Language Arts
Academy of Achievement
This site brings you face to face with
the extraordinary individuals who have shaped our times. It is an amazing
collection, not of mere artifacts, but of people and ideas that fill you with
inspiration, encouragement, and the will to achieve
http://www.achievement.org/
American Authors on the Web
This site covers nearly 800 authors and is
arranged chronologically. It was created by Mitsuharu Matsouka, a
professor at Japan's Nagoya University. It includes general information
about each author as well as literary criticism, full texts, and more.
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
Biography.Com
Biographies of over 25,000 personalities
including many current celebrities featured in the magazine.
http://www.biography.com/search/index.html
Children's Poetry Archive
Listen to charming and thoughtful poems
read aloud. Andrew Motion (poet laureate) and Richard Carrington
(recording producer) developed this site because "there is something special
about listening to a poet reading his or her own work". Poems are
searchable by form, theme, and poet. Forms include ballads, couplets,
monologues, limericks, prose and rap.
www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do
The Complete Works Of William
Shakespeare
This site has the complete online works
of William Shakespeare.
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page
This site provides an excellent
introduction to the life and works of Charles Dickens. It includes an
interactive map, information about Dickens' London, characters, novels, family
and friends, and more.
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens
Decades: A Study of the 20th Century
Part of Curriculum Hotlists, a network of topical gateways
developed by Chiddix Junior High School in Normal, IL, this site provides a
portal to online resources covering the cultural and historical history of the
20th century.
http://www.unit5.org/cjhsimc/hotlists/decades/decades_main.htm
Distinguished Women of the Past and Present
This a site for research on biographies
of famous women. It is searchable by letter.
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/alphabet/alphabet.html
Educating Shakespeare
This site has extensive information about
education in the time of Shakespeare including the daily life of a school boy,
what was studied, wedding feasts, town life, and more.
http://www.likesnail.org.uk/welcome-es.htm
Elizabethan England
This site contains information about Elizabethan England
including historical figures and events, everyday life, arts and architecture,
Shakespeare, and links to other sources on the time period.
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/elizabethanengland.html
Grammar Bytes!
This site, created by Robin L. Simmons of
the Communications Department at Valencia Community College, includes an Index
of Grammar Terms, Interactive Exercises, Handouts for Students and Teachers, and
Grammar Rules.
http://www.chompchomp.com
Guide to Grammar and Writing
This site is full of information on
definitions, usage, quizzes to test skills, power points, and other online
resources.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Holocaust Survivors
Created by John Menszer, this site
contains the personal stories of six different Holocaust survivors. the
text of each story is complemented by original photographs and documents, and by
audio files of each survivor's personal recollections. There are also
links to related sites.
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org
LEO: The Write Place catalog
This site is full of literacy topics
online. It includes information about plagiarism, citing sources, grammar,
business writing, sentence structure, organization and cohesion, punctuation and
much much more.
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/catalogue.html#online
Making of America
This site represents a massive
undertaking by the University of Michigan and Cornell University to put primary
source documents, from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, on the
Web. Currently, there are over 3,000,000 pages at Web Site from 50,000
journal articles and 8,500 books in the subject areas of education, psychology,
American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
This is an annotated guide to the
scholarly resources for Shakespeare on the internet. It includes a
timeline, genealogy, life, works, and more.
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Our Town Project Sites
Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://www.africanaonline.com/montgomery.htm
http://home.att.net/~reniqua/
Korean War
http://www.korean-war.com/
http://korea50.army.mil/
Polio Vaccine
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/polio.php
Kent State Shootings
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/polio.php
http://www.vw.vccs.edu/vwhansd/HIS122/KentState.html
First Manned Space Flight
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/manned.html
Jonestown Massacre
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/jonestown1.html
Fall of the Berlin Wall
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/jonestown1.html
Primary resource links
http://home.gwi.net/brhs/socst.html#Primary
Sufragette
movement
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=39
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002606/early1900s.html
Eyewitness to
history
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
Owl On-Line Writing Lab
This site, done by the Purdue University
Writing Lab has handouts, definitions, usage and practice quizzes on grammar.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Picture History
A site with pictures from history of
people, places, architecture, transportation, arts and entertainment, war,
nature, and much more.
http://www.picturehistory.com/
Poets.org
Hosted by the Academy of American Poets,
this site offers an overview of the world's greatest poets. It has
biographies of more than 450 poets, the text of 1,250 poems, and audio clips of
100 poems read by their authors or other poets.
http://www.poets.org
QuizHub
This site was created especially for
elementary and middle school students looking for fun and educational content on
the Web.
It has four components: Topic Guides, Learning Activities, Updated Daily, and
feature Sites. Topic Guides includes information about things such as
endangered species and sky watching, as well as numerous foreign language
dictionaries. Learning Activities ahs a world flag quiz logic puzzles, and
scrambled words. In Updated Daily, you'll find current event information
and a daily news quiz.
http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
Shakespeare Timeline
A timeline of William Shakespeare's life
from birth to death
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/timeline/timeline.htm
Shakespeare's Life and Times
This site contains information about
William Shakespeare and the times in which he lived. It includes topics on
his life, the stage, society of the times, politics, drama and more.
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html
Victorian Web
This site has everything about the
Victorian life from social history to politics and more.
http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/victorian/
Victorian Web Sites
Many, many sites concerning aspects of Victorian life, work, home furnishings,
industry, labor, and much much more.
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html#Victorian
Victorian Web Sites
This site includes links to people and events,
Victorian life and more
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Victorian_index.htm