Helpful Links

Donna Oja Smith's English Class at Trenton High School

Helpful Links

I recommend the following sites:

(click on the link)

FOR EVERYONE

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/ - Do your prewriting online with this persuasion map. Complete the graphic organizer and then print it to stay organized for writing your first draft.

http://www.townsendpress.com - Click "Online Exercises" - Click "Take the Exercises Now" - Then take Grammar, Reading, and Vocabulary quizzes (with answers and explanations).

http://www.njnextstop.org/ - Learn about career opportunities in New Jersey.

EA112 - Lit 9

Short Stories, Poems, etc (Read Online)

Books Online (listed by title or author)

Edgar Allen Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"

Frank Stockton's "The Lady or the Tiger"

Criterion

http://criterion.ets.org

The Odyssey

Read The Odyssey online:

http://www.online-literature.com/homer/odyssey/

Study guide for plot, characters, theme, etc.:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey/

Play a game to review the plot:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/odchoice.htm

See map and read summary of Odysseus' travels:

http://library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/Odyssey/voyage1.htm

To Kill a Mockingbird

http://www.homework-online.com/tkamb/summaries.asp

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/

http://www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/killmockingbird/

Romeo and Juliet:

To read the entire drama on line:

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/romeoscenes.html

To find explanations of each scene, character analyses, etc:

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-165.html

http://pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/romeo.asp

Of Mice and Men:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen/

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/mice/index.html

Literary Elements

http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis6585/class/litelem.html

Resources for All Classes

Fahrenheit 451

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451

http://www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/fahrenheit/

http://www.raybradbury.com/about.html

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:

http://pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJuliusCaesar02.asp

https://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/caesar/

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/juliuscaesar (you must have an email address to use sparknotes -- unless you use my hyperlinks!)

IMAGES and CLIP ART:

http://www.google.com (then click on IMAGES)

GENERAL REFERENCE (hot links to everywhere):

http://www.refdesk.com

http://www.encyclopedia.com

http://www.biography.com

http://www.dictionary.com

http://www.yourdictionary.com (contains foreign language dictionaries, specialized glossaries, etc.)

http://www.acronymfinder.com

http://www.howstuffworks.com

http://www.statistics.com

http://www.ipl.org (GREAT Internet Public Library!)

http://www.uselessknowledge.com (useless, but fun)

RESEARCH PAPERS:

http://citationmachine.net (A citation machine! You type in the information and it creates the citation for you.)

STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO RESEARCHING AND WRITING A PAPER:

http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus

GRAMMAR AND USAGE HELP (EVERYTHING!):

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm (rules for everything plus exercises online that are graded online)

***PRACTICE GRAMMAR TESTS (WITH ANSWERS)

http://a4esl.org

QUOTATIONS (Many writers like to use a quotation to open or close an essay.)

http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/quote.html

POETRY LOVERS (Help in finding poems or poets, as well as publishing your own poetry):

http://www.everypoet.com/index.htm

"He who learns but does not think is lost!

He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger!"

Confucius 551-479 B.C. (Chinese philosopher)

"YOU make choices, but CHOICES make you." (DOS)

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.” (FDR)

DID YOU KNOW THAT NO PIECE OF PAPER CAN BE FOLDED IN HALF MORE THAN SEVEN TIMES? TRY IT. THEN GET BACK TO WORK.