Awesome Library - 
This web site features links to various curriculum ideas, lessons, and subject areas.  You will find some usable ideas that can be adapted to various skill levels.

The Concord Review -
Since 1987, the Concord Review has been searching out and publishing exemplary history essays by secondary students. Their official Web site has sample essays, information on submissions, and a database of past issues.

Creative Writing for Teens -
Provided by the Mining Company, this site brings together creative writing links, information about writing techniques, and activities in a single place. Diane Dobbs is your guide to all that is creative writing on the Internet.

Credible Sources Count -
Distinguish between crdeible sources of information and those not so credible.

EBSCO -
This database contains full text articles from thousands of periodicals past and present. To access: username is "nvschools", password is "password".

Encarta -
This site has a number of options for students to use that includes: reference materials, homework help college choices, dictionaries, and Atlas's. It also has some French, German the UK information sites. To access: there is no username or password.

Grolier -
This database provides access to three online encyclopedias: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and The New Book of Knowledge. To access: username is "lock", password is "jaw".

Literature Resource Center -
This database provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. To access: user name is "las40683", password is "las40683.

MLA -
This is a professional site that offers students and teachers information about citing sources when documenting information for reports or for publication.

netTrekker -
netTrekker revolutionizes the way both students and educators use the Internet for academic research. By previewing and organizing the best web sites through a proprietary review and indexing scheme, netTrekker provides the fastest and easiest way to do academic research. netTrekker is the first product to integrate all these links in the taxonomy of a typical school curriculum. The added ability to save searches make this resource the first choice for school-related searches.

Only a Matter of Opinion? -
Introduces teachers, students and all interested to opinion pieces, with the purpose of encouraging all to write and to draw their own opinion pieces after instruction and research.

Palo Verde High School Library -
Access online newspapers, magazines, and research databases through the PVHS library site. You must have the Username and Password to access most databases.

Plagiarism Tutorial -
Help avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab -
This site is one of the most popular writing resources on the Web, and with good reason! From here, students can access research aides, online writing help, even English as a Second Language guides. Perhaps the most useful [art of the lab is its large repository of self-help documents for student writers.

SIRS -
This database contains full text articles from thousands of periodicals(magazines, newspapers, etc.) past and present. To access: customer number is "NV0181H", password is 89101.

Visual Thesaurus -
Visual Thesaurus is both an artistic exploration and a tool to explore, study, and analyze the structure of language. By displaying the interrelationships between words and meanings as spatial maps, the Visual Thesaurus translates language into a visible architecture. By Plumb Design. In addition to the Online Edition, you can download a Desktop Edition to use when you are not connected to the Internet. To learn more about how to use the Visual Thesaurus, you can take the Guided Tour.

The Writer's Center - 
An index/forum for publishing writing. Students often want to share their writing; this site offers the opportunity for larger audiences. 

Writing-World.com -
A truly comprehensive site for writers, offering information for beginners and market strategies for professionals, and covering a wide range of genres and categories for fiction and nonfiction writers. The site also offers breaking news, international resources, polls, columns, and more.