American Rhetoric 
The American Rhetoric Web site is dedicated to Public
Communication of all kinds and includes a Speech Bank, Rhetorical Figures in
Sound, Movie Speeches and more. It feature "The
Top 100 Speeches," considered "the most significant speeches in
American history" according to leading scholars and compiled by two
researchers in the field. Users can view speeches by rank or decade, as well as
by categories.A full-text transcript is available for each speech and an MP3
audio file is available for most.http://www.americanrhetoric.com
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Definr.com
Definr.com is a fast, free dictionary based on Princeton's open WordNet 2.0. http://definr.com/
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Dialogue - The Wilson Center 
Dialogue is an award-winning weekly radio
program that explores the world of ideas through weekly, half-hour
conversations with renowned public figures, scholars, journalists, and
authors. Since 1988, Dialogue has offered its listeners informed
discussion on important ideas and issues in national and international
affairs, history, and culture – providing commentary that goes beyond
the superficial analysis presented in many of today's talk shows. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=dialogue.more_info
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Google Lit Trips
This
site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different
way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the
greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more! http://googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html
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High School Journalists Toolbox
Extensive list of resources from American Press International
http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/toolbox/high_school_journalism/high_school_journalism/
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Internet Public Library TeenSpace
Writing and Research resources from the Internet Public Library. http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/aplus/
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LibriVox
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public
domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all
public domain books available as free audio books. http://librivox.org/
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Lit2Go
Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3
(audiobook) format. http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
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Make Beliefs Comix
Our best educators and parents understand that playing is
learning. Teachers can use this comic strip game to encourage students to
improve language, reading, storytelling and creative skills. For those who
teach young and old how to read and write, and to learn English or to speak a
second language, MakeBeliefsComix.com can be an invaluable resource in
achieving these objectives. In fact, Google and UNESCO selected MakeBeliefsComix
as one of the world’s most innovative web sites in fostering literacy and
reading.
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National Gallery of Writing
The National Gallery of Writing is a virtual space—a website—where
people who perhaps have never thought of themselves as writers—mothers,
bus drivers, fathers, veterans, nurses, firefighters, sanitation
workers, stockbrokers—select and post writing that is important to
them. The Gallery accommodates any composition format—from word
processing to photography, audio/video recording to text messages—and
all types of writing—from letters to lists, memoirs to memos.http://www.galleryofwriting.org/
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OttoBib
Make a bibliography. It's free, easy and OttoMatic.http://ottobib.com/
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Professional Cartoonists Teachers' Guide
This is the Teachers' Guide for using the Professional
Cartoonists Index web site in your classes. We have developed lesson plans for
using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art,
Journalism and English at all levels --click on the icons to the left to visit
our lesson plans. http://www.cagle.com/teacher/
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Resources for Teens
http://www.davidbarrkirtley.com/teenwriter/TeenResources.html
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Spelling City
SpellingCity is a free online spelling program to help improve spelling skills. It contains over 28,000 spelling words, including plurals, contractions, future and past tenses and uses a real human voice that says both the word and the word in a sentence. This spelling program provides spelling practice for spelling help at home or school. http://spellingcity.com/
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TeenLit.com
We're proud to provide free online publishing of Teen Writing.We currently publish poetry, essays, short stories, and book reviews from Teen
Writers. We're always open to adding new genres and ideas, too. Our published works are now organized by month, so please feel
free to browse through any of the months listed to the left. Each
page also contains its own table of contents. http://www.teenlit.com/#
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The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied provides instruction in basic grammar, sentence
structure and word choice, as well as rules for punctuation according to the
Associated Press Style. http://www.grammaruntied.com/  
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Visuwords
VisuwordsTM online graphical
dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other
words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how
words associate. VisuwordsTM uses Princeton University's
WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language
researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a
combination of modern web technologies, VisuwordsTM is available as
a free resource to all patrons of the web. http://www.visuwords.com/
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Web English Teacher
At Web English Teacher educators can take advantage of
online technology to share ideas and to benefit from the work of others.
Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find
inspiration. Think of it as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a
global scale.http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
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Wordle
Wordle is a toy for generating
“word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds
give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently
in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different
fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
The images you create with Wordle are yours
to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them
to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. http://www.wordle.net/
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World Lecture Hall 
World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language. Some courses are delivered entirely over the Internet. Others are designed for students in residence. Many fall somewhere in between. In all cases, they can be visited by anyone interested in courseware on the Internet - faculty, developers, and curious students alike. http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/browse.cfm
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World Wide Words
Everything about words! http://www.worldwidewords.org/
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