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IMPORTANT CBSD ENGLISH RESOURCES | |
 Required
Summer Reading |
Supplemental
Summer Reading |
| Reading
Olympics List |
ALA
/ YALSA - Outstanding Books for the College Bound |
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Citation Resources |
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| Noodletools
- paid for by district |
KnightCite |
| CBSD
Writing Research Papers Guide |
Citation
Styles for Research Papers |
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English Resources | |
| Avoiding
Plagiarism |
Elements of Style |
| Gale's Literary
Index (helps find criticism) |
Online English
Grammar
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| Internet Public Library - Online Literary
Criticism
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Norton Websource to American
Literature
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| Bookspot Literary
Criticism |
Shakespeare Home
Page
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| Literature
Hotlist
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Literary Resources | |
| Literature Resources |
Quotations |
| Mythology
and Legends Sites |
Short
Stories |
| Poetry Resources |
Young
Adult & Children's Literature and Authors - includes
reviews and criticism
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American Transcendentalism Web
ByGosh.com - A great literary resource that includes short stories, novels, nonfiction, poems, and kid's classics.
Glossary of Literary Terms - If you need to know what something means in literature, this is the place to look
Great Books Online - Bartleby.com - Concentrates on standard anthologies. There are links to literary criticism and quotation collections.
Great Writers - Links to web pages and other information on a variety of authors. This page is part of Book Lovers.
Literary Kicks - The site is devoted to a few experimental literary movements that tried to uncover some deeper truths about life.
Literary Movements - An extensive collection of information and links on American Literature (mainly 19th century). The site includes pages on American authors, timelines, literary movements, and American literature sites. Maintained by Donna M. Campbell, Gonzaga University.
Literary Resources on the Net - "An incredibly comprehensive collection of Web sites related to literature & the humanities. Includes Syllabi and Other Course Materials for Literature Courses." Searchable. Maintained by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor, English Department, Rutgers University (Newark campus).
Mastertexts - Full texts of literary masterpieces - This site contains the full texts of literary masterpieces for you to enjoy. Brought to you by GOOGLE, the #1 search engine.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - This on-going online project provides an extensive overview of American literature - from early Amercian literature to the late twentieth century. Navigated by interactive table of contents or online search, PAL explores American authors and their works in literary and historical context. Authored and maintained by Paul P. Reuben, English Department, California State University - Stanislaus.
Voices from the Gaps, Women Writers of Color - Web site that focuses on writings of North American Women Writers
The Encyclopedia Mythica : An Encyclopedia on Mythology, Folklore, and Legend - This is an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains over 6000 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world
Poetry
Resources
The Academy of American
Poets - The Academy of American Poets can
find essays on poetry, biographies of more than 200 poets, text of nearly 600
poems, and RealAudio of eighty poems read by their authors; learn all about the
Academy and its programs; discuss poetry and share their own work with fellow
web travelers; find out what poetry events are happening in their towns; and
much more.
American Verse Project - This is a collaboration between the University of Michigan Press and the Humanities Text Initiative that is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. This is the place to turn for works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Lee Masters, Robert W. Service, and Sara Teasdale among others.
Bohemian Ink - This includes biographies of writers and poets (as well as links to other biographies which may be more extensive) who fall under such categories as absurdist, postmodernist, beat poet, etc. It also includes links to some of their works, photographs, and links to other related web resources such as newsgroups, scholarly papers based on the author/poet, articles, essays, and bibliographic information. A search engine is also provided.
Favorite Poem Project - Americans saying poems they love
Fooling With Words with Bill Moyers - Helpful tools for teaching poetry, featured poets, poets reading and more.
The Internet Poetry Archive - The University of North Carolina Press joins the UNC Office of Information Technology in publishing the Internet Poetry Archive. The archive will make available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The goal of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences (at little or no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their texts.
Poetry 180 - a poem a day for American high
schools. Billy Collins - Poet Laureate of the United States
Poetry Daily - A new poem every
day.
Representative
Poetry Online - Anthology produced by the University of Toronto's combined Departments of
English from 1912 to 1967. The online version started in 1993, and new
poets have since been added to the database. Currently 359 poets are
represented. There is also an English poetry time line (658-2000).
Useful for British and Canadian as well as American poetry.
Familiar Quotations Bartlett - A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs traced to their sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
East of theWeb Short Stories - good place to look up the short stories you have been assigned to read
Young Adult & Children's Literature and Authors
Authors and Illustrators on the Web - Children's Literature Web Guide
Authors 4 Teens - A site about contemporary authors whose books explore all aspects of teenage life.
Children and Young Adult Authors and illustrators - Internet School Library Media Center's index to author and illustrator Internet sites.
Children's Book Council - About children's authors and illustrators
Children's Literature Web Guide -- Internet resources related to books for children and young adults
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