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Analogies
http://www.quia.com/pop/39323.html
http://www.quia.com/pop/39323.html
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/analogies/analogiesx.htm
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/analogies/analogiesx.htm
Hoop Shots
http://eclassroom.110mb.com/3rd%209%20weeks%20web/analogyhoops1.swf
College Bound Reading List
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/outstandingbooks/outstandingbooks.cfm
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/outstandingbooks/outstandingbooks.cfm
http://als.lib.wi.us/Collegebound.html
http://als.lib.wi.us/Collegebound.html
http://www.sms.org/books_co.htm
http://www.sms.org/books_co.htm
http://shs.sno.wednet.edu/SHS-pages/Library/college_bound.htm
http://shs.sno.wednet.edu/SHS-pages/Library/college_bound.htm
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/23628.html
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/23628.html
http://www.educationplanner.com/education_planner/preparing_article.asp?sponsor=2859&articleName=College_Bound_Reading_List
http://www.educationplanner.com/education_planner/preparing_article.asp?sponsor=2859&articleName=College_Bound_Reading_List
http://www.amazon.com/Julias-American-Literature-Reading-Grade/lm/R1SESG7HIJFASV
http://www.amazon.com/Julias-American-Literature-Reading-Grade/lm/R1SESG7HIJFASV
Compare and Contrast
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/compcontrast/map/
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/compcontrast/map/
Edgar Allen Poe
http://www.houseofusher.net/raven.html
http://www.houseofusher.net/raven.html
“The Raven,” by Edgar Allen Poe
http://www.houseofusher.net/raven.html
Emily Dickinson
http://www.poetry-archive.com/d/dickinson_emily.html
http://www.poetry-archive.com/d/dickinson_emily.html
Flash Cards
http://guest.portaportal.com/cc_nrhs
http://guest.portaportal.com/cc_nrhs
Fragments
http://chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Fragments
http://chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Fragments
Grammar
Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
Grammar and Punctuation Activites
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm#nouns
Grammar Bytes
Win Prizes!
http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm
Interactive Quizzes
http://www.grammarbook.com/interactive_quizzes_exercises.asp
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
http://www.melville.org/download.htmh
Homonyms
http://www.quia.com/jq/84601.html
http://www.quia.com/jq/84601.html
Idioms
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/idioms/
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/idioms/
Literary Terms
Literary Terms Quiz
http://www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/english/blettiere/literaryterms_english9_sem1_match.htm
Glossary
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm
Glossary 2
http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
Free Rice
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
Fun wih Rhetorical Terms
http://www.quia.com/rr/287548.html
Language Vocabulary Review
http://www.quia.com/hm/164962.html
Power Word Games
http://www.quia.com/jg/503956.html
http://www.quia.com/pa/1241.html
http://www.quia.com/pa/1241.html
Confusing Terms
http://www.quia.com/hm/174112.html
Literary Terms
http://www.quia.com/jg/531924.html
Lesson 22 - Power Words
http://www.quia.com/jg/503964.html
Lesson 1
http://www.quia.com/jg/373048.html
Lesson 1 - Patterns
http://www.quia.com/pa/1241.html
Figurative Language
Grade Or No Grade?
http://eclassroom.110mb.com/3rd%209%20weeks%20web/Figlang1.swf
Figurative Language
Classify It!
