HC English Department

Revision is a critical piece of the writing process-and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher's guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.

Great lesson plan for media lit or for those teaching 1984.

A criticism of Massachusetts' decision to adopt national standards that necessitates a move away from classic literature.

A list of 20+ non-fiction writers under 40. There is a bio for each with a brief discussion of his or her work.

Here are some great handouts for writing instruction!

Referenced in Katie Wood Ray's book Study Driven, Slate Magazine's website is here.

Enter the NPD Punctuation Haiku Contestand win great punctuation chotchkes

Great site discussing style in writing.

An interesting column on the relevance of TKAM and how it is perceived by black authors and readers.

Words from NY Times articles that were looked up most often by readers using the site's dictionary function. This blog post comments on the list.

Defines PBL and provides research, project guides, resources, and examples. 

Dittrich sent me this article from NPR commenting on how we are leaving behind literature to pursue "practical education"

A-Z authors with short summaries of their works. Also, lesson plans for books are available.

This site offers thousands of books through the ages on-line. You can take pieces of all fiction and non-fiction and use them in your classes in various ways.

Posts connected to NY Times articles that can be used as writing prompts.

Teaching ethos,pathos, logos, nomos through a scene from A Few Good Men

Language Arts homepage of Greece (NY) Central School District.