June Is Black Music Month!
…movements, and local happenings as reflected in the realms of art, science, technology, literature, and many other aspects of society and culture. This Story Map, “Roots and Routes: Mapping African…
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When the Books Our Students Read Go to Hollywood
…their trailers, make books more accessible, lend them the “cool” factor for teens and the “maybe-I shouldn’t-let-my-kid-watch-this” notion for parents. Often the film advertises the aspects of the book that…
Sending Books to LGBT Prisoners
…should be. The work that you do ALWAYS shines a light in this darkness. I can NEVER truly express my appreciation for this. I am an aspiring author and I…
The Enduring Work of Global BIPOC Women Literary Activists
…Writing Scholarship, which affords aspiring writers from marginalized backgrounds monetary and support services. Of special note is the fact that de Waal financed the scholarship by reserving money from an…
Intersectionality and Confluence: Frameworks for Decolonizing Your Classroom
…line cross the race line? Like identity politics, the term intersectionality focuses on an individual and a static nexus of aspects of identity. Recognizing that my imagination does not do…
Teaching News Bias without Being Biased
…event and then choose articles from three sources that you have already divided into unnamed categories. This may increase student autonomy and add a research aspect to the activity. For…
Key Takeaways from a Survey of NCTE State Policy Analysts
…about many ways of improving teaching and learning more broadly. Takeaway 3: Technology compromises standardized literacy assessment. Technology, of course, is another important aspect of testing, and our representatives reported…
One at a Time: Teaching Writing and Close Reading with Sentences
…that sentence study replace the reading and writing of full-length works. In a single sentence you can’t grasp the rhythm of a paragraph or a poem, nor can you see…
English Journal November Sneak Preview
…“hold” and “exercise,” and which others aspire to “seize” and “wield.” Instead, Foucault argued that power is everywhere, with the result that people are continuously able to shape (and reshape)…
Save Reading, Save the Country
…Christian, but I identified strongly with the Congregationalist pastor in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead. Likewise, I aspired to Pi Patel’s transcendent view of suffering in Life of Pi and was moved…
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