Reading opens windows to the world around you and allows insight to ideas within you.  Learn to enjoy reading and you'll never be bored by yourself or with the world around you.  This year we'll read many selections of classic and young adult literature together in class.   Use this page to find information regarding our class readings, or go further and research some of your own readings for enjoyment and greater understanding.

• Young Adult Lit. Page   --  a beautifully designed page with info regarding everything to do with young adult literature.

• Awesome (English) Library  --   resources & info on all language arts topics: including reading, writing, ESL, public speaking....

• Mark Twain  --  America's greatest writer/humorist/storyteller?  I think so.

• William Shakespeare  --  a scholarly page on the English Bard.

• Edgar Allen Poe  --  the master of the short story and the grotesque.

• Langston Hughes  --  the Harlem Renaissance's great jazz poet.

• Sandra Cisneros  --  more resources on the Chicana author of "The House on Mango Street" and other novels, poems & essays.

• It's a Wonderful Life   --  Info & study guide questions to Frank Capra's beautiful film.

• Who are the poets?   -- Slides on various poets studied in class.