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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Screening for Reading Problems in Grades 4 Through 12 | RTI Action Network

Screening for Reading Problems in Grades 4 Through 12 | RTI Action Network

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Adolescent Literacy and Older Students with Learning Disabilities | Adolescent Literacy Topics A-Z | AdLit.org

Adolescent Literacy and Older Students with Learning Disabilities | Adolescent Literacy Topics A-Z | AdLit.org

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Adolescent Literacy: What's Technology Got to Do With It? | Adolescent Literacy Topics A-Z | AdLit.org

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Stuck in the Middle: Strategies to Engage Middle-Level Learners | Adolescent Literacy Topics A-Z | AdLit.org

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Work Will Work When Wishing Won't: New Glogs | Glogster

View my Glog presentation about Differentiated Instruction in The Middle School Classroom.

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Friday, March 18, 2011

Getting to Know Students

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American Literature students enjoy exploring the theme of dreams in poetry. We read A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe, I Dream’d in...

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"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
Ernest Hemingway

"Story is what stirs us, terrifies us, breaks our heart."
Loehr

Poetry

American Verse Project
The Beat Generation
Blake Archive
Robert Browning ebook
Roald Dahl ebook
Robert Frost ebook
Poet Seers
Poets.org
Ezra Pound
Carl Sandburg
Robert Louis Stevenson
Twentieth Century Poetry in English
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Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

Claude McKay
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Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
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James Weldon Johnson
Jean Toomer
Langston Hughes
Nella Larsen
Wallace Thurman
W.E.B. DuBois
Zora Neale Hurston

"To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart."
Aberihani

Native American Literature

20 Native American Authors You Need to Read
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"It does not require many words to speak the truth."

Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

William Shakespeare

Folger Library: Shakespeare In American Life
MIT: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Resource Center
The World of Shakespeare WebQuest
William Shakespeare Background Information & Teaching Ideas

"O none, unless this miracle have might:
That in black ink my love may still shine bright."
Shakespeare

Greek Mythology

BBC Ancient Greece
Greek Mythology
Greek Mythology for Kids
Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
Hercules
The Myth Man Presents Myth Mania
Myth Web
NatGeo Quiz: Which Greek God Are You?
Theoi Greek Mythology

"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."
Joseph Campbell

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Celtic Mythology
Irish Authors and Writers You Should Know from James Joyce to Oscar Wilde
Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama
Irish Myths and Legends
Island Ireland: Irish Literature
John Boyne
Online Irish Literature

"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
James Joyce

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American Memory from the Library of Congress
History Matters
History of the USA
High School Social Studies Lesson Plans Using Technology
Interactive Multimedia Moments in American History Timeline
Timeline of American Literature and Events
USHistory.com
William Bennett--America: The Last Best Hope
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