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CREDOreference
Reference books covering a wide range of subjects including history, technology, literature, art, and biography.
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MagillOnLiterature Plus
Plot summaries, character & author info, and critical analyses of literary works. Includes material from the Masterplots and Magill reference series.
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Film and Television Literature Index
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Novelist
Read-alikes and suggestions for what to read next.  Search for titles, authors, plots, and reading preferences.

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Recommended Websites

Alberta Education - English Language Arts Teaching & Learning Resources
Lists of required reading from Alberta Education, including annotations.


Literary Criticism

 

Quotations

IPL: Literary Criticism
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IPL: Literary Criticism pathfinder
Get strategy suggestions for finding criticism in your library and on the Web.

SparkNotes
Study guides to help you work your way through your assigned novel study. Plot overviews, themes, symbols, character analysis.

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Bartlett’s Quotations
11,000 searchable quotations of passages, phrases, and proverbs.

The Quotations Page
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Monologues

 

Shakespeare

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Horton's Monologues
Free monologues for students and actors to use in auditions and classroom exercises from plays by G.L. Horton.

Monologues for Kids and Teens
Free monologues which are tagged by tone i.e. dramatic, humourous, angry, bewildered.


Shakespeare’s Monologues
Search for monologues for men or women. Plays organized by drama, comedy, or history.

Stage Agent
Look past the advertising to try the search feature, where you can limit by age, gender, number of minutes, and mood.

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Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Full text versions of the authors works

No Fear Shakespeare
Study guides from SparkNotes.

Discover Shakespeare
Biographical information about the bard from Folger Shakespeare Library.

 

Online Texts

 

Writing

Bibliomania
Complete texts of works

Bartleby.com
Online searchable works of literature, poetry, reference, and non-fiction books such as Bulfinch's Mythology and the poetry of Keats.

Great Literature Online
Full text works of many classic authors 

 

ReadWriteThink.org
Online tools i.e. Character trading cards; Plot diagrams; comic creator; flip book; poetry forms from the International Reading Association.

Wiredforbooks - Poetry
Poetry online. Listen to poems read aloud by the authors and interviews with poets such as Maya Angelou and Margaret Atwood.

 

 

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