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Shakespeare

• Internet Shakespeare Editions
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Richard III and Yorkist History Server
• Shakespeare Illustrated
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  

Young Adult Literature

Free Stuff
Sync free audiobook downloads

Book Reviews/Book Lists/Author Links

• Thugnotes
• A Book And A Hug
• Favorite Teenage Angst Books
• Bullies in Books
• Novel Entertainment: 50 Best Fiction Books for Young Adults
• American Library Association's booklist
• Yahoo's Recommended Reading Lists of young adult literature
• Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), 1998 list of best books for young adults
• TeenLit
• On NPR's Very White Best Young Adult Books List by Shaker Laurie
• Internet Public Library Author Page

Boys and Books
• www.guysread.com
• www.boysread.org
• www.readkiddoread.ning.com
• www.lazyreaders.com

Book Clubs/Discussions for Students

• The Global Book Club: A Collaborative Reading Experience for Middle School Students

  Young Adult Poetry

• An Anthology of Poetry about Being Young and Growing Up

 
General Resources/Links

• Children's Literature Web Guide
• World of Words
• Young Adult Literature: Middle & Secondary English-Language Arts
• Canadian Children's Literature (CCL)
• Saskatoon Public Library Young Adult Resources
• Books Boys Can't Resist
• Frank Rogers' Guide to Children's Literature on the Web
• Reading Online Web Watch: Focus on Young Adult Literature

Bullying

Bullies in Books

Journals

• ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents)

  Teaching Ideas

• Teachers@random (Random House site with teaching ideas)

Student Writing

• Teen Ink
• Druidawn
• Figment
• Merlyn's Pen
• Young Authors Guide
• https://narratio.org/

Other Literature Links

Awards

• Alphabetical listing of Nobel Prize laureates in literature
• Lists of Literature Awards
• Voice of the Shuttle
• Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
• Teach The Books You Love
• The Miss Rumphius Award (Links to terrific web pages)

  National/Ethnic Literatures

• Ozlit (Australian Literature)
• Readers and Writers Resource Page
• Eureka! (interactive web site between HS and college English teachers specializing in British literature)
• Mobil Masterpiece Theater's American Collection
• Babel Guide to World Literature: The world literature clicktionary

  Banned Books

• Banned Books online
• Wikipedia List of books banned by governments
• Controversial and banned books
• Banned Books and Censorship
• Banned Books A-Z
• Banned Books in the United States
• Looksmart Banned Books Links

  Authors

• William Faulkner American Writer 1897-1962
• Pub Link (links to authors, publishers, and booksellers)
• The Modern Word
• Catharton Author Links
• Timeless Hemingway
• Victor Hugo Fanspace
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Literary Calendar

  Legends and Fairy Tales

• Fairy Tales: Origins and Evolution
• Encyclopedia Mythica: An Encyclopedia of Mythology, Folklore, and Legend
• Medieval Legends of Ireland
• Legends

Literature Circles

• Literature Circles.com
• Literature Circles (ABC Teach
• Literature Circles Resource Center

Other Resources

• BookCrossing
• Guide to Academic Reading
• Narrative Online Magazine
• Famous Quotes and Authors
• Best of the Web: Literature
• Literary Traveler
• Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts
• Bigeye Literature Center
• Cyberguides Grades 9-12
• Language of the Land: Journeys into Literary America
• Allreaders
• Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net
• Reading Online (literacy practice and research in K-12 classrooms)

Teaching Poetry

Poetic Power


 

Online Literary Texts

American Literature/History

• American Literature Anthology Writers' Index
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
  VoiceNation African American Writers and Literature
  Historical Text Archive
• Documenting the American South
• The Moonlit Road (Ghost stories and strange folktales of the American South)
• Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
  
• American Verse Project at the University of Michigan 
• The Gettysburg Address
• Hyptertexts at the U. of Virginia
• The Character Building Site (a source of stories that teach values)
• American Literature Links
• American Literature on the Web
• Jan's American Literature Resources
• African American Writers: Online E-texts
• African-American Women On-line Archival at Duke University

  British Literature

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue and Four Marriage Tales)
• Arthur Conan Doyle's The Complete Sherlock Holmes

  Classical Literature

• The Internet Classics Archive
• Classicals
• Perseus Project Texts and Translations

Poetry

• Steve Linberg's Poem Page
• Read a Little Poetry
• Golden Age of Spanish Sonnets
• PoemHunter
• Representative Poetry Online
• Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages

