Help Links
for Secondary English
Teaching Helps
Rubistar - Website provides online help creating rubrics for project-based
activities, useful for oral reports, research projects, visual projects (maps
& posters) and colaborative work skills.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
Secondary
English Teaching Ideas - National Council of Teachers of English teaching
ideas for the secondary classroom. http://serv1.ncte.org/teach/
Writing Helps
A+ Research and Writing
- This is a step by step approach to writing a research paper.
http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/stepfirst.htm
Writing Body
Paragraphs - Page discusses the elements of a good body paragraph.
Geared towards 9th graders. http://www2.pvc.maricopa.edu/tutor/eng/engessbody.htm
Writing
Effective Conclusions - A short page on writing conclusions. http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/maplewoods/writeplace/conclusions.html
The Five Paragraph
Essay - Tips for teaching and writing the 5-paragraph essay.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/tips.html#d
Grammar Helps
Proofreading
for Commas - Step by step proofreading for commas, the most common mistake
made by high school writers. http://uwc.tamu.edu/handouts/grammar/proofcommas.html
Literature Helps
Learning
Macbeth - An extensive site on studying Shakespeare's Macbeth.
http://www.shunsley.eril.net/armoore/gcse/macbeth.htm
How
to Analize Poetry - Guidelines for poetry analysis using critical reading
skills.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/catholicteacher/eng_analysing_a_poem_using_lit_crit.htm
The Gutenberg Project - Great site
provides public domain eTexts of great literature!
http://gutenberg.net/