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Jeff Utecht describes how you can use Goodreads to track students' independent reading.

"Studio 360 explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and finds out how this compact novel became the great American story of our age. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells Kurt Andersen why he still reads it every year or two, and writer Patricia Hampl explains why its lightness is deceptive. We'll drive around the tony Long Island suburbs where Gatsby was set, and we'll hear from Andrew Lauren about his film G, which sets Gatsby among the hip-hop moguls. And Azar Nafisi describes the power of teaching the book to university students in Tehran. Readings come courtesy of Scott Shepherd, an actor who sometimes performs the entire book from memory."

Harvard explains critical reading. Via Jim Burke.

The Big Read/NEA's Reader's and Teacher's Guide for Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Excellent radio show.

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."

Anglo-Saxon poems translated and read out loud by folks like Seamus Heaney and Billy Collins.

Reading Shakespeare makes you smarter!

Book Drum is the perfect companion to the books we love, bringing them to life with immersive pictures, videos, maps and music.

Paste compiles a list of some of literature's biggest jerks. You know you love to hate them.

Our definition of literacy is changing. Are we ready? Are our students?

BookLamp.org matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music.

Shakespeare meets Craigslist.

"Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet on Facebook? With social networking the hot topic of the day, a computer science grad student, his advisor and a literature professor teamed up to analyze social interactions in 19th century British novels."

Word document that explains Dante's fourfold method of interpretation. Via Jim Burke

Great comprehensive site where you can learn about poetry.

Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" with explanatory notes and references.

Shakespeare coined a lot of phrases and words we still commonly use today.