The following links are to be used both for the English class and for personal research. As I cannot control changes or content on these links, I ask that you use them carefully. Please notify me if a link is no longer accessible. This page is under perennial construction.
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Web Site Construction:
Corbis.com: A site that offers numerous pictures to help enhance your web site
SAT Links:
Princeton
Review: This site features "The Words of the Day," and promotes "beating the SAT" by learning to think like the test makers. Some free info, but much of the site is fee
based.
Kaplan: Kaplan provides a good SAT prep. program. This site provides a free test but beware that most services from Kaplan cost $$
College
Boards: The test writers offer good advice and some practice questions; most of the site is free!
MLA citation : How to cite web sites using MLA format
Color and Symbolism: A site that details the possible symbolism of colors
Gale Net: The Gale Research Series Online! An excellent source for literary criticism and biography in short, easy to read entries. The password is MISS80677. The username is the same as the password. A special thank you goes out to the school librarians for investing in this resource.
Check out the Voice of the Shuttle Literature Page. This is a meta-site from Alan Liu at UCSB that provides links to scholarly and personal web sites on authors, genres, and literary periods. This site is so massive that you can probably find all the information you need on any project right here. Take some time to preview the table of contents before you begin your search. The site also contains similar pages for every discipline in the Humanities.
American Literature on the Web provides links to American authors from the 1620's through the 1990's. It also contains timelines, and useful links to art, philosophy, etc. Scroll down the page to find the American author's section.
Digital High School: View electronic portfolios and home pages from other students
US News Online: Mysteries of History: this site offers information and conspiracy theories regarding historical events. (A good site to use when promoting critical thinking skills)
AdCritic: a site devoted to looking at the logical fallacies and propaganda techniques used in advertising.
The Four Temperaments: Personality types and examples of the people who represent those types.
Classic short stories provides a large collection of short prose works by the masters of fiction.
Free Library of Classics contains a mix of plays, short stories, poems, and children's works.
Favorite Poem Project: A site created through the inspiration of Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky. The site has Real Player video clips of Americans reading their favorite poems.
The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, & the American Culture: A variety of e-facsimiles and research on the two poets and the civil war era.
Women's Studies Database: Emily Dickinson: over 100 Dickinson poems from the University of Maryland.
Emily Dickinson: Poetry Archives
Walt Whitman: Several poems by Whitman along with a commentary on his poetry.
Every Poet.com: Selected poems of Robert Frost.
Robert Frost Speaks: Audio recording made by Frost in the 1950's. Includes "The Road Not Taken," "The Mending Wall," "Birches," and many other anthologized poems.
Puritan and Colonial Literature Links:
Calvinism in Puritan New England
Take a virtual tour of Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts
Visit the virtual Mayflower site
Benjamin Franklin: a site dedicated to investigating his genius
The Salem Witch Trials: Take a virtual tour of Salem and read actual testimony from the witch trials.
American Romantic Literature Links:
A timeline of the Romantic Period in American Literature
The Scarlet Letter: Click on the notes link at the top of the page after you read the chapter to find historical background, allusions etc.
An outline of American Literature: The Romantic Period
Nature and the American Identity: a site that examines how American Romantics viewed nature
Lewis and Clark Expedition: take a virtual tour of the expedition with explores Lewis and Clark.
Every Day life in the 1800's: this site takes you on a tour of every day living in the early 1800's (recreation, dress, housing, work, etc.)
Washington Irving Biographical essay
Transcendental Period Links:
A timeline of the Transcendental Period
A general history and discussion on "Transcendentalism." Look under the transcendentalist link at the top of the page. Emerson's "excerpt" and the definition of transcendentalism should be helpful.
General overviews of Kant's ideas from The Catholic Encyclopedia Page
Kant's first major treatise "A Critique of Pure Reason"
Kant's answer to the question: "What is Enlightenment?"
The American Renaissance and Transcendentalism: A PBS interactive site
Henry David Thoreau: background and works of the author
Walden Pond: Virtual Tour
Civil War Literary and Historical Links:
Civil War Hospitals: see what it was like inside
Civil War photographs: a collection of Civil War era photos
Walt Whitman and Civil War Hospitals: a description of what Whitman saw as he worked in Civil War hospitals (with pictures)
Realism and Naturalism Links:
Realism: A definition and discussion of Realism (with pictures)
Local Color and Regionalism: a definition and discussion (with pictures)
Twain impersonator: Follow the link to hear a Twain impersonator reading from some of Twain's works
Virtual Steamboat: go back in time and experience what Twain would have scene and heard as a steamboat operator.
Jack London's Credo: A site that offers insight into London's philosophy on life
Modern Literature Links:
Steinbeck: East of Eden characters, plot summary, maps of Salinas, Steinbeck's letters, etc
Spark Note Study Questions on East of Eden
Art in Willa Cather's Fiction: A look at the artwork that influences Cather in Death Comes for the Archbishop
Symbolism and Imagery in Death Comes for the Archbishop: a short essay
TS Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" provides an online text as well as an explanation of allusions in the poem.
The Great Gatsby: A Beginner's Guide: An excellent site that provides background on Fitzgerald, characters, and themes
The Great Gatsby: An Internet hot list on the Great Gatsby: sites on the novel and the culture of the 1920's
A Flapper's Appeal to Parents - Read an article by a young flapper, written December 6, 1922, in which she attempts to define who she is and why she does what she does.
The 1920's: Kevin Rayburn's very comprehensive look at fashions, fads, writers, historical events, sports and much, much more!
The Jazz Age Page: Listen to jazz music from the jazz age
Contemporary Literature:
Thoughts on John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany - analysis from Barbara J. Troyer-Turvey.
