Review+of+Lit+Plans

Teresa Lamar Lamar 1 Professor Edge 21 January 2007 Website Review The website //Literature Plans// ([|http://www.litplans.com]) is a wonderful resource for literature lesson plans and ideas. The lessons are posted by in-service teachers and college students and cover the most commonly taught authors. A majority of the materials are available for free, but the website also offers links to teacher resources for sale. However, materials for sale are relatively easy to avoid since their web address is usually [|http://amazon.com]. Another feature that //Literature Plans// offers is a list of other websites with annotations for quick references so if teachers are unable to find the materials they need, you can easily browse other sources. While the main page of the website is a daunting list of authors in paragraph form, //Literature Plans// is actually easy to navigate through a more manageable search link which list authors by their last initial. This website is an excellent resource for beginning teachers who have yet to accumulate a large database of available lesson plans and offers a more expedient way to search for lesson plans and teacher websites than most search engines such as Goggle.

Website Review: [|http://www.litplans.com]
 * __Overview:__** The website //Literature Lesson Plans// has two main resources: lesson plans and links to other sites for teachers. Although when the user first accesses the website it may appear daunting, it is actually rather easy to navigate. While the main page list many of the authors featured on the site, it is much more effective to search for an author than to attempt to find him or her within the list. Literature Lesson Plans offers both materials for free and for sale; however, users can avoid the priced items by simply looking for the moniker of Amazon.com listed next to the title. Although this site boasts over 30,000 lessons, if teachers are unable to find the materials that they need, they can simply click the link “sites for teachers” at the bottom of the main page to easily access numerous other sites for educators.


 * __Critique:__** While Literature Lesson Plans is a more simplistic site than many other websites, it allows the user to easily navigate its vast resources. The site is especially appealing to those who do not especially enjoy spending time on the computer! In addition, the website offers lesson plans for a large variety of works, not only those most commonly taught in middle school and high school.
 * __Are you there Yet?-__** The website Literature Lesson Plans can easily be identified by a overwhelming list of authors in blue.

for Middle School and High School English Teachers - [|LitPlans.com] //There are currently more than **30,000** listings in this directory.// [|//How to Use This Directory//]. . . [|Privacy] Click on a letter (above) or a [|popular author]'s **last** name (below). [|Chinua Achebe] //[|Lloyd Alexander]// [|Maya Angelou] //[|Anonymous - Beowulf]// [|William Howard Armstrong] //[|Margaret Atwood]// [|Jane Austen] //[|Avi]// [|Natalie Babbitt] //[|Lynne Reid Banks]// [|Misc Biography] //[|Judy Blume]// [|Ray Bradbury] //[|Charlotte Bronte]// [|Emily Bronte] //[|Pearl S Buck]// [|Eve Bunting] //[|Frances Hodgson Burnett]// [|Betsy Byars] //[|Albert Camus]// [|Lewis Carroll] //[|Willa Cather]// [|Geoffrey Chaucer] //[|Kate Chopin]// [|Agatha Christie] //[|Sandra Cisneros]// [|Beverly Cleary] //[|Andrew Clements]// [|James Lincoln and Christopher Collier] //[|Joseph Conrad]// [|Caroline B Cooney] //[|Robert Cormier]// [|Stephen Crane] //[|Sharon Creech]// [|Michael Crichton] //[|Chris Crutcher]//
 * __Website in a glance:__**
 * Literature Lesson Plans**, Teacher's Guides, and Study Guides
 * By Author's Last Name:**
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