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Stu's Quiz Boxes! - 10 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 30 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 30 Sep 10
     
    Make review games for your interactive white board with Stu's Quiz Boxes.
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10 Ways to Celebrate Banned Books Week With The New York Times - NYTimes.com - 6 views

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  • Dana Huff on 25 Sep 10
     
    Held annually during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of intellectual freedom and draws attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted banning of books across the United States, including books commonly taught in secondary schools. Here are ideas for celebrating Banned Books Week -- with your students, your children and anyone who believes in having "the freedom to read."
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Zoho Writer - Choosing the Extended Essay2007 - 6 views

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  • Dana Huff on 23 Sep 10
     
    St. Columba's College English department's transition year extended essay assignment is a great project.
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Gene Weingarten - Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me. - 7 views

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  • Dana Huff on 22 Sep 10
     
    The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. It succumbed last month at the age of 1,617 after a long illness. It is survived by an ignominiously diminished form of itself.
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George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946 - 5 views

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  • Dana Huff on 22 Sep 10
     
    Orwell's advice to writers.
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Kindle for Mac - 1 views

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  • Rick Beach on 18 Sep 10
     
    Free Kindle for Mac to access Kindle books: requires OS 10.5 or above.
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Beta.BookLamp.org - 9 views

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  • Dana Huff on 10 Sep 10
     
    BookLamp.org matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music.
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xkcd: The Carriage - 8 views

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  • Dana Huff on 07 Sep 10
     
    Grand Theft Auto: The Emily Dickinson Edition. This cartoon from xkcd made me laugh. Enjoy!
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An Introduction to Critical Thinking - 12 views

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shared by Leigh Newton on 02 Sep 10 - Cached
  • "It is strange that we expect students to learn, yet seldom teach them anything about learning."
  • "We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think."
  • "Many 17-year-olds do not possess the 'higher-order' intellectual skills we should expect of them. Nearly 40 percent cannot draw inferences from written material; only one-fifth can write a persuasive essay; and only one-third can solve a mathematics problem requiring several steps."
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  • Critical thinking can be described as the scientific method applied by ordinary people to the ordinary world.
  • Critical thinking is a learned ability that must be taught. Most individuals never learn it. Critical thinking cannot be taught reliably to students by peers or by most parents. Trained and knowledgable instructors are necessary to impart the proper information and skills.
  • Critical thinking means correct thinking in the pursuit of relevant and reliable knowledge about the world.
  • Leigh Newton on 02 Sep 10
     
    ""We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think.""
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Old English Translator - 3 views

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  • Dana Huff on 01 Sep 10
     
    Fun for students learning about Anglo-Saxons, Old English, or the history of English.
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Great TED Talks for English Teachers « In For Good - 13 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 28 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 28 Aug 10
     
    Meredith Stewart pulls together some TED Talks (Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference) that might provoke good discussion in the English classroom.
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Langwitches Blog » What does it Mean to be Literate? - 7 views

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  • Dana Huff on 28 Aug 10
     
    Our definition of literacy is changing. Are we ready? Are our students?
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Full 30-minute program in MP3 format - 2 views

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  • Gloria Custodio on 24 Aug 10
     
    Luci Tapahonso (native American poet) talks about poetry in English and Navaho.
  • Gloria Custodio on 24 Aug 10
     
    Luci Tapahonso (native American poet) talks about poetry in English and Navaho.
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Tracking Independent Reading in high school - 18 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 21 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 21 Aug 10
     
    Jeff Utecht describes how you can use Goodreads to track students' independent reading.
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One-Day Curriculum Unit | The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University - 4 views

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  • Gloria Custodio on 21 Aug 10
     
    Teaching Jonathan Edwards's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
  • Gloria Custodio on 21 Aug 10
     
    Teaching Jonathan Edwards's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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