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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.
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American Icons: The Great Gatsby - Studio 360 - 10 views

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    Episode #1148 American Icons: The Great Gatsby « previous episode | next episode » Thursday, November 25, 2010 Recommend Share Print Email Play 00:00 / 00:00 ListenAddDownloadEmbed Stream m3u Episodes of false identity, living large, and murder in the suburbs add up to the great American novel.
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The Case for Breaking Up With Your Parents - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 5 views

  • More than love, sex, courtship, and marriage; more than inheritance, ambition, rivalry, or disgrace; more than hatred, betrayal, revenge, or death, orphanhood—the absence of the parent, the frightening yet galvanizing solitude of the child—may be the defining fixation of the novel as a genre, what one might call its primordial motive or matrix, the conditioning psychic reality out of which the form itself develops.
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    "This is the play-date generation. ... There was a time when children came home from school and just played randomly with their friends. Or hung around and got bored, and eventually that would lead you on to something. Kids don't get to do that now. Busy parents book them into things constantly-violin lessons, ballet lessons, swimming teams. The kids get the idea that someone will always be structuring their time for them."
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    A great article, worth 15 minutes.
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Essay - Considering 'Reading Management' Software - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Excellent essay about programs like Accelerated Reader and the "management of reading" in an era of accountability.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts « Stop NATO - 4 views

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    Collection of links to great anti-war essays & poems to use in class.
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NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program - 10 views

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    I like the Dare Machine for ideas for journal prompts!
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