Bartleby
Great Books Online
Sensory Learning: Visual
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy: Comprehension—discuss, explain
Bartleby provides free online access to literature, reference, and verse
to anyone. Free!
Process: 1. Go to www.bartleby.com. 2. Click the tabs at the top to search by reference,
verse, fiction, or nonfiction. 3. Type in your search query. 4. Click go. 5. Click on the link
you want to read the text online. Free!
Within each category (reference, verse, fiction, and nonfiction), you can search more specifically by clicking on
the down arrow and clicking on your specific author, text, reference item, etc.
URL
http://www.bartleby.com/
Alternatives:
Bartleby
allows anyone to search within certain
books, such as Gray’s Anatomy.
Buy the books featured on Bartleby,
or download free e-books from
http://www.amazon.com
Bartleby
In the Classroom
Have students peruse and
search famous works online.
Consider: If students are learning about a
certain author or literary genre, they can
search for authors and texts on Bartleby.
Not enough copies of Hamlet to send home with students? Those with Internet access can
read the play (and the other works of Shakespeare, for that matter) on Bartleby. No more excuses!
Bartleby is a great resource for
looking up specific texts by famous authors. For example,
Bartleby allows users to search for
quotations by a certain author. In
the Shakespeare section, for instance, users can browse famous
selections by Shakespeare
(including many of his sonnets).
Again, Bartleby is a great resource
for anyone who doesn’t have a
copy of the Complete Works of
Shakespeare on the shelf.
Copy and past text directly onto the computer. Project it onto the wall of a classroom, and have the students read
along. For example, go through parenthetical documentation with Skunk’s Elements of Style.