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THE ENGLISH PAGE

Click on these subject headings for information about your English projects.



GENERAL ENGLISH INFORMATION

    Subscription Research Databases - Available only through Gananda Central Library




GRAMMAR

  Traditional Grammar: An Interactive Book
[Online] Available http://www.niu.edu/english/deh/grammarbook/title.html
Make sure your grammar is correct. Use specific sections to check grammar rules, or review the entire site and quiz yourself.



AUTHORS, LITERATURE & LITERARY CRITICISM

START HERE.  

These EXPENSIVE databases beat out Google hands down for your literature reports.


Twayne Author Series - Online Literary Criticism
*NOVEL Databases


Major 20-21st-Century Writers

Online Books
* RACHS Library

Some good sources from the Free Web are:

AUTHORS

Author Study Project
http://web1.caryacademy.org/facultywebs/carole_hamilton/author_stream_05.htm

 

LITERARY CRITICISM

   Literary Criticism
http://www.libraryspot.com/litcrit.htm
Learn more about authors and their works.

   Secondary school literature
 http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/yalit.htm

   Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/ 

   Pathfinder for Literary Criticism
http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/litpath.html 

   Literature--Literary Criticism/Summaries   
http://www.chicousd.org/pvlib/english.htm#litcrit
A collection compiled by Pleasant Valley High School Library.

   Literature Review - Shambles.net
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/infolit/litreview/

    The Literary Encyclopedia
http://www.litencyc.com/


MYTHOLOGY

    The Internet Classics Archive

    Mythology Megasites
Online available  http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/mythhc.html#mythmeg
Sites that cover aspects of mythology from around the world, compiled by Multnomah Public Library.

    Greek Mythology
http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/mythhc.html#grk
Excellent sites on Greek Mythology, compiled by Multnomah Public Library.





ONLINE BOOKS - Full Text of Books Available Online


http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ 

http://www.bibliomania.com

http://www.literature.org/

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

http://www.bartleby.com/

http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/

http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/curric/languagearts/readlist.html

 



POETRY

  The Academy of American Poets  [Online] Available http://www.poets.org/index.html
Read poetry,  poet biographiess, and more.

 Teen Space - Poetry Wiki
http://www4.ipl.org/iplng2/index.php/Main_Page



SHAKESPEARE

    Shakespeare

    Macbeth: An In Depth Analysis

    Falcon Shakespeare Education Link





WRITING

    Falcon Shakespeare Education Link

 The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. [Online] Available http://www.writesite.org
Middle school language arts students "take on the role" of being an journalist and/or editor to research, write and publish their own newspaper.


 


 

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