Online Collaborative Projects

 E-Mail Projects - these projects are electronic pen pals

 http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/old_oz-teachernet/projects/book-rap/index1.html    Book Raps – a book rap is a book discussion conducted using e-mail and are very popular with elementary school students around the world.

 http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/mcghee/junbr.htm    Article on Book Raps

 http://www.keypals.com/    Keypals - this is simply setting up e-mail pen pals for your students. 

http://www.epals.com/index.html    Epals - the largest keypal network; allow teachers to set by exchanges between students in over 97 countries

 Ask an Expert

http://www.askanexpert.com    Pitsco's Ask an Expert

http://emissary.wm.edu/     Electronic Emissary – Formal telecollaborative project which connects students and teachers with subject mentors.  Program is planned by SME and teacher.

  http://www.gsn.org/    The Global School Net - This is a fabulous one-stop resource for collaborative projects on the Internet.  It includes current projects and a site for registration of new projects. Projects can be searched by age level or project date. You can even join mailing list where projects are send directly to your e-mail address. 

http://www.monsterexchange.org/   The Monster Exchange – this is an online collaborative project designed to promote reading and writing

 http://www.youth.net/#K-12    Interactive Projects K-12 - part of the Youth Net site which lists projects which are on-going or continuous throughout the year.              

 http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/overview.html    Kidlink -  is a non-profit organization aimed at getting youth through age 15 involved in global dialog.  It uses mailing lists for conferencing, real-time interactions (chats), an online art exhibition site, and volunteers who are parents and teachers.  It has activities in numerous languages. 

http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/projects.html    Kidproj - this part of Kidlink allows teachers to collaboratively plan projects. It has links to current projects, curriculum ideas and a moderator's help file. Ages 10-15

 http://www.eduplace.com/edugames.html     EduPlace sponsored by Houghton Mifflin

 http://www.cyberbee.com/   CyberBee - This is an excellent site for online collaborative projects

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Online Publishing 

http://www.eduplace.com/dictionary/    Fake Out - the Vocabulary game for K-6 grades.  Children write the definitions for vocabulary words 

http://www.TheCase.com/    The Case.com - students use classic mysteries to enhance their reading; students can enter a “New Mystery Picture” contest once a week 

 http://www.kidsonthenet.com/motel/motel/welcome.html    The Monster Motel – monsters in a motel form the theme for this online collaborative writing project 

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/smc/journey/    The Hero’s Journey -This site guides your students in creating and publishing online a story using the mythical hero structure described by Joseph Campbell. The site includes an extensive reference section, ideas and examples, and a "StoryTool" for creating original Hero's Journey stories.   This is for students in grades k-12 

http://www.kidsbookshelf.com     Kidsbookshelf - this site publishes original book reviews, poems and short stories. 

http://www.whitebarnpress.com/    White Barn Press - hosts a writing club for students in grades K-12 and provides an audience for their poems or stories 

http://www.blackdog.net/misskitty/index.html  Miss Kitty - at this site children can help Miss Kitty write a story or read a story

http://www.ncsu.edu/globalbookclub/home.html    Global Book Club - this project provides a global audience for book reviews by students for students. 

http://www.ncsu.edu/globalbookclub/home.html    Midlink Magazine - this is an electronic magazine for middle school students to share their writing and participate in interactive writing projects 

 www.youngwritersclub.com/   The Young Writers Club – encourages children of all ages to enjoy writing by sharing their work online and helping others improve their writing skills 

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Language Arts Lesson Plans

http://www.carolhurst.com/toc.html   Carol Hurst Children's Literature Page - uses children's literature as a basis for lesson plans and activities; the site can be searched by subject, book, or theme

 http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/lang_book_report_ideas.htm   Better Ideas for Book Reports – this site provides alternatives to the traditional book report including interactive web-based book reports

 http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html   Cyberguides - Language Arts - these are literature based and are designed for a classroom with one computer

http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/  Outa Rays Head - Lesson Plans for Language Arts, K-12; even includes all handouts

http://www.storyarts.org/index.html   Story Arts Online - extensive lesson plans and activities, resources, and rubrics for storytelling

