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This is one of those posts where I simply point and say, “I saw something cool! Let’s go get it.” A friend at Twitter (PageTurnersBlog, well worth following) retweeted that a post at Novel Novice features one YA Lit teacher’s alternative assessments as a download. A couple cool ideas I hadn’t thought of! It’s nice to share [...]

This is one of those posts where I simply point and say, “I saw something cool! Let’s go get it.” A friend at Twitter (PageTurnersBlog, well worth following) retweeted that a post at Novel Novice features one YA Lit teacher’s alternative assessments as a download. A couple cool ideas I hadn’t thought of! It’s nice to share [...]

A while back I wanted my students to write more, but I knew I didn’t have the time to assess more. So, like Miniver Cheevy, I “thought, and thought, and thought/ and thought about it…scratched [my] head and kept on thinking…/coughed, and called it fate,/ And kept on drinking.” Ok, not really, but that’s a great poem for allusions and the ...

Over at the Seattle Times a blog post from Ed Cetera has sparked some conversation around the water cooler in our English Department. In the posting Ed Cetera wonders why people love J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, and then he mentions his love for Twain’s Huck Finn over Salinger’s Holden Caulfield. I believe it’s a difficult comparison to ...

If you teach The Chosen or Night or something like it, then you might want to check out how tefillin caused an airliner to land. Of course, the real story is ignorance and those who wield it. My students thought these people on the plane were ridiculous. Posted in Literature, Reading, Words and Phrases

I just finished planning for January, and I’m going to be teaching the following this month. American Literature: First, we’ll review the Edgar Allan Poe writings (“The Raven” and “Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell Tale Heart”) as well as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment.” I actually used an excerpt of Stephen King’s Danse ...

LoudLit is a site dedicated to great pieces of literature. It covers everything from poetry to children books and is a great site for beginner readers. What really makes this site stand out is the user can either download the literature or have it read to them (similar to Nettrekker). Below is an example of the Novel, Scarlet Letter... Give ...

Previously, I posted about a diction analysis assignment I use in class. While I designed it originally for my honors students, I have modified it to use with my mainstream students as well. I thought I would present an example of this here. The first key idea that the kids have to understand is that a diction device is not the same as a ...

When students ask me what I do outside of school, I tell them that “I read Shakespeare and study the dictionary.” Of course, they believe me until I tell them I’m just kidding. However, I do throw the books I read up on the book shelves in my classroom for them to read. I go through reading phases, but science fiction dominates my stacks. Ben ...

60 Second Recap is a new site (alpha) that is vastly becoming one of my favorite new sites for literature. This is a place where people can go to get a 60 video summary of some of the great works of literature. Think of it as a book review w/ a interactive presentation happening behind the presenter. I can see this site being used for MS/HS ...