Teen Literacy Tips

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. I’d also love to hear what you have to say, so please feel free to comment on any post. Thanks for visiting!Tomorrow, November 1st, All Saints Day, my eighth grade English class will publicly launch the web site they’ve been [...]

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The Florida Center for Instructional Technology has created A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, a comprehensive set of resources for teaching students about the holocaust.  If you teach books like Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,  The Book Thief, Number the Stars, or Night, then A Teacher’s Guide to Holocaust is an Internet resource [...]

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You want to show your class a Netsmartz Internet safety video or the “Hero in the Hallway” anti-bullying song, but your school’s Internet filtering software blocks YouTube.  One alternative is to download the video to your computer at home and then bring it to school on a CD-ROM or thumbdrive.  Here’s how:

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“The Raven” is a great poem to study around this time of year, and one fun way of engaging students is by showing them this clip from an early episode of The Simpsons:

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The Umbilical Brothers are living proof of Howard Gardner’s spatial and kinesthetic intelligence (and they’re also gut-bustingly funny).  According to EntertainOz.com, “their misbehavior in acting school resulted in a career that has taken them all over the world.”  Take a look at some YouTube clips to see what the fuss is all about:

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