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EduRef Lesson Plans:

* Literature
Lesson plans written by education students and teachers and submitted to AskERIC for inclusion on our website.
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts/Literature
 
*Web English Teacher
An award-winning site with lesson plans and literature based activites.   Offers extensive teaching resources, focusing on middle and high school levels.  
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/

Archived Responses:

* Do you have any resources for teaching Mythology?
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printresponses.cgi/Virtual/Qa/archives/ Subjects/Language_Arts/Literature/myth.html
 

Internet Sites:

* Glencoe Literature Library
An extensive collection of study guides for commonly used high school titles, based on those available through the Glencoe Literature Library.  See a brief description of the novel or play and a list of its related readings; or  link to its substantial study guide, with background information and reproducible activity pages for students.
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/index.html

* Teachers Language Arts Novel Guides
Click on a title to find theme openers, related readings, assignments, and activities.  Includes many young adult titles. From McDougal Littel. http://www.mcdougallittell.com/disciplines/_lang_arts/novelguide.cfm

* Internet Public Library (IPL) -- Online Literary Criticism Collection
Guide to finding literary criticism on the Internet.   Some bad links, but lots of good information and upgrading in the process.  This site also welcomes your suggestions for links to literary criticism.
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

* Multonomah County Library - Book Discussion Guides
These guides include a short summary, a list of discussion questions, and links to related web sites.
http://www.multcolib.org/talk/guides.html

* Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
Contains essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States.
http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/tamlit-home.html

* Project CROW: American Literature
A collection of online resources, including syllabi, for students and teachers of American literature.   Geared to college instruction, but the "basics" section includes several good reference tools (e.g., glossaries of literary terms). 
http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/

* Folger Library: Teaching Shakespeare
This site offers lesson plans and primary source activities created by teachers attending the Teaching Shakespeare Institutes held by the Folger Shakespeare Library. It also includes a teacher's lounge, information on festival workshops, and a collection of favorite links.
http://www.folger.edu/education/teaching.htm

* Poetry 180
Former poet laureate Billy Collins hosts an initiative to introduce daily poetry reading to high schools.  Full-text of poems is included, as well as tips on reading them.
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180

*Online Poetry Classroom
Provides lots of information and lesson plans for teaching poetry.  This page gives you a good overview of this program of the American Academy of Poets.   >From the frame on the left, choose "find a poet" for biographies or "find a poem" for poem texts.
http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/

A related site by the same organization features recordings of select poetry, many read by the poets.   Choose "listening booth."
http://www.poets.org/index.cfm

*The Literary Encyclopedia
A work in progress that includes many author biographies and offers the promise of extensive scholarly coverage of literature.   Click on "people" to access the author search. 
http://www.litencyc.com

*American Writers
Teacher resources and video clips based on CSPAN programs in two American Writers series.  Featured writers are historical figures important in the development of our national documents and literature.
http://www.americanwriters.org/

*Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
Easy access to the full-text of much mythological and folk literature, useful resource for study of these areas.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

* Recommended Literature: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve
A database of information on outstanding literature for children and adolescents searchable by grade level, language, culture, author, title, and lots more.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll/

* ALAN Review
The journal of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents, a special interest group of the National Council of Teachers of English. Full text articles (Winter 1994-present) are available online from the Virginia Tech Digital Library and Archives Project.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/

Online Communities:

* Books & Literature Chatboard at Teachers.net
This forum is dedicated to teaching reading and literature for all grade levels.
http://teachers.net/mentors/literature/

* T-AMLIT Teaching the American Literatures
To subscribe, complete the form on this webpage:
http://bigblue.millikin.edu/wa.exe?SUBED1=amlit-l&A=1

* WCU BOOKREAD
This is a network of students and teachers of literature, communicating by computer link-up with each other and with the authors of books they are reading in the classroom.
To subscribe, address an e-mail message in the following manner:
To: mailserv@wcu.edu
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