Eserver
E Server: The Thoreau Reader: "Civil Disobedience" Part 1 of 3
This is the annotated text of Part 1 of "Civil Disobedience," an essay by Henry David Thoreau. The essay, written in 1849, is about following your conscience.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Read Strategically: Retain New Words
This instructional activity focuses on strategies to retain new words such as reading voraciously, use a good dictionary and thesaurus, use new words, and learn a new word every day. It also provides an annotated biography of resource...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate for Meaning (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on annotation including the tools and techniques for marking texts, annotating for meaning in a story, and adding marginal notations to your marked text.
New York University
New York University: Literature Annotations: The Idiot
Sponsored by a multi-disciplinary Medical Humanities program at The University of New York School of Medicine, this brief summary/commentary focuses on the medical aspects of Dostoevsky's "The Idiot."
New York University
Literature Annotations: The Magic Mountain
This thorough summary of the novel also includes a brief commentary on the book as a whole, and Thomas Mann's experience writing it.
MadSci Network
Mad Sci Network: Visible Human: Annotated References
A collection of transverse and coronal views of the internal anatomy of the human body. The webpage also has a keyword search for specific organs.
Other
Hamlet Haven: Annotated Bibliography
This extensive and well-organized site will be a help to anyone writing about Shakespeare's famous prince. Some articles are full text, others are citations with abstracts, and all are scholarly and well-indexed.
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Twenty Second Amendment
Read the text of the Twenty-second Amendment and explanatory annotations.
Duke University
California Gold: The Diary and Letters of James M. Burr
Wonderful primary resource on the California Gold Rush. Read actual letters and a diary--with explanatory annotations--by a prospector from 1850-1853.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Chestnut Tree
This annotated slideshow adapted from KET's Electronic Field Trip to the Forest illustrates how blight decimated the American chestnut tree and the methods scientists use to identify and pollinate the remaining trees to create...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: A Photo Essay on the Great Depression
Series of annotated photographs that document the realities of Depression-era America.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Supreme Court Rules on School Desegregation
This thoughtful unit explores the history of school desegregation legislation, including a discussion of the impact of the Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education decisions. A six-week plan of lessons, along with other sample...
Library of Congress
Loc: Main Reading Room: Literary Criticism
This is an annotated list of reference websites for literary criticism.
University at Buffalo
Info Poland: German Invasion of Poland
Annotated links to Poland-related information provides extensive information through articles, websites and reference pages on the German invasion of Poland and occupation during WWII.
Luminarium
Luminarium: Middle English Lyrics
This website provides links to full texts of Middle English song lyrics, which are illustraed with illuminated manuscript art and fully annotated. Links to essays, articles, and related resources.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Teaching With News: Resource Guide on the Terrorist Attacks in Paris
Multi-media learning resource provides an annotated list of online sources that may be helpful for approaching some key aspects of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Lone Star Junction
Lone Star Junction: Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest
The complete text of the 1952 version of this book by J. Frank Dobie. Chapters are thematic collections of annotated lists of books on different aspects of Southwestern culture and history, e.g., Texas Rangers, mountain men, and the Pony...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: One Man's History in Wood: The John Mc Crea Collection
Explore this collection of models created by artisan John McNeely. The exhibit features furnishings, homes, and buildings used by Ontario pioneers. Excellent annotations accompany each artifact.
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Rti: Research for Practice
This annotated bibliography, published by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE), is a compilation of research about RTI. The authors Amy-Jane Griffiths, Lorien B. Parson, Matthew K. Burns, Amanda...
University of Washington
University of Washington Campus Library: Immigration Act of 1965 [Pdf]
Find the text of the Immigration Act of 1965 along with annotations about the legislation.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Landslide Animation
There has been 5,741 recorded rainfall triggered landslides worldwide between 2007-2013. Watch this animation by NASA that shows how rainfall over a slope causes ground saturation that triggers a landslide. Also, examine an annotated...
Other
Peacock: The Round Table; Or King Arthur's Feast
Annotated full text of Peacock's story "The Round Table; or King Arthur's Feast."
Other
Louis L'amour: Photo Gallery
Extensive collection of annotated photographs of L'Amour. Many bear his personal caption.
Other
Jss Virtual Gallery: John Sargent Thumbnails 1896 Thru 1897
This site from the JSS Virtual Gallery is a nice website showing the artwork of John Singer Sargent from 1896 to 1897. Includes images of "Gabriel Faure," "Mrs. Carl Meyer and her Children," "Mrs. George Swinton," and "Catherine Vlasto."...