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 Browse andComment Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation. Announcements3/14/11: We are launching a restoration project in the spring of 2011 to fix up the broken content on the site. Thanks to everyone for your patience as we continue to restore the missing works. Please see the help section if you have any questions.

"Welcome to ESL Printables, the website where English Language teachers exchange resources: worksheets, lesson plans, activities, etc. Our collection is growing every day with the help of many teachers. If you want to download you have to send your own contributions."

Marita Thomson 14 Oct 11 11:00:24 Macbeth - The Interactive Graphic Novel breathes new life into Classical Comics' award-winning Shakespeare play. Unlike no motion comic before, this animated graphic novel boasts a choice of three text versions and a full audio soundtrack. Featuring professional voice actors, including the talents of the eminent Sir Derek Jacobi and the fabulous Juliet Stevenson in the title roles. Other actors are: Sean Barratt, Glen McCready, Allison Petitt, John Foley and Ian Masters. Sit back and watch Shakespeare's most dramatic tragedy unfold, or take control and switch between Original, Plain and Quick Text versions at the click of a button. See it, hear it and fully experience the tragedy that is so feared, no actor will ever say its name ... Macbeth.

"Tools for Educators offers free printable worksheets, printables classroom materials, lesson plan resources, and a host of programs for teachers to use in their classes. The free printable dice maker is a worksheet wizard that allows you to create dice with pictures, dice with text or printable dice with both images and text. "

A good example of a lit circle in action

 is from the same people who produced Phrasr. It lets you use flickr photos to make picture books which you can publish or share. A nice tool for literacy.

asks you to type a phrase and the site will pull in words from Flickr to match each word and then animates them in sequence. You can save them, and link to old ones via the archive. Here's an example.

draws from nearly a thousand photos on flickr tagged with "5cardflickr"You are dealt 5 random photos from Flickr and you choose one to add to your story. You then repeat this 4 more times until you have 5 photos that you can then use to tell a story.

is a quick way of turning a poem, sentence or chunk of random text into a sequence of Flickr photographs.

Flickr is a fantastic site for sharing photographs with others, and as such it's also a brilliant resource for finding and using photographs to use in a lesson.

Fun facts and interesting history of languages. The Technology Development Group (TDG) is proud to present a one-stop information website dedicated to the world's most important and populous languages.

"Simmons presents a series of creative activities that have advanced her high school students' vocabularies and impressed on them the power of words."

free courses and documentaries

The British Library has made Lewis Carroll's handwritten and illustrated version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland available as an enhanced ebook.

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one of the finest collections of author/illustrator videos I've ever seen. It's a staggering - interviews of pretty much every key figure in modern children's literature. What you see below is just a fraction of their author video library. You can access the videos two ways:

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