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Wicked Cool Sites


Gad Zooks! Methinks these are great links:

 

Folger Shakespeare Library

Downloads:

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - the full etext of all of his plays thanks to MIT.

 

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

 

Shakespeare's Globe 

  • What's playing at the Globe? Click here and see.

Click here and visit the Royal Shakespeare Company.

 

Of Rubrics and Resources:

 

Rubistar - a great rubric maker! You won't believe your eyes! No, seriously, you won't.

Zuzu's Petals- Literary Resource - great site with hundreds of valuable links.

Discovery Channel School - a great site for parents, teachers and students of all ages.

Web English Teacher - a very useful site for those new to the web and the many resources available.

PBS Teacher Source- Arts and Literature - PBS lessons and activities that often connect to current PBS programming.

Secondary English - an interesting and useful resource for media literacy in the English classroom.

AskEric Lesson Plans - a great resource for English teachers in search of some new ideas.

Here are a couple of great mystery sites which can be used to introduce and reinforce the forensic thinking used in expository writing.  Online Mystery Database   and  Mysterynet.Com

Character Counts - a great site from the Character Counts organization with lots of links, resources resources to help you convey all that is character, ethics and morality to your students.

Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development-  from Portland State University, this site also includes the Heinz dilemma.

Metacognition Defined - a useful site from ERIC (Educational Information Resources Center) which explains metacognition in a way that's user friendly.

Expanding the Curriculum:

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre's American Collection - a great resource from the NCTE, PBS and ExxonMobil. Featured works:  "The Ponder Heart" by Eudora Welty, "The Song of the Lark" by Willa Cather, "A Death in the Family" by James Agee, "Almost a Woman" by Esmeralda Santiago "The American" by Henry James and "Cora Unashamed" by Langston Hughes

Aesop's Fables - a collection of fables, fairy tales and stories by Hans Christian Andersen.