Curriculum Documents

• The Ontario College of Teachers - link to the OCT website where you can find information on the Standards of Practice, among other things
• http://www.curriculum.org/ -link to the Curriculum Services Canada site, with links to the Ontario Curriculum page and the related Course Profiles and Ministry Documents

Department Information

• Please consult the Dr. Denison English Department Policies page for specific details regarding Learning Skills, Assignment Due Dates and Plagiarism.
• At Dr. Denison, students in the English Department use the Modern Language Association style guide. A Style Guide for students of English at Dr. Denison is available at the following link:  Style Guide for English Students at Dr. Denison

Style and Structure Resources

• A great resource is the online writing lab (OWL) at Purdue University. This site has great tutorials as well as reference pages for essay writing and links to MLA documentation information. Bookmark this one. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
• The only officially sanctioned Modern Language Association guide for citations is available at http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm . This is a great place to go for difficult citation issues.
• Daily Grammar *A daily grammar review site which will email you grammar issues/problems to consider. Fun for Mr. Zantingh!

Literacy

• EQAO Student Resources Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test - Resources, including test samples and exemplars for the Grade 10 OSSLT
• Think Literacy Links:
  Below are links to the different sections of the Ministry Think Literacy document in PDF format:
  • Preface
  • Reading Strategies
  • Writing Strategies 
  • Oral Communication
  • Appendices
• There are more great graphic organizers in the Think Literacy style at the following website: http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
  

Interactive Software and Games

• http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/ This is the link to the Hot Potatoes software package that we've used to design the interactive review games for courses like ENG4U. The software is free to educators, so provided that you have a relatively "new" computer, you should be able to download and play with this at home.
• http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/quiz/ A link to an MSN site which offers lots of interactive grammar, vocabulary, spelling and literature quizzes.
• readwritethink.org has lots of interactive features for teachers and students. There are lots of "graphic organizers" available here as well. This is one of the best online sites available for helping with the teaching of English through technology.

Creative Writing and At Risk Students

• Power Point Presentation for Literacy Plus Teachers
  *all of the links to exemplars on the Power Point presentation may not be working, but there are links you can explore on the English Webpage.
• Try the Denison Reads link to see the Book Club stuff for Grade 9 through 12

PowerPoint Resources

• Geoff Day at OISE created these two sites for teachers who are interested in using PowerPoint in their classes. There are some great templates and ideas here!
  • The original site:
    http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~gday/PPT1
  • A more recent one with more advanced uses:
    http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~gday/ECOO2005/index.htm
• Follow this link to a Jeopardy PowerPoint Template. This can be used to design PowerPoint review activities.
  

Etymology

• If you're looking for a friendly and fun etymology site, check out http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm

General Sites

• A general site which has a lot of fun resources on a wide range of topics. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/index.html
• A site which has lots of puzzle generators and even "essay" generators is discoveryschool.com.
• Follow this link to a list of English Department Sites from Universities across the world.
• Follow this link to FlamingText.com, a site which provides lots of free buttons for website development
• Follow this link to an online tutorial on using Frontpage