Cool places to go on the web:

Language

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm - This is a great site to review grammar basics and take lots of quizzes on grammar skills-they even grade them for you.

http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/#57 - Doctor Grammar explains the difference betwee about a million pairs of commonly confused words.

http://www.mcwdn.org/grammar/nounsense.html - Although it's kind of basic, this site reviews the various types of nouns: common, proper, sigular, plural, concrete, abstract and collective.

http://www.studygs.net/ -More than just language, this site is resourse for how to do anything from organizing your time to becoming a more active learner. It is a list of articles on study skills any student will find helpful.

Poetry and literature

http://www.poets.org/ -Whether you know the poem/poet you are looking for or you are randomly searching, this is the site to get your verse on!

http://www.bartleby.com/ -Read War and Peace or Hamlet from your computer screen at Bartleby. The texts of a wide variety of fiction, mon-fiction, refrence and verse are also accessable on this site.

Finding a good book for outside reading

http://www.teachersfirst.com/lifelist.cfm -This is just a plain old a great list of books. I have read most of them and can help you decide which one is for you.

www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/bbya - This is a group of lists of the best new books for young adults compiled by the Young Adults Library Services Association.

http://www.teachersfirst.com/autoframe.htm?http://www.stanford.edu/~bkunde/best/bl-intro.htm - Here we have the more inclusive site from which the list two sites above came. You can arrange the book lists by ranking, author, title, or date of publication.