Internet and Language Arts 9-12  http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/la2.html#Writing
     Includes links for reading, writing, drama, poetry, journalism, and NCTE Standards.

Literature Resources for the High School and College Student  http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/ 
      Quick reference for  students to the many literature and writing resources on the world wide web. 

Multnomah High School Literature Sites  http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/hslit.html
     Links arranged by short story, poem, author, and literature by period or century.

Online Literary Criticism Collection  http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/ 
     4,492 critical and  biographical web sites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. 

Web English Teacher http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
     Online materials are organized into 25 categories including grammar, vocabulary, writing, literature, and poetry.

Special Topics

Social Issues  http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html
     Multnomah Public Library provides links for "students researching current social
issues from multiple perspectives."

Best Information on the Net http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/hotindex.htm

Public Agenda Online http://publicagenda.org/
This opinion research group lists information by topic - scroll to dropdown menu on lower left of page.

Council on Foreign Relations http://www.cfr.org/

Statistical Resources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
     Scroll down the topic list on the left side-bar to select an issue.

CQ Researcher Database

eLibrary Database

InfoTrac Databases

Poetry

Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/
     Read the descriptions of links. Click on Literary Links, then on Browse Poet Links to find some 
contemporary poets and their poems.

American Verse Project  http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
     This site presents online volumes of American poetry published before 1920. It offers a variety of ways to search.

Favorite Poem Project: Americans Saying the Poems They Love  http://www.favoritepoem.org/
     Includes a database of favorite poems, suggestions for classroom adaptations of the project, and videos of people saying their favorite poems.

Online Poetry Classroom http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/
     Resource for high school teachers that contains over 1200 poems, short biographies, 
     bibliographies, and links.

Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com/
     Check this page each day for poems and information about the poets.

Poetry 180 http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
      This Library of Congress site offers a poem a day for American high schools. Check out the Poetry and Literature Center.

Poet's Corner http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/
     This large, diverse library of poetic works includes  medieval ballads, songs of centuries past, and contemporary poems. It offers a variety of indexes.

Representative Poetry Online http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html
     Search indexes of poets, poems by title, by first line, timelines of key events, or a keywords. Includes a glossary of poetic terms and forms and writings on poetry.

Textbook Links
World Myths and Folktales http://go.hrw.com
     At site enter keyword:    LW1MYTH

Beowulf - Internet Resources
The Anglo-Saxons http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Medieval_Studies/russom/anglos.html
      Scroll down to the "World of the Anglo-Saxons" for links to culture, art, architecture, weapons and warfare.

Angelcynn http://www.angelcynn.org.uk/
     Includes history, clothing, poetry, warfare, society, kings, and a glossary.

Regia Anglorum http://www.regia.org/
     This web page of a society that encourages living history provides much information about Anglo-Saxon times.

Readings from Beowulf  http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/Beowulf.Readings/Beowulf.Readings.html
     View readings in Old English.

The Adventures of Beowulf http://www.lnstar.com/literature/beowulf/beowulf.html
     Read an online version of the classic in unrhymed verse.

Beowulf - Novel Guide http://www.mcdougallittell.com/lit/litcon/beowulf/guide.htm
     Lesson ideas from McDougall Littell.

Making the Middle Ages Fun http://www.loyno.edu/~MidAges/
     Lesson ideas from a Louisiana summer institute.

Middle Ages Internet Links  http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/WEBSites.html
     This extensive list  links to art, music, manuscripts, life and times and more.

The Canterbury Tales http://www.columbia.edu/~tks1/canterbury_links.htm
     Includes links to the tales online, pronunciation, glossary, cookery, costumes, and more.

A Brief Chronology of Chaucer's Time http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/varia/life_of_Ch/chrono.html/
     Lists the events from 1300 to the 1400.

NetSERF http://www.netserf.org/
     This comprehensive list of Internet resources about Medieval life contains many categories including art, music, history, culture and people,

Chaucer - Resources for Teachers
The Chaucer Pedagogy Page http://cwolf.uaa.alaska.edu/~afdtk/pedagogy.htm
     Compiles links to teaching and study aids.

The Canterbury Tales - Novel Guide http://www.novelguide.com/thecanterburytales/index.html
     Find lesson ideas.

