Useful Links for Teachers


Here are some links you might find helpful.These links are recommended by the College Board.

The Gateway to Educational Materials
www.thegateway.org

Sponsored by the U.S.Department of Education's National Library of Education, this site has over 5,000 education resources, including internet lesson plans and curriculum units.

 

The Modern Language Association of America
www.mla.org

The MLA's homepage. Provides the only authorized online access to the MLA style guidelines for documenting sources on the World Wide Web.

 

National Council of Teachers of English
www.ncte.org

The NCTE's home page. Provides access to books, journals, news, job listings, teaching ideas, and discussion lists.

 

The New Bartleby: The Twenty-First Century Library
www.bartleby.com

A collection of full-text literature (plays, poetry, prose, novels) that may be downloaded free of charge for educational purposes. (One of my favorite links! Great for any English teacher.

 

Project Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.org

A site for downloading full texts

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

a collection of public domain documents from English and American literature as well as from Western philosophy.

 

The following links are our own recommendations based on our use and familiarity with them. We will update it with additional internet links as soon as we find them.

Curriculum Guides

Jane Schaffer's web site. Many excellent guides based on Jane Schaffer's workshops and materials. Good for new teachers.

College Board

a good connection to other sites and teachers who are also teaching A.P. courses.

The Teacher Channel

A great site with tools, links, and outstanding lesson plans.

Grammar & Writing

everything you ever wanted to know about grammar but were afraid to ask.

Northwest Regional Laboratory

an outstanding site set up to help Northwestern states improve everything about their schools. In "Resources" go to the" Library in the Sky" for an outstanding list of 15,000 links. The site is set up do do things like: evaluate school programs; help write grants; provide a forum for teachers. I wish we had something like this in California.

Shakespeare sites

Shakespeare.com

a great site to find a copy of any Shakespeare play or poem.

Shakespeare in Art

This site shows how themes from Shakespeare have been treated by visual artists. This site is being added on teacher request:)

Shakespeare Illustrated

Great catalog of art with themes of Shakespeare's plays

Folger Shakespeare Library

Excellent site for lesson plans, and teachers can share ideas in the "Teacher's Lounge"

Shakespeare and the Internet

This site has 75 pages of links to a variety of Shakespeare resources. If you can't find something useful here, you're not trying.

The Classics Pages

an outstanding site that does a wonderful job of creating games based on classic works. Very helpful interpretations of classics.FUN!

The Scarlet Letter

this site has EVERYTHING you might ever want to know about Hawthorne! I am most impressed.

Women Writers

a useful site run by the University of Pennsylvania where users cooperate in putting works online.

Word of the Day

Great fun for both student and teacher.

Gradesaver.com

summaries and links for a great list of classics.

Links To American Literature

Outstanding site developed by Dr. Ishikawa, head of the Department of English at Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages,Japan

Inherit the Wind-Hot Links

Here are a set of links that will help teaching this play.WARNING-some views may be considered extreme by both sides.
American Studies Program-U. of Virginia
Kimmy Smith's Inherit the Wind Lessons
teachnet.org
Textbook Fraud-Religion's point of view
gradesaver.com
sparknotes.com

Cry, The Beloved Country-Hot Links

Here are a set of links that will help in teaching this novel.
Study Guide-Cry,the Beloved Country
sparknotes.com
Research Pathfinder for "Cry, the Beloved Country" (great background materials)

Beloved by Toni Morrison-Hot Links

Here are two links that will help in teaching this novel.
gradesaver.com
sparknotes.com

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

sparknotes.com
luminarium.org
Cityhonors

Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck-Hot Links

Belmont H.S.-LAUSD
Novelguide.com
gradesaver.com

 

Poetry

Here is a good site to help a class to appreciate and understand poetry. A different poem is put online each day. You can pick the ones you like using the archive.

 

Suggested Readings

A great list of suggested readings for A.P. English, Language & Composition

Rhetorical Skills

This site is intended to help both beginners and experts through the terms and tools of rhetoric.

Rhetoric Matching Quiz

a short quiz matching rhetorical terms and definitions

For my neice, Gail P.

Here is the URL's you requested
gradesaver.com
novelguide.com
bookrags.com
sparknotes.com
123helpme.com

 

 

 

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