  Philosophy

• Philosophy Resource Center

Short Stories

• Short Stories

Books

• The Online Books Page

General Hypertext Libraries

• Good Links Page
• Gleeditions: Guided Literary E-text Editions
• ILT Digital Text Projects
• American and English Literature Online Books for Educators
• Literary Links (portal to myriad online libraries)
• 18th Century E-Texts
• Classics Reader
• Columbia University Electronic Text Service
• Institute for Learning Technologies Digital Text Projects
• Western Canon Great Books University
• Materials on the Philosphy of Education
• Digital Librarian Electronic Texts and Primary Sources
• Great Books Index
• Great Literature Online
• Project Gutenberg
• Literature on the Age of Napoleon
• Humanities Text Initiative from the University of Michigan 
• Project Bartleby 
• Hypertexts
• The Universal Library from Carnegie-Mellon University 
• Scholarly English Resources from The University of Virginia Library
• World Wide School Library
• Malaspina Great Books Home Page
• Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection
• Bibliomania
• Digital Public Library of America
  Mountain Voices (from the Panos Oral Testimony Programme)
  
  

  Online Literary Criticism

• The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
• Ohio State University Open Access Project

Publications by and for Student Writers

• VOX (student-run Atlanta-area newspaper)
• Merlyn's Pen (creative writing magazine)

Online Writing Labs

• Online Writing Labs on the Web
• Writing Help

Online Writing Communities
Writing.com

Teaching Ideas
Online Academic Research
Inquiry Based Learning by Community High School District 94, West Chicago, IL
Writing Argumentative Essays

• Picturing Writing: Fostering Literacy Through Art and Image-Making Within The Writing Process
• Developing Writers
• Teachers and Writers Collaborative
• Compsite
• Young Authors' Workshop

  Links

• Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors (big links page)
• KidsClick Reading/Writing/Speaking links
• Indispensable Writing Resources

Professional Genres
A Guide to Effective Business Writing by Tom Shaw

Academic Journals

Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments


Style

• Strunk's Elements of Style
• APA Style

  JOBS

  WritingJobs.org

Language

Grammar

• The Hypertext Book of Modern English Grammar
• Pen to Paper: Common Grammar and Punctuation Errors
  
• The Vocabula Review
• Schoolhouse Rock
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
• Varieties of English
• North Carolina State U. Grammar Hotline
• Virginia Tech Grammar Hotline
• Grammar NOW!
• Common Grammar and Spelling Mistakes
• The Grammar and Punctuation Glossary
• PS Writing Tips
• Grammar Bytes
• Big Dog Grammar
• Free Rice
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Go Grammar
• Brightstorm
• Chompchomp
• The Grammarian Blog
  Grammar Girl
  GrammarFlip
• Sean Ruday Grammar Videos
  
  

  Grammar Self-Instruction Sites

  No Red Ink
  Purdue Online Writing Lab Exercises

  Language Blogs and Columns

• The Economist: Johnson
• Boston Globe Word Columnists
• Popular Linguistics Magazine
• Oxford Etymologist
• World Wide Words
• Word Origins
• A Word a Day
• Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
• Visual Thesaurus Word Routes
• Language Log

  Dictionaries/Thesaurus/Translators

• Dictionaries and Language Translators
• A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
• LOGOS Dictionary
• Online-Dictionary.com
• The Rap Dictionary
• Fonetiks: The Online Language Laboratory
• Artlex
• Foreign Languages for Travelers
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
• The American Heritage Reference Collection
• Thesaurus.com
• Perseus Project Text Tools & Lexica
• One Look Dictionaries
• Wordsmith.org
• Wide World of Words
• The Phobia List
• Vocabulary University

Quotations/Phrases

• Bartleby Library Quotation Search Engine
• Cliche Finder
• Origins of Phrases Home Page
• The Word Detective
• Famous Quotes and Quotations: Best Quotes and Familiar
• Famous Quotations Network
• Last Words
• The Sports Cliche List
• Quoteworld
• Quoteland

Jargon and Buzzwords

• Buzzkiller Buzzsaw
• Buzzwhack

  Languages

• Ancient Scripts of the World
• Academie Francaise
• Euromosaic
• The Irish Language Association
• Zhongwen: Chinese Characters and Culture
• Slanguage

Links

• Links to Language Sites on the Internet

  Anagrams

• The Anagram Genius Server

Book Reviews

• Education Review Book Reviews