A great site with beautiful pictures, paintings, and images for
each of Shakespeare's works. A great site for gathering visual
aides for presentations and reports!
Shakespeare Illustrated
Feeling talkative? Here's your chance to talk with others in
online discussions about Shakespeare's plays, or just meet
others with similar interests in the Bard! You can post
messages, participate in contests, or ask questions.
Shakespeare High Chat
For everything else...Anything you need, you can probably find
here. Famous quotes, pictures, critical reviews, explanantions
for all of the major works, facts about Shakespeare's life,
films...you name it! A wonderful site to search. A wealth of
information!
Everything you ever wanted to know about Shakespeare
Here is a fairly inclusive list of many common literary devices,
their definitions, and pieces of literature (all different
genres) that are good examples.
Literary Devices
A quick online dictionary/thesaurus. Just type in your word!
dictionary.com
This website has audio clips by "Grammar Girl" about common
grammar mistakes and questions that people have. Each clip is
only a few minutes, and will help you brush up your usage.
Quick and Dirty Grammar Tips
Paul Hamilton Hayne was a prolific writer of poetry; if you want
to explore his writing beyond what we cover in class, here is a
full text link to all of his poems on various subjects.
Paul Hamilton Hayne Poetry (South)
Another site for those of you who want to read more Poe; you can
also listen to "The Raven" on audio.
Edgar Allan Poe
Helium.com is a website for writers. You can write about any
topic you want, and others view the articles in a category and
rate them. If your article is one of the top ranked, you can
even earn money or get articles published! It's totally free to
sign up.
Write now!
Take a virtual tour online of the Globe Theater in London,
England. Also, learn about the different events that happen at
this historic theater.
Shakespeare's Globe Theater
For those who love poetry, this site is wonderful! You can read
hundreds of classic poems by well-known poets and even listen to
them read in audio.
A Plethora of Poetry
Another great poetry website!
More Poetry!
Do you need to practice your vocabulary skills? Or, do you like
a good challenge? At this website you can race against yourself
to choose the correct synonym for each word, and the best part is
that you can donate to charity at the same time! For each answer
you get correct, this organization will donate 10 grains of rice
through the UN to a hungry person somewhere in the world.
Vocabulary for charity!
Rachel's challenge recently came to our school as a presentation
for freshmen and juniors. This was an amazing program based on
the life and inspiration of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student
killed in the Columbine shooting of 1999. Rachel was 17 years
old and had an amazing vision for her life, which has been
accomplished through this program. The assembly had a major
impact on the students and faculty of AHS. If you missed the
program, or just want to learn more about it, click on the link
below to take you there!
Make a difference in someone's life!
An old-school Nintendo-style game based on The Great Gatsby (with
LOTS of differences from the book...)! If the link below doesn't
work, go to www.greatgatsbygame.com
The Great Gatsby Game