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Creative Writing Sites
Creative Writing Prompts
Go here to select a writing prompt
Story Spinner Online
Spin the wheel for story ideas!
Writing Prompts
random prompts generated on-line
ScribeTime - More journal writing prompts
Many starter ideas!
What is FREEWRITING?
Free writing exercise
30 Days of Poetry!
Ideas for many poetry forms
Ideas for Poetry topics
Develop Your Vocabulary
Fun Quizzes
Learning Vocabulary fun
Vocabulary Workshop practice tests
Practice Sat vocabulary tests
Sentence completion, analogy, critical reading
More Practice tests
FUN
Visual Words online
Graphic Dictionary
Forensics
Pioneer Drama
Royalty free 10 minutes plays
Brooklyn Publishers
4n6 membership
On-Line sites regulary used
Holt Online Learning
sumbit essays, take tests, online textbooks, etc.
Wise County Schools
home page/access to on line library/alternative ed/schools, etc.
Lonesome Pine Regional Library
Clusty.com
approved search engine
Renaissance Learning
AR/STAR links
EasyBib.com
Citation Maker
Paper Rater
paper grader and checker
Outlining
The OWL at Purdue
Basic Outlining
How to Write an Outline
Printable Worksheet for Outline
Organization and Paragraphing help
SIMPLE FORM
English Works
Simple sample on running
Persuasion
Fallacies of reasoning
http://www.thematzats.com/propaganda/resources.htm
Power Point Presentations
Fact and Opinion
OWL-sentence clarity
– Power Point Presentations for sentence clarity including combining sentences and dangling modifiers.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
all of these are useful from sentence building to punctuation
Foothill Global Access
– 18 power point presentations about aspects of writing, commas, and troublesome words. Excellent resource!
Classroom. JC schools
Designed for 4th graders but could be useful for lower ability high school students.
Literary Terms
Public Speaking
Plagiarism
Speech Topics
Fact and Opinion Power Point
MLA tutorial
SOL practice
1. Practice EOC SOL tests
Released Reading and Writing tests
2. More SOL Reading Practice
Choose your grade level!
3. SAT Vocabulary Practice
4. Alternative Ed Interactive quizzes
5. ALL subject SOL released test items for VA
SOL practice for ALL subjects!
7. TEXAS Released Tests
GOOD practice for the Virginia SOLS!
8. PROJECT GRADUATION
tutorial for SOL EOC Reading Test
Student Practice Grammar, Mechanics, and Spelling
1. Practice Quizzes
Find the specific skill, practice and learn!
2. Punctuation and Grammar Review
3. Grammar Bytes
4. Comma, semi-colon, or colon?
5. Basic punctuation Quiz - Three levels
6. Basic Punctuation practice
7. Practice quiz
8. Tutorial links
9. Punctuation Points -quizzes
choose quiz from list
11. Parallel Structure
12. Parallel Structure Examples
13. Parallel Structure - Grammar Bytes
10. Passive Voice
15. Pronoun antecedent exercises
16. Pronoun antecedent Practice
17. More Pronoun Antecedent Practice
18. Pronoun Antecedent Exercises 3
14. Parallel Structure Quiz practice
comma practice
Comma Quiz #1
Comma Quiz #2
Comma Quiz #3
comma Quiz #4
Indefinite Pronouns
Discovery School Quiz
Elfnet Quiz
Basic Quiz
Practice and tutorial
ProfSchool Quiz
Quiz quiz
Irregular Verbs
Irregular Verb Quiz
Irregular Verb Quiz #2
Past Participle Quiz
Quotation marks
1. Quiz quiz
2. Grammarbook quiz
3. primary resources quiz
Semi colons and colons
1. Quiz
blue book of Grammar and Puncuation
2. Semi colon quiz
3. comma or semi colon? Exercise #1
4. Comma or semi colon? Exercise #2
5. Colon & Semi colon
6. Using the semi colon
Spelling
Catch the Spelling
Miss Spelling's Spelling Bees
Underlining and Italics
Rules Tutorial and examples
1. Practice quiz
2. Practice Quiz
Student Practice Typing and Keyboarding Help
Easy!
