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Glenda teaches us how to teach students to mimic one of the masters of prose-Jane Austen. Mimicry is often a great writing exercise for students who need to examine style.

101 of the best websites for English (ELA) grammar, writing, reading, ESL, vocabulary, spelling and more.

Ways with Wordles in English teaching

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has printable handbooks for many of Shakespeare's plays. "Each of our entirely original teacher handbooks includes active, engaging teaching activities, 400 years of critical thinking, synopses, and much more. Teaching activities-all aligned with the Common Core State Standards-are designed to draw upon some of the same practices and techniques that actors use in the rehearsal process to break open Shakespeare's challenging language."

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

Video writing prompts for teaching with response questions

A short and useful list of iPhone apps for English teachers.

Lesson plans, articles, and other resources to support the teaching of English from the British Council and the BBC

Great introduction and resources for teaching Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

if we aren't doing this, we are missing a great opportunity. Robin Bates writes one of the best teaching blogs I read. 

This is an inspired letter to the editor Conroy wrote in response to an effort to ban Beach Music. Keep it close; read it often. Food for your English teacher soul.

Great site for English teachers. Loads of useful sites, blogs, resources. Highly recommended.

Mike LoMonico shared this excerpt from "Old School" by Tobias Wolff which explains why English teachers are awesome.

Engaging syllabus for 11th grade English class at Science and Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA (USA). I really love the balance of structure and autonomy.

A great collection of links on discussion activities for the English classroom.

The purpose of the survey was to ascertain the level of awareness and openness to mobile learning among English language teachers. I also wanted to find out to what degree and how teachers were already using mobile learning both in their teaching and and professional development and to establish whether they would be willing to pay for and use mobile content. The survey also collected information about the teachers' existing access to mobile services and the kinds of device they are using to get access to mobile Internet.

This is my blog, a place where I can reflect on a variety of subjects I consider in the course of my studies, writing, and teaching.

the expert from Drexel, letting us know how to teach writing online--the same amount of work, but perhaps better results (more and better student writing)