Language Arts Internet Resources

Writing Tools

The Purdue University Online Writing Lab offers a list of handouts organized by category and a list of interactive practice exercises:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html

Purdue University also has a selection of interactive PowerPoint presentations on a variety of writing-related topics:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/index.html

A list of controversial issues for persuasive essay topics:

http://www.accd.edu/pac/lrc/issues.htm

Native American Myths and Legends

Read about over 1,300 Native American Legends, including those of the Iroquois Confederacy (of which the Oneida tribe was a member)

http://www.firstpeople.us/

26 Iroquois legends can be found here:

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/Legends-IL.html#Iroquois

A copy of The Oneida Creation Story is available for purchase at Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803267428/002-6182410-4401603?n=283155

A history of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin:

http://www.oneidanation.org/?page_id=20

http://www.mpm.edu/wirp/ICW-57.html

Official Website of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin:

http://www.oneidanation.org/

Examining the Oneida Language:

http://www.native-languages.org/oneida.htm

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Find author connections, WebQuests, and lesson plans, along with information about Puritans, witches, early American life, Barbados Island, and early American religious prejudices:

http://www.eduscapes.com/newbery/59a.html

Study guide for The Witch of Blackbird Pond

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/witchofblackbird.html

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/witch_of_blackbird_pond.pdf

Witch of Blackbird Pond resource page from Mrs. Labert, a teacher at Calico Rock Elementary School, located in Calico Rock, Arkansas:

http://pirates.k12.ar.us/cre/labert/witch.htm

Flowers for Algernon

Sample I.Q. tests

http://health.ivillage.com/mindbody/mbmemory/0,,bx64,00.html

http://nicologic.free.fr/Classification.htm

Rorschach and Thematic Apperception tests:

http://www.inkblottestwallpaper.com/

Information about the Rorschach, Intelligence Quotient, and Thematic Apperception tests:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_inkblot_test

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_test

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_apperception_test

Poetry

The difference between iambic words and trochaic words

http://vccslitonline.cc.va.us/sonnet116/metrics.htm3

WebQuest

The WebQuest home page

http://webquest.org/

Information about WebQuest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webquest

Multiple Intelligences

Find out how your talents are distributed:

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~seaghan/play/mi.htm

Information about Multiple Intelligences:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_intelligence