This is the official website of the Folger Library located in Washington, DC. Information on the collection, theater, scholars, museum shop, and productions is available as well as useful educator resources.Periodically, these kind souls add great lesson plans and activities to the site. Check in on a regular basis for goodies created by classroom teachers who know their stuff. Also available through the museum shop are copies of Shakespeare Set Free, a series of excellent guidebooks for teaching the plays. Each edition in the series contains lessons plans, activities, and reproducible pages for students.
This site contains sections about Shakespeare, his houses, library, records, and musuems. Students can make use of a fine biography or take a virtual tour of landmarks in Stratford.
This is by far the best site devoted to the Bard on the web. Designed to completely annotate all Shakespeare material on the web and to offer information unavailable on other internet sources, this site has much to offer teachers and students. The links are awesome.
This fun site contains an interactive poetry game based on the poetry magnets available in stores. Move the pieces around to create your own Elizabethan verse or check out Yesterdays in Shakespeare history.
Yep, they’re all there. Good for when you forget your book. This site is maintained by MIT and includes a search engine.
This site documents the history of Shakespeare’s Globe, including the new Globe theater which opened on June 12, 1997. Diagrams of the theater, a virtual tour of the Globe stage, and a history of performance and productions are included.
This part of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival site contains Scott Walters' fine introductory essay to Romeo and Juliet. Walters discusses the connection between the deadly feud and Verona's insufferable summer heat.
This is the official website of the town of Stratford and contains information on visiting the Stratford area.
What a great site!! Learn fascinating stuff about how the Elizabethans lived, how they dressed, and how they spoke. The site has detailed descriptions for recreating garments and audio clips to aid in pronouncing words as the folks did back then.
This metasite contains links to over 200 Shakespeare resources on the web. There is much here for teachers and students.
Tired of the everyday, garden variety insult? Log on to this site and be insulted as only Shakespeare can. Hit the reload button and be derided again, “thou saucy hell-hated horn-beast.”
This sight provides a search engine for information on Shakespeare and his works.
This is the official site for one of the best theater groups in the Southeast. Log on for information on the current season.
This resource contains information on every grammar and usage topic imaginable right down to interactive quizzes. These folks have worked hard to create an appealing reference site.
The latest version of the MLA writing and research guide is available in a concise form on this site. It is easier to locate information here than in the official MLA handbook.
What a treasure trove! This site contains information on every film adaptation based on a Shakespeare play and on any film you can possibly imagine. Lose yourself for hours here!!
Lee Smith is one of my favorite writers. Most of her works are set in her home state of North Carolina and draw on the customs and strong oral tradition of Appalachia. I have read all of her novels, both her novellas, and most of her short stories. My personal faves are Family Linen, Fair and Tender Ladies, Saving Grace, and "The Bubba Stories."
Sponsored by the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, this website is devoted to the world of kudzu--its people, language, and eccentricities. Click on the culture sections and find resources on Southern writers A to Z. For a good laugh, check out love in Faulkner's world.
The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss is the sponsor of the annual Faulkner conference. The site is replete with Faulkner stuff (biography and bibliography) but also contains information on other Southern Writers, the city of Oxford, and the state of Mississippi in arts and letters. You can subsribe to the center's newsletter or order that Faulkner poster you have a hankering for.
Interested in cases of censorship--or just want to look at a list of books that have been banned or threatened? Check out this site for some pretty amazing cases.
Education Week is a weekly newspaper that offers teachers a great way to keep informed on many different aspects of the profession.
Another good publication for keeping up with news of the profession. Teacher offers longer features on individual teachers, schools, trends, students, and issues that we all need to know about. I would not miss an issue.
NCTE is the professional organization for language arts teachers. The site has membership information, policy statements on a variety of issues, professional books to purchase, and discussion forums.