Additional Materials


Need to know more about an author?  Maybe you would like to get some more information about a text we are reading?  You have come to the right place!


Author/text Links
Mary Shelley/Frankenstein  

I would like to thank the two students from Ms. Murray's class for finding and suggesting a wonderful addition to my site: the-myth-and-mystery-of-mary-wollstonecraft-shelley.htm (Don't forget to give the girls their bonus points Ms. Murray!)  ;)

http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/frankenstein/about.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/

http://www.enotes.com/frankenstein/1445

http://www.novelguide.com/frankenstein/

Want to know what was happening in the world when Shelley wrote her famous novel? 

http://www.bartleby.com/67/999.html 

http://www.dandantheweatherman.com/Bereklauw/yearnosummer.html

 

Great site for everything Frankenstein!  Nice section on social issues!  http://www.topgrades.co.uk/frankenstein/

Here is a WebQuest on Frankenstein you might want to look at for more information!  http://www.gowcsd.com/master/ghs/english/propp/frnkqust/index.htm

Here is some information about Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin.  His ideas greatly influenced Mary's writing.  http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/wgodwin.htm

Here is some information on Mary's mother, Mary Wollestonecraft.  she also had a tremendous influence on Mary's writing!  http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_mary/

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/wollstonecraft.html

http://www.bartleby.com/144/

Her husband had his influence as well!

http://www.bartleby.com/65/sh/ShelleyP.html

 

Eric Blair aka. George Orwell/1984  

http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/1984/

http://www.gerenser.com/1984/analysis.html

Very Orwell!

http://students.ou.edu/C/Kara.C.Chiodo-1/orwell.html#1984

http://www.orwelltoday.com/

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Read the text with notes!

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/nature.html

What the heck is transcendentalism anyway?

http://www.transcendentalists.com/what.htm

More about the man himself!

http://www.transcendentalists.com/1emerson.html

http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/early_nineteenth/emerson_ra.html

What are the social issues?

http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/

Loren Eiseley  

Multimedia text of "Flow of the River"

 

Grammar Sentence/ sentence structures/ sentence variety

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsASentence.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sentences.htm

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/completesentence.htm

http://esl.about.com/od/intermediatewriting/a/sentence_types.htm

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_sentvar.html

Joining sentences

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/interestsentences/compoundsentences/index.shtml

http://gozips.uakron.edu/~clayton/bw/joiner.html

http://www.secondaryschoolsonline.co.uk/downloads/23_12200255113514_02.pdf

http://learning.cl3.ust.hk/english-grammar-guide/Style/Sentence_Variety.htm

http://faculty.deanza.edu/pattonmarilyn/stories/storyReader$240

http://factoryschool.org/handbook/sentences/JoiningSentences.html

Run-on / comma splice

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_sentpr.html

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/tests/run_frag.html

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/csfsro.html

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm

http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/punctuation/3_4i.htm

http://www.utoronto.ca/ucwriting/commasplice.html

http://www.stlcc.cc.mo.us/mc/support/cwc/finhand/splices.html

Sentence fragments

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_frag.html

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/fragments.htm

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/fragmentcauses.html

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/fragments.html

http://ace.acadiau.ca/english/grammar/fragment.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/fragments_add1.htm

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/CWS/wWORKSHOP/writer_resources/grammar_handbook/sentence_fragments.htm

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/fragment.html

Commas: introductory clause

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova2.htm

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_commaint.html

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000074.htm

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000073.htm

http://www.edhelper.com/commas.htm 

Commas: dependent clause

http://www.wilbers.com/NonrestrictiveCommas.htm

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_clause.html

http://grammar.uoregon.edu/clauses/dependent.html

http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/AdvAdjNomClause.htm

http://homepage.mac.com/jkanach3/Grammar_Notebook/pages/46.html

http://www.edhelper.com/commas.htm

Commas: items in a series

http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/punctuation/3_4f.htm

http://dianahacker.com/writersref/subpages_language/comseries.html

http://www.tjhsst.edu/~rgreen/grammar/series.htm

http://web.uvic.ca/akeller/wherecomma/between_items_in_a_serie.html

http://www.edhelper.com/commas.htm

Commas: nonrestrictive elements

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/comma.html

http://web.ku.edu/~edit/which.html

http://www.cameron.edu/~carolynk/Restrictive.html

Subject/Verb agreement

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslsubverb.html

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sv_agr.htm

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/subverag.html

http://www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/quiz/subverb1.htm

http://aliscot.com/bigdog/agreement_sv.htm

http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/sub-verb.htm

Transitions

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/transitions.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/574/01/

http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/sixtrait/organization/transitions.html

http://www.rhodes.edu/writingcenter/group_b/transitions.html

http://www.bristol.mass.edu/cde/qwl/writing/transitions.html

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/style/transitioncues.html

 

How to live life well Watch, listen, and take notes on this lecture by Shelly Kagan, Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale.

http://open.yale.edu/courses/philosophy/death/sessions/lecture23.html 

Check out some of Kagan's previous lectures: 19 and 20

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