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17th
Century Literature
. . . an excellent
collection of links organized by authors and by literary
topics.
18th
Century Literature
. . . an excellent
collection of links organized by authors and by literary
topics.
19th
Century Literature
. . . an excellent
collection of links organized by authors and by literary
topics.
20th
Century Literature . .
. an excellent collection of links organized by authors and
by literary topics.
American
Authors on the Web . .
. general resources in alphabetical listing.
American
Literature: 1820-1890 .
. . terrific site for literary
research.
Anthology
of Middle English
Literature
. . . especially helpful
essays dealing with
Chaucer.
Banned
Books Page
Barr's
English Class
. . . created by an English
teacher for his classes, a good example for teachers, and
contains helpful ideas and links for students doing research
on literature topics.
Bartlett's
Familiar
Quotations
Biography
. .
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includes a searchable and
browsable online collection of 15,000 cross-referenced
biographies from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
The site also provides selected opening chapters and reviews
from best selling biographies, a quiz and anagram game, and
schedules of upcoming episodes of the Biography television
program.
Biography
Cybersearch
. . . lists biographical
resources links
BookBrowser
. . . created by two
librarians who offer fiction reading lists, book reviews,
forthcoming titles, author information and much more.
Books
in Chains . . . links
collected here represent the best of what I've found
relating to Literature, Authors, Drama, Film, Writing, and
Literary Magazines on the net, things that are generally put
under the rubric of "English Studies" in the contemporary
American University. It is not meant to be a comprehensive
index, but one which will get you to "much of the best" of
what's out there.
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. You can use special indexes to see quotes by a
person or quotes appropriate for particular times of the
year.
CyberGuides
for Literature
. . . supplementary,
standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered
on core works of literature. They are designed for the
classroom with 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 a rubric; especially helpful for teachers, but
also includes valuable links and ideas for students doing
research.
Cybrary
for Middle School and
Beyond .
. . literature and writing resources links.
Daily Grammar . . . posted by veteran English teacher
Bill Johanson from Canyon View Junior High; provides simple
and clear lessons on the basics of English grammar. Set up
in modules of five examples and a follow-up quiz, the
simplicity of the approach and the explanations make this a
great site for students to use themselves when they feel
they need self-paced remediation or enrichment.
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
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.
E-texts
Indexed by Title
. . . the Project Gutenberg
collection of books published
online.
Glossary
of Literary Terms and a Handbook of Rhetorical
Devices .
. . including an introduction and a self test
The
Grammar Lady . . . contains Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ's), Spelling Rules, a Question of the Week,
and a Grammar Hotline.
Hot
Paper Topics
. . . authoritative
resources on gun control, the death penalty, smoking,
welfare reform, andother common
topics
IPL:
Online Literary Criticism
Collection
. . . excellent site for
students doing research.
King
Arthur . . . a good listing of sources.
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.
Literary
History of the American
West
. . . sponsored by the
Western Literature Assn.
Literature
Resources for the High School & College Student
. . . an extensive
listing of links.
Middle
Ages and Old English
Literature
. . . an excellent
collection of links organized by authors and by literary
topics.
The
Moonlit Road
. . . interesting ghost stories
and strange folktales of the American South, told by the
region's most celebrated storytellers. folktales presented
at a state-of-the-art website, includes compelling stories
of the American South, also RealAudio versions read by
celebrated stoytellers and appealing graphics, user-friendly
and quick-loading.
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
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. This is a very interesting
site which introduces opinion pieces, encouraging all to
write and to draw their own cartoons after instruction and
research.
Perspectives
in American Literature
. . . very good lit site; a research and reference guide
organized chronologically.
Pilot-Search.com
. . . the starting point for literary searches.
Project
Bartleby (Columbia
University) . .
.
great books
online.
Picture
Sources . . . a good
listing of links for images of various types, arranged by
categories.
Publishers'
Catalogs/U.S.
Quotations
Page
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
. . . links to Internet
information resources related to the English Renaissance
(mainly the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.)
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
The
Study of Character, Setting, and Plot in
English
. . . Australian English
programs with a bank of modifiable questions to assist in
the preparation of English worksheets, tests and study
programs.
StudyWeb:
Literature . . . well
organized links, terrific site for good info.
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.
Voice of the Shuttle . . . web pages related to
English Literature and Humanities topics, including authors
and books, poets and poetry, plus criticism and other
information.
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The
Elizabethan Theatre . . . a description of
the theatres of the Shakespearean and Elizabethan times.
Illustrated.
The
Falcon Education Link. . . a creation of
Rodger Burnich (a teacher at Westhill High School in
Stamford, Connecticut) which summarize in a contemporary,
chatty translation the five acts of Hamlet and Macbeth. The
pages could be a helpful guide to new readers of the plays.
With this resource, teachers might give students the
activity of doing another "translation" into the lingo of
"surf dudes," "valley girls," or "hip hoppers." The site
also includes links to other British literature.
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.
Surfing
with the Bard
. . . your Shakespeare
classroom on the
Internet.
Today
In Shakespeare History
. . . each day something
different happened during Shakespeare's life and this web
page tells about something important, and each day is
different.
Welcome
to Tudor England
. . . information about the family which ruled
England during Shakespeare's time and earlier.
Works
of the Bard
. . . the collected works
of Shakespeare online, includes a search engine.
World
Lecture Hall: English, Writing,, and
Rhetoric . . .
extensive annotated index with some excellent links for
literary research although some links may be out of
date.
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