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Mrs. Kearon's Quick Picks: click a link below for a some suggestions.

High School Stories | Realistic Fiction | Sports Themes | Science-Fiction, & Supernatural | Multicultural & Historical Fic | Mysteries & Thrillers | Biographies, Autobiographies, & Personal Narratives | Other Nonfiction How to use your iPod with multiple computers (manually manage music in iTunes).

• NoveList - allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest (use your Jericho Public Library card barcode for access from home)
• The Center for Learning - examines the basics, such as plot, character analysis, setting, themes, comparisons to today's society, underlying values, and background information on the novelist or playwright
• BookBrowser - titles by topic
• Young Adult Library Services Association - award winning "best of the best" book lists
• BookSpot.com - book reviews, awards, poetry, literary criticism, authors, and more
• Librarian's Index to the Internet - links to a variety of young adult literature/fiction
• MIRAGe - links to a variety of Readers' Advisory sources on the Internet
• Morton Grove Public Library: Web Sites for Book Lovers
• Find a Good Book - a handy reference to authors and genres
• Borders - editorial and reader reviews, table of contents, links to similar titles, award winners and best sellers
• Barnes and Noble Booksellers - entries include synopsis, information from publisher, table of contents, excerpts, reviews, and information about the author

Books/Literature

• Bibliomania - more than 2000 free texts, study guides and reference resources
• ReadBookOnline - a place where you can select a book to read online any time at your convenience
• Classic Short Stories - dedicated to the short story and to those interested in reading light prose
• Alex - an informal research project whose purpose is to explore the possibilities creating catalogs of Internet-based electronic texts
• English Server's Fiction collection - offers works of and about fiction
• Project Gutenberg - the official and original Project Gutenberg Web site
• Biography of Arthur Miller
• Antigone - links corresponding to Ms Gulitti's Playbill assignment
• Ms. Ryder's Hemingway Page
• Visual Thesaurus
• The On-line Books Page
• Banned Books On-line
• Antigone - online text, part of the Perseus Project at Tufts. Study guide for Antigone
• Oedipus the King - online text, part of the Perseus Project at Tufts. Study guide for Oedipus the King
• Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Literature
• Writing Contests - collected by Ms. Ryder and Ms. Valenza, this page lists writing contests for students to enter
• Literature ResourceCenter Pathfinder, Biography Resource Center Pathfinder, Student Resource Center Pathfinder

Dictionaries

• Merriam Webster
• OneLook
• YourDictionary
• Cambridge Dictionary

Authors/Writers/Biography

• A Celebration of Women Writers
• Writing Black - literature and history written by and about African Americans
• National Steinbeck Center
• John Steinbeck Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize
• The Steinbeck Page
• Steinbeck - the California novels
• John Steinbeck
• Center for Steinbeck Studies
• Project Bartleby Archive
• The Thornton Wilder Page
• Biography.com - over 15,000 searchable biographical sketches including cross references to related people
• American Writers - name index
• American Writers - pictoral index of 332 American authors
• Author Guides
• Yahoo Authors
• Corwin's AuthorWeb

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Shakespeare

• Shakespeare Web - an interactive, hypermedia environment dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays and other works
• The Life and Times of Mr. William Shakespeare
• Webspeare - a Shakespeare educational resource for high school teachers and their students
• Renaissance: The Elizabethan World
• A Compendium of Commom Knowledge
• William Shakespeare - information on the life and works of Shakespeare as well as some photos
• Shakespeare Resource Center - includes information about his life, the Globe Theater and Elizabethan England
• Shakespeare Online - this site includes Shakespeare's complete plays as well as a huge collection of essays about Shakespeare's works and life, and Elizabethan England in general.
• NM's Creative Impulse..Renaissance
• Shakespeare and Medicine in the Elizabethan Era
• Elizabethan England
• The Globe Theater and Its History
• The Plague, England and Loughborough 1539-1640
• Marriage, what brings us together today - essay comparing marriage today vs. the sixteenth century
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Bartlett's Familiar Shakespearean Quotations

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Research Paper

• Online Guide to Research Essentials (OGRE)
• Modern Language Association
• Researchpaper.com - the Web's largest collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects
• Elements of Style

Humanities

• Literary Resources on the Net

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Poetry/Quotations

• The American Verse Project - an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920
• Electronic Poetry Center - a central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics
• Modern British Poetry
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

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Study

• Yale Film Studies Film Analysis Web Site
• The Internet Movie Database - searchable
• Greatest Films - unique Web site with interpretive, descriptive review commentary and historical background for hundreds of classic Hollywood and other American films in the last century
• Rotten Tomatoes - strange name, useful site!

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Mythology/Astrology

• Astrology Basics
• Yahoo Astrology
• Perseus Project - library of resources for studying the ancient world
• Goddesses of the World
• Encyclopedia Mythica - an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, magic, and more. It contains over 3,600 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world
• Bulfinch's Mythology

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Philosophy

• Bjorn's Guide to Philosophy (Philosophers) - alphabetical listing of philosophers. Includes biography, papers, works, and related sites
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Philosophy Links on the Web - or try a Philosophy Crossword Puzzle

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Genealogy/Identity

• Behind the Name - the etymology and history of first names
• Baby Namer
• BabyNames.com
• Indian Baby Names
• Irish Names
• The Meaning of Arabic Names
• Historic Events and Birthdays - searchable by month and year
• Historic Events and Birthdays - searchable by day and year

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The 1920s (Great Gatsby)

