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  • Yearbook

    Yearbook

    70 members Latest Activity: Nov. 17, 2009 Here's a place where those of us who advise or teach yearbook can go for advice, suggestions, or solace.

  • Teaching the Holocaust

    Teaching the Holocaust

    135 members Latest Activity: Jan 2 Share topics, titles, resources, and strategies for teaching the Holocaust and literature related to it.

  • Teaching with and Adopting Textbooks

    Teaching with and Adopting Textbooks

    16 members Latest Activity: Oct. 6, 2009 Teachers who are using or evaluating textbooks can help each other out here with suggestions and information.

  • Jersey Teachers

    Jersey Teachers

    4 members Latest Activity: Mar. 9, 2009 A place where teachers from New Jersey can network and communicate about issues specific to teaching English in New Jersey.

  • PSU Eng/Comm

    PSU Eng/Comm

    21 members Latest Activity: Nov. 30, 2009 Penn State University, Secondary English/Communication students

  • EC Ning Book Club: "Book Whisperer"

    EC Ning Book Club: "Book Whisperer"

    124 members Latest Activity: Jan 3 This is the group created for the ECN Book Club discussion led by Donalyn Miller about her wonderful book "The Book Whisperer."

  • MSCD English Education

    MSCD English Education

    2 members Latest Activity: Nov. 10, 2009 A group on the English Companion Ning for MSCD students currently in the English Education program at Metropolitan State College of Denver.

  • Re-readings

    Re-readings

    2 members Latest Activity: Nov. 19, 2009 This group is dedicated to the role re-reading plays in our teaching of English, be it the way we as teachers re-read books we teach or the way we mig…

  • Wikis In Use

    Wikis In Use

    3 members Latest Activity: Jan 2 This group for teachers to include their Wiki that is actually in use by students. Show the community what you are doing.

  • English Leadership

    English Leadership

    10 members Latest Activity: Jan 1 An opportunity to explore the concept of leadership. What does it mean / look like to be an effective leader? What makes a great department chair?…

  • 11 Honors English B3

    11 Honors English B3

    1 member Latest Activity: Oct. 29, 2009 Resources created by my B3 Class

  • 1984

    1984

    1 member Latest Activity: Dec. 8, 2009 Teaching George Orwells great dystopian novel.

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Jennifer Rolon added a discussion
Teaching Playwriting to Seniors
I'm about to enter my annual playwriting unit, but I feel as though my material is getting "stale." I am looking for suggestions, resources, ideas, sample published one act plays...ANYTHING! If you have an idea or teach this unit please reply! Thank…
3 minutes ago
Mark Smith commented on Bill Maniotis's blog post 'Teaching the ten commandments'
Bill writes: Again, this [not sure of antecedent] leads back to a sore point for me. We have no balance in educational theory anymore--and ideas have consequences. I see the same thing happening in our country's politics... Again, mere hyperbolic…
5 minutes ago
Maggie Dorsey replied to Dave's discussion 'What do essential questions look like?'
Oh, I love "What does it mean to be an 'outsider?'" Awesome question--I hope you will post (or blog about) some of the responses you and your students explore together. It does sound like you have a firm handle on this. Hooray! I was trained in UBD…
6 minutes ago
Jeffrey Robert Nordgren replied to Jim Burke's discussion 'Independent Reading' in the group AP Lit and Language
My 12th grade AP students (AP Lit) must choose one book for independent reading during ther spring semester. I began this because I realized that, for many of my students,my class would be their last literature course, and I wanted to broaden their…
9 minutes ago
Mark Smith commented on Bill Maniotis's blog post 'Teaching the ten commandments'
Michael writes: Most often it's [constructivism in practice] not that extreme, but usually it tends to share in the general progressive antipathy to "mere" knowledge and hostility to the "sage on a stage" or any sage anywhere. This is mere caricat…
19 minutes ago
Dave commented on Carol Sanders's blog post 'They just don't get it!!'
It seems like a lot of kids don't care for details. Spelling, anyone? I have had the same problem especially with the transfer. You would think that after teaching students how to use parenthetical citation and then correcting their mistakes on thei…
19 minutes ago
Jeffrey Robert Nordgren replied to Laurie Jones's discussion 'Is comedy underrepresented in most AP lit courses?' in the group AP Lit and Language
I believe comedy is underrepresented. My students often complain about the depressing works we read (12 grade, but they also say that about previous English courses). We added Much Ado About Nothing a dozen years ago as something of a balance to Ham…
21 minutes ago
Julie Coiro replied to Pat Keefe's discussion 'Vocabulary Videos and Rubric' in the group Teaching Vocabulary
Hi Pat, I have never done these myself, but there are some great examples at VocabAhead Vocab Videos which also contains links to digital resources to help students create their videos. While most of the videos are done professionally, there is at l…
23 minutes ago
Julie Coiro replied to Pat Keefe's discussion 'Vocabulary Videos Rubric and Discussion'
Hi Pat, I have never done these myself, but there are some great examples at VocabAhead Vocab Videos which also contains links to digital resources to help students create their videos. While most of the videos are done professionally, there is at l…
27 minutes ago
Jennifer Hoefer replied to Jennifer Hoefer's discussion 'Rigor in AP Writing: What is appropriate and how do you get colleagues on board?'
Thanks for your reply -- it was very helpful. I think I understand what you are saying -- kids do try to craft a dazzling sentence, rather than one with insight. And something simple can be insightful. But my concern is really the thinking behind th…
36 minutes ago
Krystine replied to Laurie Jones's discussion 'Is comedy underrepresented in most AP lit courses?' in the group AP Lit and Language
I would say comedy is underrepresented. My students have nicknamed my class "AP Sex & Death" as we tend to go to the dark side. I do try to use some comedy in preparation for a Q3 comedy prompt. We do use A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Color Purple…
38 minutes ago
Margery Willis replied to Margery Willis's discussion 'National Board Certification'
Your "rambling" is fantastic. So much good advice. You know, I'm actually looking forward to writing now. I feel like I've got a handle on it. Thanks for all of your comments.
41 minutes ago
Dave replied to Kathy's discussion 'The Great Depression novels'
I really like "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse. It is short and I think very accessible for struggling students. It won the Newberry Medal. Not only did it help me understand what the big deal was about the duststorms of the time, I thought it told…
49 minutes ago
Carol Jago replied to Maja Wilson's discussion 'Making Audience Matter in the Writing Process'
And what about the fact that often writers don't know what their thesis is until they begin reflecting in writing about a subject or occurrence? Happens to me all the time.
56 minutes ago
Ryan Rish Inviting my pre-service teachers @OSU to join Bill Kist's ECN book club as part of our class, Laboratory Experiences in English Education.
1 hour ago
Dave replied to Dave's discussion 'What do essential questions look like?'
Thank you so much everyone! I definitely have a better feel for how essential questions work. I've been able to brainstorm a few and included a few here. Feel free to tell me if I am way off base. What does it mean to be an “Outsider”? What makes…
1 hour ago

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