Inquiry Learning

English 9: Book Trailers

English 9: Shakespeare Speeches

English 10: Art and Activism

TED Search

Brenda Brathwaite: Gaming for understanding

Garth Lenz: The true cost of oil

Natalie Jeremijenko: Artist and engineer

Liz Coleman: College president

Bill Strickland: Social innovator

Themes: Art Unusual

Shekhar Kapur: Director and writer

English 11:

English 12: Into the Wild: Literary Legacies

Writing 12:

Reference Sources: Dictionaries, thesauri, quotes, literary terms, slang, etc

Dictionaries

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Thesauri

Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
Shows similar meanings in a web.

Roget’s Thesaurus Alphabetical Index

Bartleby.com
Reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction

Quotations

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature

BrainyQuote
Over 38,000 quotes by over 10,000 authors.

Literary Terms

Virtual Classroom Glossary of Literary Terms
Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK.

Poetic Terms
Find definitions for words such as couplet, meter, etc.

Slang

The Online Slang Dictionary
People submit slang and definitions.

Slangsite.com
Slang, webspeak, made-up words, and colloquialisms.

VoxSlang
Visual, frank, slang dictionary of street talk. Brocolli, blunt, and cracker take on new meanings here!

Literary Sources: Poetry, poets and more!

Poems That Go
Poems created online.

Shakespeare Magnet Poetry
Use Shakespeare's words to create your own magnetic poetry.

Poetry Creator

The Online Poetry Classroom
The Academy of American Poets helps you find a poem, a poet, workshops, forum, links.

Poetry Collections

Representative Poetry Online
The University of Toronto site allows you to search by title of poem, poet’s last name, first line, & keyword. Contains a glossary of poetic terms, criticism of poetry, and Canadian poetry.

Find A Poem
The Academy of American Poets helps you find a poet or poem and listen.

Sonnet Central
An archive of English sonnets.

American Verse Anthology
Full text of many American poetry collections.

Bartleby Verse
Full text of several poetry anthologies.

Contemporary American Archive

Internet Poetry Archive

Poetry Archives
An archive of  poetry. Search the list of classical poets by first line or poem title.

 

Poets

Find a Poet
Academy of American Poets

Biographies of Poets