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Top of PageNovels available online
Antigone by Sophocles
Top of PageHolocaust Research (after reading NIGHT by Elie Wiesel) 2011

Night by Elie Wiesel

Timelines
Top of PageResearch Your Name
First and Middle Names

Surnames (Last Names)
Top of PageBanned and Challenged Books
American Library Association:
other sites:
Top of PageShakespeare Resources-- Hollie
Shakespeare's Life and Times--

    Search Elizabethan Age in Grolier Online Encyclopedia for an article about Shakespeare's time (politics, religion, the arts, socioeconomics [upper class, lower class, etc.])

    Religion-- 
       ISE (Internet Shakepeare Editions)

    Timeline of events during Shakespeare's lifetime--
        PBS

    Crime and the law--
        ISE (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
        What did Elizabethans consider a crime?

A few good books--
    
    Great Writers of the English Language: Early English Writers, v.1 -- R 820.9 GRE
    The Shakespeare Handbook, Levi Fox -- 822.33 FOX
    Shakespeare in His Age, F.E. Halliday -- 822.33 HAL
Top of PageTo Kill a Mockingbird --2009 (Asnault; Klein)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Scottsboro

Duke Lacrosse
Jena Six
Assignment
Top of PageHelen Keller
Helen Keller biographies --

American Foundation for the Blind 

Perkins School for the Blind

Royal National Institute for Blind People
Top of PageLinks for Holocaust research (after reading NIGHT by Elie Wiesel) 2010
Night by Elie Wiesel

Links for Night:

The Holocaust Museum
Top of PageHemingway's Old Man and the Sea

Joe DiMaggio

The Crucifixion
Top of PageOrwell's 1984
Top of PageFahrenheit 451
Are we in danger of becoming like Mildred?

Sources (articles) from Mr. Mathews--
Other possible sources--
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"Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted" -- an article in the LA Weekly discussing Ray Bradbury's refusal to accept his Pulitzer Prize in person, as well as what he considers the "real" theme of Fahrenheit 451 (it's not censorship!).
Top of PageLiterary Criticism
-- List of Books in Novels for Students at Chico High School library --
Top of Page"Night" Research links

Holocaust Wiki

Links for Mr. Mathews

Genocide (Rwanda)

Rwanda Timeline:

  • 1919-1962 -- under Belgian rule
  • 1929-- all positions of power held by non-Tutsis (Hutu) were taken and given to the Tutsis
  • 1933-- identity cards issued to all Rwandans
  • late 1950s-- Belgian powers shift in favor of the Hutus and Tutsis are driven into exile-- many Tutsis killed
  • 1961-67-- exiled Tutsis organize and launch guerrilla attacks
  • 1962-- Independence from Belgium; Hutus remain in power
  • 1973-- Tutsis banned from secondary & higher education; also public office; identity cards still in place  (1973-1994-- Habyarimana (Hutu) government)
  • 1994-- President's plane shot down; genocide of Tutsis

A Few Facts About Rwanda (from CIA World Factbook):

  • Life expectancy: male: 48.56 years    female: 51 years
  • Median age:  male: 18.5 years    female: 18.9 years (2008 est.)
  • Ethnic groups:  Hutu (Bantu) 84%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 15%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%
  • Religions:  Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Muslim 4.6%, indigenous beliefs 0.1%, none 1.7%

Genocide (The Holocaust)
Top of PageKrisko & Goldmann links

Interesting links for Krisko & Goldmann

Pew Research: Internet and American Life Project site


How is Google changing the way we read?

Is our brain chemistry changing through technology use? Is it reversible?
Top of PageLinks for Ms. Goldmann
Top of PageTo Kill a Mockingbird
Ms. Mogan's Links:
Interview:

NPR article on the Duke Lacrosse story: Documenting the Duke Rush to Judgement
Scroll to the bottom of the page for related stories.

Atlantic Journal.com article: The Truth About Jena
NPR article on the Jena Six story: 'Jena Six' Case Exposes Town's Racial Tensions
Scroll to the bottom of the page for related stories.
Top of PageDr. Seuss and Mr. Klein
Top of PageLinks for Ms. Netterville
Top of PageSteinbeck research for Ms. Maygren

Steinbeck research

General Sites
Migrant Workers sites
  • "Children of Migrant Workers Keep Up Studies on the Internet" article (NYTimes.com)
CHS Library Books:  Migrant Workers
John Steinbeck sites
CHS Library Books:  John Steinbeck and his writing
Top of PageAnimal Farm
  • Table comparing characters to people during the Russian Revolution
Top of PageHiroshima Unit
  • BBC website - Comparing Japanese and American cultures
Top of PageCensorship
American Library Association's (ALA) information regarding book burning. Great site for information regarding 1930's book burning by the Nazis, and the burning of the Maya Codex.

The History Place's site with pictures and information about book burning by the Nazis in 1933.

Papal Index (Index of Forbidden Books) websites: "Vatican Opens Up Secrets of Index of Forbidden Books" (article)
"Secrets Behind the Forbidden Books" article in America: The Catholic Weekly

Thomas Bowdler's The Bowdler Family Shakespeare -- an online exhibit from Occidental College.
Top of PageJurassic Park Background Information
Top of PageMs. Carey's classes
Ms. Carey's class:

Historical Fiction Writing Project
Punctuation in dfferent types of sentences

Sentence fragments
see links at bottom of page for exercises

Paraphrasing

Online writing exercises -- from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Top of PageMs. Hollie's projects
Juvenile Violence Timeline website

Information about juvenile offenders from Expert Law website.
  • It answers these questions and more:
  • If a juvenile is convicted in adult court, will he be sentenced as an adult?
  • What happens in juvenile adult?
Top of PageEgypt Project-- Ms. Hollie

The Egypt Project

  • Egyptian funerary arts, including mummies, shawabti, and coffins (Explore Ancient Egypt-- Museum of Fine Art)

Website Evaluation--
Top of PageDracula Project-- Ms. Hollie

The Dracula Project

Elizabeth Miller's pages:

  • meaning of "voivode" --dictionary

Website Evaluation--
Top of PageAuthor sites for Ms. Ginno
   

Authors:
Top of Page"Night" by Elie Wiesel--handouts and organizing examples
Night by Elie Wiesel

Handouts

Examples
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