| Freshman
English Great American Disasters Unit |
Valuable links and first hand accounts for Mrs. Miller & Ms
Cheeseman |
| Great
Writers
and Poets |
A collection of Home Pages of poets and writers. |
Litweb
|
Biographies of over 500
well-known authors. Facts about Pulitzer, Booker, and Nobel
prizes. Complete texts of over 100 famous works of fiction.
|
American
Authors
|
American authors, literary
movements and American Literature web links.
|
Norton Poets
|
Short biographies of over
100 contemporary poets with links to their individual web sites.
Also poets reading their own works and lots of good links for
contemporary poetry.
|
The Literary Encyclopedia
|
Scholarly articles,
primarily on American & British fiction. Currently covers
5,500 writers, 17,000 works of fiction, and 1,400 topics.
|
| Nobel
Prize Laureates |
A listing of Nobel Prize Winners in Literature since
1901. |
| The Pulitzer Prizes |
A listing of Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature since
1917. |
High School Journalism
|
Provides students,
teachers, and editors with information and archives of student
newspapers around the country. Projects to improve student
journalism are available.
|
American Verse Project
|
An electronic archive of
volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. From the
University of Michigan.
|
Representative
Poetry Online
|
An anthology produced by
the University of Toronto that contains representative poetry from
1912-1967. There are some good finds here.
|
Internet Poetry Archive
|
Access to some serious
contemporary modern poetry.
|
Poetry 180
|
Provided by former poet
laureate Billy Collins & the Library of Congress, this site for
high school students was designed to make it easy to access poetry.
|
Favorite Poem Project
|
50 poems read by
"everyday" people includes complete text of poems and resources for
teachers.
|
Blogger
|
Create a classroom blog in
less than five minutes.
|
Weblogs
|
Center for Technology and
Teacher Education: use of weblogs in the English/Language Arts
classroom. |
| Shakespeare |
A good site on Shakespeare for students and
teachers from the Fogler Shakeapeare Library.
|
|
Shakespeare Life & Times |
Shakespeare's Life and Times introduces you to the
world Shakespeare lived and worked in. This section of the Library
is like a shelf of books, each of which is listed in the
navigational bar to the left of your screen. Each book, in turn, is
divided into chapters dealing with related topics.
|
| Elizabethan World |
Explore the world Elizabethan England. Every day life,
primary resources, and additional links.
http://www.elizabethan.org/sites.html
|
Elizabethan Costuming
|
An excellent site for
costumes during Shakespeare's time which includes detailed pictures and
patterns.
|
William Shakespeare
at e-notes
|
A site that includes
everything about William Shakespeare and his times. It includes
politics, economics, Globe Theater, medicine, education, warfare, etc.
|
Mr. William Shakespeare and the
Internet
|
Primary goal is to be a
complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources
available on Internet. |
| The
Complete
William Shakespeare |
An online version of the complete works of William
Shakespeare |
| Victorian Links |
Links to information associated with the Victorian Era |
| A
Glossary of
Terms |
A collection of literary terms complete with examples. |
| The
Quotations Page |
A large collection of quotations is available here
along with a "quote
of the day". |
Purdue
Online Writing Lab
|
Covers every topic a writer should know regarding
grammar, spelling,
and mechanics. |
| O.W.L. MLA 2009 Citations |
MLA citations with examples. |
| MLA Style Lite
for Research Papers |
It conforms to the highly recommended MLA Handbook for
Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed., (2009), with additional
features drawn from the pages of the MLA's own journal. |
| MLA
Documentation |
Diana Hacker's companion site to her books regarding writing &
MLA citations. Excellent resource. |
| MLA
Works Cited Example .pdf |
Sample MLA Works Cited
List (Daly) by Diana Hacker. |
| General
Writing Concerns |
Part of the Purdue Online Writing Lab offering handouts
and exercises
on starting to write, effective writing, revising, editing,
proofreading,
and types and genres of writing. |
| Writing
a Research Paper |
The Purdue's Online Lab's guide to writing a research
paper. |
| MLA
Bibliographic Format |
The Modern Language Association style sheet for citing
sources. |
| Avoiding
Plagiarism |
A guide to help writers avoid plagiarism |
| MLA
Parenthetical
Documentation |
The Modern Language Association format for
parenthetical documentation. |
