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How many words did Shakespeare know? - 4 views

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history shakespeare words literature education english

shared by Dana Huff on 17 Apr 10 - Cached

Dana Huff on 17 Apr 10

Statistical techniques can give us a good estimate of how many words Shakespeare knew based on how many he used.

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Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything - 6 views

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english grammar humor

shared by Dana Huff on 23 Apr 10 - Cached

Dana Huff on 23 Apr 10

This handy blog post explains why you should never ever use "alot."

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List of Genres - 13 views

writing.colostate.edu/...genrelist.html

resources teaching english Multi-Genres

shared by Todd Finley on 28 Mar 10 - Cached

Todd Finley on 28 Mar 10

A Brief List of Genres - Useful for MGRPs

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EAP Modules - 1 views

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english Raisininthesun lordoftheflies resources

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Educational Leadership:Reading to Learn:Reversing Readicide - 5 views

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reading language_arts readicide literacy english

shared by Clifford Baker on 31 Mar 10 - Cached

My Languages: Social Media And Creativity In The Language Classroom - 3 views

isabellejones.blogspot.com/...nd-creativity-in-language.html

languages resources creativity social_networking classroom social_media social media english

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andrew bendelow on 01 Apr 10

Isabella Jones' excellent slides on social networking creative ideas for the language classroom--pertinent to Eng teachers, too.

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8 of Shakespeare's Hidden Dirty Jokes (And their Modern Music Equivalents) - 14 views

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shakespeare literature english

shared by Dana Huff on 24 Apr 10 - Cached

Dana Huff on 24 Apr 10

Certainly the bard was a fan of the bawdy joke. Here Shmoop explains them along with modern song equivalents.

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England's fairest rose - until the Bard stitched her up - Times Online - 1 views

www.timesonline.co.uk/...article7091887.ece

shakespeare literature english england richardiii

shared by Dana Huff on 24 Apr 10 - Cached

Dana Huff on 24 Apr 10

Did Shakespeare malign Elizabeth Woodville as some have claimed he maligned Richard III?

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Internet Shakespeare Editions - 9 views

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shakespeare resources british literature english

shared by Dana Huff on 30 Apr 10 - Cached

Dana Huff on 30 Apr 10

Great resource for William Shakespeare.

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Hamlet: Watch the Film | Great Performances | PBS - 9 views

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hamlet film shakespeare british literature english

shared by Dana Huff on 30 Apr 10 - Cached

Dana Huff on 30 Apr 10

David Tennant and Sir Patrick Stewart star in this new version of Hamlet broadcast on PBS.

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Make a Thesis Work to Reduce Revision Needed Later - 17 views

www.you-can-teach-writing.com/make-a-thesis.html

English Teacher_Resources teaching writing

shared by Karen LaBonte on 23 Apr 10 - Cached

VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - 17 views

www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber

edtech writing english vocab

shared by Adam Babcock on 17 May 10 - Cached

VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
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Schmoop | Teacher Resources - 7 views

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shared by Adam Babcock on 17 May 10 - Cached

isnoop.net's fridge 3.0. Play with my magnetic words. - 8 views

isnoop.net/magwords.php

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shared by meenoo rami on 17 May 10 - Cached

meenoo rami on 17 May 10

magnetic poetry - possible intro. to poetry unit

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Language Arts Grades K-12 - Hip-Hop Education - 9 views

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language k-12 education writing grades hiphop literacy teaching reading english literature

shared by meenoo rami on 22 May 10 - Cached

meenoo rami on 22 May 10

Shakespeare is hip-hop

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Bardfilm: The Shakespeare and Film Microblog: The Ten Best Uses of Shakespeare Sonnets ... - 18 views

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shakespeare sonnets english literature poetry

shared by Dana Huff on 20 May 10 - Cached

Dana Huff on 20 May 10

Some of these videos would be great for teaching sonnets, especially if you want students to act them out.

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Thinklinkr: the best real-time collaborative online outliner - 21 views

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shared by meenoo rami on 25 May 10 - Cached

Flixtime - Video Slideshows made easy! - 14 views

flixtime.com

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shared by meenoo rami on 26 May 10 - Cached

meenoo rami on 26 May 10

add voiceover to your movies, pretend to be Ken Burns!

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BBC - History - British History in depth: Ages of English Timeline - 9 views

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history britlit

shared by Leslie Healey on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached

Leslie Healey on 20 Dec 10

great game/timeline to highlight major points in the history of the language

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My Daily Words, building children's future one child at a time - 14 views

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vocabulary writing 2010 english

shared by Jonathan Brubaker on 04 Jan 11 - No Cached

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