For a while the NEA experimented with “belles-lettres,” a misunderstood term that favors style over substance and did not capture the personal essence and foundation of the literature they were seeking. Eventually one of the NEA members in the meeting that day pointed out that a rebel in his English department was campaigning for the term “creative nonfiction.” That rebel was me.
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Seneca Highlands Intermediate Unit Nine | Literary Device Bag Resources - 12 views
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Fun ways to teach literary devices.
Free eBooks for Teachers - Classic Novels - 13 views
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Download free eBook versions of 37 literary classics like Romeo and Juliet, The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre and more! Each eBook download comes as an easy-to-use PDF file that can be printed or projected on your interactive whiteboard.
Literary Themes from 93 Studios - 2 views
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Good presentation on themes in literature.
The Morgan Library & Museum - Online Exhibitions - John Milton's Paradise Lost - 0 views
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The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to present the only surviving manuscript of Paradise Lost, Book 1. This epic poem is considered Milton's greatest artistic achievement and one of the finest works of the human imagination. Acquired by Pierpont Morgan in 1904, it is the most important British literary manuscript in the collection. The 33-page manuscript has been temporarily disbound, providing an opportunity to see more of its pages than ever before. Also in this presentation are first editions of Paradise Lost printed in England and the United States during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and a rarely seen miniature portrait of the poet.
Where Policy Makers Are Born - WSJ.com - 0 views
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The Yale Grand Strategy Program offers a compelling instructional model for 6-12 to consider in both English and Social Studies classes. One might compare it to a literary/text-based think tank used to hone critical and political thinking.
Organization: American Library Association - 0 views
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This is the main page for the American Library Association which has a variety of info about literary and, of course, libraries.
MagCloud - 0 views
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Fantastic vanity press site for publishing. We used it for our literary mag and loved it!
Resources for Vocabulary Study - 1 views
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his is vocabulary material for 131 novels or short stories. Vocabulary words listed for each literary selection appear in the selection and are on The Shakespeare List . Tests and exercises are included for each selection. Anytime a teacher has students r
Survival Guides at Bionic Teaching - 10 views
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"lots of English and history applications. It'd be fun to write survival guides for self-destructive historical or literary figures- maybe Edgar Allen Poe or Custer."
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:) That's embarrassing! I guess I was hungry when I added that. General Custer not Custard.
Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent: Top 10 Myths About Our E-book Future - 5 views
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Top Ten Myths About Our E-
Harold Bloom on Literary Criticism | FiveBooks | The Browser - 13 views
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Interview bloom: his 5 fave litcrit books. At the end: nice bit about why we must read
Using Marzano Question Stems in a High School Classroom « Thirty-Something an... - 18 views
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"Using Marzano Question Stems in a High School Classroom"
Creative Nonfiction: a definition and appreciation - 14 views
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literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To p
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real demarcation points between fiction, which is or can be mostly imagination; traditional nonfiction (journalism and scholarship), which is mostly information; and creative nonfiction, which presents or treats information using the tools of the fiction writer while maintaining allegiance to fact.
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A Public Space - 9 views
THE PAW - Tigard-Tualatin School District - 0 views
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THE PAW, Tualatin High's Electronic Publication for Art and Writing, is a new online magazine that features the work of TuHS students and staff.