English

Add your favorite websites below along with a 3-5 sentence explanation of the website!

http://fyodordostoevsky.wikispaces.com/ This wiki is intended for those reading anything by the Russian author Dostoevsky. If anyone is in AP Literature or any higher level English class, they will most likely read //Crime and Punishment//. This wiki is great for background information on the author and discusses some of his work. This would be a great resource for students to gain more understanding of the text and would be greatly beneficial in the classroom. (Amy J)

[] This wiki is one created by an English teacher. I think as future teachers, it would be great to see what other teachers from different regions are doing in their class. This teacher also has some great ideas for fun projects! (Amy J)

http://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/ This wiki is great in providing information on British Literature! This is entirely compiled by students from a university and provides interesting and needed information regarding British literature. This wiki also has videos and pictures in reference to the time period to shed more light on the time era being studied. At the bottom of the wiki page, there is a list of authors who wrote during the time era (the Romantics, etc). (Amy J)

I think this website provides a good example of a classroom Wiki. It is an AP class and the teacher provides good resources as well as easy references to the syllabus and assignments. Based on the amount of responses in the discussion board, the students seem to interact quite a bit within the Wiki as well. (Marissa M)

This Wiki must be for a higher education classroom. It does not have the same student interactions as the one I just posted, but it very clearly lays out the class schedule. As well it has a lot of great English resources. (Marissa M)

Someone had to post [|Purdue's OWL] within the English section, so I took advantage of being the first. As someone who works in our school's Writing Lab, it provides some of the best resources for citations and grammar. All teachers should be comfortable with this site. (Marissa M)

[] This website goes to wiki built for the book, Kite Runner. This wiki was made by a highschool english class studying this book. The site has pictures from the movie on it, information about the characters, and information about the plot. This would be a great idea to do for an English class studying a specific book. (Rachel F)

[|www.shannonhale.com] This is the blog of a young adult fiction author I really enjoy. It would be fun to have the students visit a website of a real author. And she has some good information on the process of writing and all that goes into it. (Rachel F)

http://edu230.wikispaces.com/English This wiki page is made specifically for students of the Michigan State University English Education program, but I think it could well be applicable outside of the students of the university. As one of the foremost universities in education, I believe that MSU has some of the forefront ideas of education that all teachers should be familiar with (whether or not they graduated long ago). Staying up to date with this website could keep teachers in the loop on what is going on with new educators in training. --David B.

http://english378.wikispaces.com/ This website allows for students to go over what has been covered in class, see their assignments, and post about what they are learning in their english and reading class. I think this teacher has done a great job on including things from her class to share on a site where students can access and add to the information. - Madison B.

[] You got to have spark notes! This is the page for Lord of the Flies; I picked that book because I enjoyed it a lot and most schools make their students use it. I didn't use sparknotes a lot in highschool, but they can come in handy. (Rachel F)

[] Here is the English Literature website on the AP college board website. It gives hints and tips to do well on the English ap tests. And it has links to the writing portion of the test and sample questions. This would be perfect for older English students. (Rachel F)

http://hobbitalk.wikispaces.com/Home This wiki is purely devoted to students in the process of reading J.R.R. Tolkien's //The Hobbit//. It has been active for 2 years. It contains assignments, bonus fun, rubrics, and rules for the students to follow. Aside from reading the book, this wiki offers fun and creative ways for students to interact with the book and each other. I wonder if this wiki will change a lot after the movie for //The Hobbit// comes out. (Julia C.)