"Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction." Great way to help students organize essays and participate in interactive writing strategies.

"Genocide Watch exists to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder. Our purpose is to build an international movement to prevent and stop genocide." Straight from the website. Good resource to be able to educate older students about genocides of the past, present, and those in the possible future.

This is a great channel on Youtube for teachers to use. The groups that create these videos take popular songs and rewrite them in order to teach students about different time periods or events in world history. This can be used as a great intro or ending video clip, or as a brain break. Beware- some songs are very catchy and can get stuck in you head. =)

This is a great tool to help students learn about civic processes in the United States.

Pope Francis is showcasing his diplomacy with the Armenian Catholic Church by declaring the mass killings of Armenians from 1915 as a genocide. Some government officials in Turkey are angry over this statement.

This is an OpEd article from the New York Times. Thought you would all enjoy this read.