WEBSITES/Language Arts Teachers
Authors
Charlotte Bronte
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/BS-Charlotte.html
http://www.erieplayhouse.com/extra/janeeyre/janecompose.htm
Emily Bronte
www.victorianweb.org
www.uiowa.edu/~c016003a/conditionengland.htm
Chaucer (teacher developed site)
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/varia/life_of_Ch/ch-life.html
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/canttales/sirthop/hoccport.htm
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/dpp/1998082601
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucadd.htm
http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/chaucer/images.htm
http://historymedren.about.com/library/weekly/aa082799.htm
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/library/burial/chaucer.htm
In 1949 Arthur Miller wrote an article for The New York Times defending his use of a common man is an otherwise
classically tragic story
http://vccslitonline.cc.va.us/tragedy/milleressay.htm
An Interview with Arthur Miller
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/miller_2-10.html
Art to Enchant: Illustrators and Shakespeare
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/exhibits/enchant/
Illustrated/Shakespeare
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html
Hamlet in the Classroom
http://www.unibas.ch/shine/linkstraghamletwf5.html#on-line%20editions
Professor Michael Delahoyde's site (Washington State University)
http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/shakespeare/index.html
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet:
http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/default.htm
Two self-scored objective tests on Hamlet from Gonzaga:
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl102/quiz/hamquiz.htm
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl102/quiz/hamlet2.htm
Study of Shakespeare and rhetoric:
http://ehs.lps.org/academics/McAuliffe/application_and_assessment.html
Chinua Achebe
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebe.htm
William Faulkner:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
Toni Morrison: Beloved
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/beloved.htm
American Slave Narratives
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
Toni Morrison's Novels
http://www.az.com/~andrade/morrison/start.html
Features - Toni Morrison's Feminist Portrayal of Racism
http://www.csmonitor.com/1998/0129/012998.feat.books.1.html
Tim O'Brien/keynote address at Brown University's WRITING
VIETNAM conference.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WritingVietnam/obrienpreface.html
The New Republic archive of classic reviews
http://www.tnr.com/arch/hs/
John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
http://www.calhum.org/programs/grapes_links.htm
A variety of authors
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
Language
Online Writing Lab:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
The Writing Program:
not opening
Jack Lynch, “Getting an A on an English Paper”
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/EngPaper/
Elements of Style:
http://www.bartleby.com/141/
OR
The Writing Assistant:
http://www.powa.org/
Guide to Grammar and Writing:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Grammar:
http://ccc.comnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm
Grammar
http://college.hmco.com/english/white/argument/1e/students/grammar/minimal.html
Grammar Bytes:
http://www.chompchomp.com
Writer’s Guide:
"A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices"
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
American Rhetoric (Dedicated to rhetoric and public communication in the U.S. -- archive of speeches
www.americanrhetoric.com/
Grammar tips:
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm
The Writing Den
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/contents.htm
English Learners’ Site
http://www.english-zone.com/
Resources for Writers:
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/departments/currdept/curroff/documents/DCGwriting6-8.pdf
Language Conventions
http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/language_conventions.htm
"How to Write a Summary"
http://cwl.oregonstate.edu/h-sum.html
Literary
A Handbook of rhetorical terms at Virtual Salt has excellent examples
of these and many other terms. Address below.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
Literary terms
Effective for literary terms flashcards:
http://home.cfl.rr.com/eghsap/apterms.html
http://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/msjhs/staff/brunak/litterms.html
Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.browse.pl?au=AB
Literary Criticism
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/indexcriticism.cfm
Literary Criticism:
Arts and Letters, a gold mine
http://artsandlettersdaily.com/
Criticism and Literary Theory
http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/modules/lit204/site/links.html
Literary Resources:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/
English Resources from UK
http://www.teachit.co.uk/
Internet Medieval Source Book:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
Virtual Literature (a site supported by Bedford St. Martins Anthology of Literature)
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/elements.asp?e=4
Southern Folktales and Ghost Stories:
http://www.themoonlitroad.com/welcome001.html
Romantic Circles:
http://www.rc.umd.edu/
American Literature:
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/index.htm
English and American Literature:
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=350
Resources for Study of English
http://www.engl.uvic.ca/resources.html
Frankenstein resources
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/frankenstein.html
Gutenberg bibles /in Latin:
http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp
