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!In the wake of yesterday’s copyright weirdness, I thought today would be a good day to talk about using [...]

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Wow! I looked at the download statistics for my Scribd documents and was amazed to see that 292 people viewed my unfinished Dead Poets Society Teaching Unit this month. I wonder how many people would view it if it were actually finished. Here’s a roundup of my top 5 documents, sorted by total number of [...]

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Professional development is always a challenge for busy teachers. Fortunately, the online world is making it much easier for us to grow in our educational techniques, knowledge and competence. Three sites in particular can help with the continual work of keeping our teaching skills current.

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I just joined the teacher forums at A to Z Teacher Stuff, where Koocat008 asks for suggestions for teaching 8th grade poetry.  I gave a brief response on the forum, but here’s my longer response:
“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe - My students love studying this, even if they’ve read it before.  I use Poe’s [...]

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I wrote this Dead Poets Society Teaching Unit quite a few years ago, and I thought there might be some literature teachers out there who could use it. As I mention in the introduction, the movie can be used in several different ways:

As an introduction to poetry, especially romantic poetry
As a springboard for talking [...]

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