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/    Language Arts Lesson Plans - these are organized by grade level

http://www.nwrel.org/sky/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Language_Arts.html  Language in the Sky - lesson plans for Language Arts - this site contains links to specific lesson plans or to language arts lesson plans sites

 http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson_index.asp   Edsitement  - Humanities-based social studies lesson plans which are highly interactive

http://www.encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/default.asp   Encarta School House - find thousands of Social Studies lesson plans which includes links to Encarta and Encarta Maps

http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/hotlinks.asp   McRel - Links to great lesson plan sites organized around national standards; this is an excellent site

http://www.thegateway.org/   The Gateway to Educational Lesson Plans and Resources – this is an excellent source for lesson plans; you search by subject and grade level or browse the subjects.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/       Wired Learning in the Classroom - this site includes the Blue Web N and Filmentality and Eyes on Art sites.  Includes hundreds of links to lesson plans, projects, and sites.

http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/index.html   Teachnet.com - lesson plans organized by subject area                                                       

 http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Lesson_Plans.html   Awesome Library - lesson plans for all subject areas and grade levels 

 http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/index.html    Teachers Net  - Lesson plans on the web - these lesson plans are posted by teachers throughout the world 

http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/   Teachers Helping Teachers - these lesson plans are posted by teachers and are arranged by subject and are updated weekly during the school year

http://www.buildingrainbows.com/CA/ca.home.php     Collaborative Lesson Archive - lesson plans are teacher generated and are arranged by grade level

http://www.eduplace.com/search/activity.html   Houghton Mifflin - The education Place Activity Search is a searchable database of  400+ original K-8 classroom activities and lesson plans

http://teacher.scholastic.com/index.htm   Scholastic - this publisher has interactive lesson plans for grades K-8 in math, social studies, language arts, and science 

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/   The AskERIC Lesson Plan Collection - contains more than 1,000 unique lesson  plans that have been written and  submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all  over the United States 

http://www.forefrontcurriculum.com/    Forefront Curriculum - this site includes web-based lesson plans, resources and links for wired teachers 

http://www.mmhschool.com/   McGraw-Hill School Division Resource Center - Web- linked activities and lesson plans grouped by subject area and grade level  

 http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/socstudies/index.html   Teachernet - over 500 lesson plans arranged by subject 

 http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/    wNetSchool - original lesson developed by wNetSchool Master Teachers; these lessons are web-based and designed around PBS series. 

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SS.htm   LessonPlans - over 300 lesson plans organized by subject 

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/   Lesson Plans from Columbia University's Department of Education - these teacher generated lesson plans are arranged by subject and grade level; some of the lesson plans are featured on Encarta's Lesson Plan Collection 

http://www.discoveryschool.com/   The Discovery School  - lesson plans for K-12 educators from the Discovery Channel; Can search by grade level and resource type 

http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/   Academy Curriculum - The Curriculum Exchange is an area where teachers can find a variety of lesson plans. 

http://www.teachersfirst.com/   Teachers First - is a collection of Internet resources and lesson plans drawn from around the world; lesson plans are reviewed and grouped by subject and grade level 

http://www.nytimes.com/learning   The New York Times Learning Network - connects teachers and students to news and educational resources on the Internet including daily lesson plans, interactive news quizzes and the capability to interact with Time reporters; lesson plans cover social studies, math, fine arts, language arts, technology and science     

 http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/   A to Z Teacher Stuff -  elementary teacher's one-stop source for online thematic units, theme resources, literature activities, lesson plans, and activities 

http://lessonplancentral.com/lessons/Art/Drama/index.htm    The Drama Teacher's Resource Room - lesson plans, backstage activities, production ideas and support as well as links to other WWW resources for drama.  

