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Mass Media

Film

• Teach With Movies.org - listing of appropriate and inappropriate movies for teaching, with discussion questions.
• http://www.scriptfly.com/screenplays - screenplays for sale
• African Film - Films from Africa and the African diaspora
• Filmakers Library
• Discovery in Film. Robert Heyer S.J. and Anthony Meyer S.J. LB1044 Z9H4. The Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle in the State of New York, 1969. LC 69-19170. - Written by Missionaries but valuable for secular learning, too. Synopses, discussion questions, resource materials and film data on (short) films dealing with issues of communication, freedom, love, peace and happiness. Examples: Hunger in America, Ghandi, Place in the Sun.
• Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary. Arlene Moscovitch. National Film Board of Canada, 1993. ISBN 0-7722-0500-0. PN1995.9 D6C65 No. 1 guide. - Comprehensive, big textbook. Could do a whole course in documentary based on this text. Handy theme index of documentary films at back. Cartoon view of the roles of the various workers in documentary film. 288 pages.
• Film crew roles cartoon: handout.

Computers

• http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/freespeling.html - Controversy about English spelling
• http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/log.html CyberEnglish syllaweb

Television

• Culture Shock - PBS
• PBS TeacherSource
• Welcome to Henson.com
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/ - The Merchants of Cool, Frontline, marketing pop culture to teens.
• http://www.gnn.tv Guerilla News Network
• http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/newnormal_info.html In the Mix: The New Normal. Post Sept. 11th 3-part series for teens on PBS
• http://www.honestreporting.com/

Radio

• WHYY Online - Fresh Air
• NPR National Public Radio (U.S.)

Media Literacy

• Media Literacy Clearinghouse
• Lesson Plans Communication Comparisons
• http://www.mrsmithmedia.com/ Mr. Smith E-Mails The Media
• As Mark Twain once said, "If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."
• http://www.indymedia.org/

Alternative Media

• http://www.thenation.com
• http://www.counterpunch.org
• http://www.alternet.org
• http://www.wiretapmag.org/ Youth version of Alternet

Postmodernism

• http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postmodernism/during.html
• http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=Postmodern+cultural+texts
• http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html
• http://eserver.org/clogic/1-1/katz.html

Drama

• MLP - Extending Activities for Drama Unit
• ARTSEDGE The National Arts and Education Information Network - The Kennedy Center (has tons of materials)
• Novels and Plays: Thirty Creative Teaching Guides for Grades 6-12. Albert B. Somers and Janet Evans Worthington. Teacher Ideas Press, 1997. ISBN 1-56308-489-9 - Activities, Writing Activities, Discussion Questions, Further Resources, Reading problems, vocabulary that may need clarifying (without the definitions, though).
• http://eserver.org/drama/ The EServer Drama Collection. Dedicated to both contemporary and classical drama, this site contains original plays and screenplays, criticisms and links to other sites concerned with theatre. The classical drama plays available are Greek and English plays--Aristophanes, Shakespeare and other great classics-however, they are long and elaborate and therefore are more difficult to perform. The modern plays tend to be shorter and have fewer characters and in this sense are more appropriate for in-class dramatic work. On the other hand, the modern work tends to be rather abstract and therefore might be difficult for students to comprehend. Still, they could be used to show students various ways of writing plays as many of them have different formats. (from Ruweida)
• http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/erachi/index.html The Drama Teachers' Resource Room. This site caters especially to teachers doing dramatic work in-class or as a school production. There are several sections to the site; one contains lesson plans, another has tips for producing plays and acting, and there is also a site providing links to great drama online. (from Ruweida)

