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330 Most Common Verbs	Free Booknotes	Online Literature: New Additions
500 Free SAT Words	Grammar Central	Outta Ray's Head- English Resources
Academy Curricular Lessons (9-12)	Great Speeches- History Channel	Page by Page: Classic Books
American/British English Differences	How Fast Do You Read	Phonetics on the Web
American Journalism Review	Ingenius- Seeing Things Differently	Project Gutenberg
American Rhetoric	The Journalist's Toolbox	Public Speaking Skills- Virtual Presentation Assistant
American Rhetoric: Speech Bank	Knight Center for Journalism	The Quotations Page
Anti-Censorship Center- NCTE	Language Arts: Homework Help	Reading is Fundamental
ArtsEdge: Language Arts Links	Language Arts- Mini-Lessons	Reading: Philosophy/Instructions
Ask a Linguist	Language Arts Resources	Roots of English Dictionary
Author's Stylistic Choices	Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun	Spelling Games
ALA's Banned Books Week	Logolepsy: Obscure Words	StudyStack- Vocabulary
ABFFE- Banned Books Week	London Slang	Teach with Movies
Google- Explore Banned Books	Lynch Guide to Grammar and Style	Top 100 American Speeches
Books Online	Many Books	Traditional English Grammar
Building a Better Vocabulary	MLA Language Map	Tutorials
Busy Teacher: English Resources	The Modern Word	UC Berkeley Summer Reading Lists
Bookrags- Comprehensive Guides to Classic Lit	National Council of Teachers of English	Vocabulary Can Be Fun
ClassicNotes	Nellie's English Projects	Vocabulary University
Common Errors in English	Nerds of Words	Vocabulary Web Games
Daily Grammar Archive	New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy	Web English Teacher- Excellent Resources
Dr. B's Online Lessons and Resources	Nonverbal Dictionary	Webgrammar
English Maze	NovelGuide- Novel Resource	A Word A Day
English Resources	Ohio Center for the Book	Word Count
English Server: Online Resources	One Stop English	Word Place
	Online Books Page
Helpful Tools
Acronym Search	Doing a Reserach Project	Limerick English Dictionary
American English Slang Dictionary	Doing Research	MLA Citation Examples
APA Style	Double-Tongued Word Wrester	MLA Citation Style
Ask Oxford	Etymology Dictionary	The Modern Word
Chicago Manual of Style Citations	Evaluating Research Materials	NoodleTools Quick Cite
Citation Machine	Get Caught Reading	Online Rhyming Dictionary
Citation Style Guides	Graphic Organizers	Oxymorons
Citation Styles for Research Papers	Guide to Libary Research	Research 101- Tutorial
Citing Web Resources	Guide for Writing Research- MLA/APA	Reference and Search Tools
CSU- 5 Steps to Better Research	Help with Writing Citations	Rhymer- Rhyming Dictionary
Dictionary.com	How to Cite a Web Page	RhymeZone-Rhyming Dictionary
Dictionary of English Slang	Library Research Guide-Tutorial	Worldwide Words
Writing Resources
258 Journal Ideas	I Love to Write	Read, Write, Think- Lesson Plan Ideas
American Heritage- English Usage	Electronic Journal: Invisible Culture	Resources for Writers- George Mason University
Biography Maker	Journalism.org	Responding to Student Writing
BLOGGER	Journalism- Interactive	Scholastic Art & Writing
Casey Journalism Center	Journal Writing: Conversations Within	Strunk's: Elements of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style	MIT OpenCourseWare- Writing	Webgrammar
Columbia Guide to Online Style	MLA Citation Guide	Write It- Scholastic
Columbia Journalism Review	National Commission on Writing	Writer's Web
Creative Writing Process	NCTE- Writing Plans and Policies	The Writing Center-UofWisconsin
CyberJournalist- Code of Ethics	NCTE ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan	Writing Center Web
