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Department of
English
Updated
September 03, 2001 |
English Teacher Linda King gives her all when teaching Shakespeare
to Juniors. |
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Syllabus for
English Department Courses at Chaffey
http://www.chaffey.org/students/student_handbook/courses_subject.asp?department=English |
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Literature/English Related Links
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FREE Word-Wise Online
Vocabulary Drills
http://www.word-wise.com
Word-Wise Vocabulary drills are now available online.
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Doing the Online Word-Wise Online drills is a "game-like"
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Purdue's
Online Writing lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
The Lab serves the entire Purdue community and offers outreach
services to internet users around the world as well.
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Concertina Online
Children's Books
Concertina is a new Canadian children's publisher, committed to
bringing books simultaneously to print and to the electronic
highway. These books are offered here for your interest and
enjoyment.
http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/200/300/concertina/gup/intro.htm |
U.S.
Government Hypertexts from ibiblio
http://sunsite.unc.edu/govdocs.html
... home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet. ibiblio is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. |
Merriam-Webster OnLine - Dictionary - Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
Back in the 1820s, Noah Webster was on the cutting edge
of American English. In the new millennium, Merriam-Webster carries
forward his legacy into the electronic age. |
University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
Since 1992, the Electronic Text Center at the University of
Virginia has pursued twin
missions with equal seriousness of purpose:
* to build and maintain an internet-accessible collection
of SGML texts and images;
* to build and maintain a user community adept at the
creation and use of these materials.
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The
Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together
and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to
books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that
you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans,
schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book
world.
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Online
Thesaurus & Dictionary
http://www.thesaurus.com/
& http://www.dictionary.com/
Lexico is an independent,
privately-held company based in Los Angeles, California, offering
online reference and learning services through its destination Web
sites, Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com;
the Word of the Day Internet mailing list; and the freely available
CleverKeys software. Founded in 1995 by Brian Kariger and Daniel
Fierro, the company's mission is to provide easy-to-use reference
tools and interactive learning services.
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Project
Gutenburg Fine Literature Digitally Re-Published
http://www.promo.net/pg/
Project Gutenberg began in 1971 when Michael Hart was given an
operator's account with $100,000,000 of computer time in it by the
operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the Materials Research
Lab at the University of Illinois...
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John Bartlett's Familiar
Passages
http://www.bartleby.com/
The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and
verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious
with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of
charge.
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Internet
Poetry Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry/
The
University of North Carolina Press
joins the UNC Office of Information
Technology in publishing the Internet Poetry Archive. The
archive will make available over a worldwide computer network
selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The goal of the
project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences (at little or
no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of
presenting and studying these poets and their texts.
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