Creative Writing

• Poetry Express provides ideas for getting those poems written and advice to those who wish to write professionally.

Drama

• AWOL's (Acting Workshop On-Line) site includes acting lessons and resource lists.
• Medieval Drama Links maintained by a fanatic who writes "I have wasted countless hours chasing after alleged medieval drama links on the World Wide Web that turned out to be either non-existent or of little value. The following selection gives the ones that I have found to be most useful."

General Literature Sites

• Acronym Finder
• American Writers is the companion site to CSPAN's television series. It includes lessons and activities to supplement its shows.
• Based on the Book, from Mid-Continent Public Library, allows look up by title of book or title of movie to find out what book a movie was based on and whether a book has been made into a movie.
• Bibliomania's Study Guides include classical literature and contemporary literature from Virgil's Aeneid to 2001: A Space Odyssey. To access them, click on the link to Study Guides on the top of Bibliomania's page. It is a little difficult to navigate, but worth the effort.
• Classic Reader includes the text of many popular high school reads including "The Most Dangerous Game," a short story by Richard Connell.
• English Study Guides for popular high school reading materials provided by Bellmore-Merrick central High's 11th grade English classes. This is intended to assist in preparation for the Regents examination.
• The English Server
• Humanities Department, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has original author sheets and useful bibliographies.
• The Internet Public Library's Online Literary Criticism provides access to online literary criticism.
• The Invisible Library "is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library's catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound."
• Knowledge Rush: "Great Works [of literature] for free."
• New York Times Book Review back to 1988 full text online requires registration, but is free.
• Online Books Page provides an index to the texts of books available on the Internet. These are texts whose copyrights have run out, so they are in the public domain.
• Pilot-Search is a search engine that covers literature sites only, providing more relevant search results.
• Pink Monkey has online literature guides.
• Perseus Digital Library is an impressive collection of the full text of texts from classical times (Greco-Roman) to the Renaissance.
• The Pulitzer Prize lists winners back to and including 1995 in all categories
• SparkNotes.com's literature guides outline many title read in high school.
• A Student's History of American Literature
• Harry Potter Lexicon
• Voice of the Shuttle's English Literature provides links to Internet resources relating to English language authors taught in English and American literature courses in college.

Poetry

• The American Academy of Poets
• Favorite Poem Project's Host a Reading
• Pause a Moment: Poetry provides links to full text by author and links to other sites about poetry.
• Poetry Contest Online has quirky contests and links to great resources such as rhyming hed audio files of poems.
• Poetry Today Online provides recommende reading lists, writing motivation, lists of contests, and links to other poetry web sites.
• Virtual Glossary of Literary Terms from the University of Cambridge in the UK focuses on poetry devices and characteristics.

Sites focusing on one particular author or work

• Chaucer Metapage provides information on Olde English and life in the 14th and 15th centuries.
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare offers the full text of plays and poetry.
• Maya Angelou: A Bibliography of Literary Criticism
• Narnia.com is all about C S Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia.
• The New York Times has Tolkien archives available until the end of 2002.
• The Robin Hood Project has pictures, text, book lists, and original information on the legend/hisotry of Robin Hood and its appearance in literature.
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• To Kill a Mockingbord: The Student Survival Guide is an online annotation explaining words and allusions in the text.
• Weedpatchcamp.com focuses on the real camp, Arvin Federal Government Camp, described in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

Journalism

• High School Journalism is the place to go for those interested in school newspapers or a career in journalism.

Language

• American Rhetoric offers a complete index, and partial text and audio database to the 100 most significant American speeches of the 20th Century.
• ASLPro Dictionary (American Sign Language)
• Ancient Scripts is maintained by a person whose hobby is linguisitics. The site started in 1996 based on class study and personal research. IT includes historical notes, sounds, and writing systems and points to other resources onthe web.
• Babelfish can translate blocks of text from one language to another with the click of a mouse.
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations copyright 1901
• BBC Languages provides extensive online foreign language lessons and guides. Covers French, Spanish, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Greek, as well as some others.
• Calliope: Muse of Eloquence explores English words derived from Classical Mythology. Take quizzes or just explore.
• Casa de Joanna features links to French and Spanish sites
• Common Errors in English. This site accompanies a much more extensive book. Check both out for proper word usage.
• Dictionary.com searches many word databases including the 1913 version of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. For more recent lingo, other sources are used.
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is provided by Bibliomania. It is the searchable full text of the 1894 publication by E. Cobham Brewer.
• HotBraille.com will send a letter in braille to a blind person. Just type in the text and it is sent for free! This site also provides other information relating to blindness and Louis Braille.
• Learning English from the BBC includes words used in the news, news stories, quizzes and more.
• ESL Cyber Listening Lab is a multimedia site for those seeking to learn the English language.
• Ethnologue Languages of the World is an online reference tool cataloging and offering information on all of the world's 6,912 known living languages.
• Etymology Dictionary is an online tool providing word origin, meaning, and history.
• Foreign Language Homework Helper from Discovery School.
• The Reading Matrix contains resources for ESL students.
• Literacy Connections includes information for literacy volunteers and articles on ESL, reading aloud, and adult literacy.
• Martindale's The Reference Desk
• Monologue Archive is a great resource for those in need of a monologue.
• One Look is a site that searches many online dictionaries to find a definition.
• Quotations Collections is a list of sources available via the Internet
• Quoteland.com has a nice collection of searchable resources pertaining to quotes in many disciplines.
• Roget's Internet Thesaurus
• Speech Topics Help, Advice & Ideas offers a list of over 3,750 persuasive and informative speech topics, as well as tips on public speaking.
• Symbols.com is an encyclopedia of images
• Take Our Word for It, formerly the Logical World of Etymology
• Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary that uses diagrams to show meanings, concepts, and associations between words.
• Vocab U
• Word a Day

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