Elizabethan

• Romeo and Juliet Web Guide
• EDSITEment Lesson - 'You Kiss by the Book': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• http://www.tnellen.com/school/shakes.html
• Series: HBJ Shakespeare - the most readable Shakespeare for young people. Intro to each scene, readable notes on facing page, activities and then warm-up for the next scene. http://www.harcourtcanada.com/school/english/ Secondary English site.
• Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. David Scott Kastan, Peter Stalybrass, eds. N.Y.: Routledge, 1991. My copy.
• Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama collections.
• http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/printable_lesson_plan.asp?id=396 Unit: Hamlet Meets Chushingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy.
• http://www.folger.edu/education/teaching.htm Teaching Shakespeare. A fantastic site for teaching Shakespeare. It is filled with lesson plans on many of Shakespeare's plays. The lesson plans are complete with evaluation standards and are student centred. (from Ruweida)

Japanese

• Teaching (and Learning) About Japan

Contemporary

• ARTSEDGE Exploring Don Quixote - Unit
• Marat/Sade. Peter Weiss. N.Y.: Athenium, 1981. My copy.
• The Father and A Dream Play. August Strindberg. N.Y.: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1964. My copy.
• Mother Courage and her Children. Bertolt Brecht. London: Eyre Methuen, 1978. My copy.
• The Balcony. Jean Genet. N.Y.: Grove Weidenfeld, 1966. My copy.
• Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic. Bertolt Brecht. John Willett, ed., trans. London: Methuen Drama, 1994. My copy.
• Collected Plays 1. Wole Soyinka. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1973. My copy.
• Krapp's Last Tape and other dramatic pieces. Samuel Beckett. N.Y.: Grove Weidenfeld, 1957. My copy.
• The Crucible: Text and Criticism. Arthur Miller. Gerald Weales, ed. N.Y.: Penguin, 1971. My copy.

Acting

• Folktale Improvisation lesson
• Choral Speaking Frog on the Log lesson
• actingunit
• Standards - National Standards for Theatre Education - lots of units, lessons on all aspects of the theatre.
• Grade Six Arts Education - Unit Three - Drama and Dramatic Artists
• Grade Six Arts Education - Appendix - Journals in the Drama Classroom
• A Practical Handbook For The Actor. Melissa Bruder, et. al. Vintage Books, New York, 1986. - Simple, clear and concise.
• Structuring Drama Work: A handbook of available forms in theatre and drama. Jonothan Neelands. Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 1990. ISBN 0-521-37635-1. My copy.
• Writing Your Own Plays: Creating, Adapting. Improvising. Carol Korty. N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986. ISBN 0-684-18470-2. My copy.

