Huckleberry Finn: Teaching Resources(High School)
Mark Twain's classic American story combines side-splitting humor with messages about freedom and responsibility and remains one of the most widely taught books in American high schools. Follow this link to a blend of online literary, historical, and biographical, resources on Twain and Huckleberry Finn.

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Teaching Resources(High School, College)
Their Eyes Were Watching God is is considered to be Zora Neale Hurston's finest work of fiction. Hurston died in poverty, but her work influenced the writing of Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison and others. Discover internet resources about this fascinating individual her most celebrated work.

Oedipus Rex and Antigone: Teaching Resources(High School, College)
Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King) and Antigone are powerful and suggestive mythological stories written by the prolific Greek playwright Sophocles. Sophocles' characters are tragically flawed, but heroic, and his work is considered by some to be the apex of Greek tragedy. Sophocles' unique dramatic sensibilities move readers even thousands of years after the works were written.

Parallelism: Lessons, Exercises, and Quizzes(High School, College)
Parallel structure occurs when writers use the same pattern of words to show that multiple ideas have an equal degree of importance. These online resources help students understand the importance of parallelism and feature self-directed exercises and quizzes.

The Guide to Grammar and Writing (High School, College)
The Guide to Grammar & Writing is an impressive interactive guide and is divided into six major categories: Word & Sentence Level; Paragraph Level; Essay & Research Paper Level; Ask Grammar, Quizzes, and Search Devices; Peripheral Devices; GrammarPoll, Guestbook, Awards. The Principles of Composition section is for writers in English composition courses and features handouts on Getting Started, Structure, Tone, Transitions, Editing, Logic, Formats, Rhetorical Patterns, Argumentative Essays, Research Papers, and more. There are also 150+ computer-graded quizzes to test knowledge of grammar and you can submit a question about English usage or grammar.

Interdisciplinary Blogging Activity (Middle School, High School)
This blogging activity calls on students to first research the plight of homeless teenagers during the Great Depression and then create their own fictionalized account of a day in the life of a Hobo.

Online Crossword Puzzles(K-12)
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun is an educational web site designed to help students improve their vocabulary through fun, challenging games.