English III
Online Resources and Tools
Dialectical Journal Graphic Organizer 1 from Freeology
Dialectical Journal Graphic Organizer 2 from Freeology (Simplified Version)
Wordsmyth, Online Dictionary
Word Booster, Chrome Extension
Gives you a list of words you are likely to look up in the dictionary as far as the given text is concerned, guesses a good dictionary definition for the words along with example sentences. And finally, it also makes a quiz for the words using both the definitions and example sentences, plus answer key.
Google Arts & Culture, Life Tags
LIFE Tags organizes over 4 million images from the LIFE magazine archives into an interactive encyclopedia using machine learning. Published weekly between 1936 and 1972 and monthly from 1978 to 2000, LIFE magazine was the most popular photojournalism magazine in the United States.
Reading
The Periodic Table of StoryTelling
The American Literary Classics, A Chapter a Day Library
Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
Newsela, Online Reading
Newslea takes news articles from around the world and rewrites them at up to five different lexile levels and in Spanish.
Zinc Learning Labs, Online Reading
Elevate learning with literacy.
Take a virtual ride through the literary cosmos in this interactive game designed to test your knowledge of the literary elements in your book. View a definition on your screen and then click on its matching literary element from a choice of terms floating through space. Race against the clock or challenge a partner to play!
Story Elements Questioning Cards
Great for independent work after reading a book
Daily Root Puzzle from MyVocabulary.com
Word Roots from MyVocabulary.com
This site is a little hard to navigate. Scroll down through the exercises and click on the level. Click on the type of puzzle. Scroll down on the next page that opens. Some are interactive, some are printable. The context stories have audio.
Daily Root Puzzle from MyVocabulary.com
Word Roots from MyVocabulary.com
This site is a little hard to navigate. Scroll down through the exercises and click on the level. Click on the type of puzzle. Scroll down on the next page that opens. Some are interactive, some are printable. The context stories have audio.
American Rhetoric, Rhethorical Figures in Sound
Compendium of 200+ brief audio (mp3) clips illustrating 40 different figures of speech. Most of these figures were constructed, identified, and classified by Greek and Roman teachers of rhetoric in the Classical period. For each rhetorical device, definitions and examples, written and audio, are provided. Audio examples are taken from public speeches and sermons, movies, songs, lectures, oral interpretations of literature, and other media events.
Plays by Read Print
Free Drama Audio and Video from Learn out Loud
Drama - The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Audio Radio Shows"The finest radio drama of the 1930's was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. This site has many of the surviving shows, and will eventually have all of them."
The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
A selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited as typescripts in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997. The plays reflect Hurston's life experience, travels, and research, especially her study of folklore in the African-American South. Totaling 1,068 images, the scripts are housed in the Library's Manuscript, Music, and Rare Book and Special Collections divisions.
Explore the Power of Language from Poetry Everywhere
Provides 10 videos, as well as essays and lessons, to help students explore the power of language and build reading and writing skills. The videos feature seminal voices of poetry, past and present, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Seamus Heaney, Marie Howe, and Yusef Komunyakaa.
Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this site contains biographies of poets and the texts of hundreds of poems, many with images and sound files.
Poetry 180 - Welcome to Poetry 180. A Poem a day for American High School students. 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.
Listen to people from across America reading their favorite poems.
Poetry from Read Print
SmithsonianFolkways, Music in Poetry
Students are introduced to the rhythms of poetry. The focus in on two poetic forms that originated as forms of song: the ballad stanza, found throughout British and American literature, and the blues stanzas of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. The exercises take poetry off the page and put it into terms of movement, physical space and, finally, music. At a special Web page, students can listen to musical ballads and blues from the catalog of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. The ballads include early recordings of Bob Dylan and Suzanne Vega. The blues is heard in regional styles and as an element of early jazz.
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture
Interesting site that will find rhyming words for students. Also will find words in Shakespeare's works, quizzes, Mother Goose, and famous documents.
Writing
Great quick video to teach students how to choose the best search terms
Cite This For Me is a tool designed to help students correctly format reference lists or citation pages. To create a reference list using Cite This For Me students simply need to fill in the required information in each box, sort them alphabetically, and download the formatted reference page. Cite This For Me provides formatting not only printed materials and websites, but also for things like podcasts, online videos, and even email correspondence.
refDot is a Google Chrome extension that could be very helpful for keeping track of and formatting references for use in bibliographies. Whenever you're viewing a website, an online book, an online journal, or a news article just click the refDot icon in your browser to open a window into which you enter all of information you need for a bibliography. For example if you were viewing a blog post on Free Technology for Teachers that you wanted to reference in a bibliography, click on refDot and the pop-up box will prompt you to enter the date of access, url, title, and year.
How to Create a Works Cited Using Google Docs
Copyright 101 Lesson Plans and Videos from CoolCatTeacher
Basic Steps to Creating a Research Paper
This site does not have interactive activities, but has great tips for parents and students on research and creating a project.
Students make and play interactive stories with no programming required.