Literature

• EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web - Their literature lessons are out of this world.
• http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (DiscoverySchool.com) - Literature & Language Arts
• http://www.txla.org/groups/yart/tayshas0102.html - reading list
• Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - 656+ fables -
• http://www.textbookheaven.com/high_school_literature.html Textbooks
• http://www.pearsoned.ca/ Canadian (Ontario-based) Textbooks
• http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/discipline/1,4094,78781,00.html Prentice Hall U.S. College English textbooks
• http://www.phschool.com/ Prentice Hall U.S. High School English textbooks
• Gwynn, R.S.  (1998).  Fiction: A Longman Pocket Anthology, 2nd ed.  New York: Longman.  ISBN 0-321-01148-1 - Reviewed by Pat Fontaine
• Barnet, S., M. Berman, W. Burto, & M. Stubbs.  (1996).  Literature for Composition, 4th ed.  New York: Harper Collins.  ISBN 0-673-52344-6. (I have the 2nd Edition at home from my CEGEP days.)
• Behrens, L. & L.J. Rosen.  (2000).  Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum, 7th ed. New York: Longman.  ISBN 0-321-02397-8
• McMahan, E., S.X. Day, & R. Funk.  (1999).  Literature and the Writing Process, 5th ed.  Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.  ISBN 0-13-913211-2
• Insights: Cultures. Exploring Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction. EDCR PN6071 C89C82 1996. Jon Terpening. ISBN 0-7747-0148-X - North American multicultural reader, 154 pages. Part of Insights collection, includes Choices, Creating and Performing, The Environment, Identity and Learning, Immigrant Experiences, Relationships and Responsibility, Science in Literature, Technology and Change, Understanding War. Harcourt Brace Canada, 1996. Short stories etc., Canada, International.
• The Issues Collection. Collection Editor: Gillda Leitenberg. - Multiculturalism. Ed. Jerry Wowk, Ted Jason. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., 1993. ISBN 0-07-551450-8. PE1121 M85 1993 - Canadian Anthology, 151 pp. Series includes: biography, Families in Transition, Futures, Gender Issues, Global Issues, Justice, Music, Native Voices, Popular Culture, Values, Wellness.
• Series: Portals to Literature. Reproducible activity books on novels. Perfection Learning Corporation, Logan, Iowa. Sample ISBN 0-89598-126-2.
• In Context: Anthology One. PN6014 C662 1990 v.1 MEQ Instructional Material Approved. Clayton Graves, Christine McClymont. Nelson Canada, 1990. ISBN 0-17-603048. - Very colorful and eclectic mix of stuff that I would gladly use in the classroom. Helpful teacher resource guide and activities for all levels. Canadian and other cultures. A little bit dated (letters to bruce springsteen) but otherwise I wouldn't mind reading it myself so imagine it would appeal to students, too.
• Literature I through VI: The Oregon Curriculum/A Sequential Program in English. Albert R. Kitzhaber, General Editor. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc,. New York, 1969. 03-081109-0. PN6014 L53 1969. - My CT last year used these, a very comprehensive collection of usable stuff, lots of classics. Good teacher guides, too.
• http://www.perfectionlearning.com/ccmp/ Contemporary Classics and Masterprose (pre-1900) - teacher resources and reproducible activities. McGill has about ten of the CC's. Brave New World, Lord of the Flies,
• The Chocolate War. Robert Cormier. See Novels for Students (http://www.galegroup.com/)
• http://www2.corvallis.k12.or.us/district_information/benchmarks/literature.pdf Literature standards and benchmarks (Oregon)
• http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/glossary/index.htm Glossary of literary terms
• http://www.writinglife.org/eci721/yasites.htm Teaching Literature for Young Adults. This site has links to book reviews, book lists, lesson plans, teaching strategies, literature circles and other useful information for teaching English. The site also contains links geared for students, such as review lists done by teens (Teen Ink). This page also has links to several databases containing an array of literature texts online, many of which emphasise multicultural work. The site is a great starting point for searching for information on the net about teaching English literature. (from Ruweida)

