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Resources - Interactivity - Open Source






OpenClass will gradually extend this collection of useful links and lesson ideas. You are very welcome to send us your suggestions and contributions.
Literary periods:
Literature
- How to read fiction?
- Where to find lyrics?
- Literature online
- Literary analysis: Novelguide
- Literary analysis: Sparknotes
- Literary Encyclopedia

Lesson Plans: Literature
- 'Animal Farm' (G. Orwell)
- 'The Catcher in the Rye' (Salinger)
- 'The Fifth Child' (D.Lessing)
- 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd
- - The site
- - 'Mother' (questions)
- USA: Literature/background
The UK: Background
- Magna Carta: The Great Charter
- The Agricultural Revolution
- The Industrial Revolution
- - Some external sources
- Immigration + Ethnicity
- - Open Questions
- - Multiple Choice
- - Translation Norw/English 1
- - Translation Norw/English 2

- A-Z of Parliament (BBC)
- - Government (open quest.)
- General Elections
- - Open Questions
- - Multiple choice
- 2010 Election Manifestos
The U.S.A.
- The Declaration of Independence
- History of the U.S.A.
- - North vs. South (open quest.)
- - Civil War (open quest.)
- - Reconstruction (open quest.)
- - After Reconstruction (groups)
- - 20th Century (open quest.)
- - 'I have a Dream' Martin L. King

- Simple guide to US Government
- Learn about the USA
- - The States of the USA
- The Presidential election
- The Electoral College
- The Democratic Party
- The Republican Party

- President Bush :)
- - The President on YouTube
- Political jokes :)
- Democrats vs. Republicans :)

- Immigration: A Timeline (brief)
- The Cherokee Trail of Tears
Miscelleaneous:
- More links (see: English)
- Search engines
- Norw/English dict.
- English/English
- Grammar
- Thesaurus

- Bartleby ***
- Wikipedia
- Britannica
- Caplex (Norwegian)
- Encarta
- Infoplease
- Questia Library

- Atlas
- Multimap

- Merriam-Webster
- Translator #1
- Translator #2
- UK - Statistics
- US - Statistics
- Newspapers: UK
- Newspapers: US

- Process writing

Translations Norw/Eng
- Grammar + peculiarities
- Vocabulary training