English II at the Mount

Useful Tools 

• Vocabulary Review Tool: Flashcards, games, etc. for Sadlier-Oxford Level E
  
• Online Etymology Dictionary - word origins!
• Onelook Dictionary & Onelook Reverse Dictionary -
  
• Shakespeare Searched - Search the entire corpus of Shakespeare's writing by word, phrase, work, character, etc.
  

Books | Reading | Literature | Culture

• Six Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong
• Top Ten Mysterious Texts
• University of Virginia Exhibit on Censorship
• Chaucerian Madlibs
• One Drawing for Every Page of Moby Dick
• 13 Ways of Looking at a Story
• TvTropes - a fascinating (and productivity-destroying!) compendium of literary tropes and archetypes
• Six Word Stories
  

• Nine of the Weirdest Poems You Will Ever Read
• The Polyglot Project - Work through texts in their original languages with in-text word translations instantly available.
  

• Benjamin Bagby's Beowulf - performed in Old English with harp accompaniment
• BeowulfTranslations.net - comparative translations, galleries, etc.
  
• Anglo-Saxon Aloud - What did Old English (probably) sound like?
• Woruldhord - resources for studying Old English / Anglo-Saxon culture
  

• Danteworlds - fascinating reference guide for the Divine Comedy with summaries, notes, galleries, etc.

• Myths, Legends, Folklore, Ghosts - good link compendium
• Medieval Bestiary
  

Words | Language | Writing

• History of English in 10 Minutes
  
• Save the Words - interesting rare and dying words
• Five Insane Ways Words Can Control Your Mind
• Twenty Obsolete English Words That Should Make a Comeback
• Love of Words Brings Child, Poet Together - Be sure to check out the videos to the right! ("3-year-old recites...", "Superman recites...")
• How to Play with Words
• Beautiful Words
  

• American English Dialects
• IPA Alphabet with Audio - Wonder what those odd pronunciation symbols mean in the dictionary?
• Vatican's Latin expert no stuffy academic
  

• How to Write in 700 Easy Lessons
• How to Write with Style [Vonnegut] (pdf)
• Why I Write [Orwell]
  
• Why We Love Bad Writing
• Titivillus: Patron Demon of Typos
  

Book Suggestions

• What Should I Read Next? - generates suggestions based another book or author
  
• Whichbook - input criteria in a number of categories
• Flashlight Worthy - hundreds of book lists arranged by topic
  
• World Literature Reading List (pdf) - by country
• Ms. K's Library - Feel free to check out my LibraryThing listings... I have many (although not all) the books in the "My Library" section with me in OKC, and I would be happy to let you borrow them!