This American Life - 1 views
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Jeremie Smith on 17 Sep 10I love this website! It gives a glimpse of stories not often discussed in mainstream media.
Information/lesson plan ideas on basically any author you would ever teach - 2 views
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This is another page from webenglishteacher, and it lists seriously any author you would ever teach in your class. Click on an author, and instantly it points you to different lesson plan ideas about that author. So cool.
English Club: Teach English - 2 views
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This website is geared more towards ESL teachers, with many helpful tips on teaching grammar, as well as information about jobs. This website also offers teacher forums.
Successful Teaching Blog - 2 views
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This blog gives strategies and tips for successful teaching globally.
Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz - 2 views
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This is proof that high quality prose and poetry can pop up in the most unlikely places. Thousands of people have used Amazon's page selling a peculiar product to demonstrate their writing skills. The web allows for interesting forms of Internet graffiti.
One Literature Nut - 2 views
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This blog is a high school English teacher that likes to post about novels usually in the chick novel, romantic, youth categories that she feels high school students would appreciate. Its a good site to look at if you are wanting to teach your kids to free read outside of class a book that is worth while
How to use a semicolon - 2 views
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Pretty funny, illustrated explanation of when to actually use semicolons.
English Lit, American Lit, and All Things Humanities - 2 views
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This blog seemed like a great site to explore ideas on lesson plans, book recommendations, and other articles to aid in literature studies.
Historical Tweets - 2 views
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Speaking of twitter, do this! It's great.
Educational Rap song - 2 views
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This rap song is catchy and also can help students learn the different parts of speech.
Taylor Mali-What Teachers Make - 2 views
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This is a video that I saw at the Epsilon Delta spring initiation. It's a poem! Kind of like slam poetry, but a little less bash-y :)
School Success - 1 views
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This website offers helpful tips for new teachers. It gives information that may be beneficial during the first day of class.
Google Ancient Texts - 1 views
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Google just added a feature where you can view ancient texts online. This may be interesting for your students so they can get an idea of what the most primitive of the texts they are reading look like, and they can possibly develop a better feel for the work.
Foreign Language Teaching Methods - 1 views
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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!
Two Writing Teachers - 1 views
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A blog that informs how to teach kids to write while erasing all the structure that we are used to
Conversations about Teaching, Blocking, Motivating with Dr. Garcia's Students - 1 views
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Dr. Garcia is very confident in his teaching practices and gives advice on how to avoid having students shut down and the process of building trust and relationships.
Illini Union - One Book, One Campus - 1 views
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Dave Eggers is coming to campus to give a talk November 11.
The Quotations Page - 1 views
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Unique one liners that will cause students to think a little deeper in terms of language
Dave Eggers | Profile on TED.com - 1 views
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This is a TED profile of my favorite contemporary writer, Dave Eggers.
826 National - 1 views
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826 National is a network of nine nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. The organization was founded by the American writer, Dave Eggars.