Language Arts
Absolute
Shakespeare
Comprehensive
resource for Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems,
quotes, biography and the legendary Globe
Theatre.
Babel
Fish-Alta Vista-World/Translate
Translate from or to popular foreign
languages.
Booknotes
and Study Guides
Connect to
sites that provide literature summaries and analysis.
Find detailed summaries, character information, critical
analysis and literature
references.
Cliff's
Notes
Most titles are also
available free to read online and can be downloaded and
printed for $5.99 per copy.
Elements
of Style (by William Strunk)
Wondering whether you need a comma in that
sentence, or where the apostrophe
goes?
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Getting
an A on an English Paper
How to turn your topic into a finished
paper.
Guide
for Writing English Papers based on Modern Lanugage
Association (MLA)
A nuts
and bolts page for info on the form of your paper,
including a great menu of examples for your
bibliography.
Novelguide.com
Literary analysis for frequently assigned
novels. Gives you a detailed summary, character
profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analysis and author
biographies.
Poetry
180
A poem a day for
American high schools from Billy Collins, former poet
laureate of the United States.
Sparknotes
Sparknotes are Cliff's Notes online. Find a
detailed summary, content, and characters for well-known
novels, plays, poems and several non-fiction
books.
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Music
Music History
102
A guide to Western
composers and their music from the Middle Ages to the
present. A quick and easy survey of music history with
sound.
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Musictheory.net
Ricci Adams' music theory and teen-created
basics of
music.
We Didn't
Start the Fire The
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Online Books
Internet
Classics Archive
Writing a
paper on one of the Greek or Roman classics? This site
has copies of them plus questions and comments from
other readers!
Malaspina
Great Books Site
If the
book you're searching for is part of the Great Books,
you may find this of value!
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The
Online Books Page
When the
copies of Moby Dick are checked out and you need to
write a paragraph on Chapter 11, here's your emergency
source.
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Science - Biology
Animal
Diversity Web
Browse
through the different classes of the animal kingdom for
pictures, sounds and information on the species you're
researching. Text by and for college
students.
The Biology
Project
An online
interactive resource for learning biology, sets of
problems and tutorials that will lead you through
learning topics in biology.
Colorado
State University - Insect Fact Sheets
All about Colorado insects around the house
and garden, on crops and in field and
forest.
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Inner Learning Online
Site
Interactive study of
human anatomy that includes animations, graphics and
descriptive links.
Online
Biology Book
Chapters on 53
essential biology topics include clear summaries and
excellent illustrations.
Yahooligan's
animals
Pictures and
descriptions of mammals, fish, insects, birds,
amphibians and
reptiles.
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Social Studies &
History
The American
West
History and
development of the American West through modern times,
including different peoples, events, and western
expansion.
Ben's Guide to
Government for Kids
An easy
version of government facts, including a description of
branches of government and how they work. Also has good
sources for national high school debate
topics.
Biography.com
Search over 25,000 biographies, past and
present.
CIA:
The World Factbook
General
information and extensive statistical data on countries
of the world.
Encyclopedia
Britannica Guide to Black History
Listen to audio clips and see pictures. Then
view the timeline, eras and short biographies. Use the
study guide for an overview that can help you choose and
write on a Black history topic.
Encyclopedia
Mythica - Encyclopedia on mythology, folklore and
legend
Folklore and myth
from countries around the world, including biographies
of all the goddesses, gods, and
heroes.
Famous
Trials
Defendants,
prosecutors, developments and outcomes of famous trials
through history.
Fed
Stats
The gateway to
statistics from over 100 U.S. federal
agencies.
The Holocaust
History Project
Documents,
photographs, recordings and essays regarding the
Holocaust.
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History Buff:
Historical Reference of Press Coverage from the 16th to
the 20th Centuries
What
history looked like to the people who lived it. See how
contemporaneous newspapers reported on such events as
the Louisiana Purchase, the fall of the Alamo, the Bill
of Rights, Jack the Ripper, and more. Listen to
RealAudio recordings of P.T. Barnum, Amelia Earhardt,
Teddy Roosevelt and others.
History
Place - Holocaust Timeline
A timeline with Holocaust events and
photographs.
History
Refdesk.com
Browse these
great history links, from general to
specific.
Hyper
History
Detailed timelines,
charts, maps, text and links.
Info
Please Year-by-Year, 1900 - 2002
An online almanac of current and historical
information.
Life in
Elizabethan England
Food,
money, religion, weddings... and all the other topics
you'll need. Be sure to browse the Compendium and make
sure you haven't missed anything.
Lives, the
Biography Resource
Compilation of thousands of biograghies,
diaries, oral histories of people and groups no longer
living.
Mrs.
Donn's Special Sections: Daily Life Site
Index
Daily life in ancient
Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China and early
man.
WWW
Virtual Library - American Indians Index of Native
American Resources on the Internet
Links to the nations, their histories and
cultures. Scroll down past the notices to the index on
each page.
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