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Language Arts Subject Sites

 Book Sites 

http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/otherbooks/Book-Awards.html    Book Awards Links to almost 100 lists of various book award arranged alphabetically.

 http://www.shelfari.com  Shelfari - share your love of books with others.  Compile lists of your favorite books and share them with others. 

 http://www.english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/books.html   101 Things to Do with Books - are categorized according to The Characters (i.e. Explain where the main character would prefer to vacation and why), The Setting, The Author, The Past The Future, just to name a few    

http://www.literaturecircles.com/    Literary Circles – this is an online book discussion group for 4-6 students. This site explain Literary Circles and how they can be implemented in the classroom 

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General Resources 

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/   Blue Web’N - is a searchable database of over 250 outstanding Language Arts learning sites 

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/   Annenberg Exhibits - This is an excellent resource to introduce your students to literature.  This site is highly interactive and should engage students. 

http://discoveryschool.com   Discovery School – its exhibits are highly interactive and includes online activities and resources. 

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource   PBS Resources – this site has everything from classic to children’s literature.  It has interactive activities and lesson plans 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html   American Memory Project – this site from the Library of Congress has primary resources that you can use to enhance your literature units  

http://www.bartleby.com/reference/   Bartleby – searches a combined database of more than 20 reference works 

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The Research and Writing Process  

The Research Process

http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/   A+ Research and Writing – a step-by-step guide to the research paper from the Internet Public Library 

Style Manuals

www.mla.org     MLA – this is the real Modern Language Association style guide and it has instructions for citing electronic resources 

 http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml     MLA Style Guide 

http://www.lib.duke.edu/reference/style_manuals.html   Style Manuals from Duke University  

Writing Labs

http://www.powa.org/     Paradigm Online Writing Lab - There are sections on discovering what to write, organizing, revising and editing your writing. Also several types of essays are addressed: thesis/support, argumentative, exploratory, and informal. 

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/    Online Writing Lab – this is an excellent resource – it provides handouts and step-by-step instructions (scroll down for these resources)

http://www.science.widener.edu/welcome/WC.html   Writing Lab – this lab is sponsored by Widener University and provides handouts on all aspects of writing.  It also includes information on web evaluation 

http://www.noodletools.com/   NoodleBib – this is a fee-based site that provides interactive forms which assist your students in completing their works cited list.  After they complete the bibliography forms, they can print out the works cited list  

The Writing Process

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/   Common Errors in English – the site is very helpful for students making the same mistakes over and over again.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/howto.html   The Five-Paragraph Essay – a step-by-step guide to writing this essay  

http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/   ABC’s of the Writing Process – this site walks students through the stages of the writing process.  Each part is explained with ideas to make the process easy  

http://www.paragraphpunch.com/   Paragraph Punch – this is a guided writing program that explains what you are doing during the writing process  

http://abcteach.com/KidsClub/GraphicOrganizers/GraphicOrganizersTOC.htm   Graphic Organizers – this site has all the graphic organizers you could ever want  

Plagiarism

http://www.coastal.edu/library/mills2.htm   Plagiarism – this site lists over 150 general sites and 170 subject specific  term paper mills; it also offers articles on the topic; highly recommended  

http://www.plagiarism.org/ - assistance in teaching about plagiarims

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Words 

http://kids.ot.com/cgi-local/hangman/ Hangman - play hangman and figure out the word before you run out of rope; site from Kids Corner 

http://www.eduplace.com/fakeout/   Fake Out  

 http://www.fun-with-words.com/  Word Play - students are asked to solve a puzzle based on word origins 

 http://www.vocabularycentral.com/ Vocabulary Central – has a number of puzzles designed to improve vocabulary skills 

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/   Anagram Generator  from Wordsmith

  http://www.cyberkids.com/fg/ga/  Cyberkids Online Games and Puzzles - includes crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, mazes, word games and arcade games. 

http://www.wordcentral.com/    Word Central – from  Merriam-Webster, is a terrific place where students can experiment with words. It has a searchable dictionary and  decoders that allow students to remove vowels from text or encode a secret message

