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James Miscavish

Tool Kit for Rhetorical Analysis - Definitions and Examples of Figures of Speech - 17 views

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  • James Miscavish on 22 Aug 11
     
    Brief definitions of 130 figures of speech and other rhetorical terms with links to expanded discussions and examples.
Caroline Bachmann

GUYS READ | Books - 19 views

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  • Caroline Bachmann on 23 Aug 11
     
    Welcome to the Guys Read Virtual Vault of Good Books. This is the place to come if you're looking for something to get a guy reading. We've collected recommendations from teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, parents, and guys themselves. These are the books that guys have said they like. We've gathered and grouped them to make them easier to find. So check out the categories below or type something-a title, an author, or a subject you're interested in-over there on the left.
Dana Huff

Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature - Home - 10 views

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    This exhibition looks at the world from which Mary Shelley came, at how popular culture has embraced the Frankenstein story, and at how Shelley's creation continues to illuminate the blurred, uncertain boundaries of what we consider "acceptable" science.
casey mayfield

Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print Library - 17 views

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    Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
Dana Huff

High School English - 22 views

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  • Dana Huff on 11 Oct 09
     
    English links and tools.
Dana Huff

Shakespeares Words | Home - 9 views

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  • Dana Huff on 25 Oct 09
     
    A great online Shakespeare concordance.
Grace Lin

Shakespeares Words - 12 views

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  • Shakespeare's Words, the online version of the best-selling glossary and language companion.The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.
  • Grace Lin on 06 Nov 09
     
    Exploring Shakespeare's words in plays, poems, and glossary
Dana Huff

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Police Blotter Shakespeare. - 15 views

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  • Dana Huff on 08 Nov 09
     
    Police blotter for Shakespeare (includes R&J, Hamlet, Macbeth, MND, Winter's Tale, The Tempest, King Lear, Othello).
Dana Huff

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Famous Authors Narrate the Funny Pages. - 10 views

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    Famous authors narrate the funny pages.
Caroline Bachmann

Graphic Novels CMIS Evaluation Fiction Focus - 8 views

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  • Caroline Bachmann on 12 Apr 11
     
    Resources and recommendations for teaching graphic novels
Kristin Bergsagel

How To Do Things With Words : Learning Diversity - 4 views

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  • the RRSG theory of reading comprehension is predominantly cognitive rather than cultural. It depicts the text as an encoded representation of a specific situation.
  • Making and having meaning, then, transcend cognition and involve a commitment to values and the pursuit of ideals.
  • These moral qualities are essential to human life, yet they seem to be completely redundant in the case of the aforementioned reader of “the cat is on the mat.”
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  • Could it be that teachers who are allegedly so obstinately unfaithful to the received theory of reading comprehension do in fact apply it in their classrooms, but fail to achieve adequate outcomes because the theory fails to explain reading as a meaningful human activity?
  • the most authoritative theory of reading comprehension misleads her into performing a futile cognitive exercise.
  • namely, instruct students to read the text creatively by transforming it into a model for exploring ideas such as self-deception, hubris, or the unintended negative consequences of well-intended parenting.
  • it doesn’t address texts adequately as media of communication between purposeful, goal-oriented actors.
  • The meaning of a message, then, is its use by the interacting parties and is therefore always much more than a mental representation. When we treat words or statements as mere representations, we fail to communicate.
  • A theory that fails to enhance communication undermines education, because education is a special form of communication dedicated to the transmission of learning.
  • The words remain his rather than theirs, conveying facts about his dream rather than becoming resources useful to them. These readers have missed yet another opportunity to make sense of the history of their nation and of their own lives in relation to it.
  • hopeful vision coupled to a darker prophecy and a threatening message.
  • This reading, then, intertwines American political history with the history of literature in a way that renders the reader herself an active participant in their making.
  • creativity, diversity, and agency
  • Readers, we propose, ought to associate the meaning of the text with its use. The texts students typically read in school, more specifically, ought to be used for the purpose of exploring ideas. Reading for this purpose is necessarily a creative endeavor because it entails transforming the text into a model of inquiry into certain aspects of the reader’s life experiences.
  • In other words, because they use the text in diverse ways, its meaning varies accordingly.
  • What is at stake is nothing less than how students relate themselves to cultural achievements that have shaped the world in which they live and the society in which they gradually mature.
  • Conversely, education researchers in universities and other research institutes are often insufficiently familiar with how children learn at school, and therefore simply do not have an adequate understanding of the problems their research should solve
Dana Huff

Your English Class » Blog Archive » Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness - 1 views

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  • Dana Huff on 02 Apr 11
     
    Great introduction and resources for teaching Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Dana Huff

Evolving English Teacher: #engchat: Out of the Desk & Into the Text: Using Performance ... - 5 views

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  • Dana Huff on 06 Apr 11
     
    Glenda Funk shares some performance pedagogy techniques designed to get students out of their desk and on their feet.
Dana Huff

King Lear and Medicare Politics - 2 views

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  • Dana Huff on 20 Apr 11
     
    This article on the blog Better Living Through Beowulf might be an interesting way to connect King Lear to modern politics.
Dana Huff

Why Shakespeare never fails to get brains buzzing | Books | The Observer - 9 views

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  • Dana Huff on 26 Apr 11
     
    Reading Shakespeare makes you smarter!
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