hs-lit-apps

= High School Literature Apps =

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Shakespeare
Complete works of Shakespeare; including plays, poems & sonnets. Concordance to search for exact or “relaxed” phrasing. Fact menu: biography, play chronology, play lengths (in pgs. w/ suggested conversion for time), largest roles by line totals, history of Elizabethan theatres, poetry glossary. Links to **[|playshakespeare.com]** reviews of current productions and podcasts.

This is an excellent reference app & a great way to access full text of Shakespeare's works for free. This would be a great app for students to add to their own iOS (available for both iPhone & iPad) & Android devices.

SwipeSpeare – Modern Shakespeare
This app translates the words of Shakespeare with a swipe of a finger from the original text to a more modern style. Also included is a dictionary to help with more translation activities. **(free/$29.99)**

Vocabology - Word of the Day
Help build your students’ vocabulary with this app. View the word of the day from several Internet sources. Also included a quiz game to test your students’ knowledge with words they have previously already learned.

YALSA's Teen Book Finder
This awesome app comes from the Young Adult Services Association (YALSA), those folks who promote young adult reading through high interest reading lists, annual national book awards, Teen Read Week & Teen Tech Week. This simple, yet robust, visuals of this app will appeal to teens as they are able to quickly browse for books they might like to read. Once teens’ find a book they might like to read they can Find It! at the nearest library (using WorldCat) &/or add it to a personalized booklist of Favorites. Search by author, title, award/list year, genre, by award, & by booklist.

This is one is recommend for high school students to add to their personal smartphones, so they can use all of the features and it’s always handy! It is currently available only on iOS, but is listed as coming to Android in late 2012. Thanks to the Dollar General Literacy Foundation for underwriting the funding. **(iPod - free)**

//Last Updated - April 2014//