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Sent to me just now via a my blog. Would be a great piece to pair with "A Modest Proposal."

"A simple way to place useful, formative classroom lessons over any Web page. "

St. Columba's College English department's transition year extended essay assignment is a great project.

Held annually during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of intellectual freedom and draws attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted banning of books across the United States, including books commonly taught in secondary schools. Here are ideas for celebrating Banned Books Week -- with your students, your children and anyone who believes in having "the freedom to read."

The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. It succumbed last month at the age of 1,617 after a long illness. It is survived by an ignominiously diminished form of itself.

Orwell's advice to writers.

Make review games for your interactive white board with Stu's Quiz Boxes.

Great tutorial handouts from Bucks County Community College.

Build your objectives using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy.

This exhibition looks at the world from which Mary Shelley came, at how popular culture has embraced the Frankenstein story, and at how Shelley's creation continues to illuminate the blurred, uncertain boundaries of what we consider "acceptable" science.

My students told me about this site where they make study guides and flash cards for themselves. It's free, and it would be particularly good for studying information that you have to memorize.

This article on the blog Better Living Through Beowulf might be an interesting way to connect King Lear to modern politics.

Reading Shakespeare makes you smarter!

Robbing the Bard: The story of how a stolen Shakespeare First Folio appeared in the Folger Shakespeare Library. Narrated by David Tennant.