English-+Year+1



__**Module 1: Introduction to Laying the Foundation **__ 
 * Links from Module 1: **
 * [|www.eslcafe.com/idioms/id-mngs.html] (list of idioms with definitions)
 * [|www.medialit.org/reading_room/article695.html] (Center for Media Literacy lesson involving comparison of two photographs)
 * [|www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=23] (lesson series on point of view)
 * [] (Library of Congress secondary teacher's notes on analysis of points of view in primary sources)

__**Module 2: Annotation and Anlaysis of a Text **__    Leonard Pitts Articles: []


 * Links from Module 2: **
 * Close Reading **
 * [] (best practices list of reading strategies for teachers)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Annotation **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (a professor's paper describing the important of, and basic strategy for, teaching students to underline and annotate effectively)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (a reflection on the meaningful exercise of annotation)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sound Devices **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (glossary of poetic terms)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/area/literature/LitTerms.html] (teacher's website of links to definitions and examples of common literary terms)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Literary Criticism **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.ipl.org/div/litcrit] (critical and biographical websites about authors and their works)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (large number of resources for American and British literature)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (Literacy Resources on the Net)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.textetc.com/criticism.html] (articles discussing types of literary criticism)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Shakespeare **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.webenglishteacher.com/shakesgen.html] (Shakespeare related web resources)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.pbs.org/shakespeare/educators/lessonplans.html] (lesson plans related to Shakespeare)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.teachersfirst.com/shakespr.shtml] (list of resources for teaching Shakespeare)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sonnet.html] (explanation of the sonnet form)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Module 3: Integrating Grammar, Exploring Syntax **__


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Links from Module 3: **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sentence Composing **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (The Killgallon's home page for the Sentence Composing books; includes instructions for creating sentence-composing activities)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Parts of Speech **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (University of Chicago Writing Program's review/listing of grammar-related websites)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (a page linking to separate pages for each part of speech; also includes a helpful rhyme defining each part)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (annotated list of practical grammar lessons for middle and high school teachers, including parts of speech and diagramming sentences)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (free clips of some of the educational songs on parts of speech)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Setence Structrure, Phrases and Clauses, and Subordination **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (using dependent and independent clauses)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (punctuation in simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champlain's online Grammar Handbook)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (University of ChicagoWriting Program's "Tour of Complex Sentences:Phrases, Clauses, and What They Do")
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (grammar index: "Word and Sentence Level")
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (collection of lesson links related to sentence structure, including lesson on writing poems using subordinate conjunctions)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Analysis through Grammar Study **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Mini-Lesson on Semicolons)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (upper level discussion of sentence variation and construction and its effects, using several short packages)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Advanced Syntax Techniques **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (Handbook of rhetorical devices)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|http://rhetoric.byu.edu] (The Forest of Rhetoric)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Module 4: From Journal to Essay **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Punctuation **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (index of pages explaining and giving examples for the use of each punctuation mark)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/566/01/#resourcenav] (punctuation rules and examples)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Links from Module 4: **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Writing and Composition **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.ncte.org/prog/writing/research/118876.htm] (philosophy of teaching writing from the National Council of Teachers of English)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/ela20/teach4.html] (review of best practices for teaching writing from a Canadian education department)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.webenglishteacher.com/writing.html] (Web English Teacher's index of links to writing lesson ideas for K-12 teachers, including essays, creative writing, and research)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|http://writingfix.com] (Northern Nevada Writing Project's site for writing teachers)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.sjc.edu/jarzt/wac-pre.htm] (list of prewriting strategies for teachers of writing from St. Joseph College)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Complete Essay Writing Process: Sites for Teachers and Students **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (The Purdue Online Writing Lab, for educators of 7-12 students)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.ipl.org/div/aplus/links.htm#writing] (Internet Public Library's Teenspace "A+ Research and Writing Links)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.powa.org] (Paradigm Online Writing Assistant- a student guide to academic writing)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.geocites.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/index.html] (The Five Paragraph Essay)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.readwritethink.org/materials/essaymap] (basic online essay writing tool for students)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Literary Essays **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.rscc.cc.tn.us/owl&writingcenter/OWL/HowtoBegin.html] (strategies for pre-writing and writing an introduction and conclusion for a literary essay)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (an article for students about writing a literary essay; focuses on the use of quotations)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.tenafly.k12.nj.us/~lhaslach/incorporating_quotations.htm] (instructions and examples for incorporating quotations)


 * Timed Essays **
 * [] (practical tips for timed writing from a professor at Seton Hall University)
 * [|www.clmn.net/cer/PDFs/WPE/tentimetips.pdf] (Ten Tips for Timed Writing)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Revision and Editing **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.nwrel.org/assessment/pdfRubrics/6plus1traits.PDF] (detailed rubric descriptions of the 6 Traits of good writing)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (Good Writers Weren't Born That Way)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/Proofreading.html] (tips for proofreading from the University of Wisconsin at Madison's online writer's handbook)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.penandpage.com/EngMenu/corstenth.htm] (system for student proofreading)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dialectical Journals **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tjournal.htm] (San Diego County samples of several types of two or three-column journals that may be useful for various English assignments)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.houstonchristianhs.org/data/files/News/HomepageNews/Dialectical_Journal.doc] (sample high school level dialectical journal assignment for a novel)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] (somewhat simpler dialectical journal sample