The home page of the Norton Anthology, a popular educational resource for high school English classrooms. It offers illustrations, links to related websites, potential essay questions/paper topics as well as questions to promote students' critical thinking.
I found this clip of Mercutio's death scene from the 1996 Romeo and Juliet. I think it would be useful for the students to see what they are reading be preformed in a way they could relate to more. This clip can also be used in a discussion of whether this play is a tragedy or a comedy.
This seems like a great web resource for teachers who are looking for ideas and news related to current education, including pages on lesson planning, professional development, technology integration, and more.
A great online resource that not only provides free lesson plans for teachers, but also offers teachers daily news and trivia, blogs on current issues, and information on new technological tools, all relating to education today.
This resource is helpful because it offers beneficial quizzes that can help students improve their understanding of certain aspects of grammar. The Extra Practice Tab offers additional information on certain subjects and extended practice. This website also offers grammar related games for students to practice their grammar with.
This is totally true! It's an entry in a blog that's actually really interesting, too. It's called The Literary Pursuit and it's about anything book/literature related. Check it out, too!
If you haven't taken this class yet, I highly recommend it. I am in the class right now, and I have already gained more valuable information and experience related to teaching English than any class I have taken yet. If you can, take it with Kate Vieira.
This website can be rally helpful to highschool and middle schools, just not with inventive ways of teaching but also with help of addressing important kid issues
This blog gives educators 50 different ideas on using Twitter in the classroom. I thought it was extremely interesting, seeing as how students are more and more on twitter, they might be able to relate to an assignment better this way.
Once in the schools, many English teachers will have to teach other related subjects such a speech and creative writing. This site offers a lot of great prompts to get students to start thinking.
Although this is sometimes a little inappropriate (as always with Taylor Mali) it hits on a very important topic that we will look at as English Teachers - Proofreading. Pretty much all of Taylor Mali's poems has relevancy and maybe you've seen this or others, but I definitely think it's worth checking out again!
South Park is edgy and controversial as usual, and although this isn't strictly English related, I think it really helps point out how we take education. Too often we push things too far or not enough. Sex Ed is important but how important is always a pertinent question as with the debate between any curriculum.