http://eclassroom.110mb.com/3rd%209%20weeks%20web/figurative_language_-_classify_it!.swf
Figurative Language
Lots of Games
http://eclassroom.110mb.com/3rd%209%20weeks%20web/figurative-literal.htm
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms.html
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms.html
http://condor.depaul.edu/~dsimpson/awtech/lexicon.html
http://condor.depaul.edu/~dsimpson/awtech/lexicon.html
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm
Literature
http://www.luminarium.org/
http://www.luminarium.org/
Metaphors
Aristotle: An Interactive Metaphor Finder
http://afflatus.ucd.ie/article.do?action=view&articleId=27
Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://fayette.k12.in.us/~cbeard/amlit/heidegger.html
http://fayette.k12.in.us/~cbeard/amlit/heidegger.html
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/mbv.html
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/mbv.html
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=HawHeid.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
Naturalism
“To Build a Fire” by Jack London
http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html
Mark Twain
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/frog.html
News Writing
http://www.eduhound.com/cttarchives/012408ctt.cfm
http://www.eduhound.com/cttarchives/012408ctt.cfm
http://www.eduhound.com/cttarchives/012408ctt.cfm
http://www.eduhound.com/cttarchives/012408ctt.cfm
Online Novels
Free Online Complete Text of Novels
http://www.free-online-novels.com/
The Red Badge of Courage
http://classiclit.about.com/od/redbadge/Red_Badge_of_Courage_The.htm
Paraphrasing
http://www.eduhound.com/ewarchives/121307ew.cfm
http://www.eduhound.com/ewarchives/121307ew.cfm
Videos and Tests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/shakespeare_sums/index.shtml
Poetry
Jeopardy - One and Two Player
http://www.quia.com/cb/205618.html
Poetry Term Review - Game
http://www.quia.com/mc/1087846.html
Quia Quiz
http://www.quia.com/quiz/155626.html?AP_rand=753713266
Quiz on Poetry Terms
http://www.quia.com/quiz/155626.html?AP_rand=753713266
Common Poetry Terms
http://www.quia.com/quiz/155626.html?AP_rand=753713266
Giggle Poetry
Read and Rate
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/
http://www.poetry-online.org/index.htm
http://www.poetry-online.org/index.htm
POETS
http://www.poets.org/
Rhyme Schemes
http://www.rbuhsd.k12.ca.us/~rgrow/Rhyme%20Schemes.html
stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" By Robert Frost
http://www.millikin.edu/aci/Crow/basics/frost1.html
Stanza
http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/stanza.htm
http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/584/
http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/584/
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/students/find.html
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/students/find.html
Power Words
Lesson 14
http://www.quia.com/jg/503956.html
Lesson 15
http://www.quia.com/jg/503957.html
Lesson 16
http://www.quia.com/jg/503958.html
Lesson 17
http://www.quia.com/jg/503959.html
Lesson 18
http://www.quia.com/jg/503960.html
Lesson 20
http://www.quia.com/jg/503960.html
Lesson 21
http://www.quia.com/jg/503963.html
Lesson 22
http://www.quia.com/jg/503964.html
Punctuation
Punctuation and Grammar
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm
Reading Comprehension
The Happy Monkey
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/3rdgdhtml.htm
Bees
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/1rdgdhtml.htm
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=7&act=1
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=7&act=1
Reading Quiz
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2005/write/level9/level9reading.htm
Ohio Treasure Chest
http://www.ohiotreasurechest.org/cgi-bin/resources_view.pl?indicator=Y2003.CER.S03.G08-10.BB.L09.I02
Reading Tests
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2003/grade9/read.htm
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2003/grade9/read.htm
Grade 9 Interactive Online Reading Assessment 2004
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2004/grade9/read.htm
Grade 8: Reading - VDOE 2004 Released
http://www.iq.poquoson.org/2004vasol/8rdg/8rdg04v5.html
Grade 8: Reading 2003 VDOE Released Items)
http://www.iq.poquoson.org/2003vasol/8rdg03v5.html
Grade 8 - English: Reading/Literature & Research (2002 VDOE
http://www.iq.poquoson.org/8rlr02v5.htm
Six Different Reading Tests - Online Scoring
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2002/exit/read.htm
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2004/grade9/read.htm
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2004/grade9/read.htm
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2006/grade9/read/9reading.htm
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2006/grade9/read/9reading.htm
Realism
Reference
Thesaurus
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