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 Children and Young Adult Author Sites

 http://www.unm.edu/~lhendr    The Children's Literature Web Guide - online resource rated to books for children and young adults 

http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/    Nancy Keane's Booktalks - information on children's authors and over 600 book summaries for use with booktalks 

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm     Authors and Illustrators - links to biographies and critical reviews 

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Literature Sites

 http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/places.htm    Literary Locales – virtual tours of literary sites 

 http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/index.html    The Odyssey – this is an interactive retelling of the story 

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/index.html    Web English Teacher – this is a wonderful resource for author studies 

http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm    Beowulf – from the British Museum  

www.narnia.com/    Narnia - here you can learn about C.S. Lewis and the creation of Narnia,  take a virtual tour and meet the Narnians

http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/    Digital Dante - it integrates (or will integrate) multimedia, as well as hyperlinked text commentary and other materials into Dante’s works 

http://www.poets.org/index.cfm    The Academy of American Poets -this is an excellent site that includes information on American poets, featured articles and a listening booth where students can listen to poets recite their poetry. 

 http://www.favoritepoem.org/  Favorite Poems - Listen to poets read their favorite poems Your students can get into the act by submitting their favorite poems which will be considered for video or audio inclusion on this site 

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate.html    Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress – This is a poetry-a-day project for American high school students.   

http://www.poetry.com    Poetry.com - Check out their Poem of the Day, send poetry postcards, find the 100 greatest poems ever written as well as the 50 greatest love poems ever written, listen to audio clips of poetry 

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/asiasite/topics/index.html?topic=Haiku+subtopic=Intro    Haiku – this site uses audio, video and images to teach this poetic form

 http://www.sonnets.org/    Sonnets Central – sonnets can be accessed alphabetically or by author 

http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/    American Verse Project – 19^th century American poetry 

http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/    IPL Literary Criticisms - this is an excellent site for biographical and critical information on authors; contains over 4000 criticisms 

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html    Great Writers - this is a collection of home pages on writers and poets

http://www.americanwriters.org/    American Writers - this website gives information about the featured author, and links to lessons and activities.  

http://drama.eserver.org/   The English Server Drama Collection - Carnegie-Mellon University site; his site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre 

http://www.rc.umd.edu/    Romantic Circles - this site is devoted to Romantic literature (Shelley, Keats, Byrons and their contemporaries) and culture 

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html    The Victorian Web - an outstanding site on Victorian history and culture maintained by Brown University 

http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/americanwritinggateway.htm    The American Writers Gateway – this is an excellent collection of sites about authors and works that are widely taught in English classes all over the country.  These sites have been evaluated by teachers for quality. 

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Teaching Novels and Authors

The Works of Charles Dickens 

  http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/index.html The Victorian Web – everything about life during the time of Queen Victoria 

http://www.victoriana.com/shops/couture/fifty1.html    Dressing the Victorian Lady 

http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/    Charles Dickens Gad Hill Place – visit the home of Dickens and meet his family and friends  

http://www.pbs.org/kqed/demonbarber/madding/index.html  The Maddening Crowd - visit 18th century London courtesy of PBS.  Here you will learn about the unplanned streets of London, thieves and punishment, water and waste and the police.  

http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/dickens_london.html    Dickens London – this highly interactive site describes London during the time of Dickens.  It includes an interactive map that takes you on a tour of the Crystal Palance, London Bridge, Newgate Prison, and Dickens’ House. 