American Literature Timeline:
http://www.studyguide.org/am_lit_timeline.htm
British Lit Timeline:
http://www.studyguide.org/brit_lit_timeline.htm
Heart of Darkness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Hypertext Annotation
http://caxton.stockton.edu/hod/
Achebe/Heart of Darkness
http://caxton.stockton.edu/hod/achebe
Romeo and Juliet Webquest
http://cmcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/webquest/moran/rj.htm
Short stories focusing on point of view
"A Telephone Call" Dorothy Parker
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/teleycal.html
"A and P" John Updike
http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/
"The Use of Force" William Carlos Williams
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/force.html
or
http://www.fti.uab.es/sgolden/docencia/force.htm
"Mademoiselle Pearl" Guy de Maupassant
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.530/
or
http://www.readprint.com/work-1150/Guy-de-Maupassant
"The Tryst" Ivan Turgenev
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/turgenev/ivan/t93s/chapter19.html
Short Stories focusing on non-participant point of view
"The Only Rose" Sarah Orne Jewett
http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/lon/onlyrose.htm
"The Story of an Hour" Kate Chopin
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/StorHour.shtml
"The Boarding House" James Joyce
http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/955/
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" Katherine Anne Porter
http://people.morrisville.edu/~whitnemr/html/The%20Jilting%20of%20Granny%20Weatherall.htm
"The Minister's Black Veil" Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/mbv.html
"The Shadow in the Rose Garden" D. H. Lawrence
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/prussian/chapter7.html
Poetry
Poetry/literary terms resource
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/poets/poems/
Irish poets, thematically paired with comprehension and discussion questions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/poetry/index.shtml
Links to literary journals, chapbooks, and
online poetry sites.
http://webdelsol.com/f-bostoncomment.htm
Poetry Site:
http://www.hti.umich.edu/all/
Poetry/multimedia
http://schoolhousebooksweb.com/Poetrylist.html
John Donne
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/
Poetry Daily
http://www.poems.com/
:
Click the poet's name to see a list of literary criticism:
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Outline.htm
Rock n' Roll lesson
plans:
www.rockhall.com
Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, Poetry 180, a poem for every school day not to be studied and analyzed but to be enjoyed
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
Allusions in songs:
Annotated Grateful Dead site.
References to Hamlet, folktales, nursery rhymes, etc. Each allusion is linked to its explanation.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/
Songs Inspired by Literature
http://www.siblproject.org
Also, Mark Miazga has a wonderful web site for African American poetry
http://www.msu.edu/~miazgama/aapoets.htm
. I used portions of it last year with my regular 11th grade class and they loved it--particularly, the contest, the social
issue poems ("Power" project was a great hit), and the tie in to music.
"The World is Too Much with Us"
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww317.html
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html
"It Is a Beauteous Evening Calm and Free"
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww211.html
Shelley
"Ozymandias"
http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/672/
Coleridge
"Kubla Khan"
http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/640/
"Frost at Midnight"
http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/639/
Keats
"On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"
http://www.bartleby.com/126/24.html
"When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"
http://www.bartleby.com/126/52.html
References
Met Museum, slide and info presentation/unit on The Art of Renaissance Europe
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/publications/renaissance.htm
College Board
http://www.collegeboard.org/index.html
Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/
Dictionaries, Thesauri, Almanacs:
http://www.lib.purdue.edu/
Elements of Style:
http://www.bartleby.com/strunk/
Quotations:
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
Symbolism dictionary:
http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/
Oxymoron site:
http://www.oxymorons.com/oxymorons.html
Vocabulary
http://www.vocabula.com/VRlinks.htm
http://us.penquingroup.com/static/
Go to html/services-academic
Then teachersguides.html
Literary e-texts
Essays, novels, novellas, short stories, poem
http://www.PageByPageBooks.com/authorlist.html
Project Bartleby
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/
Classic Short Stories
http://www.bnl.com/shorts/
Internet Poetry Archive
http://metalab.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/
Donne: "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/indextitle.html
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/cavanaugh.htm
http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-2/gortjohn.htm
Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
ETEXT Archives
http://www.etext.org/
Sonnet Central
http://www.sonnets.org/
Lost Poets of the Great War:
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/
Poetry Online: Emily Dickinson’s Poems Read Aloud
http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/poetry/laura_lee_parrotti.htm
Lyrics:
http://letssingit.com/
Bibliomania: free on line literature and study guides:
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Classic Literature (but "classic" here include Secret Garden and Tom Swift..)