Dirty Dozen- Grievous Writing Errors	NewsSnapshot: Writing Ideas	Writing Lessons- Outta Ray's Head
Fresh Yarn- Personal Essays	Non-Sexist Language: Purdue	Writing Resources- Princeton
Elements of Fiction	Nuts and Bolts of College Writing	Writing Sites
The Five Paragraph Essay	NY State Writer's Institute	Writing Starters
Forms of Address	Obscure English Words	Write Source: APA Style
Garrison Keillor's- The Writer's Almanac	Online Writing Materials- Dartmouth	Write Source: MLA Style
Guide to Grammar and Writing	OWL- Purdue Online Writing Lab	Writing Tips
Guidelines for Avoiding Gender Bias in Pronouns	Paradigm Online Writing Assistant	Writing and Technology
High School Journalism	Peer Response Guidelines	Writing Tutorial Services
High School Journalism	Persuasion Map	The Word Spy
	Poynter Online Journalism

Literature Resources
Early 17th Century English Literature	Classic Literature	London Review of Books
18th Century E-texts	Internet Classics Archive	LucidCafe
The 19th Century English Novel	The Classic Text: Traditions &Interpretations	Luminarium: Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century Literature
100 Best English Language Novels	Classics Unveiled	Medieval and Modern Thought Text Project
Aesop's Fables	Cliffs Notes: All Titles	MIT OpenCourseWare- Literature
Aesop's Fables Online	Digital Books Index	Modern English Collection
American Rhetoric: Power of Oratory	Digital Storytelling	Mostly Fiction
The Ancient Greek World	EdHelper: Lesson Plans for Literature Selections	Mythography
Ancient Manuscripts	EdSeek: Authors & Works	Mythology: Godchecker
Asian and African Literature	EdSitement: Literature & Language	Mythology in the Classroom
ATN Booklists	E-Library of Literature	Mythology: Winged Sandals
The Atlantic Monthly Press	Elizabethan Authors	The New Yorker Online
The Atlantic Online-Fiction	Encyclopedia Mythica	New York State Writers Institute
Authors Guild	English-Trailers	Norton Anthology of English Literature
Author Interviews	Fiction Finder	Online Books@Sunsite
Authors in the Victorian Web	NYTimes: First Chapters	Online Books Page
Authors- Literati	Folklore and Mythology: E-Texts	Opening Hooks
Authors Online	The Glory That Was Greece	The Paris Review
Authors on the Web	Great Books Index	Questia Online Library
Author Pseudonyms	History Channel- Great Speeches	Reading Group Guides
Author Yellowpages	Greek Mythology	Read Print: Online Books
BBC Audio Author Interviews	Guardian Unlimited Short Stories	A Romantic Natural History
Bibliomania- Online Literature	Harper Audio of Authors	Romanticism on the Net
Bright Lights Film Journal	The Harvard Classics- eTexts	The Romantics Page
BookBrowse	B est of the Humanities Web	Salon Magazine Archive
BookPage: America's Book Review	Humanities Interactive	SciFi and Fantasy Research Database
Bookreporter Author Index	Humanities Magazine	Science Fiction Weekly
British Contemporary Authors	The Humanities Web	Senses of Cinema
Canadian Writers	Icelandic Medieval Literature	Small Spiral Notebook
Character in Drama	Internet Sacred Text Archive	SparkNotes: Literature
The Chicago Homer	Irish Writers	Teaching Books
Children's Literature	Legends	TeenReads
Complete Review	Literatre and Books Topics	Things Fall Apart-Chinua Achebe
Contemporary Literature	The Literature Collection- Wisconsin U.	Today in Literature
The Cortland Review	Literature Online	Web English Teacher
Classical Authors Library	Literature Resources- ibiblio	Wired for Books
The Classical Library	Literary Elements Map	Women Writers
Classical Mythology Directory	Literary Traveler	WWW Resources- Electronis Texts
Writers/Poets
