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=**English/Language Arts Department Resources**=

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=Collaboration= [|Medievalspace]- Like a myspace but not! [|Kerpoof] - Students and teachers create animations and share them Ron Hillman's Wiki- Be inspired by others technology works! [|Web English Teacher] - Great place to start for resources [|Literature Learning Ladders] This web project will help you make the connection between theory and practice by exploring some online resources related to literacy, themes, literature circles, technology, and learning. [|Project Gutenberg] The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.

= = =Reading= [|GoogleLitTrips] - A different way to read good literature. [|ReadWriteThink] - by International Reading Association and National Council for Teachers of English [|Reading Rockers] - resources for reading [|Creative Quotations]- search over 50,000 quotes [|The Academy of American Poets] The Academy is a nonprofit organization with a mission to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. [|The Encyclopedia Mythica] Award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between. [|American Folklore] This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. [|Aesop's Fables] Our online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed.

=Writing= [|ToonDoo-] Write and create online cartoons [|Blurb.com]- Create a book of your own work! [|Lightning Bug] - Writing Resources [|Easybib]- all citation formats [|PL's Aplus Writing tips]- suggestions [|ReadWriteThink] - by International Reading Association and National Council for Teachers of English [|Online Citation Machine]- all citation formats [|Writers' Window] - submit original work and share [|The Writing Center] Writer's Web is a free, public-access handbook designed & maintained by University of Richmond students & faculty. [|Poetry Express] Support for students in the creative writing process [|Biography Maker] Series of writing guides that takes students through the stages of writing an engaging biography [|High School Journalism] The ASNE High School Journalism Initiative helps scholastic journalism develop and flourish.

=Sources= [|Library of Congress] PBS Teachers multimedia resources and lessons from PBS [|The Complete Works of William Shakespeare] from __The Tech__, MITs oldest and largest newspaper

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