Web Link Bibliography
Resources
for All Teachers 
Discoveryschool.com- This is a wonderful site for finding
lesson plans, student activities, and educational links. You can search this site for everything from
clip art to use in the classroom to brain booster activities to get students
thinking while having fun. You can
browse lesson plans by grade (K-12) and subject. The literature lesson plans provide
objectives, activities, and links to content specific sites to learn more
information about the author/work.
Within the lesson plan pages you can link onto Teacher Tools that allow
you to create your own worksheets, plans, puzzles, and quizzes. This is a great site for any teacher. Site last visited
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
Thinkport- This site not only provides excellent
resources for lesson plans, but it also provides wonderful tools for building
your own creative instructional tools.
From “Think Classroom”, you can search for lessons from pre-school to
higher education levels and in a variety of subjects. These plans include activities, links to
other pertinent sites, objectives, discussion questions, and assessment
tools. You can also build your own
lessons, activities, and projects. This
site is also great because it offers an assortment of online field trips that
could be used in a number of subjects across the grade levels. This site is great for teachers new and old
and is a wonderful resource for incorporating multidisciplinary
studies/activities within your content.
Site last visited
http://www.thinkport.org/default.tp
Inspiration Software, Inc.- This
is an outstanding site for creating useful visual aids to use in the
classroom. Inspiration allows you to download a free 30-day trial to explore
and experiment with their wonderful tools to help you design and build your own
instructional tools for the classroom. Inspiration is geared toward secondary
education (grades 6 and up), but they also have a link for Kidspiration that provides you with tools for working within the
elementary setting. The program is easy
to use, has great graphics, and makes creating worksheets really fun. Site last visited
http://www.inspiration.com/home.cfm
New-Teacher.com- This site provides great links and
information for new teachers. This site
is appropriate for any new teacher, grades K-12, and includes information/tips
for setting up your classroom, finding a job, becoming a teacher, and help on
how to teach. This site even includes
links to articles about new teachers and resources for the new teacher. It’s a very helpful and useful site for all
new teachers. Site last visited
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7862/
Resources
for English Teachers
Web English Teacher- This
site is could be an English teacher’s best friend. This resource can be used for grades K-12 and
provides lesson plans, activities, discussion topics, and great links to other
educational websites/information. This
site covers everything from grammar, vocabulary, and critical thinking to
poetry, literature, drama, Shakespeare, and even Yearbook. You can find entire lesson plans, activities,
videos, resources, etc. It is a very
useful site in creating a unit/lesson plan, spicing up an old plan, getting new
ideas, or just learning new information to share with your class. Site last visited
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
Secondary
Education: Resources for English
Teachers- This
is a wonderful resource for finding lesson plans, activities, tests, and
resources for teaching English in secondary education. There are links to a variety of useful
websites for English teachers. There is
a good selection of free resources, but if you really like what you find, you
can subscribe to the website and gain access to everything it has to
offer. Site last visited
Online Poetry Classroom- This
site is a terrific resource for secondary teachers who are going to teach
poetry in their classroom. This site
provides everything from unit/lesson plans, to activities and tips, to in depth
biographies, works, and pictures of over 450 poets. This site is easy to navigate and
tremendously useful. Site last visited
http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/how/
Resources
for English Teachers & Students
Merriam-Webster Online- This is a great resource for
teachers and students alike. This site allows
you to look up definitions or use the thesaurus at the click of a button. This is a great tool for learning/researching
vocabulary terms and writing papers. It
also provides fun educational activities including a variety of word games, a
word of the day link, and a “phat new words” link that defines contemporary
slang that students would find particularly “phun”. The activities/games are a bit difficult and
would be most appropriate in the upper secondary levels, but the
dictionary/thesaurus is simply enough for the lower grade levels. Site last visited
http://www.m-w.com/
The Online English Grammar- This
site is great for elementary or secondary students who want to learn more
about, or are having trouble with, grammar.
