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Dana Huff

Interrogating Texts: 6 Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year at Harvard - Resear... - 21 views

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    Harvard explains critical reading. Via Jim Burke.
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    There's a title that gets your attention! Thanks DH an JB.
Dana Huff

Dante's Fourfold Method: The Interpretation of Symbol and Allegory - 12 views

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    Word document that explains Dante's fourfold method of interpretation. Via Jim Burke
Dana Huff

Additional Step-by-Step Method of Thoroughly Explicating a Poem - 21 views

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    Helpful information about poem explication. Via Jim Burke.
Leslie Healey

What They're Reading on College Campuses - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 11 views

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    very cool list: some conservative, some liberal, some fiction, some satire, some bio, some nonfiction
Dana Huff

The Thomas Gray Archive : Primary Texts : Poems : "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyar... - 4 views

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    Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" with explanatory notes and references.
Dana Huff

Massive List of Phrases That Shakespeare Created That We Still Use Today | Anglotopia -... - 18 views

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    Shakespeare coined a lot of phrases and words we still commonly use today.
Jenny Gilbert

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - 0 views

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    "How should one react to a book that ostensibly seeks to inform while it so blatantly distorts? If it is meant as a way of understanding what actually happened -- and indeed for many students it will be the definitive and perhaps only Holocaust account to which they will be exposed -- how will its inaccuracies affect the way in which readers will remain oblivious to the most important moral message we are to discover in the holocaust's aftermath?"
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    someone was looking at holocaust literature - this is interesting.
Leslie Healey

Digital Humanities Boots Up on Some Campuses - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    our students should be ready to participate in the digital humanities when we're finished with them
Dana Huff

Teaching 'The Great Gatsby' With The New York Times - NYTimes.com - 15 views

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    The New York Times' collection of resources for teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.
Adam Babcock

Better Book Titles blog - 11 views

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    Note: some of the titles are a little nsfw, so use the website in the classroom with caution.  Know what titles you want to use and perhaps don't leave students to wander on their own.
Adam Babcock

Sistine Chapel - Cappella Sistina - Photosynth - 4 views

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    Great tool that encourages users/students to explore the different stages of the Sistine Chapel. Could work well with a Genesis lesson.
andrew bendelow

SpeEdChange: Lord of the Flies: How Adults Create Bullying - 7 views

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    Fascinating re-think of LOTF instruction
Jo Hawke

From the Trenches: A Lesson Plan - To Kill a Mockingbird - 15 views

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    Six project options to serve as final assessment for novel study. Focuses especially on Civil Rights Movement, prejudice, and legal system.
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