Describes a four- to six-week project for high school sophomores in which students create pamphlets and in the process learn basic research skills and practice several elements of the research paper.
Pamphlets: An Introduction to Research Techniques
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Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
6 - 12
Professional Library
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Intended for middle and high school teachers, Go Public! offers specific writing ideas and classroom activities to help students develop the confidence and ability to publish in a wide market.
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What Is "College-Level" Writing?
9 - 12
Professional Library
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Just what defines "college-level" writing? This collection seeks to engage this essential question with care, patience, and pragmatism.
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Great Films and How to Teach Them
9 - 12
Professional Library
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Costanzo offers high school and college teachers an updated, expanded edition that contains 80% new material on teaching film, including study guides of 14 new film with relevant ways to engage their students through a medium that students know and love.
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From Sheryl Crow to Homer Simpson: Literature and Composition through Pop Culture
7 - 12
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High school teacher Jerome Evans makes popular culture an integral part of his courses. Through analyzing themes in song lyrics, rhetorical devices in essays and advertisements, and psychology in contemporary film, students improve their skills in critical thinking and writing.
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Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts
7 - 12
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John Golden offers middle and high school teachers a practical guide for using documentary film in the classroom to improve students' reading, writing, and thinking skills.
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Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new pleasure"
9 - 12
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The first volume in the NCTE High School Literature Series, this small, practical book features primary source materials including many of Giovanni's poems reprinted in full, easily adaptable lessons and activities, and a resource section for students and teachers wishing to study Giovanni further.
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To Kill a Mockingbird in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's Shoes
9 - 12
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This book examines ways of engaging students as they study Harper Lee's novel. Included are collaborative learning, discussion, writing, and inquiry-based projects as well as activities related to the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Re-envisioning Research
8 - 12
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Describes a research paper in the author's high school English classroom which connected to the lives and interests of students, who delved into community problems with as much rigor (and using many types of research as traditional essays exploring arcane philosophical questions). Describes creating a context for exploration, and students' final projects.
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Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment
6 - 12
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Scott Filkins brings us into his and colleagues' classrooms to demonstrate how high school teachers across the disciplines can engage in inquiry-based reading assessment to support student learning. This book is part of the NCTE Principles in Practice imprint.
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Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
9 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Author & Text
Students use the Timeline Tool and Drama Map to create a decade-by-decade record and play of their community's history.
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Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom: "With a Harp and a Sword in My Hands"
8 - 12
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The book offers a practical approach to Hurston using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston's nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Sherman Alexie in the Classroom: "This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives."
8 - 12
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Provides high school teachers with teaching strategies, classroom activities, and student samples for teaching the works of Sherman Alexie.
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Comic Creator
K - 12
Student Interactive
| Writing & Publishing Prose
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).
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Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was born today in 1872.
8 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Author & Text
Students read one of Dunbar's most famous poems and explore how critical excerpts shape their understanding.
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Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength"
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Offers high school teachers an activity-based approach to teaching the works of Amy Tan, especially The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate.
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Alice Walker in the Classroom: "Living by the Word"
8 - 12
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Carol Jago offers readers a handy guide for bringing this celebrated author's work into the classroom, including biographical information, ideas for literature circles using Walker's short stories, sample writing lessons using Walker's poems, suggestions for teaching The Color Purple, and a wealth of resources for further investigation of Alice Walker and her work.
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Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun
8 - 12
Professional Library
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Carol Jago offers ways to teach the works of Judith Ortiz Cofer in the high school English classroom.
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Essay Map
3 - 12
Student Interactive
| Organizing & Summarizing
The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.
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How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature: One Teacher's Perspective
8 - 12
Professional Library
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In this article, Versaci details the many merits of using comics and graphic novels in the classroom, suggests how they can be integrated into historical and social issues units, and recommends several titles.