This index is
linked to by universities and libraries as a good source of links to
information about literature, magazines, criticism, and information about
authors and their cultural influences.
Links to many
sources of electronic texts which are online may be found at the ETEXT
archives. Among the links is a link to the well-known Gutenberg project for
placing public domain literature on the Internet for easy access by all.
Here is a site
with imformation specifically about Mark Twain. It provides information,
requests for information, and links to many other relevant sites. It is
maintained by a professor at Syracues University.
Jamie Mackenzie made this
page for Bellingham schools - it provides a step-by-step package of
assistance to help students create biographies that are more than just a
recitation of facts, that try to bring the story of the subject to life.
CyberGuides
are supplementary, web-based 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, objectives,a task
and a process by which it may be completed, teach-selected web sites and a
rubric.
This is
actually the results of a search for English teaching materials and provides
links to many sites specifically of interest to language arts teachers.
A very straightforward page
to help students (and teachers) learn to evaluate the content on web
pages. Actually, the standards could apply to any source but are
especially relevant for web pages since anybody can publish there and
someone will believe the content is authoritative.
Looking for a poem?
This site contains over 2200 poems searchable by author, title, a timeline
of poetry, etc. It is maintained by the University of Toronto.
Here is the
professional organization site for the National Council of Teachers of
English. It contains information about the organization as well as links to
topics of interest for Language Arts teachers.
Use this site as a resource for
geography - a 3-D atlas with amazing amounts of information. The
site is maintained by Compton's as a companion to their CD-ROM version of
the same content but can be used with or without the software.
