LibGuides: Grade 12: English: Reading and Literature Studies

Suggested Databases

Britannica High School Edition This link opens in a new window
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Audacity - Downloadable Audio Editor and Recorder This link opens in a new window
Books & Authors This link opens in a new window
Canada in Context This link opens in a new window

Idea Sketch
Idea Sketch is a free app that lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Idea Sketch for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more!
Popplet
With Popplet, you can add pictures, texts and ideas to organize your thoughts in a visual way.

Inspiration software

Don't forget the Inspiration software found on all UCDSB computers.

This program is for visual learning:

graphic organizers, concept mapping, mind mapping, outlining, webbing, and plots and graphs.

Logins for all VLC databases are on the back of the VLC Bookmark.

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Search terms for Grade 12 English in Destiny

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
ISBN: 0156030209
Publication Date: 2004-05-03
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
ISBN: 9780670024780
Publication Date: 2014-01-07
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 9780385490818
Publication Date: 1998-03-16
The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
ISBN: 9780743247542
Publication Date: 2006-01-17
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant.
Monster by Walter Dean Myers; Christopher Myers (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0064407314
Publication Date: 2004-12-14
Author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. Thisbook shows how one single decision can change our whole lives.
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
ISBN: 9780451163967
Publication Date: 1963-02-01
A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse.