Shmoop is a digital publisher that has made its mission to make learning more fun and relevant for students in the digital age. Shmoop makes digital study guides which can be read on their website, on your Kindle and now even on your iPhone or iTouch.
Shmoop has study guides in Literature, history and poetry written by educators and experts. To make learning more phone they incorporate pop culture references and trivia. Each study guide is extremely thorough, much more so than a printed book could ever be.
The addition of iPhone and iTouch apps to Shmoop just occurred and right now only Literature study guides are available as apps. The guides cover the same areas in literature as they do online: Story summaries, quotes, plot analysis, characters, themes, symbolism and literary devices and study questions. The iPhone app also adds a quiz game that is not available elsewhere.
Shmoop study guides are very inexpensive to purchase. They are $2.99 each on the Kindle and just $.99 each for the iPhone/iTouch. If your teens do all their work at home, they can use the online guides for free. However, the Kindle and iPhone apps might be worth it for the portability they will give your teens.
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