Chaucer Links, Source Notes, and Teaching Resources http://www.calhoun-city.k12.ga.us/chs/english/Chaucer.html
     Includes audiovisual links, online e-texts, literary criticism, and teaching resources.

Dante's Inferno

Discovery School Lesson Plans – Dante’s Inferno
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/dantesinferno/

The Teaching of Ethics through Literature and Dante's Inferno
http://www.mla.org/ade/bulletin/n093/093022.htm

Dante Resources on the Internet
http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/dante2.html

Terms, Characters, Allusions and Places Mentioned in Dante's Inferno
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/dante/terms.htm

Digital Dante – Study Guide: The Inferno
http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/classroom/study.html

Digital Dante Home Page
http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/

Teaching Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex - Yale – New Haven Teachers’ Institute  http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/2/84.02.03.x.html
     Scroll down to Suggestions for Developing Students’ Understanding of the Play

Rivendell’s Drama Page
http://www.watson.org/rivendell/drama.html
     Page offers biography, articles, translations.

History of Greek Drama
http://www.calhoun-city.k12.ga.us/chs/english/greek_files/v3_document.htm
     This PowerPoint Presentation offers a brief history.

Africa Today: Nigeria http://www.mrdowling.com/611-nigeria.html

Photo Album: Nigeria http://home.att.net/~amanders/nigeria/

Africa: South of the Sahara - Nigeria http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/nigeria.html

Nigeria Web http://www.odili.net/nigeria.html

The Color of Water by James McBride

Background: The Civil Rights Movement

Jim Crow Laws http://www.ushmm.org/olympics/zcc036a.htm
     Includes photographs and captions.

Jim Crow Laws at Spartacus http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjimcrow.htm
     This British site includes a brief history.

African American Odyssey - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
      This Library of Congress site explores African American history through nine time periods and includes text and pictures.

National Civil Rights Museum Virtual Tour http://www.mecca.org/~crights/cyber.html
Presents facts and pictures about the Civil Rights Movement.

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement              
                    http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/index.htm
       This site tells the story of the movement through pictures of important places and information about the people involved.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement    http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/
       Includes facts and photos.

Grolier Online Encyclopedia

                                                Background: Judaism

Judaism 101 http://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm
   Includes basic beliefs, cooking, places, holidays.

Official Judaism Glossary http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/religionet/er/judaism/JGLOSSRY.HTM
   The glossary is part of a comprehensive site on Judaism.

World Book Online Encyclopedia

"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe

The Black Death http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/
     This site offers an historical view of the plague including its cause, transmission and effects.

The Black Death: Boubonic Plague http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/LifeTimes/Plague.html
     The history and spread of the diisease as well as links to other sites are presented.
This site is the result of a partnership between a high school student and Brigham Young University.

The Pestilence Tyme http://www.godecookery.com/plague/plague.htm
     This online book presents an extensive view of this historical period.
 

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Web Quest about Allusions in To Kill a Mockingbird by Teacher Maggie Wolcott at Crawfordsville High School, Indiana

Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws Interactive Tour http://216.157.9.6/civilrights/tour/it13.html
    Photographs in text depict this time in America's past.
Jim Crow Laws http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/valleyview/media/mockingbird/jimcrow.htm
   This site lists links to information about the Jim Crow laws and their impact.

The Great Depression

America from the Great Depression to World War II 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
     This Library of Congress sites presents photographs of the era.

Causes and Effects of the Great Depression http://oasis.bellevue.k12.wa.us/sammamish/sstudies.dir/hist_docs.dir/grtdepression.mn.html

Federal Writers' Project: Interview Excerpts  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/exinterv.html
     "The Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s recorded more than 10,000 life stories of men and woman from a variety of occupations and ethnic groups."

The Great Crash and the Great Slump http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
     An economist presents the facts and figures about the Great Depression.

The Great Depression News http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html
     Click on the news titles to learn more.

The New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/
     Documents and photographs present this period in history.

Riding the Rails http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/
    This site includes an annotated time line of the Great Depression, stories of teen hobos, hobo songs, obstacles facing African American hobos, and maps of the rail lines. The site complements the DVD "Riding the Rails," available in our library.

