Additional Links

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_A.html
http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
http://www.mentors.ca/mp_writers.html pairings of artists with mentors, ie. Toni Cade Bambara and Toni Morrison
http://utbluesteye.terapad.com/resources/9549/uploadedFiles/Rosenberg.pdf comparison of Toni Morrison and Richard Wright
http://www.nationalgreatbooks.com/pdf/HanleyIndividualandtheCommunity.pdf pairing of "Almos a Man" and other
short story; other pairings
http://hti.math.uh.edu/  ideas and lessons from Houston Teacher's Institute

http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/APS/hispanicamerican/biography.html sandra cisneros
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/amliterature/amliterature.htm  teaching about Jim Crow ; lessons on Toni Morrison 
http://www.cateweb.org/california_english/ce_2004_fall.htm#poem good ideas for dealing with the "N" word and teaching Toni Cade Bambara's " The Wall"

Webster's Dictionary-http://www.merriam-webster.com/

http://www.edb.utexas.edu/resources/booksR4teens/book_reviews/book_reviews.php?book_id=37 Useful activities and lessons for Toni Cade Bambara

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1999/1/99.01.11.x.html - Women Writers and the Contemporary Short Story unit plan from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
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http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/wright.html - an on ongoing project by Paul C. Reuben. This links provides background information about Wright as well as a bibliography.

http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/wright_richard/ hosted by the University of Mississippi. 

http://archive.itvs.org/richardwright/

Dr. Clark Closser at Missouri State University provides a free lecture series on iTunes. The Richard Wright lecture is 22 in the series. 

Basho's haiku poem(s) about coming of age-http://thegreenleaf.co.uk/hp/basho/00bashohaiku.htm
OWL Purdue Site examples writing-http://128.210.82.236/owl/section/1/