John F. Kennedy High School
Internet Training Workshop

by Steve Feld

ENGLISH
Contributed by
T.P. McGUIRE

  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

    The Bard's comedies, tragedies and histories are all here, along with an area where you can make much ado about his works.

Shakespeare

  • National Geographic Online

    Hundreds of new photos, maps, diagrams and articles help students understand their world.

National Geographic

  • Virtual Facts on File

    Got a question about history, government, demographics, religion or science? This is the best place on-line to start looking for the answer.

Virtual Facts on File

  • Bad Science

    Bad Science is its name and myth-busting is its game. Did you know that lightning didn't strike Ben Franklin's kite? Visit this site to find out what really happened.

Bad Science

  • Time Warner Cable Education News

    The latest developments in educational efforts by programmers and cable companies.

Time Warner Ed News

  • Cable In the Classroom

    Match your curriculum needs to Cable in the Classroom programs. Visit CIC's Web site to do a keyword search or link to sites with down loadable lesson plans.

Cable In Classroom

  • Choices and Consequences

    Using the Choices and consequences theme, Court TV has produced a series of interactive, curriculum-specific programs that encourage students to become better decision-makers. Developed by former NMSA president, Ross M. Burkhardt, each commercial-free program and its corresponding curriculum is built around a real courtroom trial covering important themes such as pranks, violence, gangs, drinking and driving, discrimination, and teen pregnancy.

Court TV

  • A&E Classroom

    "The Idea Book for Educators Spring 1998" kit, which includes a program schedule; program descriptions; educators' ideas; and study guides.

A&E Classroom

  • C-SPAN/C-SPAN2

    Members of C-SPAN in the Classroom receive lesson plans, teachers' guides, teacher tips, and fellowship and seminar information.

C-SPAN

  • Close Up on C-SPAN

    For resources, access the foundation's Web site

Close Up on C-SPAN

  • CNN Newsroom/WorldView

    Free annual enrollment provides unlimited copyright clearance and a daily classroom guide on the Internet.

CNN Newsroom/WorldView

  • Discovery Networks (APL/DSC/TLC)

    Discovery Channel School Educator Guide & Catalog includes programming information; classroom activities; information about the Discovery Channel School Web site and descriptions of videos and CD- ROMS.

Discovery Channel

  • Nickelodeon

    For teacher guides and lesson plans for Blue's Clues; Kids in History; Nick News; Nick News: Special Edition; Big Help episodes; and most of NICK's pre-school programming.

Nickelodeon

  • Ovation

    For teachers' guides; lesson plans; quizzes; and contests:Ovation

Ovation

  • PBS

    For links to PBS materials and to access the Teacher Connex Web

PBS Teacher Connex

  • The Journey Inside

    Newsletter of classroom ideas and hardware information

Journey


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English/Reading Links

John F. Kennedy High School
Internet Training Workshop

by Steve Feld

ETTA'S EDUCATIONAL ENGLISH DATABASE
Contributed by
ETTA SILVERSTEIN
Send email to: Etta

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication

Click on the links to findout about ask ERIC, ERIC digests, the Family Literacy Center, and, if you click on Distance Education Program, you will find reference to a three-unit class on the Internet called "The Online Classrom."

ERIC CLEARINGHOUSE ON READING AND COMMUNICATION


Shakespeare Headquarters

If you are studing the Bard, you must visit this site just to see a complete list of his comedies, tragedies, sonnets, and poems, along with a wonderful interactive glossary. When you are reading the text and you come across a word you do not know, click on it, and the glossary will appear telling you what the word meant during Shakespeare's time.

SHAKESPEARE HEADQUARTERS


Library of Congress

You can't read books on line, but you can search for one of interest

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS


Classroom Connect

This site is an excellent launching pad to explore the Net. At this versatile site you can find K-12 resources on the Net, lesson plans, and lots more. This Web site is updated at least once a week-these people are serious about teaching with the Internet!

CLASSROOM CONNECT


The Gates of No Return

Students can read segments and choose different outcomes of this open-ended story. Once a direction is chosen, the student can add another segment. Ask students to locate this site and take turn adding to the story.

