English Teachers

Great lesson plan to coordinate Tu B'Shevat, Arbor Day, environmentalism, and American poetry. Kudos, Kathleen Harsy.

Writing resources

Jan 2011 article about research into the nature of reading - print v online and our need to explicitly teach how to read online

While Scandinavia may be known for relative wealth, cool climate and low crime, one of its hottest exports of late is crime fiction. Ken Goldstein discusses this trend with Nete Schmidt, a senior lecturer in the Department of Scandinavian Studies.

"The keys to understanding this new perspective on writing and reading lie in notions of collaboration and being social. More specifically, it's believing that collaboration and increased socialization around activities like reading and writing is a good idea."

Build your objectives using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy.

"Studio 360 explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and finds out how this compact novel became the great American story of our age. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells Kurt Andersen why he still reads it every year or two, and writer Patricia Hampl explains why its lightness is deceptive. We'll drive around the tony Long Island suburbs where Gatsby was set, and we'll hear from Andrew Lauren about his film G, which sets Gatsby among the hip-hop moguls. And Azar Nafisi describes the power of teaching the book to university students in Tehran. Readings come courtesy of Scott Shepherd, an actor who sometimes performs the entire book from memory."

Great tutorial handouts from Bucks County Community College.

Anglo-Saxon poems translated and read out loud by folks like Seamus Heaney and Billy Collins.

Shakespeare meets Craigslist.

The new National Writing Project site: Lots of resources

video series on digital storytelling

Activities for studying social control and power through films and graphic novels.

handouts

Make review games for your interactive white board with Stu's Quiz Boxes.