Douglas Adams	Caxton's Chaucer	Alfred Joyce Kilmer
Horatio Alger	Agatha Christie	Rudyard Kipling
Hans Christian Andersen	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	C.S. Lewis
Hans Christian Andersen- Complete Works	Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive	C.S. Lewis Foundation
W.H. Auden	Colette	Katherine Mansfield
Jane Austen Center	Oliver Cromwell	Christopher Marlowe
Sir Francis Bacon	Roald Dahl	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Francis Bacon	Discovering Dickens	John Masefield
Clive Barker	The Dickens Project	John Milton
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Dickins: Our Mutual Friend	John Milton Reading Room
Samuel Beckett	Theatre of Charles Dickens	Moliere
Samuel Beckett Endpage	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	George Orwell
Samuel Beckett Society	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Society	Orwell Today
William Blake Archive	Daphne du Maurier	J.K. Rowling
Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience	T.S. Eliot	Mary Shelley
The Brontes	Euripides	Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Bronte Parsonage Museum	Anne Frank: An Unfinished Story	Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Bronte Sisters	Anne Frank Guide	Robert Louis Stevenson
Charlotte Bronte	Anne Frank: The Writer	Jonathan Swift
Charlotte Bronte	William Golding	Lord Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning	Hermann Hesse	J.R.R. Tolkien Society
Robert Browning	A.E. Housman	Leo Tolstoy
Robert Burns: The Complete Guide	A.E. Housman	Oscar Wilde
Robert Burns	Aldous Huxley	Oscar Wilde
Robert Burns Country	Ben Jonson	Virginia Woolf
Lord Byron	Ben Jonson Works	Virginia Woolf Society
Lewis Carroll	James Joyce	William Wordsworth: Complete Poetical Works
Lewis Carrol Scrapbook Collection	James Joyce: The Brazen Head	Wordsworth Trust
Cervantes	James Joyce: From Dublin to Ithaca	Wordsworth Variorum Archive
Chaucer	James Joyce: Scholars Collection	William Butler Yeats
Geoffrey Chaucer	Franz Kafka	William Butler Yeats
	John Keats
Special Topics
Acta Sanctorum	Anne Frank House	Renaissance Festival Books
Anecdotes	Anne Frank- An Unfinished Story	The Robin Hood Project
Hans Christian Andersen	The Epic of Gilgamesh	Romantics Circle
Audio Interviews- Writers	Gone With the Wind: Online Exhibit	The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934
ALA Banned Books Week	Great American Speeches	Russian/Soviet Writers- 19th-20th Century
BBC Audio Interviews: Writers	Greek Medicine	SAT Vocabulary Quiz Maker
British Film Archive	Guys Read	Tudor England
Bloomsbury	History and Culture- National Geogrphic	Dictionary of Victorian London
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest	HerStory	Turning the Pages
The Classics Page: Ancient Greece and Roman	Ides of March	A Victorian Anthology
Costume History	Internet Movie Database	Literature of the Victorian Period
Dictionary of Victorian London	Illuminating the Renaissance	Victorian Times Project
Digitized Juvenile Literature	LiveJournal	Victorian Prose
Dime Novels	Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts	The Victorian Web
English History	Medieval Writing	Winged Sandals: Mythology
ESLHome-Reading Passages and Exercises	Modern British Literature Index	Witness to the Holocaust
Fellini	Mostly Medieval	The Word Spy
Anne Frank Center	The NEWSeum	William Wordsworth- Complete Works
Anne Frank Internet Guide	Oxymoron List	Writing on Film: Moving Image Gateway
	Read, Write, and Think
Poetry
10 National Poetry Month Activities	Online Poetry Classroom	LOC Poetry & Literature Center
The Atlantic: Poetry Pages	Online Poetry Lesson Plans	Poetry Magazine-U.S.
