Links to Grammar Sites is designed to aid in essay grading. The teacher corrects essays with standard abbreviations for grammatical and stylistic errors and then students can go to this page to find links to other sites that aid in correcting and understanding these errors.

Guide to Grammar and Writing is a highly interactive grammar text that covers parts of speech, phrases, clauses, punctuation, sentence combining, common grammatical errors, and paragraph writing including sentence variety, coherence and transitions and paragraph development. It also has interactive quizzes and principles of composition.

Hypergrammar by the University of Ottawa contains an interactive grammar text that covers The Parts of Speech, The Parts of the Sentence, Punctuation, Using Pronouns, Using Verbs, Modifiers, Building Phrases, Building Clauses, Building Sentences , and Writing Paragraphs.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves provides an interactive quiz on punctuation.

Guide to Grammar and Style is densely written but its focus is on learning grammar as a means to improve writing style.It is somewhat difficult to use because the material is arranged in an alphabetical index rather than traditional chapters.

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation presents the rules of grammar and punctuation usage with examples to illustrate each rule.

The Internet Grammar of English is a complete guide to words, clauses and phrases. There are some interactive sections and there are clear explanations of grammatical terms.

Internet Public Library This very helpful site has links to on-line literary criticism for both English and American authors.

Web English Teacher, a terrific site created by an English teacher, provides links to carefully selected and annotated sites representative of the entire K-12 English and Language Arts curriculum, including grammar, authors for both children and older students, poetry, Shakespreare, writing, journalism, yearbook, and much more.

Teacher's First This is a terrific first stop for curriculum material. Click on Content Matrix to find links to annotated lesson plans and web resources for both English and American literature. Just scroll down to find English resources and activities links. The links are carefully annotated and the site does not present an overwhelming list of web sites. The lesson plans range from guided web activities to study guides.

Cyberguides to Literature This Web site has terrific guided web tours of English and American literature for all grade levels. The one on Night, for example, has a list of activities for students to aid in their understanding of the novel and a list of links to be used. The Night site is found under Grades 9-12 Cyberguides. There are also webguides for the study of Hamlet,Huck Finn, The Crucible, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, etc

Doucette Index The Doucette Index provides access to books and Web sites that contain useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and young adults, and the creators of those books. All you do is type in the book title, click Show Web sites Only, then Begin Search. The links will be to studyguides and lesson plans on the web on that particular book or play; while the quality of the content varies, the wealth of resources is fairly astonishing.

Poets.org: The Academy of American Poets provides biographies, poems, discussion forums, links, audio versions of poems, literary links, and links for many poets, both British and American.

English Literature on the Web is an exhaustive resource page on finding articles, criticism and biographies on many, many British novelists and poets

American Authors on the Web is an exhaustive resource page on finding articles, criticism and biographies on many, many American novelists and poets

American Writing Gateway is another resource page on finding articles, criticism and biographies on many, many American novelists and poets. The focus is on widely taught American writers. This site also has literary timelines, a literary map, and a list of American authors on video.

Luminarium is a terrific resource for the study of Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century British literature, including an extensive index page on Chaucer.

Talking To, a British site, offers scholars answering questions about author's lives, world, and works as if they were the actual author. Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, Hardy, and Jane Austen are some of the authors. For Shakespeare, you can search for Hamlet to view many interesting Questions and Answers.

Online Literature Network provides an extremely useful concordance of hundreds of plays and novels. It includes both a word search feature and a global phrase search that allows the user to find all occurrences of a given phrase in all of the books, or a selection of books, by entering the author's last name (i.e. 'Dickens'), or a word (or portion of a word) in the title.

Victorian Web was previously hosted at Brown University.

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance Index page provides an exhaustive links to resources, webquests, and activities for exploring the Harlem Renaissance.

Eyes Were Watching God This site is a guided activity set involving writing activities, Their Eyes Were Watching God and using the WWW. The activities include writing an evaluative essay, creating a map of Janie's journey, writing a letter to a character, writing a double entry journal, and illustrating and explaining poetic images. All the activities have instructions and links to Web sites.