http://www.classicreader.com/
Short stories, classic and contemporary, a fun site
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
The ON-Line Books Page at Penn
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Teacher Projects and/or AP Class
Beowulf Resources
http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/beowulf.html
PowerPoint on Beowulf
http://titan.sfasu.edu/~beenet/resources/powerpnt.htm
Tom Murphy, AP teacher, Class site
An Index to The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
http://www.brtom.org/tttc/tttc1.html
WebQuest on Shakespeare
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webshakespero.html
Vinylletter.signsbybuddy.com
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
Click on AP/IB
Then go to center of page and click on Advanced Placement English 12
http://folk.ntnu.no/fossumj/PicassoBull.jpg
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n3_v81/ai_13609943
www.nicenet.org
This is a discussion board website for teachers that is free
http://www97.intel.com/en/ThinkingTools/SeeingReason/Overview/
I love this website to help teach students about logic...there are even teacher units on this related to English.
Cheap Book Sites:
www.townsendpress.com
All books are $1.00--Many classics
www.bookdepot.com
Wholesale (minimum purchase required)
www.bookcloseouts.com
50%-90% discount
Lists of urls for individual works such as The Awakening, Billy Budd, Beowulf/Grendel, Invisible Man, Oedipus,
Hamlet, Frankenstein and Faustus/Sample student work
http://staff.norman.k12.ok.us/~sandrae/index.html
--Cindy Adams
www.studyguide.org
Timelines
http://www2.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html
Cartoons
For those who use cartoons as prompts to discussion or writing or to
help teach tone, mood, satire, and such, Slate has a collection of tens
of thousands of newspaper and magazine cartoons. The site has some
lesson ideas, but the big attraction is the search feature. It starts
at:
http://cagle.slate.msn.com/
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/i/irony.asp
AP resources
http://www.richterap.com/index.html
Potpourri
Visit this dynamic Wiki. You can add resources to this site and use it with colleagues!
www.virtuallearningtools.pbwiki.com
Password: SVL
Satire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
Homework Hub
http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm
Short Stories
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
Teaching fallacies/ Max Shulman’s “ Love is a Fallacy
Narrative voice by Sara Tusek
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=543
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" is reprinted on this site
http://people.whitman.edu/~hashimiy/zora.htm
Metaphor/Metonymy examples
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~bmauer/metaphor_metonymy.html
Free Downloadable books from Georgia Professor”s website:
Smith's book on unreliable narrators is on this site
http://www.coe.uga.edu/~smago/Books/Free_Downloadable_Books.htm
Science sites from Mary Mitchell, FLVS
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/basics/tour/
http://www.zerobio.com/toxin/dna_0.htm
http://medmyst.rice.edu/html/mission3.html
http://medmyst.rice.edu/html/mission2.html
http://medmyst.rice.edu/html/mission1.html
http://www.zerobio.com/drag_gr11/mono.htm
http://www.zerobio.com/drag_gr11/organell.htm
http://www.zerobio.com/translate.htm
http://www.accessexcellence.org/
http://www.newscientist.com/specials.ns
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/
http://www.aaas.org/
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/
How to Do research
http://www.kyvl.org/html/kids/f_homebase.html
Compiled by Sharon Johnston, sharonj@spokaneschools.org
Updated June 2007