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What Do Teenagers Believe?

January 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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!How do we help junior and senior high students ask the deep questions about life, and–more importantly–answer those questions? [...]

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Tags: Lessons · Philosophy · Projects · Resources · Teaching · Writing

Beowulf Teaching Resources

December 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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 available on the web:

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Translate that Christmas Carol

December 10th, 2007 · 5 Comments

For a fun Christmas/vocabulary activity try having your students translate these verbose Christmas carol titles back into their original form:

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Tags: Lessons · Teaching

Literature Teacher’s Essential Library

December 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Which books should be on the bookshelf of every literature teacher?  The following list represents my personal picks:

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Tags: Reading Recommendations · Teaching

The Real Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Has Arrived

November 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

It was only a matter of time before Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy became a reality. That time is now here. You can now purchase a working prototype of a real Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a book you can take anywhere that contains as complete a summary of human knowledge as [...]

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