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Mark Twain/Tom Sawyer

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/tom_sawyer.pdf
Study guide for Tom Sawyer

http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/scrapbook/index.html
Mark Twain information

http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/tomsawye/tomhompg.html
Tom Sawyer home page

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/timeline/
Timeline game for Tom Sawyer

Romeo and Julliet

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/
sonnets

Who Moved My Cheese?

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/curriculum-planning/nonfiction/21093.html
Who moved my Cheese?

Elements of a Short Story

http://www.classicshorts.com/
CLASSIC SHORT STORIES

http://www.quia.com/jg/290601.html
Games for Elements of a Short Story - not exactly the same terms as we use but close

http://www.quia.com/jg/290601.html
Similar to above site for Elements of a Short Story

http://www.quia.com/rr/4343.html
Game similar to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html
Graphic Organizers

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/writing/literary-techniques/2669.html
Character Traits

http://home.att.net/~teaching/litcircl/charact.pdf
Character Traits

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001864.shtml
Irony Sites

"The Most Dangerous Game"

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/danger.html
The story "The Most Dangerous Game"

http://www.geocities.com/emruf2/otr/game.html
The play version of "The Most Dangerous Game"

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/MosDan.shtml
Questions to review "The Most Dangerous Game"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023238/
About the 1932 movie "The Most Dangerous Game"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Connell
Brief history of Richard Connell

"The Monkey's Paw"

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/paw.htm
The story "The Monkey's Paw"

"The Cask of Amontillado"

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/caskpoe.html
The story "The Cask of Amontillado"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_catacombs
a brief history of the Roman catacombs

http://www.triggur.org/cata/
Underground Paris - a virtual tour of the Paris catacombs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris#External_links
a brief history of the Paris catacombs

"The Lady, or the Tiger?"

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/tiger.html
The story "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

"The Necklace"

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/necklace.html
The story "The Necklace"

"The Gift of the Magi"

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/magi.html
The story "The Gift of the Magi"

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/6821/thurber.html
The story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039808/
Information on the movie, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/2330.html
Lesson Plan and questions on "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty
Book, Movie, and 2007 movie information (starring Jim Carrey as Walter Mitty -
another website lists Owen Wilson as Mitty - I guess we'll wait and see)

http://www.thurberhouse.org/james/james.html
Short Biography of James Thurber

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001317.shtml
Recommended reading for teenagers

Later Topics

http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/STORYweb.htm
Story web

http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/Inspiration/poetry.htm
Poetry Analysis

http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/Inspiration/huck.htm
Huckleberry Finn story web