Contents

BMHS Catalog
MVLC Catalog
Databases
Curriculum links

English/Language Arts

Media Literacy

American Lit

American Poetry

World & British Lit

British Poetry

World Poetry

Eng/Lang Arts Teacher

English 9 Resources

Gangs
Shakespeare
Civil Rights


Writing a Research Paper
Assignments

Student resources

Teacher Resources

 

Billerica Memorial High School LMC

updated Frbruary 28, 2008


English/Language Arts

Gale Literary Index Start here to access all Gale literary resources, including CLC, NCLC, TCLC, Dictionary of Literary Biography, etc.

Voice of the Shuttle Comprehensive site containing subjects from all periods of American and world literature as well as history,law,art, architecture, philosophy, media studies and more.

Annenberg/CPB Exhibits. Using Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" as its model, the exhibit explores components of the short story, including point of view, character development, setting, plot and theme.

Bartleby Access Bartleby Reference shelf, dictionarys, quotations, maps, poetry, thesaurus and more from this link.

Common Errors in English a simple, alphabetical list of grammatical and stylistic traps most of us make when writing and speaking informally. Links to "Other Good Resources" are helpful and even include one for "Non-Sexist Language."

Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Collection arranged by author, works or literary time period.

The Literary Gothic Good links to authors and informational web pages about their literature.

Online Texts Journals and a variety of digitized literature by genre and time period. Maintained by Boston College Fine Arts department.


Literary Genre

Comedy

What is Comedy? What are the five major types of comedy? Learn to discern high comedy from low comedy and find a list of excellent comedies for your enjoyment.

Roman Comedy: Plautus and Terence Travel back in time to discover the life and works of Plautus and Terence, two masters of Roman comedy. Both were heavily influenced by Greek culture and wrote their works around 100 B.C.


Writing a Research Paper

Basic Steps in the Research Process

ResearchPaper.com collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects.

A+ Research and Writing for high school and college students. Step by Step - guide to researching and writing a paper.


Media Literacy

Judging Sources Nearly anyone can publish anything on the Internet. Obviously, some of those sources are more valid than others. An essential part of any research done on the Net, then, is evaluating the accuracy of the information that is found.

Write Source handbooks deal with that subject within the "Tools of Learning" section of each book. This Web page provides links to additional resources for evaluating Internet sources.

American Popular Culture In particular, the site focuses on issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, cultural imperialism and censorship, as shaped by and reflected in various mass media. A University of Washington resource site.

Media Awareness Network

Evaluating Web Sites--Criteria for the classroom (Lesley University)