Oxford
English Dictionary (OED) The OED is the world's leading
authority on the history and development of the English
language. It is a historical dictionary, which traces
the evolution of over 600,000 words, both past and
present. The OED uses quotations to illustrate how
words have been used over the last millennium.
To use the OED PASSWORDS email on
the FirstClass homework folders for user name and
password. If you need
help accessing this resource at home, watch this online
tutorial.
Contemporary
Authors For information about modern authors
and their works, use Contemporary Authors. This is
now part of InfoTrac's Biography Resource Center. To use Contemporary Authors
at home, enter a library card number from Fay School
(see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder) or any public library in Massachusetts in
the box below. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.
Contemporary
Literary Criticism Use this Gale (InfoTrac) database to find
critical essays and information about living authors
(or authors who died after 1960). To use Contemporary Literary
Criticism at home, enter a library card number
from Fay School (see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder) or any public library in Massachusetts
in the box below. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.
WEB SITES
Poetry
180 Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate
of the United States, offers high school students
a poem for each day of the school year. "Poetry
can and should be an important part of our daily lives.
Poems can inspire and make us think about what it
means to be a member of the human race. By just spending
a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds
can be revealed."
OED
Word Quiz Let the random word generator select
a word for your Oxford English Dictionary research
and then follow the directions given with the word.
Prof. Daniel Donohue created the OED Word Quiz for
his English 101 students at Harvard University. He
has kindly granted permission to link to it.
Power
Proofreading The power has gone out at WHME-TV,
and they need proofreading technicians to fix TV scripts,
memos, and other writings. Can you help? Just type
your first name, choose your grade (from 2 to 8) and
choose a story.
Word
Central Word Central offers kids vocabulary-building
resources, dictionary, and "Daily Buzzword"
plus eight interactive word games to help with spelling,
reading, writing, and grammar.
Poetry
Archive Listen to poets reading their work!
Includes some video interviews with poets and good
links to other poetry sites.
Academy
of American Poets The site features Find a Poet,
a searchable index of more than 200 poets, with biographies,
photos, poems, and some sound files. This organization
sponsors National Poetry Month.
Project
Gutenberg "A library of 17,000 free
ebooks whose copyright has expired in the U.S."
Learning
Macbeth A wealth of information from the
Royal Shakespeare Company. You can play the CASTING
GAME, or learn about the witches' brew in WHAT'S IN
THE CAULDRON?
Macbeth
Paintings Links to paintings of characters
or scenes in Macbeth that bring the text alive.
To use the OED PASSWORDS email on
the FirstClass homework folders for user name and
password.