Estill High School  

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Mission Statement

The mission of Estill High School is to prepare students to be successful, responsible citizens by providing challenging educational experiences.

Motto

Success and Nothing Less and Failure is not an Option

Program of Study

The School offers high academic standard programs

• Honors and College Preparatory Classes
• College Preparatory Courses
• Advance Placement English
• Career Technical Program

               --Child Care --Business Education--Culinary Arts  Auto Mechanics--Barbering--Education Agricultural Science--Cosmetology--Law Related Education

• June Mester: An enrichment program for high school student
• After School Tutoring
• College Summit- college planning
• ROTC
• Athletes - 1A Regional Champions Basketball/Football     

Principal:  WHO KNOWS!!!!!

Interim Principal:  Mr. David Corley

Asst. Principal: Mrs. Synetria Hawkins

Post Office Box 757

Estill, SC 29918

Telephone: (803) 625-5100

Fax: (803) 625-4695

Helpful Websites:

English Literature and Poetry Resources :

University of Adelaide
(This link contains an abundance of VERY helpful literature and composition sites!)
http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/guide/hum/english/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/oldindex.html

http://www.facinghistory.org/

Shakespeare:
http://www-tech.mit.edu/shakespeare/
A complete annotated guide to Shakespearean works and Shakespearean resources.

American Booksellers Association: Bookweb
http://www.bookweb.org/

Children’s Literature Web Guide
http://www.ucalgary.ca
David K. Brown’s excellent site at the University of Calgary continues to be the best in this area!

American Verse Project (University of Michigan)
http://www.hti.umich.edu/
The American Verse Project is an electronic archive of volumes of American verse prior to 1920. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included. The full text of each volume is available and is searchable.

Brown University's Women Writer's Project

http://www.wwp.brown.edu/

LSU’s Libraries Webliography
Literature Databases
Provided by Louisiana State University Libraries, this directory is an index of indexes. “It contains pointers to individual author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers.”

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (1901 edition)
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
This is database of quotations and is searchable by author and subject. Note the publication date!

MYTHOLOGY

Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/
An On-line encyclopedia of myths and legends.

Open a Door
http://www.showgate.com/medea/grklink.html
This site, selected as a valuable Internet resource for Great Books, contains information about Ancient Greek (Hellenic) sites on the WWW.

ELECTRONIC BOOKS, JOURNALS AND INDEXES

Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
An on-line archive of thousands of electronic texts that are not necessarily all within the public domain. Examine the various collections that include manuscripts and illustrations.

Project Gutenberg: Fine Literature Digitally Republished
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
Over 1700 works of Public Domain Literature and Reference works to use, read, quote and search. One of the original projects that utilized the Internet for sharing information.

Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/
Comprehensive collection or materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority, of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.

A Plus Research & Writing for High School and College Students Home Page
http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus

Writing Resources

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/lit-elements/

http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/revising.html

Publication Opportunities

http://www.teenink.com/

http://www.nextstepmagazine.com/NSMPages/home.aspx

http://www.skippingstones.org/

http://www.writerpublications.com/editions2.html