The following links are meant to help initiate any research you would like to do on the authors or works that we are studying throughout this unit.  Please don't feel that you are confined to these sites for your research, but rather look for more information through search engines and other methods.

http://www.pbs.org/katechopin/
This is PBS's website dedicated to the special program on Kate Chopin that was originally aired by this broadcast company on June 23, 1999.  This website offers many valuable resources, including an interview with Chopin's grandson and an interview with a noted Chopin scholar.  Also, you will find that the full text of The Awakening and various other works by Chopin are posted here.  There are some interesting links, but be careful because some of them are dead.
 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/profiles.html#2
This is an informative biographical site that gives overviews of various poets and writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman along with samples of their works and chronological info about their lives.  This site would provide a great starting point for research on certain authors.
 

McDougal Littell Online
This is the website provided for both you and your teacher by the makers of your textbook.  This site offers valuable resources for each unit in your book and has links to other sites with more specialized information.