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/London.htm    Spartacus Encyclopedia – this is an excellent source of information on Great Britain includes such topics as prisons, child labor, life of an industrial worker 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/olivers_london.html    Oliver Twist – visit Oliver’s London by clicking on an  interactive map that will introduce you to the journey that Oliver took in his adventures throughout the city. 

www.workhouses.org.uk    The Workhouses – workhouses figure prominently in Dickens’ works and this site uses, text and photographs to describe its building, inmates, staff and administrators, social history and architecture 

  http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/peelhome.htm  The Peel Web – this site provides information about political organizations, social movements and the Poor Laws; it has many primary documents 

Mark Twain 

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html    Mark Twain and His Times – learn about Mark Twain, his work and his times 

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/MTP/   Mark Twain at Large – describes the places both here and abroad that were visited by Twain  

http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/marketin/memory.html    Mark Twain’s Memory Builder – you can actually test your memory here

http://42explore.com/twain.htm  Everything About Mark Twain; links to web sites

http://salwen.com/mtquotes.html    The Quotable Twain – some of Twain’s best quotes 

http://users.telerama.com/~joseph/mtwain.html    Ever the Twain Shall Meet – e-texts of Twain’s works 

http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/friends.html    Mark Twain’s Friends – this site introduces you to the friends and associates of Twain and provides a political and social context for the author 

http://hanmo.com/    Hannibal Missouri – visit the boyhood home of Mark Twain 

Description of the Mississippi during Twain’s life 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html    African American Odyssey - provides an overview of African American history from the slave trade through the Civil War and Reconstruction to the Civil Rights movement 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/index.html    Huck Finn in Context – a teaching guide to accompany the PBS program  

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William Shakespeare 

http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html    The Complete Works of Shakespeare 

http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/    Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet - guide to William Shakespeare, his works, life, and times includes timeline, works, criticism, links, and the Renaissance. 

http://www.shakespeare-monologues.org/    Shakespeare’s Monologues

 http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-globe-theatre.htm  The Globe Theater – this site provides maps, tours and information on The Globe during Shakespeare’s times. 

http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/   The Black Death – a description of the plague as it spread across Europe 

http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/    Life in Elizabethan England – everything you wanted to know about the social life in Elizabethan times; it includes text and pictures and is perfect for student projects 

http://www.likesnail.org.uk/welcome-es.htm    Educating Shakespeare – school life Elizabethan England –  describes all aspects of schooling  during this time period 

http://www.renfaire.com/Language/index.html    Proper English Accents – learn to speak English the way it was done by Queen Elizabeth; includes vocabulary, pronunciation, insults, songs and forms of address 

http://tudorhistory.org/    Tudor England – completely covers this entire period of English history; it even includes a photo gallery and descriptions of each monarch 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1577harrison-england.html#Chapter%20VI    Description of Life in Elizabethan England  1577 – this is from Holinshed’s Chronicles; it is an excellent description of life during this time period  

http://www.costumegallery.com/1500.htm    The Costume Gallery – this site provides descriptions and examples of clothing from the 1500s 

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To Kill a Mockingbird 

 http://www.webenglishteacher.com/lee.html  Harper Lee Teaching Resources 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/mock/intro.html    A Historical Perspective – this site uses primary resources from the American Memory Collection to place the novel in a historical context 

http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/mbirdha.htm    To Kill a Mockingbird Then and Now – explores the setting of the novel; this site provides lesson plans and classroom activities 

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm    The Scottsboro Trial – from famous American trials 

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/emmett.html    The Murder of Emmett Till  

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The Crucible 

http://www.curriculumunits.com/crucible/main3.htm    The Crucible Project 

http://www.ogram.org/17thc/crucible.shtml    Arthur Miller’s The Crucible – Fact or Fiction

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/index.html    Salem Witch Hysteria – from National Geographic 

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm    The Salem Witch Trials – primary documents including transcripts form the trial 

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/06/then.now/    McCarthyism – from CNN 

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhollywood10.htm  The Great American Red Scare  from Spartacus Encyclopedia - scroll down for links

 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html    The Hollywood Ten  

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Sites for Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl 

http://www.candles-museum.com/    The Diary of a Young Girl 

http://www.annefrank.com/    The Holocaust Museum – this site provides the history of the Holocaust and the concentration camps 

http://www.annefrank.com/index1.html    Anne Frank Online – students can take a tour of the building where the Frank family hid, view photos and read about her life 

 http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=17&LID=2   Anne Frank’s Diary – read excerpts from the diary which are put into historical context.  

