All of these sites are not equally useful, and only some of them appear here with commentary. Those that do appear here, however, do so because at one point or another a Calvin College student found them useful in his or her work and recommended them to others.
The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
A national forum for discussing the teaching of grammarElectronic Beowulf
A guide to studies of BeowulfChaucer Metapage
Help with Chaucer resources on the WWWChiasmus.com
Care to invite your students to try their hands at this interesting figure of speech?Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Promoting racial toleranceThe Dickens Project of the University of California
A premier center for Dickens studies in the world
Favorite
Poem Project
News about institutes; lesson plans; recordings of people reading their favorite
poems.
Funster
Some word gamesGrammar Bytes
Index of terms, exercises, handouts, and rulesGrammar Gorillas
Games involving parts of speechHeart of Darkness
R. Rozema's web quest on the novel
Ernest Hemingway
KS3
A tutorial in grammar for teachers
Magnetic Poetry
Move the "magnetic tiles" and create your own version of famous poems.Medieval Resources
Links to sources of information about the Medieval PeriodMedieval Studies in the Schools
Misheard Lyrics
Can you find ways to have some fun with mondegreens?Modern American Poetry
Information on at least 161 modern American poetsOnline Poetry Classroom
Unit plans and lesson plans on poetryThe Poem Machine
Help in creating poemsPoetry Teachers.com
To help inspire a love of poetry in studentsPostcolonial Studies
A website from Emory University on postcolonial studiesChaim Potok
The Harry Potter Lexicon
Steve Vander Ark's very frequently visited site, devoted to Harry PotterPuzzlemaker
An excellent resource for making word searches, crossword puzzles, and other kinds of puzzles
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
Peter Salwen's Mark Twain PageWord Search Factory
Help in making word searchesWordsmith.org
To build your vocabulary
The Bridge
Possibilities for publishing by studentsBritLit
A British Council project aimed to help secondary-school teachers use British literature.Class Act
Various tools for teachers of EnglishDeveloping Educational Standards
Educational standards for English and the language artsDiscipline.help
Advice about challenges with discipline and managementEdsitement
A guide from NEH to the humanitiesEducator Resources
Many resources in the language arts provided by McRelEnglish Units
Teaching units classed by educational units
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
Educational materials for all those interested in the language artsESLOOP
Lessons for ESL settingsThe Gateway to Educational Materials
Access to lesson plans and curriculum units
High School Hub
A reference collection and subject guidesHomework Central
A large site for help with online researchInkspot
A resource for writers of all ages and levels of experienceMichigan Council of Teachers of English
MiddleWeb
Resources for middle schoolsThe National Council of Teachers of English
Information about books, journals, conventions, and teaching ideas for teachers of English and the language artsNorth American Christian Foreign Language Association
Poetry Society of America
Many different resources from the PSAProfessional Links
Many links of interest to English educatorsThe Reading Matrix
Online resources about readingRecommended Literature
Recommendations, K-12, from the California Department of EducationSpark Notes
Study guides and reference toolsWeb66
Includes an international registry of schools on the WebWords Can Heal
Should your students learn about this initiative?Young Learners
EFL/ESL resources for young learners
Chad Engbers's Homepage
My colleague Chad Engbers has very useful material on prosody.English Companion
Jim Burke, the author of The English Companion, provides links to many sites of interest to English teachersSuzanne Linder's Hompage
Descriptions of her courses at the University of Illinois Laboratory High School and many additional interesting links.Rhetoricians' Homepages
A list of hompages for several well-known rhetoricians
Robert Rozema's "English Ed. on the Web"
Ideas for using web-based technology in language-arts classrooms
Karl Swedberg's Homepage
Karl has spoken to our seminar for student teachers on several occasions, and his homepage includes links to many sites useful to teachers of EnglishLeah Zuidema
Leah is compiling a bibliography of Christian apporaches to rhetoric and composition.
Amazing Picture Machine
Pictures, maps, and other visual resourcesAmerican Library Association
See especially the challenged and banned books.Bibliomania
On-line texts of classic works, along with study guidesBiographical Dictionary
Information on more than 28,000 people.The CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1984-1999
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Cinemachine
The Movie Review Search EngineFindSame.com
A tool for detecting plagerismGlossary of Literary Terms
Perhaps of use in preparation for Calvin's screening examGlossary of Literary Terms and a Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Allows you to search for definitions of terms that you are not clear aboutGlossary of Poetic Terms
Several different kinds of help for the study of poetryNewsDirectory.com
Links to thousands of newspapersProject Gutenberg
Books onlineRefdesk.com
A gateway to hundreds of reference worksSchoolStaff.com
Job openings in educationStatistics Every Writer Should Know
Help with all sorts of statisticsYourDictionary.com
Links to online dictionariesRDN Virtual Training Site
Tutorials for the internetWebMuseum
Collections of artworks