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Flannery O'Connor Website Evaluators Roslyn Gerkin – Ridge High School, New Jersey
Randall J. Heeres – Northern Michigan Christian High School, Michigan
Dolores Ellis-Young - CES/JDS, MarylandWebsite Reviewer and Compiler Chris Huber – on leave, Missouri Site Ratings1 = Poor 2 = Fair 3 = Good 4 = Excellent The Flannery O'Connor Collection
http://peacock.gac.peachnet.edu/~sc/foc.html "Stop here first." This comprehensive site, which taps Georgia College's Flannery O'Connor Collection is a "superb resource for students (grades 9+) and teachers." It
includes extensive bibliographies of print, film, and audio/visual works by and about O'Connor and relevant instructions about how to begin and conduct research on literature. Finally, one can find a variety of
biographical and critical materials: pictures of her, her cartoons, and important places in her life; links to essays on the author's works; a list of writers, artists, and other people who influenced her, 38 links to
other relevant sites and more.
Overall Rating: 4A Student's Guide to Flannery O'Connor
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/2188 "Love of the subject shines through" in this personal website containing reviews of O'Connor's short stories, theme paper topics, color photos, and books available
by and about her. Reviews include plot details which "commonly intrigue and/or confuse student readers." Paper topics are well focused and get at the heart of each story "but might be too leading for some
teachers' tastes." A fine touch is documentation of the site creator's pilgrimage to O'Connor's hometown.
Overall Rating: 3The Flannery O'Connor Museum
http://members.aol.com/hildegrd/oconnor/index.html This site "offers a unique collection." Seeking to focus on setting and theme in
O'Connor's work, student website creators have compiled such useful materials as: a watercolor interpretation of conflict in O'Connor's "Circle of Fire;" a list of O'Connor quotes from and about her works; a
scavenger hunt exercise about O'Connor's home state, Georgia; a list of rare words found in O'Connor's works, linked to definitions, usage information, and titles in which they appear; and a graph which plots the level
of pride and action in a typical O'Connor story; and a short list of links to worthy criticism.
Overall Rating: 3The Comforts of Home
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3966/ This site offers a chat room on O'Connor, biography, chronology, essays, and analyses. "Valuable links galore" are the highlight here. Concise but detailed
annotations help students and teachers locate materials. This site provides magazine articles and various papers about O'Connor. Most helpful are the links to, and lists of, O'Connor criticism available on the
Internet. Following the links sometimes leads to fairly dense reading, more often appropriate for advanced high school students, college classrooms, and teachers. Some of the work available here focuses heavily on
O'Connor's rendering of Christianity.
Overall Rating: 3 |
