English Language Arts Resources
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| Greek Mythology | The Multicultural Experience in America |
| Poetry | Shakespeare and His Times |
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Encyclopedia Mythica : " The body of traditional tales concerning the gods, heroes, and rituals of the ancient Greeks."
Winged Sandals : From the Australian Broadcasting Co....short bios and animations of the important Gods and Heroes. |
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TOPPoetry Sites
| HTI American Verse Project -- find American poems written before 1920 even if you only know a couple words -- |
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| Verse: Poetry Anthologies and Thousands of Poems from Bartleby.com |
TOPBiography Sites
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Biography Resource Center** From the Gale Group Reference Databases
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Do you know who this is? There is a brand new movie about his life in theaters...Click** on the photo to find out! Image from Biography Resource Center |
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Grolier Online (Encyclopedias)*** -- http://go.grolier.com:80/
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World Book Online ** -- http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Home
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Science Biography Resources -- compiled by the John Crerar Library at the University of Chicago -- a directory of various academic biography resources of people in the sciences -- http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/sci/biography.html
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Hickok Sports Biography -- indexed by sport -- http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/bisindex.shtml
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Biography.com from A&E Television Network -- 25,000 biographies -- http://www.biography.com/
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The Presidents of the United States -- from the White House -- http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/
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TOPFun Facts You Might Like to Know About
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How Stuff Works-- Learn How Everything Works -- http://www.howstuffworks.com/ |  |
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| Yahooligans! Ask Earl -- Submit your own question or look at some of the previously submitted questions and answers -- http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/ask_earl/ |  |
| Northeast Fisheries Science Center -- Fun Facts -- http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/history/faqs.html |  |
TOPHelp with Your Writing
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Big Dog's Grammar: basic English grammar with interactive exercises -- http://aliscot.com/bigdog/
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CITATION OF SOURCES Hale Middle School Sample Citation page --Our very own online example of how to correctly cite your sources
Citation Machine -- The Landmark Project --http://citationmachine.net/ Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people. |
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| Getting an A on an English Paper -- guide with suggestions from Jack Lynch of Rutgers University -- http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/EngPaper/ | |
| UW-Madison Writing Center Writer's Handbook -- Help in all aspects of writing including process, mechanics, style and citation-- http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/index.html | University of Richmond's Writer's Web -- Very useful site that helps you explore topics by stages of the writing process, such as brainstorming for ideas, editing, citing sources and much more... |
| Creative Writing for Teens -- an About.com site for learning about many aspects of writing. It also includes an option for submitting your own writing to the site. -- http://kidswriting.about.com/ | MLA Citation Style from Long Island Univeristy -- http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm |
TOPMulticulturalism in America
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Black History Month -- from Fact Monster-- quotes, history, speeches, biographies and moreThe History Channel -- Black History Month -- biography, speeches, history of the civil rights struggle and more
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Searching for Asian-America - Asian American Field Reports from PBS -- Asian Americans speak about their experiences in the U.S.
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The History of Jim Crow-- The African American experience of segregation from 1870s through the 1950s
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Tolerance.org : Mix It Up -- site about how deeply prejudice and intolerance for other ethic groups are entrenched in our culture
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Viva Cesar Chavez -- biography and information about life of migrant hispanic farmworkers in California
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Internet Resources about William Shakespeare, His Works and the Time in Which He Lived
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