Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Boy Drowns in Neighbor's Pool
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Boy Drowns in Neighbor's Pool" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills....
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Alliteration
This site fully explores the term "alliteration." Content includes a definition, examples in literature, and a look at why and how it has been used throughout literary history.
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Dutch and Neighboring Settlements, 1600s
A map of New Netherlands in the 1600's showing New Amsterdam and Dutch Fort (Albany) established in 1623, the English Settlements on the Connecticut River (Hartford) and the New Haven Colony, and the southern Dutch and Swedish...
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Good Neighbours
A short story about a little boy named Jack who decided to build a snowman. A link to vocabulary and reading comprehension questions is available.
Indiana University
Wolfert's Roost and Other Papers, Now First Collected
The 1855 edition of Washington Irving's essay collection Wolfert's Roost is provided in facsimile and can also be read in PDF and plain text form.
Other
Access Genealogy: Pequot Indian History
A description of the history of the Pequot Indians and their relations with their neighboring tribes and the early English colonists in New England.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: British India, 1880
A map from 1880 of Hindostan (India) after the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Rebellion of 1857), when the government of India, by act of Parliament, was taken out of the hands of the East India Company and vested in the English crown. The map...