A great site with beautiful pictures, paintings, and images for each of
Shakespeare's works. A great site for gathering visual aides for
presentations and reports!
Shakespeare Illustrated
Feeling talkative? Here's your chance to talk with others in online
discussions about Shakespeare's plays, or just meet others with similar
interests in the Bard! You can post messages, participate in contests, or
ask questions.
Shakespeare High Chat
For everything else...Anything you need, you can probably find here. Famous
quotes, pictures, critical reviews, explanantions for all of the major works,
facts about Shakespeare's life, films...you name it! A wonderful site to
search. A wealth of information!
Everything you ever wanted to know about Shakespeare
The ultimate site to visit for MLA documentation, research paper writing, and
writing exercises.
MLA documentation and writing resources
Have a quick question about grammar and punctuation rules? This is a very
easy-to-use site.
Grammar Help
Here is a fairly inclusive list on many common literary devices, their
definitions, and pieces of literature (all different genres) that are
good examples.
Literary Devices
A quick online dictionary/thesaurus. Just type in your word!
dictionary.com
Selected poetry by William Cullen Bryant- A Romantic poet
Bryant selected poems
This website has audio clips by "Grammar Girl" about common grammar mistakes
and questions that people have. Each clip is only a few minutes, and will
help you brush up your usage.
Quick and Dirty Grammar Tips
Paul Hamilton Hayne was a prolific writer of poetry; if you want to explore
his writing beyond what we cover in class, here is a full text link to all
of his poems on various subjects.
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poetry (South)
The website for Edgar Allan Poe's home in Philadelphia, a national historic
site.
Poe's home
Another site for those of you who want to read more Poe; you can also listen
to "The Raven" on audio.
Edgar Allan Poe
Full-text versions of Willa Cather's writings (Realism)
short fiction by Willa Cather
Lots of information about the 1920's/ The Jazz Age, relevant to The Great
Gatsby
The Roaring 20's
Helium.com is a website for writers. You can write about any topic you want,
and others view the articles in a category and rate them. If your article is
one of the top ranked, you can even earn money or get articles published!
It's totally free to sign up.
Write now!
Take a virtual tour online of the Globe Theater in London, England. Also,
learn about the different events that happen at this historic theater.
Shakespeare's Globe Theater
For those who love poetry, this site is wonderful! You can read hundreds of
classic poems by well-known poets and even listen to them read in audio.
A Plethora of Poetry
Another great poetry website!
More Poetry!
Do you need to practice your vocabulary skills? Or, do you like a good
challenge? At this website you can race against yourself to choose the
correct synonym for each word, and the best part is that you can donate to
charity at the same time! For each answer you get correct, this organization
will donate 20 grains of rice through the UN to a hungry person somewhere in
the world.
Vocabulary for charity!
Rachel's challenge recently came to our school as a presentation for freshmen
and juniors. This was an amazing program based on the life and inspiration
of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine shooting of
1999. Rachel was 17 years old and had an amazing vision for her life, which
has been accomplished through this program. The assembly had a major impact
on the students and faculty of AHS. If you missed the program, or just want
to learn more about it, click on the link below to take you there!
Make a difference in someone's life!