http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/Anne%20Frank/index.html    Anne Frank Center –offers an online exhibit of her life and times

http://voices.iit.edu/   Voices of the Holocaust – Transcriptions and audio files of Holocaust survivors. Includes links to other sites about the Holocaust  

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Jazz Age 

http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html    F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary - Elegant graphics and a wealth of information make this a valuable Web site for students; it includes photos, text and biographical information 

http://www.louisville.edu/~kprayb01/1920s.html    The Roaring Twenties - An extensive collection of information including business leaders, sports, the arts, science and the humanities, news and politics 

 http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html   American Culture in the 20s 

 http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm  Flappers in the 20s

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Ernest Hemingway 

www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure    Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure – this site recaptures the world of Ernest Hemingway 

http://www.hemingway.org/index.html    The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park – take a virtual tour of his birthplace 

http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/hemingway_menu.html    The Ernest Hemingway Collection  - housed at the JFK Library; has a biography and an inventory of Hemingway’s possessions that are archived there 

http://www1.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/hemingway/index.html    A Hemingway Retrospective – includes Time magazine articles written during his life including a review of The Sun Also Rises and a festival finder 

http://www.literarytraveler.com/hemingway/ernestplaces.htm    Literary Traveler – this is an excellent site that connects Hemingway’s travels to his novels 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/newsid_197000/197437.stm    The Great War – from BBC; includes text, audio files, images, videos of WWI  

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Geoffrey Chaucer 

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm    Chaucer – this site from the Anthology of Middle English literature includes a biography, quotes, articles and his works 

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/   Chaucer – this site from Harvard University is wonderful resource for your lessons; it includes life and manners of medieval times; the text of Chaucer’s works, quotes and biographies 

  http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_women.htm  Medieval Women –  history and life of women during this time period 

http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/    The Labyrinth – sponsored by Georgetown University is a treasure trove of information on the middle ages 

http://library.thinkquest.org/12834/index.html    The Lives of Medieval Women – this Thinkquest site provides an overview of life in the middle ages; includes images 

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  Stories and Tales from Around the World 

http://www.themoonlitroad.com/    Moonlit Road - a site for listening to and enjoying folk tales from around the world which are enhanced by wonderful illustrations and animations 

http://www.hiyah.com/    Hiyah.com – features classic children’s tales illustrated and with audio; also includes puzzles and games 

http://www.aesopfables.com/    Aesop’s Fables Online Exhibit –over 600 fables with audio and graphics 

 http://www.usm.edu/english/fairytales/cinderella/cinderella.html    The Cinderella Project - from the University of Mississippi, a text and image archive of 12 versions of this fairy tale.

http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/    Internet Public Library Story Hour - online illustrated children's stories 

http://www.writesite.org/    The Write Site - an interactive language arts and writing project for middle school students developed by has been developed by Greater Dayton Public Television. 

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html    Wacky Web Page - This is an online version of Mad Libs geared for students in grades 4 and above.  Students read the wacky tales and can even write and submit their own wacky web tales.  Helps students learn parts of speech.   

http://www.storyplace.org/    The Story Place – online interactive stories for grades K-3 

http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/games/     Dr. Seuss - this is a wonderful site for elementary children; students play games designed around Dr. Seuss characters 

http://www.weeklyreader.com/     Weekly Reader Galaxy  - this is the online version of the newspaper for kids.  The site is interactive with contests, current events, games and quizzes. 

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  Online Texts

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/    Columbia University Bartleby Library - provides the online text and biographies of many American and British Authors 

 http://promo.net/pg/    Project Gutenberg 

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/english.html    University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center - British and American literature resources.  This is an excellent and comprehensive site.  Click on Online Holdings to view the works 

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/    American Verse Project - biographies, criticism and full-text poems of American poets prior to 1920 

 http://eserver.org/   The English Server - from Carnegie University; has more than 20,000 book online

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