Writing

• The Writer's Voice 2: Reading into Writing. Boswell/Lamont/Martyn. Agincourt, Ontario: Methuen, 1985. ISBN 0-458-99770-6
• The Writer's Voice 2: Reading into Writing - Teacher's Guide. Boswell/Lamont/Martyn. Agincourt, Ontario: Methuen, 1985. ISBN 0-458-99780-3
• Essay Writing Made Easy: Presenting Ideas in all Subject Areas. Ann Birch. PE1472 B57 1993. ISBN 1-55138-016-1. Pembroke Publishers Limited, Markham Ontario, 1993. 101pp. - Easy, readable breakdown with tips and samples. Might keep as a reference in the classroom.
• Essays: Patterns and Perspectives. Judith Barker-Sandbrook. PE1471 B37 1992. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-19-540839-X. Anthology of 45 essays by Canadian, American and International writers for Grades 11-12. Includes student-written essays, tips, resources and checklists, creativity.
• Basic Grammar In Use: Reference and practice for students of English. Raymond Murphy. Cambridge University Press, 1993. PE1128 M774 1993. ISBN 0-521-42606-5. 226 pp. - Left side: reference with example in title, eg. I Have Done (Present Perfect 1) so you can find what you need fast. Right Side: practice exercises (can be done as discussions as well). Handy for classroom, convenient for quick grammar reference, mini-lessons.
• The Communications Handbook, Second Edition. Senior Editor: Chelsea Donaldson. Nelson Canada, 1996. PE1429 C65 1996. ISBN 0-17-604738-7 - Whiz-bang readable writing guide for high school students. Includes pre-writing (clusters), drafting, editing, sample essays, research papers, business, technical writing, listening and speaking, and study skills. A more readable version than Writers, Inc, but less colourful.
• Random House Guide to Good Writing. Mitchell Ivers. Ballantyne Books, New York, 1991. ISBN 0-345-37996-9. - Articles, memos, letters, scripts, essays, fiction, with exercises and examples. Handy reference that I have at home, might bring into class. My copy.
• The MacMillan Good English Handbook: Unique at-a-glance Rules, Recommendations, Options, Cautions. Godfrey Howard. MacMillan, London, 1997. ISBN 0-333-71203-X. Clears up sometimes confusing (imply/infer) or dated (pictures/movies/film) and other questions about language. My copy.
• English Grammar Tutor-Free Online Grammar Book
• http--webnz.com-checkers-grammar2.html - Free Online Grammar Lessons
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Second Edition. My copy. This is the one I'm most comfortable with from my English degree, and I think that once one masters one system it is easy enough to translate into another.
• Notes on Scholarly Style. I got this at Marianopolis. It's a condensed version of MLA and Science styles, and I have found it very useful and concise. 20 pp.
• Shefter's Guide to Better Compositions. Harry Shefter. I accidentally kept this from High School after borrowing it from a teacher. It helped me write my first good essay.
• HGI Howler and Family Memoirs- Self-published works by Syd Korsunsky's high school classes in Saskatchewan. Volumes: 4:1,2,3
• The Writing Process Iceberg. Handout.
• http://fno.org/may98/cov98may.html The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes . . .
• Glossary: Conventions of Form. MEQ ELA Exemplars, describes different types of writing. My copy.
• Paragraph sheets - various, from my CT.
• Strategies For Effective Writing. Handout.
• http://www204.pair.com/ebaack/ Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English
• http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hme/6_8/rubrics/toc.html Writing rubrics
• http://www.bham.wednet.edu/exposit/MainMenu.htm Teaching the expository modes (Persuasion, Compare & Contrast, Analytical essays)
• http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/pers.html The 5 paragraph essay
• http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/ Writing an effective essay
• http://lklivingston.home.mindspring.com/essay/basicessay.pdf basic essays
• http://www.troyst.edu/writingcenter/handouts/handouts.html Writing centre handouts
• http://www.eslplanet.com/teachertools/argueweb/frntpage.htm Writing argumentative essays
• http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/EssaysToc.html The UVic Writer's Guide
• http://www.delmar.edu/engl/wrtctr/handouts/persuasive.htm Persuasive/Argument essay
• http://www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/charsket.pdf Writing a character sketch
• http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html Rhetorical devices
• http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Lessons/StructuredCurriculumTOC/SCLanguage_Arts/LAhsApxD.PDF Poetic Literary Devices
• http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/srubrics.htm Rubrics, etc.
• http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/reading/bookrepts1.html Book report and assignment ideas - good for any lit.
• http://grammar.englishclub.com/ English Grammar. A great grammar site with information, exercises and quizzes. The explanations can be given in class and supplemented by the quizzes provided. The site is geared for ESL students and therefore is very simple and easy to navigate. However, the level is such that it should be given to students in the lower secondary levels. This site can also be used in the higher levels for students who have problems with grammar either as extra work or as a reference (from Ruweida)
• http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm Guide to Grammar and Writing. An extensive site for grammar. It is very well presented and easy to navigate. The site covers all parts of English grammar extensively and supplements all sections with quizzes and exercises. The quizzes can be used as in-class exercises and the site itself can be provided to students as a resource for them to improve their grammar on their own, if not in class. There is also an amazing section on the writing process that covers freewriting, clustering, writers' block, outlining, editing and other aspects of writing. The writing is easy to understand and seems to be oriented towards high school students. There are also sections on various types of writing such as the argumentative essay, the evaluative and the personal. (from Ruweida)

Public Speaking/Debate

• Speak Up! A Guide to Public Speaking. Patricia Sternberg. PN4121 S8145 1984. Julian Messner, New York, 1984. ISBN 0-671-47371. 159 pp. - Great reference guide, large text, readable and friendly tone. Keep in classroom, maybe design some lessons around it.
• The Art of Debate (Lakeshore School Board). From my CT.
• Public Speaking evaluation sheet from the PSBGM. From my CT. Handout.