THE GATES OF NO RETURN


Project Bartleby

A large collection of online poetry.

PROJECT BARTLEBY


Teaching and Learning on the Web

This site is more than just net surfing-you can search for sites of interest here. Here you will find over 512 examples of how the web is being used for learning.

TEACHING AND LEARNING
ON THE WEB

Kid's Space

A fantastic place for kids to share their imaginations with other kids. A place where kids can show off their writing, painting and thinking with others. If you are looking to publish your students' work, search no more.

KID'S SPACE


Welcome to the Labyrinth:

A World Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies

The Labyrinth is a global information network providing resources in medieval studies.
Skim some of the Old English section. Choose a paragraph for students to translate into modern English.

WELCOME TO THE LABYRINTH A WORLD WIDE WEB SERVER FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES

Literary Connections

John F. Kennedy High School
Internet Training Workshop

by Steve Feld


English Department
Contributed by
Mary T. Marino

Education World

This is a great site. It is updated regularly. Here's a site that is especially easy on the eyes.

EDUCATION WORLD

Literary Resources on the Net

There are numerous links here!

Literary Resources on the Net

Literature Resources for the High School and College Student

Comprehensive collection of essential references.

Literature Resources for the High School and College Student

Bartlett, John 1901. Familiar Quotations

"Trusting no man as his friend... could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared." Need to know who said what? You'll find it here.

Bartlett, John 1901. Familiar Quotations

The English Server

Thousands of worthy links. Imagine primary and secondary references only a click away.

The English Server

Britannica Internet Guide

If it's not here, it may not exist. This site has an extraordinary compendium of information. Each link is a directory of sources!

Britannica Internet Guide

Victorian Web Sites

Find extensive information on nineteenth century life, history, art, and especially literature.

Victorian Web Sites

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library

There are links here that will prove invaluable for all subject class teachers. Just pick and click. For example, choose "English"; then click on "Literature". There are plenty of literary sites here. Choose from Aesop's fables to Shakespeare's plays.

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library

The Mining Company

If you only have time to visit one site, don't come here. You'll want to linger here in this link labyrinth. Check out the "A to Z site". Enjoy!

The Mining Company

Web66: International School Web Site Registry

Click on a country or a state and then click on a link to a school. Clearly there are many possibilities here. Additionally, many of these schools have included their own favorite links.

Web66: International School Web Site Registry


John F. Kennedy High School
Internet Training Workshop

by Steve Feld

English Dept.
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Lesson Links

These are links to exceptional lesson or information sites. The list will grow as time goes on.

Lesson Links

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare Globe USA The Library Here you will find annotated links to Shakespeare resources on the Web.

William Shakespeare

Victorian Web Sites

This is an excellent site for links to Victorian, Romantic, and Gothic sites as well as miscellaneous authors in the U.K.

Victorian Web Sites

Indigenous People's Literature

Links to all indigenous nations, as well as topics like earth prayers, great leaders, world geography, songs, poetry, and famous documents.

Indigenous People's Literature

The Awesome Library

This is an excellent site for teachers and stu dents. Students can publish their work and work with other students on r eading, writing, and many other subjects.

The Awesome Library

English Server at CMU

An excellent resource for all English courses. Some of the headings include: Film and Television, Journals, Poetry, Fiction, Software, Feminisim, Drama, Art, and Architect ure, Literacy, and Education, etc.

English Server at CMU

The New Chaucer Society

The purpose of the New Chaucer Society is to provide a forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age.

The New Chaucer Society

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem..The 1920s and 30s it was "the best of t imes," it was also "the worst of times:" though the African-American was making headway in areas formerly denied him such as the arts, literature, sciences, etc., he often did so by repudiating the mores, manners, and lifestyles of the poorer classes of b lacks.

The Harlem Renaissance

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Located in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of most widely used facilities in the world devoted to preserving materials on the history and culture of peoples of African descent.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Zora Neal Hurston

Zora Neal Hurston is one of the greatest writers/anthropologists of the 20th century. She could write about the most ordinary things and make them infinitely gorgeous.

Zora Neale Hurston


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