http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-book-thief/English 11 Literature Though I am not co-teaching English 11 this year, here's some links for resources and study guides to help you through the year! If you need resources for additional novels not listed here, please stop by and let me know! this will give you chapter summaries, characters, objects/events for all the novels we cover this year. http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/rihanna23.shtml this is a song parody of the Scarlet letter, set to the song "Umbrella" by Rhianna.
http://www.tokillamockingbird.com/tkm/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Exhibit_Highlig ...this website is for Monroeville, AL--home of the author Harper Lee, this exhibit features refrences from the town, the movie, the novel http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/11/sunday/main6667444.shtml ...this is a story from over the summer--TKAM turns 50... http://www.biography.com/articles/Harper-Lee-9377021?part=1 ...biography of Harper Lee
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-book-thief/ ...this is a study guide with chapter summaries http://www.shmoop.com/book-thief/botw/resources?d=http://www.ushmm.org/ ...this is a link to the United States Holocaust Museum
Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s ...this website has info on Prohibition, Immigration, the 'New Woman'. http://prohibition.osu.edu/ ...this website has information on Prohibition (lots of great historical stuff)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/28/nyregion/20100128-salinger-map.html ... this website shows the locations in NYC of where Holden visits/has experiences throughout the novel http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/reasonsbanned/index.cfm ...this website discusses books on the 'banned book list' (Catcher being one of them)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001708/ ... website with information about ALS (disease that Morrie gets/deals with throughout the novel) http://mitchalbom.com/d/books/3856/tuesdays-morrie ...author's website that dedicates sections to Morrie and novel
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
