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Architecture

Great Structures of the World
A gallery of the world's greatest structures
Castles on the Web
Everything you can imagine about castles... books, games, tours, facts, and more
Castles and Cathedrals of France

This site can plan your trip to visit your favorite castle.

A Digital Archive of American Architecture
Search by century, location, architecture, building types, or style for everything you want to know about American Architecture
Gothic Cathedrals

At this site you start by selecting a spot on the world map and discovering what types of architecture you might find there. See Mayan structures, Gothic cathedrals, or the Forbidden City in Beijing.

French Cathedrals

Numerous links to all favorite sites about churches and cathedrals. 

Cathedrals and Churches in France

Pictures of cathedrals and churches in France.

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Art

Art on the Web
This site provides users with a searchable database that includes 1200+ links on art and architecture categorized by broad subjects. 
Internet Art Resources 
This site contains over 6000 links with 1200 images.  It also includes links to galleries, museums, art shows, art schools, artists, and etc. 
History of Art and Architecture: Gothic
Featuring Gothic art and architecture from France, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, and more.  
Art Magick   
ArtMagick is a non-profit virtual art gallery displaying paintings from art movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries (for example, Symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau).
The site places an emphasis on displaying works of art by artists who have been forgotten or neglected in recent years. The majority of paintings on display have a mythological or literary subject matter.
Art History  This is an About.com site that provides links to numerous other valuable sites.  
Mark Harden's Artchive A site filled with information arranged by Movement. 
Artcyclopedia This site is set up to browse various artists by movement such as Dada, Pop Art, and Art Nouveau.  You can also search by subject such as Landscape Artists, or Medium such as muralists and sculptors.  
Smithsonian American Art Museum - The Smithsonian American Art Museum is dedicated to the preservation,
exhibition, and study of visual arts in America.
Art Lex - Great reference material in art, art history, art criticism, aesthetics, and art education.
Worldwide Art Gallery - Features International art, Australian art and more.  
Art History Resources on the Web  - Great resource for art from all time periods; you will find everything from Pre-historic art to 21st Century art.  

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Foreign Language

French Artists  at Artcyclopedia
This site is a very extensive resource for locating the french artist of your choice. They are listed chronologically. 
iLoveLanguages
This is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources of over 1600 links which have been hand-reviewed. 
NCWiseowl 
This site provides you with information concerning citations as well as an online encyclopedia for locating valuable information. You can also access the Lands and People encyclopedia.  It has a wealth of information regarding the people and their culture.  
About.com
This site provides excellent background information on the Alsace region of France. This site provides you links that will help you explore every aspect of the Alsace region. 
    
Nationmaster.com
This web site provides students with a great way to look up any subject they can think of and get great results with out too much effort. 
Web Museum   
Search for the artist of your choice by means of the alphabetic listing.
World Factbook 
Numerous French facts at a glance. 
French History 
A timeline of French History from Prehistory to the 20th Century 
Discover France
A site published by the French American Cultural Foundation. 
History of France 
An online encyclopedia that is very user-friendly.  

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Latin

Ancient / Classical History : This site contains some valuable links to Roman Literature and Roman writers.   
The Latin Library  This site has an entire list of Latin writers from which to choose.  
Forum Romanum (requires Bess override)  This site is an up-to-date index of all text and translations currently available. There are also links to information about daily life, art / architecture, history and more. 
Roman Art and Architecture This site has valuable information about the architecture, sculpture, and paintings of the Ancient City of Rome. 

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Museums

Web Museum
National Gallery of Art 
The Sistine Chapel, Vatican City 
The Louvre
The Museum of Modern Art 
Art Institute of Chicago 
The Van Gogh Museum (requires Bess override)
The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Art Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art

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English 

For grade level specific units see these links:

English I - 9th grade English II - 10th grade
English III - 11th grade English IV - 12th grade

For general English sites, see the following links: 

Online Literary Criticism Collection
This site is maintained by the Internet Public Library. It is browsable by author, title, and literary period for British and American literature. It contains over 1,000 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.  
Authors on the Web
A collection of biographical sketches that can be searched by author's name
MLA Writing Style
Sample items in the correct MLA format
Project Gutenberg
The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
This site offers Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community. 
Strunk's Elements of Style
A great resource to use when combining the study of literature and composition.  It gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. 
Pink Monkey 
This site offers chapter by chapter notes on just about any literary work. 
(located by Sarah S.)

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Music

The Music Heritage Network Instrument Encyclopedia
This site encourages interest among a broad community of users in the role of musical instruments as an integral part of culture, to create a digital resource that are accessible in many contexts by diverse users, and to play a role in multicultural education and outreach using multimedia technologies.