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101 Excellent Sites for English Educators - 27 views

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  • GoEd Online on 15 Jun 12
     
    101 of the best websites for English (ELA) grammar, writing, reading, ESL, vocabulary, spelling and more.
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Evernote as Portfolio | The story of using Evernote as a portfolio in my k-12 school - 14 views

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  • Dana Huff on 04 Jun 12
     
    This blog explores the option of using Evernote as a portfolio tool. Worth checking into.
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It's Official: Watching Fox Makes You Stupider | The Nation - 9 views

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  • According to a new study by Farleigh Dickinson University, Fox viewers are the least knowledgeable audience of any outlet, and they know even less about politics and current events than people who watch no news at all.
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The Case for Breaking Up With Your Parents - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 5 views

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  • 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.
  • Mark Smith on 07 May 12
     
    "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."
  • Mark Smith on 07 May 12
     
    A great article, worth 15 minutes.
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Why fiction is good for you - Ideas - The Boston Globe - 9 views

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    "Is fiction good for us? We spend huge chunks of our lives immersed in novels, films, TV shows, and other forms of fiction. Some see this as a positive thing, arguing that made-up stories cultivate our mental and moral development. But others have argued that fiction is mentally and ethically corrosive. It's an ancient question: Does fiction build the morality of individuals and societies, or does it break it down?"
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In Iraq, 'Romeo and Juliet' Portrays Montague and Capulet as Shiite and Sunni - NYTimes... - 15 views

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  • Tom Cornell on 29 Apr 12
     
    NY Times article connects Shakespeare with current events.
  • Tom Cornell on 29 Apr 12
     
    Great resource to connect Shakespeare to current events.
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From the Birthplace of Big Brother - NYTimes.com - 10 views

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    Excellent connection to 1984
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SideVibe - 12 views

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    "A simple way to place useful, formative classroom lessons over any Web page. "
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The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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  • Stories,
  • stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life.
  • nterprets written words. What scientists have come to realize in the last few years is that narratives activate many other parts of our brains as well, suggesting why the experience of reading can feel so alive.
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  • The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.
  • The novel, of course, is an unequaled medium for the exploration of human social and emotional life.
  • substantial overlap in the brain networks used to understand stories and the networks used to navigate interactions with other individuals
  • “theory of mind
  • other people’s intenti
  • comparing a plucky young woman to Elizabeth Bennet or a tiresome pedant to Edward Casaubon. Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined.
  • Leslie Healey on 18 Mar 12
     
    analysis of impact of reading, novel especially. validates focus on class SSR, even in 11-12th grade (my groups)
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The Merchant of Venice - Book Graphics - 4 views

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    The Merchant of Venice - Book graphics - illustrations by Sir James D. Linton. 
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ShakespeareHelp - Merchant of Venice Lesson Plans, Merchant of Venice Quizzes, Help wit... - 1 views

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    The merchant of Venice lesson plans by ShakespeareHelp.com
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Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks - 2 views

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    Essay about Shakespeare's 'The merchant of Venice" by Mary Ellen Dakin
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