English 10 : Text Types

This link will take you to all of the databases that the ASD libraries subscribe to. For login information, see the secure document below.

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"Welcome to the Letters of Note website, an online museum of correspondence which has been celebrating the humble letter since 2009."

"Diaries of Note is a daily celebration of the diary—one of the most intimate, therapeutic, and revealing forms of writing imaginable—and a regular opportunity to see how people have attempted to memorialise and make sense of their lives throughout the ages."

"Find inspiration for your letter of solidarity by reading these 9 famous letters from history…"

"During the First World War, letter writing was the main form of communication between soldiers and their loved ones, helping to ease the pain of separation."

Follow this link or download the SoraApp to access the library's ebook collection. Sign in with Google.

Use your school account. You can look at the featured interviews, or search for someone specific.

Rolling Stone is famous for interviewing musicians and other celebrities. You can search for "Rolling Stone interviews" in Google and see what comes up. Or you can add someone's name to the search. Or you can go to Sora and open individual issues of Rolling Stone and see who was interviewed.

Vanity Fair is a magazine that's famous for its interviews. You can search for their interviews in Google, or you can look at various issues in Sora.

New Yorker is another magazine famous for its interviews. Search for "New Yorker interviews" online, or look at individual issues on Sora.

"Fresh Air with Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley is a nationally recognized radio program and podcast, featuring in depth conversations exploring a wide variety of popular culture, news and issues." Once you choose an interview, you can find the written transcript as well as listen to it.

You might need to create a free account to read them.

"The Talks is a weekly updated online interview magazine. Every week The Talks publishes an interview and portrait with a leading creative voice of our times, a curated selection of interviews with personalities from the fields of art, film, fashion, music, and sports."