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This excellent site is Victor Moeller's English Student Homepage. He has his current assignments online! This phenomenal page includes the following: Poetry Research Project; Scrapbook Project; Poetry Project with Internet Links; English in the news; Journal Writing; Fables: Then (Aesop) and Now (Thurber); Analysis of Media Rhetoric; The Strategies of Rhetoric Defined and Illustrated; The Writer's Forum; Writers Guild of America; Syndicated Columnists; College Application Essay; Capital Punishment: pro and con; College Board Advanced Placement Site; Elements of Style; Grammar and Writing Check; On Teaching and Learning; Bannned Books Week; Heroes; English Yellow Pages; The Research Paper; Basic Reference Sources on the Internet; Libraries; Web Tools; National, State, and Local Writing Contests; Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, and Much Ado About Nothing. Mr. Moeller has promised to contribute several lesson plans and articles to our "Teacher-Written Lesson Plans" page. Look for these in the near future.
Topics linked here include: How to Edit Your Writing About Literature; How to Proofread Your Literature Paper; How to Become a More Critical Reader; How to Evaluate Sources When Writing a Paper About Literature; How to Keep a Literary Reading Log; How to Write a Literary Book Review; How to Start a Book Clu; How to Categorize American Literature from the Colonial Period; How to Categorize American Literature from the Modern Period; How to Categorize American Literature from the National Period. How to Directory:
The following links are provided to help you make better use of the Internet in literary scholarship. All links are listed alphabeically, categorized and actively hypertextual. Descriptions are included for some, with abstracts for the rest coming in the future. This bibliography will be updated frequently as more sites are added and the list evolves. For even more possibilities, try one of the WWW search engines: Lycos, Webcrawler, Altavista, Starting Point, or Yahoo. Here are the links: Internet Links for Literature:
Just about anything you want to know can be found here. Over 700 sites about everything from A to Z! Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Sir John Gielgud reads Sonnets of William Shakespeare
Find a Poem: The Academy of American Poets
Project Bartleby (Named ìBest Literary Resourceî for 2002
A Celebration of Women Writers
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page
The University of Adelaide Library Ebooks
This is an excellent source for finding complete online texts
Reference Essentials:
The Encyclopedia Britannica is now offering free online searching to any user on the web. You can do a combined search of the encyclopedia, web sites, magazines, and book titles. Availability: to all users. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language Third Edition
This classic work of reference - described as a browser's joy - has been in popular demand since 1870. The Dictionary is extensively cross referenced, lending itself ideally, to the hypertext environment. This First Hypertext Edition is taken from Dr. Brewer's substantially revised and extended edition of 1894. British-American Dictionary
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."óGeorge Bernard ShawColumbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cambridge International Dictionary of English
The Century Dictionary Online in Djvu
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
The First Hypertext Edition of
The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
By E. Cobham BrewerA List of Obscure Words Brought to You By Forthright's Phrontistery
Almanacs, Biographies, Business and Finance, Calendars and Time, College Listing, College Newspapers, Encyclopedias, English Dictionaries, English Tools (Thesauri, acronyms, more), Federal Government, More than 100 popular magazines, Over 200 US newspapers online, Quotations, Over 100 search engines, and much more!The Internet Public Library Reference Center This source has online categories for an alphabetical listing, fun and games, dictionary.com, a word of the day, and more.John Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms
Macquarie Dictionary (Australia's National Dictionary)
Type in your word or phrase, push enter, and get the word's function (part of speech), definition, synonyms, similar words, contrasted words, and antonyms. Webster's New World College Dictionary
Dictionary and Thesaurus: Type in your word and click go. Also has a word of the day feature.
Among a wealth of other things, this site has over 130 instructional handouts, links to relevant sites for writing resources, and materials for language arts and English teachers. This is a must visit! Search Engines
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7 MetaSearchTeacher Resources and Tools:
Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceState Educational Standards: A State by State Analysis
Perpetual Calendar and Days to Celebrate
TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. The resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track.
Writing Matters:
Accessible WritingContains: writers guidelines to online publications, writing and publishing news updated on weekdays, message boards, job listings and more! A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
(includes an Introduction and a Self Test)
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