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This is proof that high quality prose and poetry can pop up in the most unlikely places. Thousands of people have used Amazon's page selling a peculiar product to demonstrate their writing skills. The web allows for interesting forms of Internet graffiti.

The main politics page for CNN. Useful for finding out what's new in the world of politics.

The home page of the Norton Anthology, a popular educational resource for high school English classrooms. It offers illustrations, links to related websites, potential essay questions/paper topics as well as questions to promote students' critical thinking.

This is an excellent resource page that teachers can use to get links to information about literature, grammar, poetry, tests, standardized tests, writing, reading, and this is just the beginning.

This page offers validation for students' partaking in AP level courses in high school for fiscal reasons. What I find interesting is the process that some schools have for putting kids into AP classes-is this fair? It's definitely something to think about, especially since it glosses over other merits to AP level classes, such as critical thinking.

Unique one liners that will cause students to think a little deeper in terms of language

A really cool blog by a teacher in a low-income area. This link will bring you to the page on his blog where he has a bunch of other links to teaching activities.

This seems like a great web resource for teachers who are looking for ideas and news related to current education, including pages on lesson planning, professional development, technology integration, and more.

A great resource page that offers free leasson plans and ideas for classroom projects. It also includes chatboards for teachers and a listing of current job openings for teachers.

Allows users to browse every aspect of education.

Teacher.Net is a website that offers helpful information for teachers, such as job opportunities, lesson plans, and other tools.

This website offers a great list of lesson plans for teaching high school English. They are a great place to start when brainstorming what types of activities to do for a text. It is especially helpful in regards to teaching grammar.

This page offers over 4,000 free English lessons for middle school and high school students. It could be extremely resourceful.

This site provides A LOT of lesson plans, for each content area, grade, etc. The site breaks up the lesson plans into sections as well, including poetry, reading comprehension, writing, etc. A great tool to gain some ideas for lesson plans in the future.

This website is a branch of about.com. It updates often and is a great place for articles on general teaching issues. These issues can include lectures vs discussion, and how to integrate technology in the classroom. The page also includes links to several other helpful teaching cites.

I think this is very helpful, from lesson planning to what to do during a fire drill this website has blogs, new, and postings designed to prepare us for secondary education

This is another page from webenglishteacher, and it lists seriously any author you would ever teach in your class. Click on an author, and instantly it points you to different lesson plan ideas about that author. So cool.

A page where actual teachers personally voice their opinions on which way is the most effective way to teach ELLs.