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Meredith Stewart pulls together some TED Talks (Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference) that might provoke good discussion in the English classroom.

this site has links to excellent youtube videos demonstrating "talk like Shakespeare Day," April 23, Shakespeare's B-day

links to help celebrate Shakespeare's birthday, April 23

"Journal Submission Guidelines NCTE publishes twelve professional journals, including at least one for each membership section. Volunteer editors ensure that the peer-reviewed content is of the highest quality and is relevant to the lives of NCTE members and subscribers. Because these journals are all published through different volunteer editors, the submission guidelines vary for each: * Classroom Notes Plus * College Composition and Communication * English Education * College English * English Journal * English Leadership Quarterly * Language Arts * Research in the Teaching of English * School Talk * Talking Points * Teaching English in the Two-Year College * Voices from the Middle"

Handout based on a technique called Accountable Talk to teach students how to interact with one another in class.

Handout based on a technique called Accountable Talk to teach students how to interact with one another in class.

Luci Tapahonso (native American poet) talks about poetry in English and Navaho.

Luci Tapahonso (native American poet) talks about poetry in English and Navaho.

Create characters and get them to talk.

Voki is a resource that enables users to create a talking avatar a fun way to jazz up (dare I say pimp?) your blog.

One of the projects I enjoyed the most this term was the book talk videos created by one of our fifth grade classes.

We want the students to get back into reading books, talking about books and thinking the language of books

What are different ways of engaging adolescent boys in reading? Not book talks by TL. looking forward to ideas from you all

Shakespeare died almost 400 years ago, but if blogger Joe Muldoon had it his way, we would all still speak like the Bard. Muldoon talks about his op-ed, "We Can't All Be Shakespeare - But We Could Try to Be," which appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Great, a guy talking to you in animation

History of English (Source: A History of English by Barbara A. Fennell) The English language is spoken by 750 million people in the world as either the official language of a nation, a second language, or in a mixture with other languages (such as pidgins and creoles.) English is the (or an) official language in England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; however, the United States has no official language. Indo-European language and people English is classified genetically as a Low West Germanic language of the Indo-European family of languages. The early history of the Germanic languages is based on reconstruction of a Proto-Germanic language that evolved into German, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, and the Scandinavian languages. In 1786, Sir William Jones discovered that Sanskrit contained many cognates to Greek and Latin. He conjectured a Proto-Indo-European language had existed many years before. Although there is no concrete proof to support this one language had existed, it is believed that many languages spoken in Europe and Western Asia are all derived from a common language. A few languages that are not included in the Indo-European branch of languages include Basque, Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian; of which the last three belong to the Finno-Ugric language family. Speakers of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) lived in Southwest Russia around 4,000 to 5,000 BCE. They had words for animals such as bear or wolf (as evidenced in the similarity of the words for these animals in the modern I-E languages.) They also had domesticated animals, and used horse-drawn wheeled carts. They drank alcohol made from grain, and not wine, indicating they did not live in a warm climate. They belonged to a patriarchal society where the lineage was determined through males only (because of a lack of words referring to the female's side of the family.) They also made use of a decimal counting system by 10's, and formed words by compounding. This PIE language was also highly infl

Collection of words featured in gendered toy ads; reinforces boy / girl gender expectations Could be a nice tool for talking about media and/or gender with students

Talks about speaking with conviction... using declarative statements as opposed to interrogative sentences... this generation's use of language

Great opening! ("I have a vagina." Also balls! She's intersex.)

I once sat in on several classes taught by Keith Grove at Dover-Sherborn High School near Boston and noticed that such meetings were critical to his teaching; he had come to realize that the feeling of community (and active participation) they produced made whatever time remained for the explicit curriculum far more productive than devoting the whole period to talking at rows of silent kids.