English Department - Teacher Resources

Web 2.0 for English Teachers - presentation made at the Literacy Extravaganza 2/7/2009

 

Active Reading  (Close Reading)

AIMS Six Trait Rubric - Set up to print in landscape.

Awards and Publishing

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

Bibliography

How Do I Assess a Bibliography for Understanding

Bloom's Taxonomy

Character Analysis

Venn Diagram

Grid

Citation Guides 

Annotated Bibliography Guidelines

APA Style Guide

Citation Machine -- Landmarks for Schools  

How to Cite Government Documents

OWL - Citation Guide MLA

Parenthetical Citations
(an example based on A Guide to MLA Documentation. 5th ed.)

Sabino Citations 
(based on A Guide to MLA Documentation. 5th ed.)

Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format

USM Library MLA Style Guide

Concordance

Victorian Literary Studies Archive, Hyper-Concordance

Curriculum Guides

Grade 9

Grade 10

Grade 11

Grade 12

Debate

Debate Links

Stage a Debate

Ebook Sites

Bibliomania - Plays, fiction, short stories, non-fiction, interviews.

Classic Reader

Directions for Downloading Audiobooks from PCPL

Ebrary - minimal charge

Online Books Page - University of Pennsylvania

Page by Page Books

Project Gutenberg

 

Journal Writing

Literature

Salem Witch Trials - a portal site with links, WebQuests, everything a teacher might want

CyberGuides - for literature from the California SCORE program

Teaching Literature and Writing with Technology - commonly taught books, English teacher web links, grammar and more.

Writing Fix - Interactive writing lessons based on published literature from N. Nevada Writing Project

General

Award Winning Books

DAWCL-Dababase or Award-winning Children's Literature, searchable

The Booklists - Lists of award winners

The Biography Maker - leads students through the steps to create an interesting biography

Eduscapes - WebQuests and literature ladders.

EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web sponsored Marcopolo and the National Endowment for the Humanities

English Companion

Lexile Analyzer- free, but you have to sign-up

Lexile Level Searchable Database

Literacy Web - University of Connecticut, great resources on Literacy Topics and Research.

Outline of American Literature - Internet sites on American Literature.

OWL at Purdue University

Read Write Think - lessons, web resources and materials from NCTE, IRA, and Marcopolo

Strangefruit Lesson

 

 

I-Search

Search A Word

The I-Search Assignment

 

Journals - Online

Reading Online

 

Literature

Schools of California: Online Resources for Education - SCORE Guides

 

Notetaking

English Companion - thousands of note taking organizers

Noodletools - now has a notecard feature that automatically grabs the URL and helps create a citation

 

 

Novels

Cry the Beloved Country - Internet Resources on Apartheid and the American Civil Rights Movement.

Things Fall Apart WebQuest

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

Persuasive Essay

Overview - 9th grade

 

Plagiarism

Downloading Detectives - Powerpoint workshop and links.

Plagiarism Webquest - An online workshop for students.

Plagiarism Workshop - lesson plan

Resources for Web Plagiarism : Prevention and Detection from the University of N. Carolina.

A Syllabus Strategy for Talking About Plagiarism with Students

 

Poetry

BBC's Poetry Site

Found Poetry Assignment and Citations

Library of Congress

Poetry Out Loud

Poetry Society of America

QuickMuse - Watch while poets write and revise a poem, live.

 

Popular vs. Scholarly Articles

Examples compiled by S. Dooley

Popular Vs. Scholarly Articles - Guide

Scholarly vs. Popular Journals

What is a scholarly journal?

 

Primary Sources Pathfinder - links to everything primary source on the web - by Joyce Valenza

 

Questioning

RAFTS

Reading

Partnership for Reading

Reading Online - a journal of practice and research published by the International Reading Assoc.

 

Research Papers

Essay Map - an interactive tool with introduction, three main ideas, each with 3 supporting details and a conclusion.  Limited space.

Writing Center: Writers' Web

 

SOAPS - explanation

SOAPS - grid in PowerPoint

Speech 

American Rhetoric - Online speech bank and  top 100 speeches

Venn Diagram - Character Analysis

Writing

OWL - Purdue's Online  Writing Lab

RAFTS