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This website offers 101 beneficial reading options for high school students making it a valuable resource because it grants students an abundance of options to choose from as well as gives teachers plentiful curriculum options.

A really good book list.

This website is absolutely AMAZING in terms of technology resources for future teachers. They range from the simple to the most complex ways of incorporating technology into everyday lesson plans, as well as giving you categories to choose what types of technology you would like.

I know some English majors that are also studying to achieve a Spanish endorsement...I figured some of these tips and tricks on how to teach Spanish to Secondary Ed. students would be greatly beneficial to prospective teachers!

This is a website that offers resources, lesson plans, and ideas for teaching reading and writing up to a middle school classroom. This is important in teaching the basics of these skills

This website will particularly be beneficial to my own lesson plan creation and professional development. The website offers a multitude of activities and strategies for teachers to use. In addition, it offers online professional growth training.

High school students generally dedicate one year to speech. This is a good website that models good speakers. In addition, it provides a literary history to key figures that we will study in the classroom. This could also profit discussions on current events.

This site has a very wide selection of different lesson plans for different authors. It is a good resource for teachers to find accompanying course work or helpful study tips for common high school English classes.

I found this article/website to be fairly interesting. It provides some suggestions for interdisciplinary teaching, or teaching across the curriculum. I think that it is important for students to have some type of association between all of the classes they are taking. This might be difficult to do, especially in high school, but it is certainly something to think about.

I think this is a good website that teachers and students to choose different topics to journal. I think students should write everyday, and with the variety of topics, students can avoid writer's block.

This site has ideas for practicing and resources to aide in vocabulary words, grammar, writing, research, free online books, public libraries, literature guides, and poetry.

I think it will be beneficial for students to do book reviews on their own outside the classroom. This is a chance for them to use their critical thinking skills while responding to a piece of fiction that they can choose on their own. This website can provide an academic list of accepted books which my students can choose from.

This quick and easy comic shows us how easy we can incorporate comics into the classroom as a fun and inventive way for students to express themselves.

I like this example because it makes comic strips seem easy, something I always thought would be a challenge. This could be a great activity for high school or middle school students.

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This film looks at students from America, China, and india. It clearly shows the extreme differences between American culture and Indian and Chinese culture, especially in respect to education. Now we know why the stereotype "Asians are always so smart" exists.