• American Cultural History, 1920-1929 all topics
• History of the 1920s - all topics
• Long Island: Our Story Home Page
• The Golden Age of Sports: A Roaring Replay of the 1920s
• Flapper - three pages celebrating performance art of the Roaring Twenties (scroll down for links or go directly to - Architecture, Decor, and Music)
• The Costumer's Manifesto: 20th Century Western Costume: 1920 -1930
• Film History of the 1920s
• Mark Harden's Artchive featuring "1925 the Year in Review"
• Harlem Renaissance
• Flapper Fashion 1920s
• What is Jazz
• Biography Resource Center - database of biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world
• History Resource Center - an integrated collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. We recommend the timeline for this assignment.
• Literature Resource Center - biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline

Midsummer Night's Dream

Poetry

• Full text of Midsummer Night's Dream
• Use the Literature Resource Center (if you are unfamiliar with the Literature Resource Center database, ask a librarian or use this guide).
• Use MagillOnLiterature, a datatabase within EBSCOhost (if you are unfamiliar with the MagillOnLiterature, ask a librarian or use this guide).

Costumes

• Midsummer Night's Dream Costume Drawings
• Midsummer Night's Dream Costume and Set Design
• Hats and collars for specific characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Costume Drawings
• A Midsummernight's Dream program (good photos and costumes)

Music

• Go to MS/HS Share Folder > High School Projects > Valenza > English II > Felix Mendelssohn to listen to the music from Midsummer Night's Dream

Fine Art

Midsummer Night's Dream paintings (scroll down to see list)

Film

• "Where is that worthless dreamer?" Bottom's fantastic redemption in Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream
• "Textual and sexual anxieties in Michael Hoffman's film of A Midsummer Night's
  Dream"
• "REWORKING SHAKESPEARE : 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'"
• "Shakespeare in the cinema: a film directors' symposium"
• Directing A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Sheffield Theatres Education Resource
• American Repertory Theatre's Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream

Literature

• Full text of Midsummer Night's Dream
• Full text of Romeo & Juliet
• Use the Literature Resource Center to find articles on both works to help you write your comparison essay (if you are unfamiliar with the Literature Resource Center database, ask a librarian or use this guide).
• Use MagillOnLiterature (a datatabase within EBSCOhost to find articles on both works to help you write your comparison essay (if you are unfamiliar with the MagillOnLiterature, ask a librarian or use this guide).

Photography

• Fairy Photos
• The Case of the Cottingley Fairies
• A Midsummernight's Dream program (good photos and costumes)

Of Mice and Men

• The National Steinbeck Center
• Overview of Mental Health in New York and the Nation
• The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl: Timeline of the Dust Bowl
• The Dust Bowl - Univ. of So. Dakota (includes movie and photos from the US National Archives)
• The Migrant Experience (the Library of Congress: American Memory Project)
• Twenty Mule Team Museum
• Mule Skinners and Freight Wagons
• Borax: The Twenty Mule Team
• Steinbeck's Valley of the World
• California Geography
• Relief map of California
• Gabilan Range
• City of Salinas, California -History

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Animal Farm | Russia (History) | Russian Revolution | Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky | Communism Animal Farm The Chestnut Street Cafe - site devoted to exploring the life, times and work of the English novelist and journalist Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) Charles' George Orwell Links - the homepage of George Orwell homepages Orwell's Handy Word Choice Hints - "Let the Meaning Choose the Word,"excerpts from George Orwell "Politics and the English Language," in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (1946) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1974 Work: Summaries and Interpretations of Animal Farm The Lyrics from Animal Farm - created by Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Animal Farm - summary, character profiles, theme and metaphor analysis, and quotes by NovelGuide Quotes from Orwell's Animal Farm Animal Farm Character Profiles George Orwell and the Politics of Animal Farm Animal Farm - the complete text Animal Farm Text Search Engine - a searchable online version from The Literature Network Russia (History) Russia 1860-1945 - from Spartacus Educational, a British organization History and Culture of Russia : Path to Reolution Chronology of Russian History Russian Czars 1613-1916 Exploring Moskow - the Kremlin Marx and Engels Internet Archive - searchable Russian Revolution Russian Revolution Sourcebook - part of the famed Internet Sourcebook Project which seeks present original source texts in a context that lends itself to educational use Modern World History: Russia in Revolution Internal workings of the Soviet Union - from the Library of Congress's Soviet Archives Exhibit Stalin, Trotsky, Lenin Stalin Reference Archive Stalin - entry from Encyclopedia.com The Trotsky Archive Trotsky - entry from Encyclopedia.com Lenin Library Lenin - entry from Encyclopedia.com Communism Marxist Origins of Communism - from the Museum of Communism, created by Prof. Bryan Caplan, Deartment of Economics, George Mason University, Virginia Czarist Origins of Communism - from the Museum of Communism, created by Prof. Bryan Caplan, Deartment of Economics, George Mason University, Virginia Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions - from the Museum of Communism, created by Prof. Bryan Caplan, Deartment of Economics, George Mason University, Virginia Marx and Engels' Writings Study Guide for the Communist Manifesto - by Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University

1984 links for Mr. Gansrow's assignment

• American Civil Liberties Union - an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and the laws of the United States
• National Coalition Against Censorship - provides current information about censorship around the country
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse - a non-profit consumer education, research, and advocacy program which provides practical tips on privacy education

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Communications

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

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Teachers' WebQuests and Projects

Ms. Valenza's WebQuests: Morality || Integrity

Ms. Gulitti and Mrs. Skeats WebQuest: Equality

Mr. Darr, Dr. Hartnett, and Ms. Ryder's OGRE: Online Guide to Research Essentials

Ms. Hederian's Cyberbullying research project

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