English+Resources

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English:

http://cffenglish.wikispaces.com Wikispace of resources gathered by English teachers in PA. Almost everything you could ever want in one location.

https://falconroost.wikispaces.com/ This is Ralph Maltese's wikispace. Ralph is a former English teacher, PA teacher of the year, and excellent resource for all that is English


 * __Grammar:__**

[|www.chompchomp.com] Practice grammar with high school students. Has rule explanations, activities, worksheets, handouts, and teacher presentations.


 * __Vocabulary:__**

[|http://www.savethewords.org] Adopt a new word.

[|www.freerice.com] Excellent site to practice and learn new vocabulary.

[|www.vocabsushi.com] Another great site to practice and learn new vocabulary. Allows you to choose vocabulary for a specific test (SAT, GRE).

__**Writing Resource:**__ [] Free mind mapping software.

__**Plagiarism Detection:**__

[|**http://www.plagiarismdetect.com/**] **Its FREE!!!!**


 * __Online Publishing__**:

[|www.blurb.com]

[|www.tikatok.com]

[|www.Kidpub.com]

[|http://www.openzine.com]

[|http://hsj.org] System is fairly easy to implement

[|http://www.createspace.com] CreateSpace is free. Automatically gives you an ISBN number and uploads your book to Amazon.


 * __Online Notecards__:**

[|http://www.evernote.com] is a cool (free) site for collecting information. It allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

[|www.knowtes.com] Knowtes is a flashcard-based learning community

[|http://www.zotero.org] is a free, easy-to-use **Firefox extension** to help you **collect, manage, and cite** your research sources

__**Webquests**__:

[|http://www.webquest.org] is an excellent site. Left side click on "Find Webquests". Put in subject area and one keyword to search. Example: "Language" //English// //mockingbird// "In title/description". Be really daring and create your own!!

http://krist4.googlepages.com/birdsofanotherfeather To Kill a Mockingbird webquest

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webevilinra.html An Internet WebQuest on Evil in Literature entitled "MACBETH is a BAD, BAD MAN.

[|http://www.classtools.net]
 * __Timeline:__**

[|www.prometheanplanet.com] MAGNA SHAKESPEARE Click on "resources" tab, Click on "partner resources" in second toolbar, choose Magna Shakespeare from left side of page
 * __Shakespeare:__**

[|http://absoluteshakespeare.com] Everything Shakespeare!! Includes Shakespeare biographies, the theatre description and pictures and most plays online.

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=cd47b23d468d293cbfd21a8ab4d05139 3d model of the Globe Theatre.

http://www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/english/blettiere/romeojuliet.htm Teacher blog that includes project ideas, quizzes and much, much more.

Hamlet Ideas from Ralph Maltese (A Teacher of the Year)

[] Folger Shakespeare Library

__**"Novel" ideas:**__ [] lets students travel back in time to Anne Frank’s hiding place. Students can explore Anne’s house in a super cool 3D interactive environment. [|The Secret Annex] gives students an authentic feel for the place where Anne wrote her diary while listening to stories of everyone who lived in the hiding place. In addition to the 3D hiding place, students can review historical archive material about the war and view unique TV broadcasts where memories are shared.

[|www.60secondrecap.com] Recap a novel in 60 second video clips created for teens.

[|http://www.webenglishteacher.com] All areas of the Language Arts curriculum. Great lesson plans and resources.

https://falconroost.wikispaces.com/Literature+Projects#siddhartha Teacher from Abington Heights created this wikispace for novels. He is now our PDE district mentor. EXCELLENT RESOURCE!

http://msbaldwinhhs.wikispaces.com/beowulf 21st century lesson ideas for the novel __Beowulf__

__Great Gatsby:__ [] This is an English teacher's source of all gathered Great Gatsby resources. Delicious is blocked at school so you will have to view outside of school.

__Edgar Allan Poe:__ [] Excellent resource for everything that is Poe.

__To Kill a Mockingbird__: http://del.icio.us/dgoshorn/tokillamockingbird Over 25 links for To Kill A Mockingbird (lesson plans, Guides, and Resources). May be blocked at school.

Ideas from an English teacher: I used to assign each person the role of a minor character in the novel. They would then have to come up with a way to express how this character was affected by the major characters and the affect those characters had on them. I had students do everything from interviewing Boo Radley on video to creating a heart that had removable pieces to represent the love the character gave to others. Just some ideas! It's such a great book that it's hard to go wrong. I've never had a group of kids that weren't into the book.

__Mary Shelly's Frankenstein__ http://www.brainpop.com/english/freemovies/frankenstein/ Fun video from Brain Pop and its free!

__Mythology:__ http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/mythology.php Some are at the elementary level but can be easily adapted.

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/classmyth.html Worksheets, lesson plans, presentations and student designed sites (great ideas for project-based learning)

http://www.thanasis.com/myth.htm Fun website! Has myth of the month and homework help. Very easy to navigate for students.

http://web.uvic.ca/grs/department_files/classical_myth/index.html This site does a tremendous job collecting early source citations about the Olympians, as well as early images for each major deity.

http://www.roman-empire.net/index.html The Roman Empire

http://robertfrostoutloud.com/index.html Audio files for Robert Frost
 * __Poetry:__**