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Free Video Study Guides for Novels

November 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Resources, Teaching

MyRocketbook.com is producing what is essentially Cliff’s Notes on video. The videos give background, summaries and analysis for a variety of literary classics, including Beowulf, Pride and Prejudice, Nineteen Eighty-four, Frankenstein, The Crucible, The Odyssey and Othello.

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5 Podcasts for Literature Teachers

November 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Podcast, Resources

My birthday came and went about a week ago, and my family got me a new iPod classic that holds 160 gigabytes of music and movies. After four frustrating hours of trying to get it to sync to my computer, I realized I had a defective unit and returned it for one that’s been working [...]

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Resources for Teaching about the Holocaust

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Resources

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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