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In this Text to Text, we examine a famous scene from the play “A Raisin in the Sun” paired with a 2013 Times article on the persistence of the problem of housing discrimination in the United States.

In this Text to Text, we examine a famous scene from the play “A Raisin in the Sun” paired with a 2013 Times article on the persistence of the problem of housing discrimination in the United States.

Lesson and Materials: What is the difference between a leader and a hero?

When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words - not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a little zany. But the practice has a long - and controversial - history in U.S. schools.

"A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry is the focal point for discussion of "The American Dream" as students explore how the social, educational, economical and political climate of the 1950s affected African Americans' quest for the good life in the suburbs.

"A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry is the focal point for discussion of "The American Dream" as students explore how the social, educational, economical and political climate of the 1950s affected African Americans' quest for the good life in the suburbs.

Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 12 "For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." -Romeo and Juliet (5.3.320) Though the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet is a perennial favorite, the world around the play has changed in the four centuries since it was first performed. Shifting attitudes about taboo love and marriage, gender roles, and even guns and street violence inform the way we read or see the play today.

FILE - This is a Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 filoe photo of skulls and bones are stacked at the Catacombs in Paris, France. The subterranean tunnels, which once gave refuge to smugglers and saints, cradle the bones of some 6 million Parisians from centuries past. The Catacombs form a dark, 200-mile (322 kilometer) underground labyrinth beneath the City of Light. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Goes with the other video that talks about how to create a riveting story.

By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Claire Messud, Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more. Happy endings are famously rare in literature. We turn to great books for emotional and ethical complexity, and broad-scale resolution cheats our sense of what real life is like.

A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.

A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.

a new vision of the old bio poem

A new take on the bio poem

Three descriptive paragraphs to teach students how to use setting details to create a specific mood.

It may seem like a contradiction, but there’s nothing “passive” about learning the passive voice. Students need to be as “active” as ever and fully engaged in t

Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence-which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren't linked clearly enough to the words they're actuall...

Great interview on how to keep a reader interested by using continual conflict. Also discusses finding the frame or theme of your story.