Helpful Links:

MLA Quick Reference Guide
This site provides examples for in-text citations and works cited entries.
<Sisters Language Arts MLA Resource>

Dictionary.com
This site offers quick definitions, a thesaurus, word games, a translator, and other language resources.
<www.dictionary.com>

Deschutes County Public Library
Your local public library online.
<www.dpls.lib.or.us>

MLA Style Guide
Using the Modern Language Association's style, these guidelines model appropriate use for citing electronic sources in a documented essay. Use them to write your Sisters High School papers.
<http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLA.html>

MLA In-text Citations
This site provides sample internal documentation, works cited entries, and papers that use the MLA format.
<http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/>

Literary terms
A glossary of common literary terms.
<www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm>

Famous Quotes
Find famous quotations by author or topic.
<http://www.brainyquote.com/>

Strunk and White's Elements of Style
A hypertext version of the classic 1918 writer's guide.
<http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html>

Bartleby
A great, searchable site with information about literature.
<www.bartleby.com>

SAT Registration
Headquarters for the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Get study guides and take practice tests here.
<http://www.collegeboard.com>

SAT Word List
5,000 common SAT words with brief definitions.
<www.freevocabulary.com/>

Amazon.com
The web's top online bookstore also has lots of useful information (bibliographic, reviews, etc.) about books.
<www.amazon.com>

Powell's Books
Oregon's finest bookshop online.
<www.powells.com>

Literature & Poetry Sites:

Shakespeare, The Complete Works of
This site offers FAQs, discussion area, glossary, quotations, and links to each of the bard's plays.
<www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html>

Bullfinch's Mythology
Visit this massive site devoted to Greek and Roman mythology, Arthurian legends, and legends of Charlemagne.
<www.bulfinch.org>

Kathy Schrock's Links to Literature and Language Arts
Kathy Schrock has compiled an extensive site devoted to literature and language arts for both teachers and students. This section is only one part of Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, hosted by the Discovery Channel.
<http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/arts/artlit.html>

A Celebration of Women Writers
"All too often, works by women, and resources about women writers, are hard to find. We attempt to provide easy access to available on-line information. The Celebration provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women."
<http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/>

Nobel Prize Winners
This site lists all Nobel prize categories, including the literary winners.
<http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/>

Academy of American Poets
"...one of the liveliest and most comprehensive poetry sites on the Internet."
<www.poets.org>

Poetry 180
Brought to you by the Library of Congress; features a great poem every day.
<http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html>