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Neuberger Museum of Art
http://www.neuberger.org/

Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org

Banned Books of the 21st century by year plus reasons why the 
books are challenged or banned.**May need to cut and paste url 
address to access site or search for Frequently challenged books 
of 21st century.  Left column of site allows you to choose books 
by year.
www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged/index.cfm

MLA Citation Format- Type in your bibliographical info. and this 
site will 
put the info. into MLA format for you!
http://www.bedford.k12.ny.us/flhs/library/citationnew.html

Poetry 180- a poem a day for high school students - site created 
by Poet 
Laureate,Billy Collins
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

Mythological Walking Tour of Manhattan-  all the info. you need 
about my 
world mythology course and the tour.
http://worknotes.com/ny/foxlane/mythology/index.html

Twayne Authors Series
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Twayne/form?l=1&u=TUSA&u=TEA&u=TWA&t=KW&s=1&locID=nysl_me_fox&o=DocTitle&n=10&finalAuth=true

Scribner Writers Series
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Scribner?locID=nysl_me_fox

Internet Public Library"s Online Literary Criticism 
Collection
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.00.00/

American Library Association celebrates "Read a Banned Book 
Week" with this 
webpage full of information on the 1st amendment, an explanation 
of 
challenged vs. banned books and a list of the 100 most commonly 
banned book 
titles and authors
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/challengedbanned.htm

First Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor in an easy to read translation. 
Triangle 
icon in top left corner of page allows you to see how Sharazade 
began her 
framework tales...
http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/Dixon/dixon01_main.htm

1001 Nights introduction and summary of "Shahriyar and 
Shahrazed" 
and "Sinbad 
the Sailor."  Gives common themes and general overview.
http://www.middleeastuk.com/culture/mosaic/arabian.htm

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland- actual text by chapter and 
commentary. 
Great intro. to Lewis Caroll and his works.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-table.html

The History Place-Dorothea Lange's photo exhibit of migrant farm 
families 
with original captions
http:www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html

About the Dust Bowl-Gives timeline, map and brief overview
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm

Voices from the Dust Bowl-Library of Congress-includes audio-
taped 
interviews, photos and brief overview of Dust Bowl, has separate 
link to 
migrant workers
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

Dust Bowl Refugee by Woody Guthrie 1938- folk singer's song list 
about the 
Dust Bowl
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/dbball.html#songs

Puzzlemaker-  Make your own crossword and a variety of other 
puzzles.  
http://www.puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp

Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest Website.  Choose poem 
for Spring 
2009 contest.  Go to student link and hear poem recited and some 
are also 
discussed.
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/

Favorite Poem Project
50 short video documentaries of people reciting their favorite 
poems and telling why the poems are special to them.
http://www.favoritepoem.org/videos.html

The Blue Pencil Literary Magazine- A great publication for 
students looking for a national venue.  
Writers are skillful and fairly competitive.  This  is not your 
high school literary magazine.
http://www.thebluepencil.net/

Make Beliefs Comix create 1 frame up to 8 frame comics with 
graphics and dialogue.  Great aid for the the artisitically 
challenged!
www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Pizza Palace commercial warns of loss of privacy.  Intro. to 1984 
by George Orwell.
http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf

Newspeak Dictionary provides list of Newspeak vocabulary and 
definitions for Orwell's 1984.  Also gives links to "Intro. to 
1984" by Walter Cronkite and essay by Orwell on "Language and 
Politics."
www.newspeakdictionary.com/


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