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This
page contains links which may be of use to teachers and student
teachers of English and Language Arts. It doesn't include links
to organizations for teachers (those appear on the Organizations
page) nor does it link to my own classes or students' work (yet.)
While I've examined most of these sites, keep in mind that
a) I'm not endorsing
them in any way,
b) if you use them in any kind of writing, be it for class assignments
or for your own teaching, you should cite them appropriately and
give credit as it's due.
I can't
emphasize this enough: no one will model fair use of borrowed
material for our students if we don't. And if we don't,
then we have no right to ask our students to do better than we do
ourselves.
Curriculum Resources
- English
Companion: a web site to accompany Jim Burke's book
(the 417/517 text.)
- Curriculum
Resources, courtesy of DPI.
- American
Memory Library of Congress home page: excellent and
reliable primary resources for teachers of American litearture,
history, culture.
- Racing
against Catastrophe: a WebQuest for English I teachers
(not for their students) on the use of scaffolding in teaching
reading.
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A bit
more abstract
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Lesson/Unit Plans
- "Awesome
library"'s array of plans and links. I'm not wild
about it, but it may help you out of a jam.
- Language
Arts lesson plans from teach-nology.com. I'm a bit suspicious
of this site because of the pop-up ads: read critically.
- COW:
Community of Writers, a K-12 teacher
support program aimed at improving writing. Contains lesson
plans on many aspects of teaching writing.
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Instant
Use
- Rubistar:
Generates interactive and
customizable rubrics for grading many kinds of assignments.
Possibly the biggest
timesaver on this page.
- Multicultural
Pavilion: I love the Awareness
Quiz, guaranteed
to amaze even the most diversity-aware; also, though,
many other resources for teaching
diverse populations.
- UCLA library's exercise
in telling a hoax from real research: handy when teaching
evaluation of sources.
- Indiana University's sterling plagiarism
quiz! Highly recommended
for faculty and students who think they already know
the finer points.
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Grammar and Usage
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Literature Links
(coming
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