000+ online texts, all free, all in the public domain. this site does not actually house the tests, but regularly updates links to those texts. Project Gutenberg was originally conceived as a computer repository of printed material, and their database keeps growing and growing. This site is one of the reasons the Internet thrives -- online books, online short stories, online government documents, and online... Categories: News, Links, Newsletters, Articles, Etext Listings Quotations Page and quoteland.com offer pre-sorted quotes in various formats -- by subject, author, daily, weekly, literary, funny, etc. RhymeZone is much more than a great rhyming dictionary (and who could ever figure out how to use those things anyway?). Start with the Help Page so you can see all the possibilities. |
BookSpot is a starting place, withy links to links pages, various lists, etc. Save youtr self the trouble of hunting down Bookwire's author page -- start here. Federal Resources for Teachers (Language Arts) includes literature resources from various sites, as well as extensive listings for reading, writing, and history. LitLinks, maintained by Bedford St, Martin's publishers, is select, but always useful. Includes excellent annotations. Literary Resources on the Net, the famous site maintained by Jack Lynch, has almost anything you want to find about literacy, categorized (e.g.., Renaissance, American, Theatre and Drama, Women's Literature, etc.)--a good place to start your research. Start of the Hero's Journey is an interactive exploration of Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. You can learn about the model, study examples, and create your own hero adventure at this gorgeous site. Turner Classic Movies By The Book! originated in 1997 to connect eight classic novels to their best film versions. Study guides are innovatove and creative, with before, during, and after activities. If there was ever a reason to read a book and show its movie, this site is why. In 1998, they added eight plays in Stage to Screen. In 199, the focus was on six English Literature classics. Lives on Film features biographical connections. The entire Turner Learning site is well worth a look. You know, CNN and all that, too. Zuzu's Petals includes over 10,000 organized links. It's searchable and reliable. Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection collects links to evaluative or explanatory writings about works of literature, primarily academic in nature. This is the place to start for serous research. |
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Author Ring will introduce you to the world of webrings, these all "official" sites of published authors. It takes some time clicking and looking, but you may be pleasantly surprised. You may even want to explore (or start) your own specialized webring. The Offical Eric Carle Web Site is fun for anyone who every loved The Hungry Caterpillar, but kids will love its art and writing tips. And, yes, he will answer his email. Jan Brett Page shares so much. You can print out coloring pages, calendars, postcards, and much more. Sanctioned by the artist, with some stuff just for the web. Surely, over 4,000,000 visitors can't be wrong. The Virginia Hamilton Home Page is another child friendly site. CNN Hemingway Retrospective is an example of excellence, this time presenting an overview of a writer's whole career. Exploring The Catcher in the Rye is an incredible example of how a website can serve an educational purpose beautifully. One of the best on the web! NY Times Featured Author: Ralph Ellison offers a career perspective and a worthwhile reason to join the newspaper's online version. It's free, but you can't get there without registering. Using Invisible Man as an example, you might want to explore some of the other teacher resources on the internet.
Writing with Writers from Scholastic are writing seminars guided by well-known authors. Each follows the writing process, ending with published student writing and completion certificates. Other features include author biographies, comments, and teacher guides. Seminars include --
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Academy of American Poets has excellent resources on individul poets, including many works and external links to dedicated websites. Check out the Listening Booth. Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages includes poems, articles, interviews, discussion groups. The Audible Anthology features poets reading their own poetry ( Richard Wilbur's "The Disappearing Alphabet" ) and some multiple readings of the same poem ( William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 116", Elizabeth Bishop's "Sonnet", and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress."). Favorite Poem Project, begun by Robert Pinsky, 39th Poet Laureate, asks people to read their favorite poem. Simple, but powerful, and now available with online video clips. Needs RealPlayer for viewing. Magnetic Poetry offers a Teacher's Guide in PDF format, an online version, and publishes a magnetic poetry anthology. Poetry Archives is the largest collection of free classical poetry on the internet, whereby users can search through the database by author, title, and first line of poem. Poetry Resource collects links to other poetry sites. Categories include Poets, Poems, Poetry Around the World, Poetry through Time, Organizations, Publishers, and more. U B U W E B fascinates with its visual, concrete, and sound poetry -- strange, very strange. |
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet says it all -- and has links to the most useful websites. Folger Library : Teaching Shakespeare presents lesson plans and resources for teaching many of the plays. Shakespeare : For Teachers and Students is a megasite, with the links to everything else. Subdivided by individual plays. extensive, and usually updated regualrly so links are accurate. Shakespeare Illustrated represents years of work finding, scanning, and linking all the art derived from Shakespeare's plays. Wow! Shakespeare with Footnotes actually has the complete text of each play, but uses links to definitions and annotations instead of the usual footnotes or sidenotes found in old-fashioned books. Hamlet from TNT Learning is just one of the free teaching units. Real classroom teachers must have designed the lessons, but real artists created some of the beautiful webpages. Find time to explore this great site. All the World's a Stage -- a real CyberCourse and they have more! Even a CyberCourse on how to create a cybercourse!