Zora Neale Hurston site This is the work of an individual person who has compiled links to photographs, biographies, a Hurston bulletin board and many essays about Hurston. It also has a link to a Real Player discussion of Hurston led by a panel of college professors; students can listen to a discussion of Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Lesson Plans provides different activities for learning about Hurston's novel.

F Scott Fitzgerald Centenary This site, created by Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli, includes essays and articles, a Fitzgerald biography and chronology, and Fitzgerald Obituaries.

Great Gatsby Homework Online is part of the Literary Department of Homework Online. It has been created to help students and readers of The Greaty Gatsby better understand the novel. Included in this site are summaries and explanations, character analysis, discussion of themes, a user's forum where readers can discuss and ask questions, and much more.

Great Gatsby Webquest asks students to plan and prepare a party to better understand the Roaring 20's culture.

Harper Lee

To Kill A Mockingbird Student Survival Guide This site provides a short synopsis of each chapter, vocabulary, idioms, and allusions for each chapter, and a very helpful set of links to background cultural and historical information including The Great Depression, the works of Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange, and Walker Evans, and What Happened in 1933

To Kill Mockingbird: Then and Now This site is designed for both students and teachers with links to study questions on theme, character, plot and symbols, suggested teaching activities, student essays, Historical Archives including information on the Scottsboro Boys and video clips about the Civil Rights movement.

Chill With Will is designed for "helping high school students learn to love Shakespeare" so it has MTV graphics and a decidedly rock and roll aura including Shakespearean Humor and Insults, a visit to Stratford, and activities for Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare at MIT contains downloadable hypertext versions of every play, plus the ability to search for words and phrases plus links to discussion areas on individual plays.

The Electric Shakespeare, created by a Princeton University professor, contains online resources for thinking and writing about Shakespeare including video clips (Shakescenes) of Orson Welles' and Polanski's Macbeth, Brooks' and Olivier's King Lear and a Handbook that contains helpful advice and guidelines for writing about Shakespeare.

Folger Library Teaching Shakespeare contains lesson plans, teacher discussion area and links.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet is a one stop site with a wide variety of extremely helpful links. It contains a Shakespeare timeline with terrific annotations, another timeline comparing W.S. life with current events, a Shakespeare Biography quiz, links to many, many lesson plans, links to criticism, links to the Renaissance.

Shakespeare Resource Center is an extremely helpful and complete list of links to Shakespeare on the web including many links to Stratford-on-Avon, The Globe, lesson plans, teaching resources and essays. One interesting site link is to Shakespeare's Amusement Shelf with links to Shakespearean spoofs.

Shakespeare's World Then and Now is a guided webquest for middle school students to use the web to explore Shakespeare's world. Students work in groups to explore the question "What caused a middle-class English boy to become one of the world's greatest writers?"

Welcome to Shakey's Place is a student created Web site with links to a 3D tour of the Globe, and links to study guides, quizzes and info about all the plays.

Macbeth Webquest: The Trial of Macbeth was designed by Lynne Schalman. This webquest poses the following challenge: how culpable is Macbeth. Students take on the roles of prosecuting attorney, defense attorney, and key witnesses. They research relevant Web sites and quotations from the text and then enact a trial.

Chill With Will is designed to "helping high school students learn to love Shakespeare" so it has MTV graphics and a decidedly rock and roll aura including Shakespearean Humor and Insults, a visit to Stratford, and activities for Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth.

Macbeth Plugged is an annotated hypertext version of Macbeth includes summaries, glossary and video. Created by students, this site also contains study guides, discussion board, and theme analysis.

Shakey's Place (click on Features) on Macbeth has links to a spoof on Macbeth, critics on Macbeth, Study guides, a stage history of the play, and text analysis.

Chill With Will is designed to "helping high school students learn to love Shakespeare" so it has MTV graphics and a decidedly rock and roll aura including Shakespearean Humor and Insults, a visit to Stratford, and activities for Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth.