Short Stories

• http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/browsebooks/shortstories.html
• http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/awg_henry_o.htm - O Henry Short Stories online
• http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/awg_london_jack.htm - Jack London Short Stories online
• Short Stories: An Anthology for Secondary Schools. Edwin H. Sauer and Howard Mumford Jones. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. New York. 1963. PN6014 S5 1963. - Serious adult literature that will appeal to young adults. Classics, such as "The Rocking-Horse Winner." Photocopied table of contents.
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My copy.
• Green Gulch. A one-page short story from my CT. Handout.
• Short Stories - Teacher's Guides from Inside Short Stories. Pages 5-23. From my CT.
• Elements of the Short Story. 13 pages. From my CT.

Young Adult Novels

• http://www.merlynspen.com/ YA Novels written by teens!
• http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/guides/
• http://www.lindaholeman.com - Author site
• http://achuka.com/can/holeman.htm - Interview with Linda Holeman
• http://www.orillia.org/williambell - Author site
• http://tosirwithlove.co.uk - Book site
• publications at Teachertimesavers.com - Novel studies for sale - young secondary.
• http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/workbooks/angelcard.html - Discussion techniques
• http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/workbooks/readingstrategies.html - Reading strategies
• http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/workbooks/readingvocabulary.html - Vocabulary strategies
• http://tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/jen/index.html - Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Book Lists
• http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/ela/frame5.htm The Book Ladies' List of Students' Favourites
• http://www.siue.edu/ENGLISH/websites/yalit.htm
• Springboards 2002 - Beyond the Classroom - Teen Fiction. Susan Tee, Beaconsfield Public Library. Susan gave a presentation on her recommendations for teen fiction and we got this handout listing about 50 new teen fiction books by theme with short synopses.
• Books for Everybody. Babar's Books catalogue.
• Book 1: The Contest -Everest-.  I got it yesterday and I already finished it!!!!!  From Scholastics and I think it is a great book to do with secondary ones, it is full of action and teenage relevant stuff.  - Sonia Mangiola
• http://www.reading.org/index.html International Reading Association. A great source for finding books to read in class. The lists include books chosen by teachers and young adults. It can even be a resource given to the students so that they may see what is being recommended by other people their age. (from Ruweida)
• http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/yalit.htm Young Adult Literature: Middle and Secondary Language Arts. A very extensive and informative site containing a massive number of links and information. The site covers different types of literature for young adults, lesson plans, information for teachers, book reviews and many other links. It is a valuable site for supporting English classes at all Secondary levels. (from Ruweida)
• http://library.furman.edu/resources/subject/edu/YAlit.htm Resources for Teaching Young Adult Literature. This site is very organised and provides many links to teaching literature to young adults. The site includes book lists, poetry search engines, links to lesson plans and more. A valuable resource for the teacher. (from Ruweida)
• http://theliterarylink.com/ The Literary Link. A site that contains sections on literature for young adults, prose, short stories and other form of literature. The site has links to e-based texts, lesson plans, suggestions for the teacher and essays on literature. A very helpful site for finding different types of literature and how to teach them in class. (from Ruweida)

Novels

• . Novels and Plays: Thirty Creative Teaching Guides for Grades 6-12. Albert B. Somers and Janet Evans Worthington. Teacher Ideas Press, 1997. ISBN 1-56308-489-9 - Activities, Writing Activities, Discussion Questions, Further Resources, Reading problems, vocabulary that may need clarifying (without the definitions, though).
• List of Novel Units available from The Bookman (Bookmantext.com)

Canadian Fiction

• See Literature section for Anthologies.
• Joshua Then and Now. Mordecai Richler. Toronto: Seal Books, 1980. ISBN 0-7704-1656-X. 370pp. My copy.
• Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album. Mordecai Richler. My copy.
• Solomon Gursky Was Here. Mordecai Richler. My copy.

