English

English Links

Links

• McDougal Littel  - A Houghton Mifflin Company - Teacher Links
• Inspiration - Visual Learning  - Language Arts Ideas
• Summer Reading - 1 / 2 Reading Links (sample of local - unofficial list) 
• English SharePoint 
   
• WebQuests for English/Language Arts  (Grades 9-12)  
  All Subjects Matrix (Samples)
  - Huckleberry Finn (WebQuest)
    Online Book and Text
  -  Frankenstein WebQuest
    (Frankenstein - second reading) (Mrs. Deneault)10/29/04 *
  - A Separate Peace WebQuest (Mrs. Driscoll 10/03)

Teacher Links

• My Favorite Poem
• Poetry Readings - Robert Frost (mp3 file)
  A partnership among Boston University and the Poetry Society of America
• An Odyssey Track (a collection of links using 4teacher.org using TrackStar in text mode) Ms. Lynch's Class (March 04)
• Jeopardy Ideas

ESSAY - A Few Online Essay Scoring Demos (posted 5/04)

• Criterion 3.0
  http://www.ets.org/criterion/topics/topics.htm
• Holt Online Essay Scoring
  http://my.hrw.com/hosdemo/hos_entry.jsp

• Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA) Demonstration Page
  http://www.knowledge-technologies.com/IEAdemo.shtml/

• Prentice Hall Online Essay Scorer
  http://phschool.com/successnet/oesdemo

• MY Access! IntelliMetric Demo
  http://www.vantage.com/demosite/demo.html

More Links

• Communications Skills
• 4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use.
• Google WebBlogs in Education
• Apple iLife Award for Language Arts (get inspired)
• Movie Maker Video/Ideas (need Windows XP)
• MS-Producer Samples work with PowerPoint (great for open house!)
• Kathy Schrock's Websites for English Teachers
• Links to Literature - Richmond Public Schools
  This website has 16,500+ links to activities and lesson plans for children's and young adult literature.
• TechTrekers a collection of lesson and ideas for teachers
• America Dreams ...through the decades
  This WebQuest challenges you to investigate the American Dream, look through the eyes of those who lived before us, use the American Memory collections. 
• Lord of the Flies
  Design a survival strategy and bill of rights.
• Good and Evil in Lord of the Flies
  Students take the seat of a clinical psychologist as they examine depravity in Lord of the Flies.
• Rewriting Romeo and Juliet
  Rewrite a scene from Romeo and Juliet and create a Theatrical Porfolio.
• Personal Reflections on Vietnam
  Students take on roles that portray different perspectives regarding the Vietnam War.

Some additional recommended WebQuest Links

• Yahoo! selection of social studies WebQuest lesson plan sites
• Yahoo! selection of science WebQuest lesson plan sites
• A collection of Webquests and Resources for Teachers developed by Davison High School, Davison, Michigan.

Ready to create your own WebQuest?

• Filamentality Anyone can use Filamentality to create a Hotlist, Scrapbook, Treasure Hunt, Sampler, or WebQuest that links patrons to Internet sites, guides research, or assists in learning.
• Pacific Bell - Create a hotlist using Filamentality or use Web-Based Lessons, Activities and more.

More Links

• Online Literary Criticism Collection - 2662 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works. Browse by title, nationality or literary period. British and American authors from
   pre-1500 are included. (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 17)
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations -a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 20)
• Lesson Plans
• Quotations of Shakespeare -selected quotations from his works (Curriculum Frameworks Learning Standard 12)
• Teaching through Biographies
• The Biography Channel
• Poets' Corner