Monthly Archive: December 2007

Gateway to the Great Books 0

Virginia Woolf on How to Read

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to jump start a disciplined morning schedule that includes regular prayer, exercise and intellectual growth. For intellectual growth I’ve chosen to read from Britannica’s Gateway to the...

Stories of Beowulf 1

Beowulf Teaching Resources

The new Beowulf movie may not have been the cinematic classic you’d been hoping for, but it may get your students interested in the original Old English poem, so here are some teaching resources...

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Translate that Christmas Carol

For a fun Christmas/vocabulary activity try having your students translate these verbose Christmas carol titles back into their original form: Example: Soundless Nocturnal Timespan (answer: Silent Night) Move Hitherward the Entire Assembly of Those...

Lifetime Reading Plan 0

Literature Teacher’s Essential Library

Which books should be on the bookshelf of every literature teacher?  The following list represents my personal picks: How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler – If you’ve read Teen Literacy Tips for...