Sign up for Free account and learn to type
More challenging
Practice typing skills
Student Resources for Literature
Cold Sassy Tree
Walt Whitman #3
Power Point
Walt Whitman #1
Power Point Washington State University
Walt Whitman #2
A pictoral look at the American poet
Emily Dickinson #1
Power Point
Emily Dickinson #2
Power Point
Emily Dickinson #3
power point
Writing About Literature
Writing about Fiction
Writing an Approach Paper
Animal Farm
Sparknotes
The Works of George Orwell
Literature Ntework
Summaries and Interpretations
Cliff Notes Study Guides
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Gradesaver Notes
Sparknotes
Myths and Legends
Greek myths
Quizzes
Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Thinkquest
Sparknotes
Funtrivia
Shakespeare Help
Macbeth
Sparknotes
Thinkquest
FunTrivia
Shakespeare Help
Cliffs Notes
Othello
Study guide
analysis
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare help
Funtrivia
Sparknotes
ThinkQuest
Sonnets
Introduction to sonnets
Help with sonnets
more help with sonnets
Major help!
Very good study guide
Short Stories
The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game (2)
The Minister's Black Veil
Symbolism Analysis of Minister's Black Veil
Summary and analysis of Minister's Black Veil
Quia Quiz Minister's Black Veil
Quiz Quiz #2 Minister's Black Veil
The Canterbury Tales
CliffsNotes
Spark Notes
King Arthur and Arthurian Legends
What Arthurian character are YOU?
a fun quiz to determine what character in the Arthurian legends you might be.
King Arthur links
King Arthur Quiz
Try your hand at the legend trivia!
Language quiz
Try your hand at these archaic words using your context clues and vocabulary skills!
The Code of Chivalry
A listing of the code of conduct for knights!
The Crucible
Arthur Miller - essay
Pink Monkey Notes
Sparknotes
Vocabulary Games
The Hunger Games and Trilogy
Smoop Study Guides
E-notes
The Scarlet Letter
Sparknotes
Cliffs Notes
Yahoo Homework Help
Study Guide
Gradesaver Notes
Glencoe
To Kill A Mockingbird
Universal Teacher
Cliffs Notes
Sparknotes
Student's Survival Guide
Vocabulary, allusions, idoms
Wish You Well
Reading Guide
David Baldacci Home Page
Bookhaven
Student Resources for Poetry
Glossary
GREAT glossary
tutorial and games
Poetry Forms
Another Forms site
Interactive Quiz
tutorial and quiz
HARD! quiz
Tutorial and Quiz
Quizzes
I AM poem
Create your own "I Am" poem
Where I'm From Poem
Study guide and sample for writing a "where I'm From" poem
Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carrol
Student Resources for Research
Evaluating credibility of on-line sources
Is this a good source or not?
Plagiarism
Avoiding the crime
CITATION MAKER
Writing Process and research
A simple step b y step Guide
How to Research
Power Point on Plagiarism
Works Cited
A+Research and Writing
Step by Step Instruction for a research paper
Research topics and possible thesis
Possible topics and links
Miore links for research topics and sources
Social Issues Research Topics
Animal Rights research topics
Research Paper and Argument Topics
Literary Criticism
On Line sources for researching literature topics
University of Florida Library
A Guide to Literary Criticism
Kent University
A Guide to Literary Criticism
Tallahassee Comunity College Library
A Guide to Literary Criticism
Guide to Literary Criticism for High School Students
A Guide for Writing Research Papers
VERY GOOD!
MLA Quiz
Interactive!
MLA Citation Practice
Drag and Drop in the Right Order!
Understanding Google Search results
Short movie clip on researching Google
MLA Citation examples
Many sample resources
Developing a Research Thesis
What is a Thesis?
Thesis Statements
Source Cards
Source Cards
Notecards
Notecard sample
Student Resources for Writing
Complete
Follow the links for each part of the writing process
The Writing Center
Basic Writing Help
More writing help!
Using Quotations
MLA tutorial
Writing the Five Paragraph Essay
Includes outlining
How to Write a THESIS
Web page for Revision Help
Excellent site with links
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