English+III+-+Reading+Card+-+Quirk

[|SIRES Issues Researcher]
Provides **//newspaper, magazine, and reference articles//**. You can search using Quick Search, Advanced Search and Topic Search. Also, check the list of topics listed on the home page to discover if your topic is listed. If it is, click on it as it is a link to relevant articles. This database will provide numerous contemporary articles that relate to the characters, conflicts, issues and themes covered in this assignment.

[|ABC-CLEO American History]
This database will provide information about your theme. To use it, type your search into the Quick Search Box or select ERAS from the tool bar at the top.

[|Student Resources in Context]
This database can to find //**newspaper and magazine articles**// as well as information on your theme.

[|The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavers County]
by Mark Twain This Web site discusses major characters and themes.

[|The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - text]
This Web site provides the text to Mark Twain's short story.

[|Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address]
Full text of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address plus an explanation of what it means. The author of this web site illustrates how the Gettysburg Address would sound if it were delivered in modern day English.

[|I Will FIght No More Forever]
by Chief Joseph This Web site has the full text of the speech plus some background information.

[|An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge]
by Ambrose Bierce Full text of story.

[|An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]
by Ambrose Bierce

===[|Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave] === Full Text Preface by William Lloyd Garrison The text is broken into chapters  [|Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave] Themes 