Then and Now: Prices During the Great Depression  http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_19268_20778-52530--,00.html
     A table helps to compare prices during the Great Depression to those of today.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Totalitarianism: A Brief Definition  http://www.bartleby.com/65/to/totalita.html

Orwellian & Animal Farm Studies Resources  http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/orwell.html
     This page from  the Chico, California High School Library provides links to the historical background of the novel, links to Orwell's writings , and a search engine to locate text in the novel.

Novel Guide: Animal Farm: Character Profiles  http://www.novelguide.com/animalfarm/characterprofiles.html

English Teaching Resources: Animal Farm  http://www.english-teaching.co.uk/sample/afcharacter.pdf
     Templates for character analysis.

Propaganda in Animal Farm
     Political Themes of Animal Farm   Spin and Propaganda: Messing with the Message
         http://www.turnerlearning.com/tntlearning/animalfarm/afspin.html

     Types of Propaganda  http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/cw_prop2.html

     Book Rags: Animal Farm - Topic Tracking: Propaganda  http://www.bookrags.com/notes/af/TOP3.htm

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations Student Teacher Resources by Barbara Bishop

Web English Teacher Click on Literature (Prose) then on Charles Dickens - Note that the top of the page contains information on Dickens, then scroll down to Great Expectations.

The Charles Dickens Page http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/index.html
     Includes information on Dickens' life, times, and works.

The Victorian Web  http://www.victorianweb.org/
     Includes many links to details of Victorian life.

Night by Elie Weisel

Oprah's Cut with Elie Wiesel  http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/200011/omag_200011_elie.jhtml
     Watch Oprah's interview with Elie Wiesel.

A Brief Research Model for Night by Elie Wiesel http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/night/
     This quest guides the study of the Holocaust

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum  http://www.ushmm.org/
     Includes information for students and teachers, provides links to other Holocaust sites, and offers sections on history and research. Use the search box in the lower right corner of the page.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center: Museum of Tolerance Online Learning Center http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/
     Start your search by clicking on the Multimedia Learning Center, then click on Index of Topics. This site offers photos and information.

Remember.org http://www.remember.org/
     Provides links about camps, witnesses, books, and education.

Yad Vashem: The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
     This site offers primary source materials in the form of diaries, photographs, letters, testimonies, artifacts, maps, charts, and documents.

Concentration Camps http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
     Provides a list of camp links and includes information on medical experiments on prisoners.

The Holocaust Chronicle http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/index.html
     This site is an online version of an 800 page book. It is a little tricky to navigate, but read the directions on this page for help. Click on the index or search by keyword and be sure to note how to navigate from page to page.

Hiroshima Archive http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/
   This site is a research  and educational guide.

Holocaust Heroes http://www.holocaust-heroes.com/index.htm
    Scroll down  to connect to pages that describe efforts by Quakers, villagers, and others to protect the Jews.

Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection at Harvard Law School http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
     According to the site introduction, "The Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT)."

Jewish Virtual Library http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/holo.html
     List of terms related to the Holocaust with brief explanations. (SS, Gestapo, Ghettos, Hitler, etc.)

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm
   This site is an "overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature."

Literature Links from A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/lit.htm
     Includes stories of victims, survivors, resistance workers, rescuers. Also includes the German Experience and reflection after fifty years.

The Last Expression : Art and Auschwitz http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/index2_frameset.html
     Art in the camps is presented along with captions about the artist. Note: Best viewed with Microsoft Explorer.

Anne Frank House  http://www.annefrank.nl/
 Web site of the Anne Frank home and organization.

Anti-Defamation League http://www.adl.org/
     Group works against Anti-Semitism, bigotry, and extremism.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Note:
Click on GaleNet under Databases on the Library Web Page for information about the book and its author.

About the Book

Of Mice and Men http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/mice.html
     This site provides a summary of the book and links to movies based on the book.

Novel Guides: Of Mice and Men  http://www.novelguide.com/ofmiceandmen/
     Offers help in these categories: novel summaries, character profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analysis, top ten quotes, and biography.

