English - Website Resources
General Reources - English Language and Reference Books
OzLit for the Young
http://home.vicnet.net.au/%7Eozlit/chapt3.html
Bartelby Reference Collection - includes Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries, Thesauri and Quotation collections
http://www.bartleby.com/
WordWizard- - for lovers of the English language
http://www.wordwizard.com/
Guide to Grammar and Style by Professor Jack Lynch
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
BabelFish Translator - allows you to translate articles in a variety of languages
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
Issues and Debating:
Echo Education - Outlines and arguments on contemporary media issues, with newspaper indexes
http://www.echoeducation.com.au/
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NewsBank - newspaper articles from The Age and Herald Sun from the present day dating back to 1999. Click here for a 10 step tutorial on how to use NewsBank.
http://infoweb.newsbank.com
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The Age Education - links to past and current copies of Issues in the News
http://www.theage.com.au/education
VicNet Community and Social Issues
http://www.vicnet.net.au/community/issues/
Poetry
Poetry Archive
- http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
Poetry Australia Foundation Inc
- http://www.poetryaustraliafoundation.org.au/
PoetryFoundation.org : The home of the Poetry Foundation
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
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http://www.poets.org/
Australian Poets and Poetry
- http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/subjects/english/aust/austpoet.htm
Bush Poetry home page
- http://www.bushpoetry.com.au/
LibriVox » Short Poetry Collection 001
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http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-001/
Oldpoetry - Classical Poetry Discussion
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http://oldpoetry.com/
OzLit@Vicnet Poetry Page
- http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/poets.html
English Resources by Year Level:
Year 12 Resources
Film as Text
Metro Magazine
Film Education
Enhance TV
'Look Both Ways'
Education Age - 'Text talk' article (20/04/09) - Director Sarah Watt uses her 2004 film, Look Both Ways, to explore the debilitating effects of fear. Also contains a great list of links to other websites with reviews of the film.
'The Line'
Education Age - 'Text talk' article (27/04/09)
'Generals Die In Bed'
Education Age - article "Lest we forget" (14/08/06)
Education Age - article "Bloody truth of war in trenches" (14/05/07)
Year 11 English
Macbeth
Legends - Macbeth
GradeSaver - ClassicNote - Macbeth Study Guide
Mutuality and Patriarchy in the Renaissance Family and Shakespeare's Macbeth
Jen’s Macbeth Page
Year 10 English
Of Mice and Men
Literature Resources
General Literature Websites
VCE Literature Page
BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources
AustLit : The Resource for Australian Literature
Classic Authors.net : Great Literature Online
Project Gutenberg (Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books)
Contemporary Literary Theory (Professor John Lye)
The IPL Literary Criticism Collection - contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Bibliomania - brings you an extensive library of reference books, biographies, classic non-fiction and religious texts.
Specific Literature Text Rescources - Units 3 & 4
Stasiland
Stasi Museum
Stasi – Wikipedia entry
Stasiland on youtube with writer Anna Funder
Book Review by Kara Kellar Bell
Book Review by Giles MacDonogh
Book Review by Chris Mitchell
'The Lives of Others' film review by Anna Funder
SMH article on Anna Funder
Terry Lane interviews Anna Funder on ABC
Anna Funder video - ‘On Courage’
Water
Review in The Observer
Article from the NY Times
Interview with director Deepa Mehta
Wikipedia article on Water
Frankenstein
A selected list of articles on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Wikipedia article on Frankenstein
Wikipedia article on Frankenstein in popular culture and film
Frankenstein - film adaptations
Frankensteinia - the blog
Frankenstein Exhibition
A Cultural History of Frankenstein
Specific Literature Text Rescources - Units 1 & 2
Protest in Story and Song - Kev Carmody
Kev Carmody's Official website - includes biographical info and song lyrics
ABC TV"s Speaking Out - Kev Carmody
Lore of the Land - Indigenous Cultures - info on other Indigenous artists such as Archie Roach
virtuaLit: Elements of Poetry
- great exercises and information on various poetic techniques
Fairy Tales (views and values/interpretations/political aspects)
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/fairytales.html
http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/031111.Grauerholz.tales.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/sleepingb/Nicks_base_page.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/sleepingb/
http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/fairytale_feminist.html
http://www.cerritos.edu/fquaas/resources/English100/fairytalelinks.htm
http://www.rosemarylake.com/ (new fairy tales/fractured)
Teacher Resources
English LA reference - Curriculum and Standards Framework
English Curriculum @ Work
http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/curriculumatwork/english/index.htm
English Teaching on the Internet Technology School of the Future
http://www.tsof.edu.au/resources/internet/
VATE - Victorian Association for the Teaching of English
http://www.vate.org.au
Teaching Literature - there are some good pages/links from this site although it does have an American bias.
http://www.teachingliterature.org/teachingliterature/
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