YouTube - How NOT to use PowerPoint! - 0 views
Three-Minute Fiction : NPR - 0 views
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Excellent site for English teachers who want to incorporate some creative fiction either for reading or writing. Have kids write their own three-minute stories.
Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas: 18 Literacy Strategies for Struggling Readers - Defining,... - 0 views
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18 Literacy Strategies for Struggling Readers - Defining, Summarizing and Comparing
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 0 views
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Discusses the Stanford Study of Writing and the affect technology might be having on writing.
The Future of Reading - 'Reading Workshop' Approach Lets Students Pick the Books - Seri... - 0 views
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NYT Article on Lit Lab/Reading Workshop approach.
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.
A New Philosophy of Success: The Seven Cs of Success - 0 views
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I like Tom Morris's model of success very much as it has a philosophical foundation to it and transcends most of the self-help models that seem a bit more rosy colored.
Learning Shouldn't Be Dictated by the School Calendar - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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What do you all think of this? Is the calendar to blame for many of our problems? Is year-round school the answer?
NYPL Digital Gallery | "The Pageant of America" Photograph Archive - 0 views
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Several thousand original and copy photographs; albumen, platinum and silver gelatin prints; 1860s-1920s. Use for story starters, historical background, and research projects
NYPL Digital Gallery | Ellis Island Photographs from the Collection of William Williams... - 0 views
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Photographs (gelatin silver prints) relating to Ellis Island and immigration into the United States in the early 20th century, ranging from portraits of individual immigrants by Augustus Francis Sherman to views of the Ellis Island facility and its grounds by Edwin Levick and others. Use for story starters, historical background, and research projects.
Exhibitions - Online Exhibits - Picture This: Family Photographs of Everyday San Franci... - 0 views
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Across decades, and regardless of neighborhood or background, we treasure photographs because they preserve our memories of the events and relationships they document. Our best friends, our trips to the park or beach, the times our families gather together to celebrate-the photos in this exhibition speak of these things which we all hold dear. Use the photos as story starters and background for research and readings
From the Home Front and the Front Lines (American Treasures Exhibition, Library of Cong... - 0 views
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This exhibition consists of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections at the Library of Congress. With an emphasis on World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1965-1975), and the Persian Gulf War (1991), the Veterans History Project, by act of Congress, collects and preserves the experiences of America's war veterans and those who supported them.
Langston Hughes Papers - 0 views
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The Langston Hughes Papers contain letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects that document the life of the well-known African-American poet.
Emily Dickinson manuscript material from the Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Galatea) colle... - 0 views
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Letters and fragments by Emily Dickinson from the collection of Col Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who gave the materials to the Boston Public Library.
Virtual books: images only - The Notebook of William Blake: Introduction - 0 views
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Blake wrote and sketched in this notebook, which came into his possession after his brother's death in 1787, for 30 years. The closely-filled pages give a fascinating insight into Blake's compositional process, allowing us to follow the genesis of some of his best-known work, including: A Poison Tree, Infant Sorrow, London, The Tyger, The Sick Rose, and The Chimney Sweeper.
NYPL Digital Gallery | Walt Whitman Manuscripts - 0 views
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Over 1,000 items, including manuscripts, printed works, and portraits of Walt Whitman (1819-1892), the leading American poet of the 19th century.
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