Authors
and Their Works:
·American
Authors on the Web-a
list of links 1550-1950
·Chico
High School Library Author Links
·F.
Scott Fitzgerald by the
·George
Orwell, Animal Farm, & Utopias - A
collection of links organized for the use of C.H.S. English students, as
they read Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
·Great
Writers from Book Lovers many links to great writers web pages.
·To
Kill a Mockingbird and Harper Lee - links to resources and writings.
·IQ
Infinity: The Unknown James Joyce many great links about James Joyce
·Jack
London Collection links about Jack London
·Life
and Works of Herman Melville - The
Life and Works of Herman Melville is a publication dedicated
to disseminating information about Herman Melville on the Internet and
the World Wide Web.
·Mark
Twain in Cyberspace - Here's our annotated list of some outstanding
Mark Twain-related sites and other resources on the Internet.
·Mark
Twain Resources On the WWW from about.com
·Pulitzer
Prizes 2001
·Steinbeck
Research Center by
·To
Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now-this
website contains primary source documents, lesson plans, and student work.
Criticism
and Book Reviews
·Internet
Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
- This site can be searched or browsed by author, title, or nationality
and literary period.
·Literary
Resources on the Net http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
- The literary categories range from Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance
to Theory, Ethnicities, and Hypertext.
·LSU
Libraries Webliography Author Guideshttp://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/auth-main.html
- A menu of literary authors with texts and criticism.
·New
Pages Onlinehttp://www.newpages.com/NPGuides/reviews.htm
- This is a menu of links to professional literary criticism from such
sources as Arts and Letters Daily, Biblio, and Booklist.
·Under
the Covers Book Reviewshttp://www.silcom.com/~manatee/utc.html
- For those who like to browse before deciding what to read.
·Eds
Internet Book Reviewhttp://www.edsbookreview.com/
- Brief book reviews.
·The
Complete Review
http://www.complete-review.com/maindex/maindex.html
- This is described as a book preview and review site.
·American
Authors on the Web - General
Resources (Alphabetical Listing)
·American
Literature: 1820-1890 a wonderful site
for literary research.
·Anthology
of Middle English Literature- ChaucerGawain
LanglandLyrics
PlaysJulian
KempeMalory
EverymanEssays
Sources
·Banned
Books Page - Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been
the objects of censorship or censorship attempts.
·Biography.
. .includes
a searchable and browsable online collection of 15,000 cross-referenced
biographies from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
·Biography
Cybersearch.
. . lists biographical resources links- This
page is for all you out there seeking personal biographies on famous people
throughout history. It should save a bit of WWW searching for those surfers
who need biographical profiles
·BookBrowser- BookBrowser
is a site dedicated to reading. We offer fiction reading lists, book reviews,
forthcoming titles, author information and much more.
·BookWire
- a comprehensive guide to the book-related resources of the Internet and
includes book reviews, author information, book-related events, links to
publishers and booksellers, a book-related cartoons gallery, and other
related topics.
·A
Celebration of Women Writers-
recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history.
·Creative
Quotations -this searchable database
of quotes includes more than 10,000 quotations from 1,500 people.
·CyberGuides
for Literature9-12
supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered
on core works of literature. They are designed for the classroom with one
online computer.
·Cybrary
for Middle School and Beyond- literature
and writing resources links.
·Dramatic
Exchange - a catalog of plays, dedicated to archiving and distributing
scripts, a place for playwrights to "publish" and distribute their plays,
a place for producers to find new plays they might want to produce, and
a place for anyone who is interested in drama to browse.
·Education
Index of Literature Resources -Literary
resource links.
·Electronic
Reference Formats Recommended by APA - one
of the major style guides for academic writing, has revised their guidelines
for electronic citations.
·English
Server - a cooperative that has published humanities texts to the Internet
since 1990. They offer links to many English resources, which will be useful
in many types of study.
·Glossary
of Literary Terms and a Handbook of Rhetorical Devices-
including an introduction and a self test
·IPL:
Online Literary Criticism Collection- The
IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4492 critical and biographical
websites
·King
Arthur - King Arthur & the Matter of
·The
Labyrinth - resources for medieval studies.
·Legends-
a personal journey through the worlds of Robin Hood, King Arthur, D'Artagnan,
and other swashbuckling characters of balladry, fiction, and film, from
the shores of Avalon to the dungeons of Zenda.
·Librarian's
Index to the Internet - comprehensive topical
index of valuable sites.
·The
Moonlit Road-
interesting ghost stories and strange folktales of the American South,
told by the region's most celebrated storytellers.
·Mrs.
Matzat's Language Arts Web Site -from
a 7th/8th grade English teacher; includes class policies, lesson plans,
grading rubrics, links, and student writing; an excellent site for any
English teacher to use as a guide.
