Stu's Quiz Boxes! - 10 views
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Dana Huff on 30 Sep 10Make review games for your interactive white board with Stu's Quiz Boxes.
"It is strange that we expect students to learn, yet
seldom teach them anything about learning."
10 Ways to Celebrate Banned Books Week With The New York Times - NYTimes.com - 6 views
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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."
Zoho Writer - Choosing the Extended Essay2007 - 6 views
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St. Columba's College English department's transition year extended essay assignment is a great project.
Gene Weingarten - Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me. - 7 views
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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.
George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946 - 5 views
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Orwell's advice to writers.
Kindle for Mac - 1 views
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Free Kindle for Mac to access Kindle books: requires OS 10.5 or above.
Beta.BookLamp.org - 9 views
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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.
xkcd: The Carriage - 8 views
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Grand Theft Auto: The Emily Dickinson Edition. This cartoon from xkcd made me laugh. Enjoy!
An Introduction to Critical Thinking - 12 views
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"We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think."
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"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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""We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think.""
Old English Translator - 3 views
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Fun for students learning about Anglo-Saxons, Old English, or the history of English.
Great TED Talks for English Teachers « In For Good - 13 views
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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.
Langwitches Blog » What does it Mean to be Literate? - 7 views
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Our definition of literacy is changing. Are we ready? Are our students?
High School Teachers - 22 views
Full 30-minute program in MP3 format - 2 views
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Luci Tapahonso (native American poet) talks about poetry in English and Navaho.
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Luci Tapahonso (native American poet) talks about poetry in English and Navaho.
Tracking Independent Reading in high school - 18 views
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Jeff Utecht describes how you can use Goodreads to track students' independent reading.
"Beowulf" by Richard Wilbur - 7 views
One-Day Curriculum Unit | The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University - 4 views
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Teaching Jonathan Edwards's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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Teaching Jonathan Edwards's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
American Passages - A Literary Survey - 4 views
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