Shmoop: better than Spark Notes, and teacher friendly!

Here’s the link to Shmoop that some of us were discussing… Literature, Poetry,
Civics, Biographies, US History, Shakespeare.
And I’m also including all teachers on this email so you all
can investigate this site for your teaching or your students’ use. Or for your
love of reading!
http://www.shmoop.com/
main site

This project by Ph.D. and Masters students at Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley (and other top universities) is recognized as great quality stuff. It would be better to recommend or
endorse this site instead of the other random stuff our students use doing
a Google search for quotes, study guides, notes, summaries, etc. Those include
Spark, Cliffs, PinkMonkey, GradeSaver, BookRags, GoodReads, (I did a search!)
and, believe me, they use them all the time! And the way you quiz on reading, there is no way they will stop reading your books.

There may also be books that you don’t have time to cover in
their entirety, or they don’t have time to read, but that can still be
introduced and discussed for comparison, etc. using Shmoop in creative ways.
Here is some more shmoop content:

http://www.shmoop.com/life-of-pi/
sample literature content
http://www.shmoop.com/kite-runner/allusions.html
allusions and cultural references
http://www.shmoop.com/teachers/
for teaching resources

I’m interested in ideas for how you may use this resource in
your teaching, or for your students to push them further.
I’d like to list this under Learning Resources on My
Louisville but I’m waiting for more feedback from you.

Pick a book you’ve never read and learn all about it on
shmoop this summer!