You can search alphabetically or by subject to get definitions of
different parts of speech and examples of proper use. Teachers could also use this site to create
grammar worksheets and drills. This site
also offers free interactive tests and games to practice and improve your
skills. Site last visited
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/
American Literary Classics-
This site is a great resource for students or teachers who are
looking to find full texts online. This
site offers a plethora of American short stories, poems, and even novels. Elementary or secondary teachers can step
outside the bounds of their textbooks to add additional literature to their
courses. Students can search for
literature for book reports, essays, and leisure without leaving their
homes. All the greats are included and
the library is constantly growing. Site
last visited
http://www.americanliterature.com/MAIN.HTML
The Literature Network- This is a great resource for
students or teachers who want to learn more about their favorite authors,
literary works, essays, or want to find full texts of their favorite
works. You can search by author to find
brief biographies, their works, essays on or about him/her, and summaries. The literature in this site is mostly appropriate
in the secondary setting. Site last
visited
http://www.online-literature.com/
Resources for English Teachers & Students on Specific
Literary Works, Authors, and Genres
Web Resources on
African American Writers and Literature- This site is an outstanding
source for secondary teachers or students researching African American
literature, authors, or culture. It
includes a multitude of links that provide information on African American
culture, biographical information, history, literary movements and genres,
periodicals, and literature. This is a
great starting point for any research on the topic and it provides a wealth of
sources to find virtually any information you could hope to learn about African
American literature. Site last visited
http://www.bluefield.wvnet.edu/library/afamlinks.htm
Poets of the Harlem
Renaissance and After- This
site posted by the Academy of American Poets is a wonderful source for
secondary students/teachers who want to learn more about the writers of the
http://www.poets.org/exh/Exhibit.cfm?prmID=7
Shakespeare’s
Life and Times Home Page- This
site provides information on everything you ever wanted to know about
Shakespeare, his works, and the world he lived in. Any elementary or secondary teacher/student
studying Shakespeare can find a myriad of useful information at this
website. This site includes a biography
of Shakespeare from birth to retirement, a wealth of information about the
society and history of his time, analysis of his literature, pictures, audios,
and full text documents. Everything you
could want to learn through just this site!
Site last visited
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLTnoframes/intro/introsubj.html
Exploring The Catcher in the Rye- This site permits secondary
students, or teachers, studying J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye to bring the text into the real world. You can search a book index to find out about
characters, events, and places in the novel, or even read post-traumatic stress
disorder and the role it could have played in Holden’s depression. The best thing about this resource, however,
is that it provides maps and photographs of
http://www.geocities.com/exploring_citr/
Jane Austen: Chronology and Periodization- This
is a wonderful site for secondary students or teachers who wish to immerse
themselves in the world of Jane Austen to better understand her work. This site provides biographical information,
in depth analysis of her works, great information about the society and history
of the times, and discusses Austen’s literary reputation. The best part about this site is the wealth
of information it provides about Austen and her work including pictures of
Austen, fashions of the times, and even jokes.
Site last visited
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/japeriod.html
All Poe- As the title implies, this site
is all about the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe. This site is extremely helpful to any teacher
or student studying Poe. There are not
many visual/photos, but the information itself is worth the visit to this
site. It includes a biography of the
writer’s life, answers questions about the mystery and controversy surrounding
Poe’s life, offers synopses, discussions, and critiques of his work. Site last visited
http://www.allpoe.com/
A Guide to The Great Gatsby- This site provides outstanding links to
explore F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life, times, and his novel The Great Gatsby. The link
to USC’s site on Fitzgerald is extremely interesting and informative, including
many photos, video, and sounds of the author.
There are also links to great sites about the Jazz Age and even
educational trivia about the text. This
is a great site for secondary students and teachers learning about this classic
American author his work. Site last
visited
http://www.geocities.com/athens/olympus/1104/
Timeless Hemingway- This
superb site is dedicated to the life and works of Ernest Hemingway. You can search within the site on any topic
concerning the great American author.
This is a great source for locating photographs of Hemingway (even many
baby pictures), learning about his life, his art, and his family. This site is great for any secondary student
or teacher learning about Hemingway.
Site last visited
http://www.timelesshemingway.com/
William
Faulkner- This site is perfect for any secondary
student or teacher who wants to learn more about the life of William Faulkner
or any of his literary works. This site
includes everything from discussions of his writing, to pictures from his life,
to the floor plans of his home. You can
“visit” his home in
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html