Here is a site that gives notes to several famous writings. It is called enotes. If you use it as a reference the site shows specifically how to site it’s reference on your research paper. Here’s another exciting feature, it provides quizzes specific to the book! There are 3500 guides you can look through.

Here is a webpage from the AskOxford.com that discusses the history of our English Language.

Here is a site called Ask Oxford where there are many word games that can benefit anyone wanting to learn more about words.

Have you ever heard of a double negative in grammar? My mother used to get on to me if I spoke a double negative in a sentence. (I think one of my mother’s secret passions has to do with a love for the English Language and I inherited a love for words from her. My grandmother loved words too!)
Here’s a site that discusses it called LEO: Literacy Education Online
Here’s an example of wrong usage. See if you can fix it:
The pilot could not find nowhere to land.

2 tablespoons cream of tartar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon baking soda
Combine and store in an airtight container. Use in place of store bought baking powder.
Makes 1/4 cup
Holiday cooking season will be arriving soon. I used to go and buy among several other cooking items, baking powder. And then I would not use but one or two tablespoons of it. And then whenThanksgiving would come around again, I would check the sparsely used product hoping it was not outdated.
This year I’ve decided to cook more from scratch. I want to make some homemade cornbread and biscuits. It requires baking powder. I found this simple recipe on the internet. It is healthy (contain no aluminum powder) and will only make a small amount.

This is what everybody establishes in their mind, “Someone like a little elderly woman can no longer make an impact on the world.” This is not true in God’s eyes. If she is a dedicated praying Saint, God knows her heart and remembers well and ponders her requests to give reply.
Mother Teresa was like that. Please enjoy reading this story:
“When once a chairman of a multinational company came to see me, to offer me a property in Bombay, he first asked: ‘Mother, how do you manage your budget?” I asked him who had sent him here. He replied: ‘I felt an urge inside me.’ I said: other people like you come to see me and say the same. It was clear God sent you, Mr. A, as He sends Mr. X, Mrs. Y, Miss Z, and they provide the material means we need for our work. The grace of God is what moved you. You are my budget. God sees to our needs, as Jesus promised. I accepted the property he gave and named it Asha Dan (Gift of Hope).
You probably need this. Here’s some more advice:

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If we could only know the blessings that lie hidden in our trials
we would say like David, when Shimei cursed him (I Samuel 16),
“Let him curse; . . . it may be . . . that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day.”
–Streams in the Desert, Mrs. Charles Cowman, Back to the Bible website
WE cannot be useless while we are doing and suffering God’s will,
whatever it may be found to be.
And we can always do that.

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I just finished reading The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to my children. I loved it. It’s a classic that needs to be revisited a few times within a short time in order to get more of the rich details. It was perfect for reading in the “autumnal” (Irving’s word) time of the year.
Now I’m looking for more. I need the very best to read each week. Classics that will have themes similar to the season and upcoming holidays. I have found a few sites. I’m also looking for audio versions on the net.
Classic Short Stories
Christmas Short Stories
Bellaonline (Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen)

30 Ways to Study Spelling was taken from this Miss Gibson’s Fourth Grade Class website in Carrollton, Texas.
1. Write words in shaving cream
2. Make words with dried macaroni
3. Draw a picture of each word
4. Alphabetize the words
5. Create a word find

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“Grant, O Lord my God,
that I may never fall away in success or in failure;
that I may not be prideful in prosperity nor dejected in adversity.
Let me rejoice only in what unites us
and sorrow only in what separates us.
May I strive to please no one or fear to displease anyone except Yourself.
May I seek always the things that are eternal
and never those that are only temporal.
May I shun any joy that is without You
and never seek any that is beside You.
O Lord, may I delight in any work I do for You
and tire of any rest that is apart from You.
My God, let me direct my heart towards You,
and in my failings, always repent with a purpose of amendment.”
–St. Thomas Aquinas

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