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Reference Desk Resources

 Reference Desk
your one stop for an amazing index 
of reference material on the WWW

 

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
The 1901 9th edition put online by Columbia University. Includes a keyword search tool, index of authors and more
 

 Dictionaries
including choice of language & bilingual dictionaries
 yourDictionary.com
Links to more than 500 dictionaries in more than 140 languages.
Merriam-Webster Online
Roget's Thesaurus  - 
searchable index by keywords
 

Columbia Encyclopedia

 
Virtual Reference Desk
All-purpose great general reference 

Internet Citation Guides for any Writing Style

Grammar and Style Notes from Rutgers University

Shakespeare

 Shakespeare 
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Lesson Plans & Activities

 Literary Calendar
Reveals what literary giants' birthdays you share in addition to other historical information related to publishing and writing for every day of the year.

 
 
 Alphabet Super Highway (writing and publishing)
 Writers on The Victorian Web
This collection of essays on Victorian writers ties their works into the social and scientific contexts of their times. Begin at the table of contents which links to a chronological list of English literary occurrences from 1770 to the present;  Designed at Brown University by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/litov.html

The table of contents to the entire Victorian Web:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html


 
 Medieval Drama Links
Broken down by topic, a very useful conglomeration of references to plays, costumes, music, and more.
Kodak Online Lesson Plans
Index to Language Arts Lesson Plan Sites
LessonPlansPage.com sorted by Grade Level
Awesome Library sorted by Grade Level
Busy Teachers - English Collection
 Hillside Elementary Book Reviews

 

 


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