Group 2: Humanities: English
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Teacher Blogs: AP English Blog, Ms. Hogue's Classroom Blog, Blogwalker, Chalkdust, Cheeky Lit Teacher, Polliwog Journal, Grammar Girl, Ms Kranzusch, Stahlkopf, Larry Ferlazzo, HuffEnglish, Shakespeare Teacher, C Stutz
Teacher Resource Pages: Ms. Hogue's Online English Resources, WebEnglishTeacher, Ms Degenhardt's English Lit Portal, English Companion
The Classics
Do your students know "the classics" in your field? Do they know the best starting point for quality information?
Teacher Resources: EDSITEment, ReadWriteThink, PBS Lang Arts, Thinkfinity
Student Resources: Purdue OWL, Paradigm Writing Assistant
- Literature: ShmoopLit, ShmoopPop, Victorian Literature, IPL Literary Criticism, British Literature
- News: The New Yorker, Wired, Guardian, LIFE
- Poetry: Shmoop, Poets.org
- Biography: ShmoopBiography, US History, Biography, Women, Presidents, FindAGrave, Rulers
- Shakespeare: Shmoop
- Study Skills: A+ Researcher
Online Literature: Bartleby, Bibliomania
Authors: Nobel Prize Database
Multimedia
Student Resources
- Audio: Leaves of Grass, Librivox
- Biography: Conversations with History
- Reading and Viewing: PBS Learning Media
- Writing and Speaking: PBS Learning Media
Video Resources
- 22 Frames: learning English
- BBC Languages
- Book Wink
- eduFire
- ESL Basics: vocabulary
- Flocabulary: fun vocabulary
- Library of Congress Webcasts: popular authors
Student Video Productions
- Activate Poem: Spider and the Fly
- To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now
Interactives and Social Media
Interactives
- General: PBS LearningMedia
- Literature: Dante's World,
- Reading and Viewing: What Makes a Good Short Story?
- Writing and Speaking: Writing with Writers
- Games: Lord of the Flies, Shakespeare Subject to Change
- Transmedia: Inanimate Alice
Social Networks
- Figment (Write and Discuss)
- Good Reads (Review & Discuss)
- Teen Ink (Review & Discuss)
- Teens Library Point (Website)
- Teen Reads (Blog)
Tools
- ReadWriteThink Interactives
- Acrostic Poem, Alphabet Organizer, BioCube, CD/DVD Creator, Character Trading Cards, Circle Plot Diagram, Comic Creator, Comparison Map, Compare/Contrast, Crossword Puzzles, Diamante Poem, Doodle Splash, Drama Map, Essay Map, FlipBook, Fractured Fairy Tales, Graphic Map, Hero's Journey, Letter Generator, Letter Poem, Literary Elements Map, Mystery Cube, Persuasion Map, Plot Diagram, Profile Publisher, StoryMap, Timeline, 2 Circle Venn, 3 Circle Venn, Word Matrix,
Topical Ideas
Background information and links to quality websites, activities, webquests, and teaching materials
- advertising
- American Sign Language (ASL)
- calligraphy
- Charles Dickens
- debate
- fantasy and science fiction
- figurative language
- Harlem Renaissance
- journal writing
- mystery
- mythology
- oral history
- poetry for kids
- William Shakespeare
- skits, plays, and scripts
- skimming and scanning
- storytelling
- tall tales
- television
- Mark Twain
- writing
- Additional biography sites:
- biographies of folksingers
- biographies of the Harlem Renaissance
- biographies of the Industrial Revolution
- biographies of jazz musicians
- biographies of the Nuclear Age
- biographies of peacemakers
- biographies of the Renaissance
- biographies of World War II
- explorers - A to Z
- Native American biographies - A to Z
- people of the Old West
- Presidents of the United States
- Revolutionary War biographies
- rock 'n Roll biographies
- scientists / inventors in electricity
- World War I biographies
- Biographies also included at:
- Charles Dickens
- Lewis and Clark expedition
- Mark Twain
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- William Shakespeare
- Biography sections found within:
- Classical Music
- fantasy & science fiction
- flight
- inventors and inventions
- Women's Suffrage Movement
Use the links on the left to move through this online workshop.