Of Mice and Men: The Student Survival Guide http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/mice/index.html
     Provides brief chapter summaries that include vocabulary, allusions, and idioms as well as FAQs and related links.

Spark Notes: Of Mice and Men http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen/
     Contains information to assist study regarding: overview, characters, plot, quotations, key facts, quiz, and historical context.

Characters:  http://www.novelguide.com/ofmiceandmen/characterprofiles.html

Themes:
http://www.englishresources.co.uk/workunits/ks4/fiction/ofmicemen/smallheath/themes.html

About the Author

National Steinbeck Center  http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html
This site is the official Steinbeck site located in Salinas, California.

About the Great Depression

America from the Great Depression to World War II  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
This Library of Congress site provides photographs that document American life between 1935 and 1945.

The American Dream  http://www.usdreams.com/OurHeritage3.html
This is a commercial site that wants you to book its speakers, but it presents a useful explanation of "The American Dream." 

Causes of the Great Depression  http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/1930s/depression-causes.html
This site briefly identifies some causes of the Great Depression.

Memories of the Depression
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-53511--,00.html
Includes personal narratives by people who lived during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

1930's Headlines from the Depression:
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html

Riding the Rails http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/
    This site includes an annotated time line of the Great Depression, stories of teen hobos, hobo songs, obstacles facing African American hobos, and maps of the rail lines. The site complements the DVD "Riding the Rails," available in our library.

Roaring 20s and the Great Depression  http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/20sdep.html
This extensive list of links includes causes, photos, and oral histories. 

Sliding Into the Great Depression http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
     This site offers a detailed look at the economic causes of the Great Depression.

World Depression and Its Results  http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/world/lectures/depressionresults.html
     This site describes the Great Depression, its effects, and efforts for recovery.

Romeo and Juliet
Violent Delights and Violent Ends: Romeo and Juliet http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/romeo_juliet/home.html
Includes teaching and learning activities.

Renaissance, The Elizabethan World http://renaissance.dm.net/
     Browse the links for details of life in Elizabethan England.

The Elizabethan Costuming Page http://costume.dm.net/
     This site offers an extensive list of links to pictures and patterns.

Life in Elizabethan England http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/index.html
     Links to occupations, money, food, children, education, pastimes, and more.

Elizabeth I. org http://www.elizabethi.org/
    Check this site for information on the life and times of Elizabeth I.

Shakespeare Web Sites

Absolute Shakespeare http://absoluteshakespeare.com/
     Includes links to study guides, trivia, plays, sonnets, pictures, poems, Globe Theater, quotes, timelines, and more.

The Complete Works of Shakespeare  http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
     Offers the first Internet edition of Shakespeare's plays and poetry.

The Folger Shakespeare Library  http://www.folger.edu/
     Scroll to Teachers and Students to locate primary sources and lesson plans.

The Elizabethan Costuming Page http://costume.dm.net/
     This site offers an extensive list of links to pictures and patterns.

Life in Elizabethan England http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/
     This "compendium of common knowledge" includes " · Food · Money · Religion · Language · Weddings · Masters & Servants · Occupations · The Peers · London · Fashion · Children · Household Management · Pastimes · Names · The Queen's Suitors · Education · Christmas · Heraldry · Maps."

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet  http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
     This site is a searchable, annotated guide to Shakespeare resources available on Internet. Includes a bibliography of works used.

Renaissance, The Elizabethan World http://renaissance.dm.net/
     Browse the links for details of life in Elizabethan England.

Shakespeare Illustrated http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html
      The site is described as "a work in progress, explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another."

Shakespeare Online http://www.shakespeare-online.com/
     This site emphasizes analysis and essays on Shakespeare's life and sources, Elizabethan theater, and more. A bibliography is not included.

Shakespeare Resource Center  http://www.bardweb.net/about.html
     Offers an easy-to-navigate list of links 

Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1937  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/CHAP9.HTML?Submit=9.+The+Harlem+renaissance
     Locate authors, photos, lists of works, and more.

Harlem, 1900 - 1940: An African American Community http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/
     This site offers a time line, teachers' guide, bibliography, and links.

Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance http://www.iniva.org/harlem/
     This site focuses on the visual arts with paintings that reflect the themes of the era.