Internet resources for secondary language arts


	*Joyce L. Morris, Visiting Assistant Professor,* *The University of Vermont, March 1999*

Frameworks	Just click on the menu on the left or any items in these boxes to find resources to use in secondary language arts
Reading
Writing
Discussion
Journalism		Listen to The Authors themselves at: The Academy of American Poets--Listening Booth AN AUDIBLE ANTHOLOGY and Authors Speak from Atlantic monthly BookRadio--Audio Interviews with authors Reflections--Leon Malinofsky
Drama
Poetry
Organizations
Projects	Resources for Teachers
WebQuests	UMd Teaching with Electronic Technology American Studies Web: Social Science Anthropology Dept. at U.Cal at Santa Barbara Electronic Archives for teaching American Literature Global School Net Foundation Integrating the Internet Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators The U.S. Department of Education Virtual High School - Virtual Professional Development Site
Research
Lesson Plans
Publishing
Authors
Links of Links
Multicultural	Literature Links Anthology of Middle English Literature Authors' Webliography Books On-Line:Authors English Literature English Server at Carnegie-Mellon List and links to homepages for authors in alphabetical order InterZone On-Line Books and Writing Online The complete works of William Shakespeare, from MIT Univ of VA's Literary Studies-a list of links/other lit-based sites Contemporary Literature
Women Writers		Altavista - Great search tool from Digital Classroom Connect - Excellent site based on the magazine Infomall - a great list of online reference material Library of Congress - See the new image collection Shareware - A grest software collection YAHOO - A collection of hundreds of interesting sites to explore on the "Net"
Journals
WebGuides

Frameworks

Vermont Standards for Language Arts Arts, Language, and Literature Standards for Vermont Schools
Information Literacy Guidelines connects and correlates Oregon's common curriculum goals and content standards
National Council of Teachers of English What Should English Language Arts Students Know and Be Able To Do?
McREL : Language Arts Resources and Standards" McREL : Language Arts Resources and Standards...a good list of links with educational standards in this subject area included
California State Department Language Arts Standards

Reading

Book Awards from Bookwire provides a comprehensive list of links to book awards.
Booklist The digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist magazine. For more than 90 years, Booklist has been the librarian's leading choice for reviews of the latest books and (more recently) electronic media.
Book Lovers' Guide to the Internet is an article from the Washinton Post about electronic literature
Project Gutenberg's Master Index: links to full text books online.
BDD Books for Young People : Teacher's Resource Center complete teacher's guides to over 60 novels published by Bantam, Doubleday, and Dell
Bibliomania : The Network Library full text of many classic works of fiction; reference and nonfiction to be added
Atlantic Monthly Online version of the literary magazine
New York Times Books - includes the complete Sunday Book Review, daily book related news and reviews, a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews, bestseller lists, and more. Registration required.
Internet Classics Archivesearch, read, or browse over 400 works of classic literature
Tender Buttons - by Gertrude Stein.
Ulysses for Dummies - Embarrassed that you didn't read Ulysses back when you were an English major in college? Check out this simple illustrated version.
Project Bartlebythe definitive site of online versions of classic literature titles
Aesop's Fables Online Exhibit a compilation of over 600 of the fables, with audio components for some
Eduedth Reading List for Secondary Students provides an alphabetical list of books, synopsis, lesson plans, and links to where they can be purchased.
Wire tap: a comprehensive list of online books.
Wordsmith a site for vocabulary enrichment

Writing

Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
Purdue OnlineWriting Laboratory Writing Resources with online writing and self-help documents.
Yahoo's Writing Resources
Write Environment: Writing Links a nice set of links to tools and resources for teaching writing
Writer's Handbook a series of college-level handouts that would be helpful for the secondary school student in all areas of writing
Online Writing Centers: List and links to online Writing Centers
American Verse Project...a searchable electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant is an interactive site with an online writers guide and handbook.
The UVictorias Writer's Guide: The Essay is a guide to writing essarys and research papers.
Sentence Craft ..a content-rich site explaining parts of speech and grammar rules, as well as providing practice sentences
Collab-o-Write has an online database of stories and artwork. allows visitors to read and publish their own works or add to a work already at the site.
Project Runeberg provides link to digital libraries
Electric Soup Online electronic literary magazine by Hunterdon Central Regional High School students.
INKSPOT For grammar and style guides

Discussion

Diane Kovacs Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences - the comprehensive guide to scholarly discussion groups, this site lets you search for a discussion group by keyword, subject, or name. It describes each group, and provides contact and subscription information.
Rob Kabacoff's collection of "Lists of Lists" - one of the largest, it allows you to search several other collections of lists.
How to set up an e-mail discussion list at UVM
Yahoo! Chat Rooms for Writers
Booktalks : Quick and Simple ..a database of over 300 short booktalks for introducing items to students

Journalism

American Journalism Review
The Curmudgeon's Style Book:The Curmudgeonís Stylebook is intended not as a replacement for APís stylebook, the traditional newsroombible, but as a supplement
The Newsroom: current international news sources.
Yahoo's Journalism Resources
Hilite Online:Carmel H.S. online newspaper.

