English Companion Ning Group

Article to pair with Lazarus poem "The New Colossus".

Podcast on varying topics, published monthly.

just finished this with AP juniors and Honors Brit Lit Students: great project for poetry reading skills. they wrote an in class explication about their sonnet after. will memorize and recite their sonnet as well next year.  They rocked it! we are ready for the Romantics now.

Persuasion in political ads for President

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Trilingual index of expressions with equivalent meanings. English, French, Spanish

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Adam Gopnik discusses the appeal of high fantasy in YA. He misses the mark, I think, in not discussing Joseph Campbell's influence in all of this, and he's condescending throughout much of the piece, but it's an interesting analysis aside from these two admittedly major issues.

This blog post would be fun to turn into a writing assignment: Have minor characters in a novel your students are studying discuss the other minor characters in the manner of Mr. Palmer.

Sent to me just now via a my blog. Would be a great piece to pair with "A Modest Proposal."

if you had doubts about the chance to engage more kids with eReaders, this infographic might change your mind. I am planning a digital reading course next year, and will use this to argue my case to administration

This graphic is nice ... but who conducted the study? How was this information gathered? Why should we trust it?

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concise review of what makes cogent, stylish prose. Just addressed this in class last week, and not nearly as succinctly as yagoda!