Romeo and Juliet Madlibs is an amusing Web site offering help to Juliet's nurse by giving her words to say.

Study Guide for Romeo and Juliet contains play synopsis and analysis and study questions for each act.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare at MIT contains downloadable hypertext versions of every play, plus the ability to search for words and phrases plus links to discussion areas on individual plays.

Seeing, Storms and Madness provides activities and resources for the study of King Lear.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare at MIT contains downloadable hypertext versions of every play, plus the ability to search for words and phrases plus links to discussion areas on individual plays.

Dartmouth College Shakespeare page with study questions, a discussion forum and lecture about the play.

Teaching With Movies has a study guide and discussion questions based on teaching Much Ado along with viewing the movie version.

Folger's has several links

Death of Salesman concordance: This database contains the complete dialogue from Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman in a full concordance format: every word in the dialogue of the play is indexed and connected to its textual context. You can search it for wordlists (alphabetic and frequency-ordered), for KWIC concordances, and for collocations (in the context around the keyword).

Death of A Salesman study guides for teachers and students

Death of A Salesman Homework Online is part of the Literary Department of Homework Online. It has been created to help students and readers of Death of A Salesman better understand the play. Included in this site are summaries and explanations, character analysis, discussion of themes, a user's forum where readers can discuss and ask questions, and much more.

The American Dream Webquest is not directly related to Death of Salesman except it is a guided activity designed to introduce students to the themes, history and symbols of the American Dream using the archives of the Library of Congress; this is an extensive webquest but it could be used as an intro to the concept of the dream. According to the Web site, "This quest challenges students to investigate the American Dream...look through the eyes of those who lived before us...use the collection American Memory, to visit America's past...learn research skills and experience the richness of the library collections...create projects that show students' investigation of others' dreams. Finally, students can share their own Dream for the Future."

An Exhaustive Web site on the Negro League with links to all the teams, history of the leagues, photos, and audio.

Ray Kinsella

Shoeless Joe This site contains study guide questions for each chapter, lesson outlines, links to baseball background info, and guided activities on writing a 5 paragraph essay on the novel.

Guide to Literary Criticism This about.com site provides links to both contemporary and recent criticisms and reviews of Huck Finn; it also includes a link to a concordance site.

Mark Twain in his Times According to the creators of this site at University of Virginia, This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated. The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times said about each other, in a way that can speak to us today. Contained here are dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and articles, hundreds of images, and many different kinds of interactive exhibits.

A Cyberguide to Huck Finn This guided activity provides suggestions and links for confronting the issues of racism raised by teaching Huck Finn. Several activities are proposed but perhaps more helpful are the links to background information on censorship, racism, and the presentation of Jim.

Bronte Web Designed by a professor at Brown University, this site contains links to student and professor written essays on a wealth of topics including history, social history, gender issues, themes, setting, imagery, characterization, and biography. There is a direct link to resources on Jane Eyre specifically.

Bronte Parsonage Museum This official Web site has a guided tour of the Haworth Parsonage, biographical info, links to other Bronte country sites, and some student activities.

Bronte Country: Places to visit This tourist site has links and information about sites in Yorkshire visited by Bronte and incorporated into her novels.

The Bronte Sisters Web: Jane Eyre This site offers links to many essays and literary criticism, an e-text of Jane Eyre, and links to other good Bronte sites.

Kate Chopin: Domestic Goddess This site has biographical information, links to e-text versions of her work, some additional links to other Chopin sites, and links to essays of literary critics.

Kate Chopin: A Reawakening This PBS site has the complete transcript of the PBS series on Kate Chopin, some interesting interviews with scholars, a chronology of her life and an extensive bibliography.

Toni Morrison's Anchor is a site with links for all of her novels.

Nathaniel Hawthorne Teacher Resource File This is a one stop shopping site with links to a Hawthorne glossary, places in Hawthorne's novels, to e-texts of his novels, to biographical information and to some critical essays.

Nathaniel Hawthorne provides links to e-texts, criticism, biography info and more