·National
Council of Teachers of English - The National Council of Teachers of
English
·On-line
Books Page -This is the front page for an index of hundreds of on-line
books. It also points to some common repositories of on-line books and
other documents.
·Only
a Matter of Opinion? - Editorials, columns,
and editorial cartoons are classified as opinion pieces.
·Perspectives
in American Literature - very good lit site;
a research and reference guide organized chronologically.
·Pilot-Search.com
- arts and technology search engine.
·Project
Bartleby (Columbia University) - great books
online.
·Publishers'
Catalogs/U.S.- Search
across millions of documents within Electric Library!
·Quotations
Page get a quotation of the day or any other quotation.
·Random
House: teachers@random-
a resource center packed with teacher's guides, thematic and interdisciplinary
indexes, reader's companions, author and illustrator biographies, and more.
·Renaissance
Forum Resources-
An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies
·San
Antonio Public Library's Fiction Homepage-
a good listing of resources including booklists, author information, and
genre websites.
·Student's
History of American Literature poets and writer by time.
·Tales
of Wonder - collection of online folk and fairy tales from around the
world; organized by culture, region and country.
·Virtual
Learning Resource Center - search specific
Internet information portals, news sources, full text magazines, electronic
text archives, and info by topics.
·Vocabulary.com-
vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary masters; these exercises help
prepare for SSAT®, PSAT®, GED®, SAT® and ACT® tests.
GRAMMAR
·Blue
Web'n - ( 3-12) provides an online library of 20 lesson plan sites
for English. The site is updated weekly, grammar, and poetry.
·Capitalization-
much more a handbook about grammar
·Grammar
Links - you must visit this site if you teach grammar
·Grammar
Lady - Look in the English Grammar section for interesting information
relating to grammar.
·Grammar:
The Eight Parts Of Speech - Traditional grammar classifies words based
on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective,
the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.
·Guide
To Grammar And Writing - Be sure to try the interactive quizzes.
·Hypergrammar
- contains a wide variety of information about grammar.
·Parts
Of Speech - an interactive tutorial on the eight parts of speech.
·Pop-Up
Grammar - test your knowledge of grammar.
·On-Line English Grammar - Use the "Index of Subject Headings" to locate grammatical information.
Poetry
·Academy
of American Poets-
includes, among other features, a listening booth where you can hear poems
read by their authors, a number of interesting historic and thematic exhibits,
and a list of featured poets.
·Chico
High School Library Res. for English - English
Language and Literature Resources From the
·Poetry
Archives - Welcome
to our ever-expanding archive of classical poetry. If this is your first
visit to the archive, welcome and feel free to browse through the thousands
of poems we have collected
·Poetry
Pals - K-12 Integrated Internet Projects
Mythology
·Anglo-Saxon
Culture-resources
such as Beowulf, images from the Book of Kells, and links to other resources
related to Medieval Period studies.
·Classics
Pages a great site for students and teachers about the Classics
·Encyclopedia
Mythica . . . an on-line encyclopedia about mythology, folklore, legends,
and more which contains thousands of definitions of gods and goddesses,
supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over
the world.
·Greek
Mythology - an introduction to Ancient Greek Mythology which combines
information from a number of sources and attempts to be a comprehensive
reference work.
·Greek
Mythology (good biographies) a great site
·Hero's
Journey - An
environment to explore the classic mythical story structure and to create
your own stories.
·MythNet
Classics Unveiled
·Mythology
- Through these pages, find out about the gods and goddesses of different
cultures around the world, and the works of art people have created to
give them expression.
·Online
Class: Zeus Speaks - Welcome
to this interactive online study of Greek mythology. This is an interdisciplinary
curriculum that encourages history research and reinforcement of concepts
through drama and creative writing.
·World
Mythology: Myth by Image - visit the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
and look at this great collection of images from Ancient Egypt,
Shakespeare
·The
Elizabethan Theatre - a description of the theatres of the Shakespearean
and Elizabethan times. Illustrated.
·The
Falcon Education Link - summarize in a contemporary, chatty translation
the five acts of Hamlet and Macbeth.
·Globenext,
the Tragedy of Julius Caesar- includes
directors' insight, actors' interpretation, historians' perspective and
audience reaction.
·Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet - annotated,
scholarly guide to William Shakespeare, his works, life, and times and
includes a Shakespearean timeline, works (synopses of plays, study guides,
canons and more), criticism, critical resources, a bibliography, and even
a Shakespeare biography quiz.
·Works
of the Bard-
the collected works of Shakespeare online, includes a search engine.
General
Reference
·WWWebster
Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
- Quick to load and easy to use.
·WWWebster
Thesaurus http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm
- Quick to load and easy to use.
·Dictionary.Com
- http://dictionary.com/ - Includes
English grammar, usage, and style as well as a dictionary of jargon and
links to several other
online dictionaries.
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