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An introduction to “Myths and Legends” and “Mythical Monsters”. Text studied, Robert Nye’s “Beowulf”.

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Snow white just premiered in London so there will be a lot of interest. (Charlize Theron and Kristin Stewart are in the adaptation.) If you're wanting to talk about Snow White, here are some lesson plans and information for that purpose.

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Alice in Wonderland in 20 minutes - no,I'm not kidding.This cute little script is one that you can use to put on a short show. Perhaps this is one for ending the year (if you're finishing in June) or to plan to start next year. Looks to be upper elementary or middle school level.

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Here are some lesson plans for phonics and writing for younger students to use in your classroom. I've sorted it by the most popular first including some Outdoor ideas and some phonics games you could play.

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This lesson plan for middle school teaches about Haiku and also reviews the concept of syllables. Very extensive resources to use on this one.

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A nice downloadable resource to teach students about Haiku. (via TES)

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Haiku starter printout.

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Interesting idea here to use a Haiku starter website and then animate the Haiku on Animoto. Love this idea.

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Hunger games bookmarks with lyrics to the meadow song on it. If you have some obsessed students, you could print them out and give them to the students as a reward.

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This is a fascinating idea. Students should summarize each chapter in a "tweet" or 140  characters. As the lesson plan says "Every word counts and most important events should be included." You could do some fascinating things with this in class. This is a high school literature assignment.

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An autobiographical writing skills powerpoint and activity including a differentiated lesson plan and more traditional one. I like having different options. This is for older (high school) students.

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If you're teaching Shakespeare or Webster, this Jacobean England presentation will be a nice introduction for you.

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A friend of mine passed this lesson plan on to me with this note to Literature teachers:

"Sick of Jacobean literature meaning Shakespeare? Check out this resource on Christopher Marlowe's Faust. "

I think that this is a very good point and is the type of lesson that AP literature would use in the US. There is a reading guide, powerpoint, and it also incorporates John Milton's Paradise Lost as a comparative text.

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A chart making the rounds that shows that almost half of us are reading books or novels RIGHT NOW. We're reading more than ever, not less. Lots of discussion about this including that this chart doesn't measure the "quality" of our reading. But of course that question implies some sort of academic snobbery - who decides "quality." The fact is that more are reading NOW than ever before. I have to wonder the impact of ebooks and tablets on this number. We always have a book with us now.

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Very proud of my dear friend Cheryl Oakes from Maine who is on the Official Google blog with her work with those with disabilities. Cheryl is an amazing woman who loves children. My youngest son has met her only once (in San Antonio at ISTE) and still calls her Aunt Cheryl. She has that effect on people. Great post.

"One teacher who has taken advantage of the web as an educational tool is Cheryl Oakes, a resource room teacher in Wells, Maine. She’s also been able to tailor the vast resources available on the web to each student’s ability. This approach has proven invaluable for Cheryl’s students, in particular 16-year-old Morgan, whose learning disability makes it daunting to sort through search results to find those webpages that she can comfortably read. Cheryl taught Morgan how to use the Search by Reading Level feature on Google Search, which enables Morgan to focus only on those results that are most understandable to her. To address the difficulty Morgan faces with typing, Cheryl introduced her to Voice Search, so Morgan can speak her queries into the computer. Morgan is succeeding in high school, and just registered to take her first college course this summer."

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This lesson plan brings in cultural literacy using Cinderella's story. By comparing different versions of Cinderella, you can also discuss culture. I love this method of framing cultural literacy for the elementary age student.

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This article in the Washington Post, I've seen several mentions by teachers. The slow reading movement is one that advocates really getting into a book and also becoming intimate with the "author" even to the point of memorization. It is about relaxing and getting into a book instead of rushing through a lot of them.

"I have therefore joined the slow reading movement. Like the slow food movement, it is about more than just slowing down, though that is part of it. It is about an intimacy with authors; it is about paying attention, about caring, about rereading and savoring what we read. It is about finding the right pace. About pleasure more than efficiency.

Slow reading is also about recovering old practices that have traditionally aided readers in paying attention — oral performance, annotation, exploring complex and difficult passages. It is about reading that generates ideas for writing, what Ralph Waldo Emerson called “creative reading.” And even memorization."

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Great collection of lesson plans and information on Shakespeare. There are a lot of downloadables here for literature teachers.

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Students create a TV advertisement for Puck's "Love in Idleness" potion from a Midsummer Night's Dream. This lesson includes a storyboard. Whether you use this particular lesson plan or not, it is a creative idea.

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Get ready to read poetry! World Poetry day is March 21. Here are a lot of lesson plans and ideas for that day including some digital e-poetry booklets that you could download as well as mp3's and videos that you can use as well as lesson plans.

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