Websites
Listed Below are links for various websites that you will find helpful and may even be asked to utilze for future assignments. Some of these sites do require you to sign-up, but you will never be required to sign-up for any site that costs money. As well, many of the sites listed below will not be used in the classroom, but I have taken the time to list them for your personal use. Simply click on the name of the site, and you will be directed towards that particular site.
Wordle is fun site that allows text to be entered and will then create a beautiful word puzzle with the words that appear most frequently in the text. This allows students to pick out the words that are perhaps most important and potent within a text, perhaps also highlighting the themes and motifs of a particular work.
Glogster is an interactive site that allows students to upload audio clips, music, videos, picters, poems, etc. This is a fabulous method for taking collague into the 21st century, and students are able get creative. In my own classroom, I have often utilized Glogster as a form of mutli-genre project. To view a sample from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, click here. Glogster is a safe and protected program and is great for students.
Free Rice is a website that allows students to be quizzed on different grammar and vocabulary knowledge. With every question that a student answers correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated to poor countries through the UN World Food Program. Although this site is largely geared towards younger students, it can be a fun review for our more advanced students. As well, what a great way to both study and help the world at the same time!!!
This site is a quick and easy guide to the latest MLA formatting questions. Students should utilize this website as they produce papers; all papers will be using the MLA style. Although students are able to use other handbooks, this website is typically always current and is very simplistic!
Brain Pop is an amazing site that provides students with fun and creative videos that detail various grammatical lessons. As well, it will then quiz your student on the presented materials. For young students, it is a blast!!! The down side to this website is that you must have an account. Currently, Dominion does not have an account with this site, but we will look into obtaining access in the near future!
Delicious is a site that allows you to tag your favorite sites, people, places, etc. Basically it is an orgaizational site that can keep even the most disorganized person sain in regards to the internet. I personally do not find this site to be overly easy to use, but it is handy to save favorite sites.
Good Reads is an amazing site that allows students to post about their favorite novels and literary works, or even about their least favorite. It is a site that organizes what they have and have not read, and it acts as an interactive book shelf. Similar to that of Facebook or WordPress, students are able to link to one another so they are able to view each other’s book shelves. This is a very safe site that allows students to hold discussions in regards to particular works, and it is a great way to receive feedback from students. This is a site that we will more than likely be utilizing in the future. It does require an account to be created.
This website is packed full of links to other educational websites. These sites are great for all grades through high school, and it was recommended by the homeschool.com website. Enjoy looking through this.
Mrs. Foster's American Literature Class 
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