Drama

Drama at Carnegie Mellon.
World Wide Web Resources - Theater at the University of Kentucky.
Yahoo's Drama Resources
Theatre Companies, Events and Festivals around the world
High School Drama pages contains links to drama clubs within the US and Canada
The Screenwriters/Playwright's Page offers screenwriting software, potential contacts and information about writing for stage and screen
Playbill online

Poetry

Poetry Index of Canonical Verse poetry links and poems from the Carnegie-Mellon English Server
Poetry Pals : Lessons, Resources, and Activities...well-chosen links to support the teaching of poetry in the classroom
Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages represents an online version of Atlantic magazine devoted to poetry
The Electonic Poetry Center provides a wide range of resources centered on experimental and innovative contemporary poetry.
Academy of American Poets, The - supporting American poets at all stages of their careers and fostering the appreciation of contemporary poetry. Site features exhibits, National Poetry Month, and a listening booth of poems.
Poetry Hi-Fi - poetry from left of the dial. Features text and audio readings.
Lost Poets of the War examines the work of 6, WWI poets. Rupert Brooke, John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Alan Seeger, Edward Thomas

Organizations

National Council of Teachers of English includes teaching ideas and resources and a discussion of English language arts national standards.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Projects
Great Expectations OnLINE at Canisus High School
The Dickens Project is devoted to promtoing the study and enjoyment of the life, times and work of Charles Dickens.
Eco-Marketing Project The Eco-Marketing Project uses a global market theme with students grades 3-12 to promote skills in descriptive writing, persuasive writing, artistic expression, critical reading, budgeting of resources (money), science, concern for the environment, entrepreneurship, and awareness of the global community.
Face to Face is an international media education project in which secondary schools from all over Europe, the USA and South Africa exchange video letters. The projects goal is to encourage international communication between young students from various ethnic groups. Face to Face can be applicated in all school subjects varying from history, English to biology class.
International School Partnerships through Technology is a program to create opportunities for rural North Carolina schools to use telecommunications to interact directly with teachers and students from other countries.
Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonist Index Students use political cartoons as a springboard for writing.

Webquests

America Dreams Through the Decades America Dreams...through the decades is an interdisciplinary Internet project designed to utilize digitized primary source documents from the American Memory collection.
The Crucible: Timeless Persecutions The Crucible exemplifies persecutions/discriminations during the Salem Witch Trials. But has the witch hunt ended? Students stretch their imagination by writing a futuristic play depicting a form of persecution.
To Kill A Mockingbird: Growing up in the 1930's This WebQuest takes students back in time to learn what their life would be like as a young person growing up in the 30s. Using what they learn, they write a series of pen pal letters to someone living in 1998.
Student Press Law and Ethics This WebQuest gives students practice tackling tricky ethical dilemmas, as well as make them more familiar with the laws governing the student press.
WebQuest Collections provides links to various webquest sources

Research and Reference

Some reference works: Strunk's Elements of Style, and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Merriam-Webster Dictionary (with built-in thesaurus), and the Hypertext Webster. Other multilanguage translation dictionaries are available at Yahoo: Reference: Dictionaries. Bullfinch's Mythology.a online version of this classic work
How to cite Internet Sources:
- For a brief guide to Internet resources: MLA Guide
- Electronic Styles: how to cite Internet sources in a bibliography.
- For a comprehensive guide to citing any electronic resources: Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information, by Nancy Crane, UVM Libraries
Web Guides: Yahoo, Magellan, Lycos
Global searching: the above plus: AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler, Starting Point, Net Search
Internet Public Library: reference sources online.
Researchpaper.coma site which offers hundreds of possible research paper topics and links right to a quick search of Infoseek to see what's available on the Net
InterZone On-Line Books and Writing Online
MLA Citation form for research papers
Purdue University Online Writing Lab
Roget's Thesaurus
Rules of Punctuation
Research it! offers all types of dictionaries: (foreign language, rhyming], thesaurus, acronyms)
Lesson Plans
AskERIC Lesson Plans : Language Arts
Discovery Channel School : Literature Lesson Plans curriculum tie-ins with the programs, vocabulary, and great activities to support this subject in the classroom
Teaching the American Literatures Archive contain electronic archives of essays, syllabi, texts and lessons plans
Outta Ray's Head a set of good lesson plans to support the secondary language arts curriculum
Web Sites and Resources for Teachers : Language Arts a great list of lesson plans, ideas, activities, and resources to help educators
GEMS extensive collection of online lesson plans for language arts.
Pacific Bell has a collection of English Lessons
High School Language Arts Lesson Plans from youthnet

Publishing

The Concord Review publishes exemplary secondary student's essays.
KidNews provides a free news and writing service for students and teachers.
Electric Soup Online electronic literary magazine by Hunterdon Central Regional High School students.

