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[|Achieve] - This site is sponsored by The American Diploma Project (ADP) college and provides workplace readiness benchmarks for eight English strands. Aesop's Fables - Our online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. American Folklore - This site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from all 50 s tates. Creative Quotations - This site provides the ability to search over 50,000 quotes. GoogleLitTrips - A different way to read good literature. Plagiarism - Free plagiarism checker. ReadWriteThink - by International Reading Association and National Council for Teachers of English. Reading Rockers - resources for reading. The Academy of American Poets - The Academy is a nonprofit organization with a mission to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. The Encyclopedia Mythica - Award-winning Internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between. __The 21st Century Skills and English Map__ - This is a new framework that provides educators with teacher-created models of how 21st century skills can be infused into English classes, was released by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). **__Language/Arts__:** Improving Reading Skills - This interactive Web site from the Adult Media Literacy Alliance will help users improve reading skills by providing strategies for reading between the lines, making predictions, and identifying main ideas. Interactive Site - This site includes activities on the following topics: Cinema Historical and Cultural Literature Spelling Bee **Literature Lesson Ideas:** To Kill a Mockingbird & Harper Lee - This site deals with every facet of Lee and her novel, including a biography, bibliography, and little known facts about her life and career. The To Kill a Mockingbird Student Survival Guide - This site provides a very detailed guide for students and teachers on idioms, vocabulary, and allusions in the novel, assembled by a high school teacher in Los Angeles. To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now **-** A compendium of exercises, study tools, and links for both the novel and the film, the site is very useful but somewhat out of date. [|To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Ideas.doc] Odyssey Lesson Plans The Odyssey Thinkquest Cask of Amontillado **__ Writing __**** : ** Biography Maker - A series of writing guides that takes students through the stages of writing an engaging biography. Blurb.com - Create a book of your own work! Easybib - This site provides a look at all citation formats. High School Journalism - The ASNE High School Journalism Initiative helps scholastic journalism develop and flourish. Lightning Bug - Writing Resources. Online Citation Machine - Another site that includes all citation formats. PL's Aplus Writing Tips - This site gives suggestions for writing. Poetry Express - Support for students in the creative writing process. ReadWriteThink - by International Reading Association and National Council for Teachers of English. Writers' Window - A site to submit original work and share. The Writing Center - Writer's Web is a free, public-access handbook designed & maintained by University of Richmond students & faculty. Writing a Research Paper - Provides a multitude of information for any research project that needs to be completed.