Test Preparation:

The ACT writing test

http://www.act.org/aap/writing/index.html

Sample ACT test

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/astonhall/changingtimes/titlepage.htm

AP help

http://www.richterap.com/

Grammar and Writing:

Website with lots of links to grammar helps (and other writing-related things)

http://www.gradebook.org/English-Grammar-Composition%20Class.html

Guide to essay writing done by English professors at the University of Toronto

http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~dwhite/papers.htm

Writer's Workshop
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/index.htm

Additional writing/grammar websites:

Purdue’s online writing lab (OWL)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu

Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

Punctuation Made Simple
http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~olson/pms/intro.html

A fun study site for ESL students
http://www.manythings.org/

Power Revision Techniques
http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/hirev2.html

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
http://www.powa.org/editfrms.htm

Literature:

Regarding 1984

http://www.rhetoriciansforpeace.org/1984index.html

Edgar Allan Poe website

http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/

Folger Shakespeare Library

http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm

Shakespeare on line

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/index.html

Website for the styles of various time periods (my history lectures with lots of other stuff)

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/astonhall/changingtimes/titlepage.htm

Victorian Web

http://www.victorianweb.org

Website for medieval-18^th century literature

http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

Handouts regarding all sorts of literary techniques

http://teacherweb.com/GR/JohnFKennedySchool/BMcDaniel/photo1.stm

Website for the Norton Anthology of English Literature. Has all kinds of items about literature.

http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/

Miscellaneous:

BrainyQuote (site for all sorts of quotes)

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_humor.html

Math tools? On an English page? You bet. You might need help there, too!

http://www.mathforum.org/mathtools/

NHS website

http://www.nhs.us/s_nhs/index.asp

Website for photography collections

http://photomuse.org/

Website for political cartoons

http://www.cagle.com/

Website for news with links to major columnists

http://www.drudgereport.com/

Website for modern art so you can compare abstract art to other types of art

http://abstract-art.com/abstraction/l2_Grnfthrs_fldr/g000_granfathers_glry.html

Texas Education Agency

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/