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. Do you want to use the OED
at home?
Your
Thesis Statement Here is all the help you'll need
to create a great thesis statement!
Wordle Use Wordle to create word clouds
from text like
this one. Poems, plays, short stories,
or songs work especially well. Once you create a word
cloud, click OPEN IN WINDOW, and click PRINT. To save
a copy, print to PDF CREATOR and save that. It's the
easiest way.
Scull Essay An award is given at Fay School graduation
to the winner and runner-up in for the writing of a
composition in English. The competition is open to members
of the eighth and ninth grades.
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.
The
Poetry Tool Find full text poems and articles
about poems and poets. Search or browse by category,
occasion, geographic area, first line, time period or
popularity.
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.
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."
Interactive
Romeo & Juliet Here you’ll find quite simply
the most interactive and sophisticated version of Romeo
and Juliet ever created: use it as a study guide and
teaching tool. Read the play, read its English source
texts, read critical materials on the play, explore
Shakespeare's vocabulary, and experience a full range
of multi-media associated with the play.
It requires Adobe Flash 8 to work properly.
Macbeth
Paintings Links to paintings of characters
or scenes in Macbeth that bring the text alive.
E-BOOKS
Project
Gutenberg "A library of 33,000 free ebooks
whose copyright has expired in the U.S."
eBooks@Adelaide Full text of e-books of classic works
of literature, philosphy, history, exploration and travel
from a variety of countries. These are books whose copyright
has expired.
Visual
Thesaurus