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ABCs of the Writing Process offers wonderful handouts and lessons for teaching every step of the writing process in several different genres. Though aimed at middle school classes, everything can be easily adapted for younger or older students. A+ Research and Writing from the Internet Public Library is the absolute best source for writing a research paper, using internet resources. Dedicated to the writing process, the librarians who developed this site even include tips on how to use search engines. Links include content-specific sites suitable for scholarly work. Guide to Grammar and Writing offers interactive grammar and usage tutorials and tests. Dr. Darling, an expatriate Oklahoman, takes his own thesis sentence and develops it into an essay. You'll love his stylistic analysis of the "Gettysburg Address." International Writing Center Association has links to virtually every online writing center and has links that go straight to the handouts available. Why type your own when the best are available for downloading? Only a Matter of Opinion? focuses on persuasive and pertinent prose -- editorials, columns, editorial cartoons, but also covers citing evidence, quotations, fallacies of logic, revision, usage, audience, etc. The Research Center, linked to search engines and online newspapers, provides an excellent starting point for online research for anyone -- not just someone writing fiction. The teacher section includes lesson ideas, case studies, models for teaching, and an idea exchange. A ThinkQuest Student Winner. PIZZAZ! (People Interested in Zippy and Zany Zcribbling) is a great site for elementary and middle school writing, with formulas, directions, online publishing, links to similar sites, and teacher resources. Pizzaz is is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable handouts for use with students of all ages. Researchpaper.com provides topics and links for research papers in all subject areas. Aimed at student writers, it steers them away from plagiarism. The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors by Bill Walsh, a copy editor for The Washinton Post. He knows whereof he writes. Also includes a model online resume (with personal digressions for personal information). |
Book-a-Minute is brilliant, even if it's hard for an English teacher to admit it. Moby Dick in 25 words or less. Enjoy other English Teacher fun like Find A Grave, Literary Hyper-Calendar, or Poetry Daily. Cable in the Classroom -- Everything you ever needed to know about what's on TV, when, and the teacher's guides to go with the programs. Mail Merge (a.k.a. Mad-Libs) can be an English teacher's friend. Explore the Shakespearean Insulter, or a Rhyme Generator. Cyber English Syllaweb is a good place to start for lesson plans developed by a real classroom teacher. Text-intensive, but well-organized and frequently updated. S.C.O.R.E. CyberGuides is some kind of English Teacher Heaven! Hundreds of the most often taught titles are available. CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction, designed for the classroom with at least one online computer. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and assessment tools. Also includes links to graphic organizers, journal ideas, and grading rubrics. Broken down by grade levels K-3, 4-6, 6-8, 9-12 and Spanish titles. Traci's Lists of Tens -- 28 printable activities in Tens, from Letter-Writing Projects to Activities for the Academy Awards. Creative, interdisciplinary. Worth a wow! So good that Traci now works for N.C.T.E. as their webmaster. She's also in charge of NCTE Teaching Ideas (searchable by content). Virtual Fieldtrips created with their TourMaker software software (downloadable to try before you buy for $24.95 -- Windows only). Especially interesting ones are listed below:
Web English Teacher is a great resource designed just for us. Organized by subject and grade levels. |
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Updated 17 January 2004.