Eric's Tribute To A Prayer for Owen Meany - analysis and interpretations of the novel
Spark Notes: A review of A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Joy Luck Club: Plot and character Overview
Feng Shui, Astrology, and the Five Elements: Traditional Chinese Belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. (Critical Essay) Patricia Hamilton
Monkey Notes Study Questions for The Joy Luck Club
Toni Morrison: Sula - links to book reviews, articles, and other resources
Andrade's Morrison Page: themes from Sula with discussion questions
Oprah's Book Club: Sula - reading questions, background on the Toni Morrison book, related articles, and online discussion.
Anniina's Toni Morrison Page - dedicated to Toni Morrison and her works, including Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Paradise. Includes web resources such as biographies, bibliographies, essays, articles, and interviews
Fahrenheit 451 Resources: Offers chapter questions, thematic analysis, and style analysis, plus background on censorship, etc.
Drama: "Conversation Online" with South African Dramatist Athol Fugard: A discussion recorded at the University of Indiana. Covers drama, politics, works etc. An enlightening discussion (you must have RealPlayer 8 basic).
Shaw's Man and Superman: A complete online text of the play
George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman: a site constructed by theater students at the University of Maryland. Takes a look at the original productions and discusses GBS's philosophies. A helpful primer site!
Shaw's Philosophy: Bernard Bearer's Shaw Page presents 4 prose passages that set forth Shaw's philosophy on marriage and divorce, love and children, education, etc
Nietzsche's Superman: A site that offers a synopsis of Nietzsche's ideas.
Nietzsche's Superman: Another overview of Nietzsche's ideas, plus a comparison between Nietzsche's "Superman" philosophy and Marilyn Manson's "Antichrist Superstar" bit. The site also contains interesting links.
The Lord of the Flies Page by Scott Gerenser provides good overviews of the novel, it's symbols, and an excellent 3-D map of the island.
Existentialism:
Classic Notes: (The Stranger) background on Camus, Existentialism, and the novel
Albert Camus: Links on existentialism and Camus' essays, in addition to literary criticism on the author.
The Realm of Existentialism: An excellent source of information on philosophy and authors.
Links on Arthurian Legends:
Le Morte d' Arthur: The complete online text of Malory's adventures.
King Arthur: A Man For the Ages: A very useful site that provides literary and historical discussion on Arthur and the legends
Arthurian A2Z Knowledge Bank: A thorough list of characters, places and history of Arthurian legends. The summaries are brief but useful
A historical chronology of Britain with notes on the development of Arthurian legends (timeline).
Medieval Art and Architecture site
Britannia site: Look at the links in the frame on the left to navigate to various historical sites on Arthur. Choose historical resources and register with the site to access a useful historical and mythical look at King Arthur.
Clothing and costumes of the Middle Ages (illustrated).
Index of Medieval and Renaissance food recipes and sites.
Greek Drama
Fitts and Fitzgerald Translation of Antigone
Enjoying Oedipus the King: An extensive overview of Greek Drama, Aristotle, Greek myth and the play. A very informative site.
The Greeks: The Crucible of Civilization: A PBS web site that explore ancient Greece
Oedipus: The Theban Story: An interpretation of Oedipus the King
Genealogical tree for Oedipus
Medea: Notes and Study Guide
Perseus
Project: Visit the great website at Tufts University and follow the instructional links through the development
of Greek tragedy.
Greek Tragedy: Here is a brief history of Greek tragedy provided by Ascension Collegiate.
Ancient Theater Today: This site
from Didaskalia is pretty good. It has information on many kinds of
ancient theater including Greek and Roman.
Ancient/Classical History: A site with a plethora of information on Greek Drama, history, myths, etc.
Greek Writers: Same site as above, with links to primary works of Greek Writers
Classics Technology Center: Antigone: Notes and Questions on Antigone
The Classic's Page: Notes on the play, Antigone
Antigone: Unknown translation with hypertext notes--after reading the introductory notes, scroll to the bottom of the page to find the link to the play
Renaissance and Shakespearean Sites:
Proper Elizabethan Accents: Sound Files and explanations of how people spoke during Shakespeare's time.
Surfin' with the Bard: helpful hints on how to read Shakespeare's language
Chill With Will: offers insights into Julius Caesar, along with other Shakespearean plays
Macbeth Java Text: This is an annotated text with frames. Check it out!!
Macbeth: The play without the java frills.
Enjoying Macbeth: Offers an extensive overview of the historical Macbeth, conflicts, and themes within the play.
Welcome to Birnam Wood on the Net: A student's guide to studying Macbeth
Clicknotes on Macbeth: A good site to find passages related to themes, characterization, etc.
Enjoying Hamlet: Offers an extensive overview of Hamlet's character, the plays themes, and conflicts.
Enjoying King Lear: Offers an extensive overview of the historical King Lear, conflicts, and themes within the play (cosmic tragedy).
Enjoying A Midsummer's Night Dream: A very useful site for the play's themes and conflicts.
Shakespeare's Sonnets: A great site that provides both the sonnets and in-depth critical commentary on the poems.
Guide to Grammar and Writing: A great site that will help you with all your grammar needs--it includes power point presentations on clauses, apostrophes, etc., a handbook on grammar rules, and online practice tests to help you evaluate what you understand and what you do not understand.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab: A great site for all your MLA, brainstorming, thesis creating, and grammar needs.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: A site that gives very good advice on how to write different types of essays. It covers the writing process and adds valuable insights on the art of creating strong thesis statements.
Dartmouth College Composition: As site that offers strong advice on how to write a variety of papers in English classes.
Literary Terms: A complete online dictionary of literary terms and poetic devices.
A Glossary of Literary Terms and a Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Technology in the Trenches: AALP Presentation