Imprints 11

Web Links

Essays

Choose a cluster:

• Persuasive
• Literary
• Personal
• Expository
• Biography

• Ken Dryden
  Students can visit the Leafs' official site for a biography of Dryden.
• Berard Returns
  Students can visit this Sports news site to read a feature on Berard's return to hockey. Ask students to debate a mandatory visor rule in the NHL.

• Lynn Coady
  This Web site for the Canadian Writer's Union includes a brief biography for Lynn Coady.

• Le Guin 1
  This site includes a biography, bibliography, articles, essays, and reviews. Encourage students to read at least two articles to increase their understanding of this author.
• Le Guin 2
  This is Le Guin's official site, which includes her comments on writing. Print out for students the article "On Despising Genres," and discuss Le Guin's viewpoint.
• Banned Books
  This site includes a chronicle of Freedom of Expression in Canada from 1914 to the present, included in the list are banned books and movies.

• Dyer Radio Biography
  This site includes a biography of CBC host Gwynne Dyer. Students will need to search this site for the biography. Dyer has numerous sites featuring his writings, which students can also look for.
• The Great War
  This PBS site on "The Great War" includes interviews, a timeline, and maps. Students can review the site, looking for information to help them understand the article.

• The Secrets of Easter Island
  This site is a good teachers' resource, including articles, maps, photos, other information, and links.

• Bacon
  This Web site covers the life and works of Sir Francis Bacon and includes resource links to other sites.
• Bacon and Shakespeare
  This is a good site to examine the Bacon is Shakespeare theory. Challenge students to use the Internet to research the documentation regarding Bacon being the creator of the Shakespearean works.

• E-mail Protocol
  This Web site is a good reference for using e-mail effectively. Ask students to conduct a survey on the use of e-mail among their family and friends.

• Steinem Biography
  Students can visit the National Women's Hall of Fame to access a Steinem biography.
• Ms. Foundation for Women
  This official Web site for the Ms. Foundation for Women offers many articles on women's rights. You may want to print out an appropriate article to accompany the study of "The Time Factor."

Literary
Joy (by Molly Peacock)

• Peacock
  This Web site includes a detailed biography for Molly Peacock, as well as an overview of her writing career.

• Elizabeth Bishop 1
  This Web site includes a detailed biography and links to works by Bishop. Print out other poems for students to analyse as Peacock has.
• Elizabeth Bishop 2
  The Vassar College Web site includes a biography for Bishop, who attended Vassar.

• Bantock
  This is the official Web site for Nick Bantock. Ask students to explore the site and assess the information he chose to include. Students can also read other excerpts from Bantock's biography.

• Plath 1
  This site includes a biography for Plath, and links to other interesting sites as well as text for several of her poems. Encourage students to read the biography and one poem.
• Plath 2
  This site includes a terrific collection of critical, historical, and biographical information for Plath. Encourage students to read one critical work on a Plath poem, and compare it to Peacock's critical analysis "Joy."

Personal
The Shack (by Margaret Laurence)

• Laurence
  This site provides links to information about and literary criticism of Laurence. Challenge students to use the information they find on the Internet to write a short story about Margaret Laurence's life.

• DeKay
  This Web site includes a very brief biography of photographer William DeKay, as well as examples of his work. Encourage students to read the notes that accompany these photos. Discuss how these photos compare to those in the Anthology.

• Holocaust Survivor
  This is the homepage of another holocaust survivor, Peter Avram Zukerman. Share some of its information with students to increase their understanding of what Faludy endured.
• Interviews with Survivors
  This Web site includes many interviews with Holocaust survivors. Interested students could read the entire text from one interviewee. (Students will find this material disturbing, and some may prefer not to read all of an interview.) Discuss why it's important for Holocaust survivors to recount the events that shaped their lives.

• Taylor
  This Web site provides a biography and career history for Taylor. Challenge students to use the Internet to find out about other Aboriginal Canadian playwrights. 

• Orwell 1
  This site includes an extensive Orwell biography as well as a list of selected works. Encourage students to read the information on this site and consider why Orwell wrote "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad."
• Orwell 2
  This site includes a biography with links to other appropriate sites.
• Essay by Orwell
  Students can read the essay on Politics by Orwell at this site.

Expository
Homage to Barcelona (by Marjorie Doyle)

• Doyle Radio Program
  Students can use this site for Doyle's CBC radio show to find out more about the author.

• Suzuki
  This is the David Suzuki Foundation Web site, which students can use to find out more about Suzuki and his work.

Biography
In Memory of W.O. Mitchell (by Fred Stenson)

• Stenson
  This site includes a brief biography for Fred Stenson, which students might read before they read the selection "In Memory of W.O. Mitchell."
• Mitchell Criticism
  This site includes a biocritical essay on Mitchell's work and life by Catherine McLay. The site includes archival material, including part of Mitchell's manuscript for Who Has Seen the Wind. Ask students to read some of the article and examine the layout of the site. They can comment on how effectively this combination of text and image works in a formal work. Would they want to do something similar in an essay of their own?

• Mann
  Students can examine Steve Mann's personal Web site and comment on its design and what it reveals about Mann. Ask students to search this site to locate information on Wearcams. Discuss the uses of a Wearcam.

• Mandela Profile
  Encourage students to read the information on Nelson Mandela on this site before they read the Anthology selection. They might use the links within this profile to find out more about references they do not understand.
• Mandela Speech
  This site includes Nelson Mandela's Inaugural address, May 10,1994. Ask one student to prepare and present the speech for the class.
• History of Apartheid
  Challenge students to research Apartheid starting with the information on this Web site. They can develop a list of appropriate sites and sources.