Sources to Note, or Sites with More Data and Information
www.amazon.com (do book title search, click link, click “look inside this book” or “search inside this book” to find excerpts or sample chapters)
“Common Core in Action – ELA” (Sept. 17, 2013, in EduTopia’s Technology Integration) http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-in-action-ela-monica-burns
“Critical Reading: A Guide” by John Lye (1997) www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.php
Critical Thinking – articles www.criticalthinking.com/index.jsp (click articles link, then title links), www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/critical_thinking.aspx?WT.mc_id=criticalthinking_redu_site (“Critical Thinking in the Classroom” – available online and downloadable), www.edutopia.org/groups/project-learning/8404 (“What Is Critical Thinking? How Do We Teach It? And How Does It Fit Into Great Project-Based Learning?”)
“English Literature and the Internet” by Thorsten Schreiber (2004) www.old.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/anglistik/MA-Thesis.htm (click contents, introduction)
“e-Teens: Teens and Technology: The Perfect Storm” by Carla Seal Wanner in “Television Quarterly” Winter 2007, page 7 (www.tvquarterly.com/tvq_37_2/media/TVQ37.2_online.pdf)
Evaluating Internet Resources www.elmhurst.edu/library/courses/comm/comm330fall2002.html#evaluating (click title links)
http://google.books.com (click title link when “full view” is listed in web site’s annotation, after searching for and finding a book title link)
“Literature in English” at “Voice of the Shuttle” http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp (click link to section of links)
“A Literary Index: Making Sense of Literature on the Internet” www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html
Literary Resources http://people.virginia.edu/~jbh/literaryresources.html
Literary Resources on the Net by Jack Lynch http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit
PBS-TV Masterpiece Theater and Masterpiece Classic Hosts www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/classic/host.html (Laura Linney), www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/about/hosts.html (Alistair Cook)
Providing A Way For Students To Engage in Critical Thinking – Literature Circles www.litcircles.org/Overview/overview.html#what and www.litcircles.org/ChoosingBooks/choosingbooks.html
“Teaching English with Technology” http://tewt.org and its areas such as http://tewt.org/index.php/discussion-collaboration/webquests
“Teaching Students to Think in The Digital Environment: Digital Literacy and Digital Inquiry” by Barbara Stripling in “School Library Monthly,” April 2010 and online at www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/stripling2010-v26n8p16.html
“Teaching YA Lit Through Differentiated Instruction” by Susan Goenke, Lisa Scherff (2010, National Council of Teachers of English) https://secure.ncte.org/store/teaching-ya-lit-through-di (read data) (click links to Contents, sample chapter of Alan Zitomer’s foreword, First Chapter and Introduction by the authors) (note ch. 3 – “Historical Fiction: Connecting to Critical Theory”)
Twenty Best Literary Web Sites http://
“Why Use the Web? and more in “A Teacher’s Guide to Educational Resources on the Web” by Ian G. Bron at http://www.canadiana.ca/docs/en/facsimile/facsimile_no23-25.pdf (scroll to article on page 6 of this document)