Veteran high school English teacher David Dowling demonstrates how teachers can help students connect The Great Gatsby to the value systems of the twenty-first century, offering active reading and thinking strategies designed to enhance higher-level thinking and personal responses to fiction.
The Great Gatsby in the Classroom: Searching for the American Dream
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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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Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
9 - 12
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This book is intended to help middle and secondary school English language arts teachers integrate literature study and composition instruction.
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Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
6 - 12
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Joanna Dolgin, Kim Kelly, and Sarvenaz Zelkha offer real-world examples, sample student work, step-by-step instructions, and handouts to help teachers incorporate authentic forms of assessment into the middle and high school curriculum.
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Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers of Literature
9 - 12
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Deborah Appleman dismantles the traditional divide between secondary teachers of literature and teachers of reading and offers a variety of practical ways to teach reading within the context of literature classrooms.
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Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
9 - 12
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Dakin explores different methods for getting students engaged--and excited--about Shakespeare's plays as they learn to construct meaning from the texts' sixteenth-century language and connect it to their twenty-first-century lives.
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What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
7 - 12
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Through teacher-friendly language and classroom examples, Deborah Dean takes a close look at effective, research-based practices for writing instruction.
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Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content Knowledge
5 - 10
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Heather Lattimer provides practical, classroom-tested approaches to helping students access and critically respond to content-based texts.
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What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings, and Student Writing Samples
9 - 12
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Edited by Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinberg, and Sheridan Blau, this sequel to What Is "College-Level" Writing? (2006) highlights the practical aspects of teaching writing.
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Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
9 - 12
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Authors Susan L. Groenke and Lisa Scherff offer suggestions for incorporating YA lit into the high school curriculum.
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Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Literacy
6 - 12
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Offering advice from a host of experts in adolescent literacy, this book helps answer real questions from parents across the country about how to best support their teens as readers and writers.
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Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: "This too is true: Stories can save us"
9 - 12
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As part of the NCTE High School Literature Series, Tim O'Brien in the Classroom focuses on opportunities for classroom discussion and writing assignments, including lessons, open-ended prompts, and student writing samples.
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Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
9 - 12
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This book isn't about technology. It's about the teaching practices that technology enables. This book addresses the ways in which teachers and students work together to navigate continuous change and what it means to read, write, view, listen, and communicate in the twenty-first century.
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Be Fabulous: The Reading Teacher's Guide to Reclaiming Your Happiness in the Classroom
K - 12
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Scoggin merges her straight-talking blogger persona, Mrs. Mimi, with her years of research to help you rediscover who you are and redefine the type of literacy teacher you want to become. At the heart of this book is teacher happiness and empowerment—reconnect with your inner fabulous to give the best possible literacy instruction to your students.
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Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives
6 - 12
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This book is designed to help teachers develop their own version of YA pedagogy and a vision for teaching YA lit in the middle and secondary classroom.
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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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Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"
8 - 12
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Carmaletta M. Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes's poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography.
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Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun
8 - 12
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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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Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength"
8 - 12
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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.