Online resources for Years 8 - 12: English & English Extension

There are a number of free websites and subscription databases containing online material, some full-text, for Australian literature works, biographies and criticism.

BlackWords researches and records a diverse range information about the lives and works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers and the literary cultures and traditions that formed and influenced them.

Explore the ways in which key 20th-century authors experimented with new forms and themes to capture the fast-changing world around them.

Discover 1,200 Romantic and Victorian literary treasures, new insights by 60 experts, 25 documentary films, 30 inspirational teachers’ notes and more.

This guide will assist you in finding reviews and analyses of novels, short stories, poetry, plays and films. It has a specific focus on the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) English and Literature texts. The content, though, will be helpful to anyone looking for hints on reading and responding to texts, or seeking links to commentaries, criticisms and plot overviews.

From the 11th century to the present day, follow the evolution of the English language and our literature decade by decade to uncover the richness and diversity of our poetry and prose.

Texts in Contexts unites a rich, yet disparate collection of over 400 texts: from the first English dictionary, to cook books, shopping lists and song lyrics, explore how language is changed by context and through time.

Publicly-available e-books including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents, and much more

Copyright Agency has developed Reading Australia to make significant Australian literary works more readily available for teaching in schools and universities. These works are being supplemented with online teacher resources and essays by popular authors about the enduring relevance of the works.

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: English, History and Visual Arts for Year 10 students and the Australian Curriculum: Visual Arts for Year 9. It uses examples of advertising and media drawn from the National Library of Australia’s exhibition The Sell: Australian Advertising 1790s to 1990s and looks at their influence over time.

Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch.

This page covers topics for the Poetry component of English. It provide access to information about Poets, poetry and poetry writing. Included are poetry collections, specific poets and their work and writing techniques for forms of poetry from nonsense verse to Haiku, ballads to cinquains, limericks to free verse.

This site is dedicated to showcasing contemporary Australian children’s poets and their work.

Tens of thousands of poems from hundreds of Australian poets, all free for you to view.

The EPC serves as a central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics at the University at Buffalo and on the Web at large.

Guide for the Study of Poetry featuring: phonetic pronunciation, cross references, broad range of definitions, numerous examples, a wealth of poetic quotations, writers' guidelines, hyper-linked keywords & cross references.

Listen to well-known figures perform readings of poetry by some of Britain and America’s most distinguished poets. Access audio recordings, interpretations of the poems, and explore the connections between the poets’ lives and their work.

Poetry.org is a resource site for poetry and poets. Here you can learn about the history, meaning, and types of poetry, as well as terms often used when reading and studying poetry.

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.

The Poetry Library is the most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry from 1912 in Britain. We are the major library for modern and contemporary poetry and are funded by the Arts Council England.

Collections of classic and contemporary poems to read, study guides and notes to help.

List of resources that will make teaching and learning about Shakespeare and fun and engaging experience.

The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

Explore Shakespeare’s plays in relation to the social, political and cultural context in which they were written, and in which they have been interpreted over the last four centuries.

These classroom resources were designed around six thematic strands: Shakespeare's Language, Shakespeare on Film, Performance, Primary Sources, Teaching Shakespeare to Elementary Students, and Teaching Shakespeare with Technology.

Dive into the rich world of Shakespeare with our full-text, interactive editions of his plays. myShakespeare replaces traditional footnotes with multimedia resources for the 21st-century student.

Biography of William Shakespeare and a searchable collection of works.

Shakespeare Online, a teaching aid used in classrooms all over the world.

Famous Quotes and Quotations from the plays of William Shakespeare.

The mission of the Shakespeare Resource Center is simple: help people who need to research Shakespeare.

Literature guides intended to be read along with the books they analyze.

Provides freely available Shakespearean audio performances online, for the benefit of educators, students, theatre people, the disabled, those in rural areas or overseas.

From Princeton University.

The complete list of Andersen’s 168 tales, in the chronological order of their original publication.

An index with brief explanations and bibliographies.

From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (a peer-reviewed academic resource).

Free download of eBook - Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton.

Guides contain summaries and critical analyses of topics related to schoolwork.

From Princeton University.

From Princeton University.

The discussion introduces a set of curriculum enhancements, which we call text transformations, that represent such alternatives.