Authors

Ask the Young Adult Author questions and answers asked of favorite YA authors
Authors a literary site with "pointers to individual author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers"
Author's Pen hundreds of links to contemporary author information
Awesome Authors on the Web a handy page of links to young adult author informational pages on the Web
English Literature : Early 17th Century (1603-1660) .essays, works, and information about six famous writers of the time may be found in this content-rich site
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Page celebrates the 100th anniversary of Fitzgerald's birth with facts about the author, essays, short stories, and articles about his works.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Online collections of his works, personal letters, personality.
The Papa Page celebrates Hemingway with an extensive biography and bibliography of his works.
William Faulker on the Web provides a gyide to the life and writing of Wm Faulker.
Writing Black USA links to contributions of African-American Authors
Complete Works of William Shakespeare provides a one stop collection for all of his works.
Series and Sequels .a list of popular authors and their fiction series titles

Links of Links

An Online Mystery Database a keyword search to favorite mystery writers, characters, novels, films, or TV shows
Carnegie Mellon English Server an extensive bibliography of links to humanities-related sites
English Language and Literature Sites an extensive listing of American literature sites, with other related literature links included, too
Literary Index : Internet Resources in Literature an overview and a review of the major collections of websites of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature
Literary Resources on the Net a comprehensive, categroized list of hundreds of literary resources to support the curriculum
LitLinks: Literary Links on the Web .a comprehensive database of links to literary topics on the Net
Myths & Legends .an extensive site for secondary students providing links to myths, legends, folklore, and more
Literature Resources for High School and College Students includes links to writing resources.
World Wide Web Resources - Literature at the University of Kentucky.
Mr. Harrison's Language Arts Links provide a varied assortment of English Links.

Multiculturalism

Multicultural Book Review...a rated list of multicultural book reviews for students and links to related site
Encyclopedia Mythica...an extensive encyclopedia of articles dealing with mythology and folklore from many cultures
Indigenous People's Literature...extensive e-text archive of Native American literature
Writing Black USA links to contributions of African-American Authors
Tales of Wonder : Folk & Fairy Tales from Around the World an archive of fairy tales from different countries and search by various fields to find out bibliographic information on books in Spanish for students
Fourth World Documentation Project Home Page -- Extensive collection of documents on indigenous cultures, including (but not limited to) Native Americans.
NativeWeb -- Extensive collection of resources on Native American culture, including events.
Storytellers: Native American Authors Online (Univ. of Massachusetts) -- Works by and about Native American authors. Requires Java.
Internet Public Library: Native American Authors -- Bibliographies on dozens of authors.
NativeLit-L Web Page (UWM) -- Information on the mailing list.
Jewish American Literature Research Homepage (Purdue) -- Information on Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth,

Journals

Stanford Humanities Review...electronic version of the respected publication
Electronic Poetry Center has links to online poetry publications
Journals and Newspapers provides comprhensive links to online literary publications.

Web Guides

Language Arts Cyberguides

CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They are designed for the classroom wiith one online computer.

Women Writers

Women Writers Project (Brown) -- An archive of women writers from 1350 to 1830. Among the most sophisticated scholarly projects on the Web.
Emory Women Writers Resource Project (Sheila Cavanagh, Emory) -- A fledgling project "designed to provide students with unfamiliar texts written by women and to supply essential background and ancillary materials for the writers and their works." Not much there yet.
The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles (Alberta) -- Information on the project to provide the "first full scholarly history of women's writing in the British Isles."
Domestic Goddesses, a.k.a. Scribbling Women -- A guide to 19th-c. American women Writers.
19th Century American Women Writers Web (UNL)
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (NYPL)
A Celebration of Women Writers (CMU) -- Very extensive, though often superficial, guide to worksby women around the world and through the centuries. Includes some useful bibliographies and biographical information.
Chicana Literature (Texas)
gender Inn (Köln, Germany) -- "A searchable database providing access to over 5000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature." In German and English.
Women of the Romantic Period (Daniel Anderson and Morri Safran, Texas) -- An "interactive hypertext [that] uses Richard Polwhele's poem 'The Unsex'd Females' to introduce students and scholars alike to some of the British Romantic Period's foremost female contributors."

Literature Links