International Fiction

• See Literature section for Anthologies.

Poetry

• http://www.dylanthomas.com/ - poems and audio files.
• Napierkowski, Marie Rose, and Mary K. Ruby, eds. Poetry for Students. Vol.2. Detroit: Gale, 1998. - Reviewed by Simeon Hollenbeck.
• Robert Burns Poems. William Beattie, Henry W. Meikle, Eds. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1946. 272 pp. My copy.
• Empty Mirror: Early Poems by Allen Ginsberg. William Carlos Williams, Intr. N.Y.: Totem Press, 1961. 47 pp. My copy.
• Red Cats. Anselm Hollo, trans. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1962. Number Sixteen in The Pocket Poets Series. 64 pp. Poems by seven Russian poets. My copy.
• Reality Sandwiches. Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1962. Number Eighteen in The Pocket Poets Series. 98 pp. My copy.
• Psyche: The Feminine Poetic Consciousness. An Anthology of Modern American Women Poets. Barbara Segnitz, Carol Rainey, eds. N.Y.: Dell, 1973. 256 pp. Atwood, Brigham, Brooks, Dickinson, Evans, Giovanni, Goedicke, Jong, Kizer, Levertov, Lifshin, Lowell, Moore, Owens, Piercy, Plath, Rich, Sexton, Swenson, Wakosi, Wylie. My copy.
• New Enlarged Pocket Anthology of Robert Frost's Poems. N.Y.: Washington Square Press, 1946. 279 pp. My copy.
• Selected Poems: T.S. Eliot. London: Faber, 1959. 127 pp. My copy.
• The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems. Robert Bly, ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971. 107 pp. ISBN 0-8070-6411-4. Anthology of short (3-4 line) poems from Europe, America and Asia. My copy.
• 50 Poems. E.E. Cummings. N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. ISBN 0-448-00066-0. My copy.
• Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, March 1942. My copy.
• The Teeth Mother Naked at Last. Robert Bly. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1971. Number Twenty-Six in The Pocket Poets Series. 22 pp. My copy.
• Landscapes of Living & Dying. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. N.Y.: New Directions, 1976. 57 pp. My copy.
• Tyrannus Nix? Lawrence Ferlinghetti. N.Y.: New Directions, 1969. 92 pp. My copy.
• Riprap, & Cold Mountain Poems. Gary Snyder. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969. 60 pp. My copy.
• Text for Nausikaa. Michael Harris. Montreal: Delta Canada, 1970. 41 pp. My copy.
• Selected Stories and Poems. Edgar Allan Poe. N.Y.: Airmont, 1962. 192 pp. My copy.
• Whitman. N.Y.: Laurel, 1959. 192 pp. My copy.
• Rilke: Selected Poems. C.F. MacIntyre, trans. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1974. ISBN 0-520-01070-1. 147 pp. My copy.
• Romantic and Victorian Poetry. My copy.
• W.B. Yeats: Selected Poetry. My copy.
• ABC Of Reading. Ezra Pound. My copy.
• Fifty Poems. Pasternak. My copy.
• D.H. Lawrence: Selected Poems. My copy.
• Panic Grass. Charles Upton. My copy.
• Poems. Wallace Stevens. My copy.
• On Man and Nature. Thoreau. My copy.
• Ezra Pound / Selected Poems. My copy.
• The Light Around the Body. Robert Bly. My copy.
• Friday Night Fredericton 2. Robert Cockburn. My copy.
• Cornet Music For Plupy Shute. William Bauer. My copy.
• Original Child Bomb: points for meditation to be scratched on the walls of a cave. Thomas Merton. My copy.
• Mid-American Chants. Sherwood Anderson. My copy.
• Edgar Allan Poe. Selected works. My copy.
• "Rules and Regulations." Lewis Carroll. Handout with vocabulary.
• "As I Walked Out One Evening". W. H. Auden. See Poetry for Students. (http://www.galegroup.com/)
• http://www.webcom.com/wordings/artofwrite/poetrygenerator.html Random poetry word generator
• http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG The Surrealist Compliment Generator
• http://cgi.tomandlu.plus.com/corpse/corpse.htm Exquisite Corpses
• http://www.ravenblack.net/random/surreal/shakespeare.html Random Shakespeare Generator
• http://www.sharemation.com/~bravedog/cyberdelia5.htm
• http://www.poetryteachers.com/
• http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/how/
• http://www.ncte.org/notesplus/poetry_page/pictures.shtml Using pictures to teach Poetry
• http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/poem/poem.html Interpreting poetry
• http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/index.html Modern Poetry
• http://thesaurus.plumbdesign.com/index.jsp Visual Thesaurus
• http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html Glossary of poetic terms
• http://www.michigan.gov/scope/0,1607,7-155-13515_13526_13527-50555--,00.html Human Rights poetry lessons

Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation

• http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/susan.htm Spelling rules
• http://www.dyslexia.org/spelling_rules.shtml more Spelling rules
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/ Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation

• 1. Explore body language. Games: Body Talk, Emotional Charades. Distance reading of "conversations" can use film, photos too.
• 2. Artifacts. What would an alien learn from a long-lost artifact found in our city? Bring in object, give to partner for analysis.
• 3. Baby Talk. Get students to tape younger siblings and analyse baby talk. What kinds of words do they use first? How many, patterns, etc.
• 4. Tutors - read with and to younger students (not "teach" them).
• 5. Analyze greetings.
• 6. Euphemism. Politics of "spin" or management speak, contrast or roleplay blunt speech, gobbledygook, create opposite versions of a text.
• 7. Dialect study.
• 8. Invent a new language. Features? Efficient? Written? Samples? Clockwork Orange, Newspeak, pig latins.
• 9. The language of space. Personal space. Overcrowding, urban automobiles, sprawl, floor space, photos & film opportunities.
• 10. Scrabble and other word games, puzzles. Buy some paperback ones and rip them apart.
• 11. The Recorded Rhetoric. Ask students to create a tape of writing advice for next year's students. Pick a form she knows well and tape a 5-10 minute talk about what she knows about it. Can also place some writing samples on file for consultation with the tape. E.g. Haiku, advertising, filmmaking, essay.
• 12. Analyzing Handwriting. Game: signature from the head box.
• 13. Propaganda. Examine examples from the past, send students to find contemporary versions. Game: Propaganda Game from Wiff 'n' Proof
• 14. Learning a language. Using a foreign language (not just studying grammar, that's not effective in English, either) helps with native language. Teach each other or support outside tutoring and acknowledge it as part of English studies.
• 15. Study of names.
• 16. Logotypes. Collect trademarks and analyze their "language". Develop some of their own, insignia, logo, for school, class, company, themselves, etc.
• 17. Codes and ciphers.
• 18. Inductive Definitions. Define a word but don't consult dictionaries. Collect citations and work inductively toward a definition. E.g. "run".
• 19. Printing processes. Let students investigate printing processes, class or small group visit a printing plant.
• 20. Electronic communications. Investigate transistor, diode chip, computer tech, miniaturization, LASER, tv, radio, telephones
• 21. study grammar. May be interesting in itself for some students. Begin the unit with "baby talk" study. Lead into presentation of traditional, structural, and transformational grammars, can test descriptions of reality against baby-talk.

Non-Fiction

News

• http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/workbooks/highnewsread.html - Strategies on Newspaper reading for High School Students

Magazines

Biography/Autobiography

• Joyce: The Man, the Work, the Reputation. Marvin Magalaner and Richard M. Kain. N.Y.: Collier Books, 1962. 383 pp. My copy.
• Allen Ginsberg in America. Jane Kramer. N.Y.: Vintage, 1970. 202 pp. My copy.

