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Below is a list of the URL's referred to in "KS3 English Kit - Year 8". Note that, as the internet is a fast-changing medium, some of the URL's may already be out of date.
UNIT 1
Selections of folk and fairy tales can be found at:
http://www.clubi.ie/lestat/godsmen.html
http://members.nbci.com/darsie/tales/
Research urban legends by visiting http://www.urbanlegends.com/. This contains a comprehensive selection grouped by category. Also worth visiting are the Urban Legends Reference Pages at http://www.snopes.com/
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/3119/urbanlegend.html - information about the film "Urban Legend".
http://www.mysterymag.com/html/croglin_vampire.html - background information about the story of the Croglin vampire.
UNIT 2
http://192.41.13.24/artchive/p/piranesi - more of Piranesi's engravings.
Download Colossal Cave from "Adventure on the Web" at:
http://tjwww.stanford.edu/adventure/
http://people.delphi.com/rickadams/adventure/index.html - includes some interesting articles, a history of "Colossal Cave" and - useful whichever version you decide to use - hints and maps to help you through the game.
http://www.helikon.com/Personal/Pete/Advents/arctitle.html - a text adventure archive.
http://www.netcolony.com/arts/dungeons/ - this site is down at the moment, though a shorter version of the HTML version of "Hildebrand's Dungeons" is included in these pages along with the full version in Qbasic.
See also http://users2.50megs.com/poetryfun for similar interactive poems.
UNIT 3
www.rdg.ac.uk/globe - information about the Globe theatre.
http://www.field-of-themes.com/shakespeare/shakesum.htm - summaries of Shakespeare's plays, free essays, etc.
UNIT 4
Theories about time travel can be found at:
http://freespace.virgin.net/steve.preston/Time.html
http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/timetravel.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8169/ - information about the science
fiction genre.
http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Features/Nostradamus.shtml - background information and a list of links.
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