Dictionary
http://dictionary.reference.com/
World Almanac
http://www.worldalmanac.com/blog/
Thesaurus
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/585008/Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky
Spelling
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/soundandspell/syllables/index.shtml
Regionalism
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/jumpfrog.html
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/jump/jumptg.html
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/jump/jumptg.html
Mark Twain
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/frog.html
Research Papers
http://www.eazypaper.com/index.cfm?engine=google&gclid=CJmPjrvb9pICFQWysgodm2RpGA
http://www.eazypaper.com/index.cfm?engine=google&gclid=CJmPjrvb9pICFQWysgodm2RpGA
Revising and Editing
English Released Items from Texas Education Agency - Interactive Test
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2002/eoc/engii.html
Romanticism
“The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving
http://www.online-literature.com/irving/3110/
Sentence Structure
There, Their, and They're, too, to, and two
http://www.quia.com/pop/43089.html
Word Choice
http://chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Word_Choice
Shakespeare
Poetry Archive
http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/shakespeare_william.html
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
Othello
http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/othello/2/
Short Story Review
http://www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/english/blettiere/final_9_short_story_review.htm
http://www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/english/blettiere/final_9_short_story_review.htm
Similes
Interactive Crossword Puzzle
http://www.waynesword.net/similes.html
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/CET/flashactivities/similes.html
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/CET/flashactivities/similes.html
Study Skills
Memory Improvement Techniques
http://www.mindtools.com/memory.html
Summarizing
http://staffdev.henrico.k12.va.us/~brownbw/comprehension/summarizing.index.html
http://staffdev.henrico.k12.va.us/~brownbw/comprehension/summarizing.index.html
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=6&act=1
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=6&act=1
Synonyms
http://www.quia.com/cm/62252.html
http://www.quia.com/cm/62252.html
Lesson 16
http://www.quia.com/cm/62252.html
Lesson 17
http://www.quia.com/pop/79261.html
Lesson 18
http://www.quia.com/ba/31180.html
Lesson 21
http://www.quia.com/ba/31182.html
Lesson 22
http://www.quia.com/ba/31183.html
Teacher Stuff
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/english-hs.html
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/english-hs.html
Flash Card Teacher Login
http://www.flashcardmachine.com/Login/
Tense
4
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/tense1b.htm
5
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/tense2b.htm
6
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/tense3b.htm
Irregular Verbs
http://www.quia.com/cb/8111.html
Textbook Collections
http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/Elements_of_Lit_Course5/default.htm
http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/Elements_of_Lit_Course5/default.htm
Transcendentalism
“Nature” by Henry David Thoreau
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/naturetext.html#1
Walt Whitman
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
Word Play
1
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/wp1.htm
2
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/wp2.htm
3
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/wp3.htm
8
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/wp4.htm
9
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/wp5.htm
10
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/wp6.htm
Word Skill
13
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/nvaap1mmm.htm
14
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/nvaap2mmm.htm
15
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/nvaap3mmm.htm
Writing
Grade 8: Writing - VDOE 2005 Released Items
http://www.iq.poquoson.org/2005vasol/8wri/8wri05.htm
Grade 8: Writing - VDOE 2004 Released Items
http://www.iq.poquoson.org/2004vasol/8wri/8wri04v5.html
Grade 8: Writing - VDOE 2003 Released
http://www.iq.poquoson.org/2003vasol/8wri03v5.html
Grade 8 - English: Writing 2002 VDOE Released Items
http://www.iq.poquoson.org/8wri02v5.htm
Great Writers
http://www.questia.com/read/55377035?title=Lives%20of%20Great%20English%20Writers%20from%20Chaucer%20to%20Browning
Writing Prompts
http://writingfix.com/
http://writingfix.com/
Writing a Thesis Statement
http://webster.commnet.edu/sensen/part3/sixteen/techniques_thesis.html
Purpose and Audience
http://school.eb.com/lm/studyguides/305/mainframes.html
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