BBC Arts: Poetry	PoemHunter	Poetry Magazine- UK
BBC Audio Interviews: Poets	Poets.org	Poetry Out Loud
The Beat Page: Beat Poets	Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for High School Students	Poetry Society of America
eMule Poetry Archive	Poetry Archive	Poetry: Voicenet
Favorite Poem Project	The Poetry Archive- Recordings	Representative Poetry Online
How to Teach Poetry	Poetry.com	Sonnet Central
Is a Sentence a Poem?	Poetry Express	SparkNotes: Poetry
Modern Haiku	Poetry Foundation	Yale's Bollingen Prize for Poetry
Norton Poets Online		Worst English Poetry

American Prose
African American Women Writers	First Person Narratives of the South	WebQuest: Mockingbird-Growing Up in the 1930's
African American Literature and Life	National Geographic: Salem Online Witch-Hunt	The Moonlit Road
American Folklore	The Grapes of Wrath	NCTE American Collection
American Literature On the Web	Harlem Renaissance Index	Of Mice and Men- Student Survival Guide
American Literature Sites	Harlem Renaissance Resources	Old Man and the Sea: NovelGuide
American Literary Movements	Harlem Renaissance Retrospective	The Power of Fiction
American Transcendentalism Web	Huckleberry Finn Teacher's Guide	Rave Reviews- Bestselling American Fiction
Blackbird Foreward	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	The Red Badge of Courage
Calaveras County	In Cold Blood	Say It Plain- Great African-American Speeches
Campfire Stories with Geogre Catlin	Jazz Age: Chicago	Timeline: American Literature
The Chicago Renaissance	Jazz Age: Kansas City	The Transcendentalists
The Crucible/McCarthyism	Norton Anthology of American Lit.	Twain's "The War Prayer"
The Crucible: SparkNotes	The Mississippi Writers Page	Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
The Crucible: Unit Plan	To Kill a Mockingbird	The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairytale
	To Kill a Mockingbird & Harper Lee
American Poetry
Academy of American Poets	Find a Poem: Academy of American Poets	Poetry Magazine
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900	I Hear America Singing	Poetry Month
African American Poet's Lesson	I Hear America Singing- Song of America	Poetry Society of America
All Info- About Poetry	Index of Poems by First-line	Poetry Terms- Interactive
American Life in Poetry	Modern American Poetry	Reading Poetry
American Verse Project	Poetry 180: Library of Congress	Representative Poetry Online

Shakespeare's Life
Documentary Evidence of Shakespeare	Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust	Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet
In Search of Shakespeare	Shakespeare Biography	SparkNotes: Shakespeare
Shakespeare.com	Shakespeare's Schoolroom	Stratford-Upon-Avon and Shakespeare
The Plays
Complete Works of Shakespeare	Illustrated Shakespeare	Shakespeare Online
eNotes	Julius Caesar: Teaching Guide	Study Questions: Macbeth
Explore Shakespeare with Google	Macbeth Guide	Think Quest: Macbeth
Guides to All Shakespeare	Macbeth Links	Romeo & Juliet: Teaching Guide
Hamlet on the Ramparts	Shakespeare- The Complete Works	Search the Works of Shakespeare
The History of the Histories	Shakespeare in Quarto
Sites of Interest
100 Famous Shakespeare Quotes	Shakespeare Magic	Shakespeare Homework Helper
Absolute Shakespeare	Naughty Shakespeare	Shakespearean Language
Atomic Shakespeare	Royal Shakespeare Company	Shakespeare Magazine
deVere or Shakespeare?	Shakespeare Authorship	Shakespeare Resource Center
Elizabethan Authors	Shakespearean Insults	Shakespeare Resources
Folger Shakespeare Library	Shakespeare's Morals	Shakespeare: Subject to Change
Furness Shakespeare Library	Shakespeare in Quarto	Shakespeare Teaching Ideas
Shakespeare's Globe
Child Actors	Lord Chamberlain's Men	Shakespeare's Audiences
Dressing for Shakespeare	The Original Globe	Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
The Elizabethan Theatre	The Rebirth of Shakespeare's Globe	Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Online
The Globe in Elizabethan Culture	Shakespeare and the Early Modern English Theatre	Shakespeare's Theatres
London's New Globe Theatre	Shakespeare's Actors	Theatres in Shakespeare's Day
Elizabethan Life
British Castles	The Elizabethan Age & Shakespeare	Medieval Medicine
Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England	Elizabethan Dress	Medieval/Renaissance Food
Elizabeth I		Medieval/Renaissance Instruments
Elizabeth I- HBO	Life in Elizabethan England	Tudor Times