English Teaching Resources

• Where to Begin: A Guide to Teaching Secondary English. Jane Kearns.LB1631 K36 1997. ISBN 0-86709-406-0
• http://www.englishcompanion.com companion site to Illuminating Texts with super handouts and links.
• http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ AMAZING!!!
• Simeon's Plan Book. My copy.
• http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/home.html English Online New Zealand
• MEQ Sec V Exam. Exemplars and Marking Scheme. My copy.
• http://www.galegroup.com/ Novels for Students series, Short Stories, Drama, Poetry, etc.
• http://www.english-teaching.co.uk/
• http://www.greatbooks.org/programs/junior/
• http://highschoolhub.org/hub/english.cfm - GSP, Collected works, guides, etc.
• http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/mjhs/library.htm - great Library links and resources
• Writers In Electronic Residence -- Linking Canada's Writers with Canada's Schools
• The Canadian Literature Archive
• Reporter Young authors
• QWF - The Quebec Writers' Federation
• Incredible Story Studio
• Blue Metropolis
• Baggetta_Ware English Teacher Software
• http://s.webring.com/hub?ring=ncte&id=5&hub English teachers webring
• http://www.sparknotes.com/ Free online study guides: just like Coles Notes, etc.
• How to Land the Best Jobs in School Administration ISBN 0-8039-6799-3 pbk.
• The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure. ISBN 0-226-30150-6 pbk
• Teachers and Educational Change: The Lived Experience of Secondary School Restructuring. ISBN 0-7914-4700-6
• Best Practices for High School Classrooms: What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers Do. ISBN 0-7619-7730-9.
• Problems in Middle and High School Teaching: A Handbook for Student Teachers and Beginning Teachers. ISBN 0-205-0613101 pbk.
• The Inside Track: Getting Hired to Teach in a Canadian School. ISBN 1-55077-099-3. LB1780 P37 1998.
• Creating Highly Motivating Classrooms for All Students: A Schoolwide Approach to Powerful Teaching with Diverse Learners. LB1027 G546 2000.
• www.askasia.org
• June Larkin: Sexual Harassment and Bad Language workshops.
• Change Audrey Berner's respect rules to positive versions
• Bartlett's quotes
• Unauthorized Teachers' Survival Guide: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1571120688/102-0805854-2859366
• The St-Martin's Handbook for Canadians, 2nd Edition. Lunsford, Connors, Segal, Nelson. ITP.
• The Price of Happiness: Advertising & Image. http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/pursuit2.html
• Reflective planning, teaching, and evaluation, K-12 /
• LB1025.3 E28 1998 [Regular Loan] Education
• Making your first year a success : the secondary teacher's survival guide /
• LB2844.1 N4 W93 2002 [Regular Loan] Education Education( 1/ 1) 2002
• 4 Winning ways of coaching writing : a practical guide for teaching writing, grades 6-12 /
• LB1631 W55 2001 [Regular Loan] Education
• Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience. ISBN 0-415-15677-7 - Useful planning, not really ready for this book yet.

Lesson Plan Sites

• http://www.thegateway.org/ - Lesson Plans search engine
• Education World(r) - Teacher Resources Lesson Plans General Resources
• Language_Arts at AskEric
• The Lesson Plans Page - Language Arts Lesson Plans, Language Arts Ideas, & Language Arts Activities
• http://www.teacher2b.com/ - Stuff for English teachers
• Lesson Plans (page 2)
• Lesson Plans for Children's Books
• http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/lang/
• http://askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/ Ask ERIC. A site developed by Syracuse University that contains many lesson plans online. The lesson plans are thorough and identify learning goals, procedures, materials and specify grade level. The lesson plans on language arts are organised into various categories such as spelling, phonics, grammar, writing etc. (from Ruweida)

Lessons

• 86.01.01 The Village and the Stars - Theme: Family. Readings, Other titles also to be read. Lesson Plans for Play: Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
• ACLP - Grade 4 & 5 English Language Arts 9.1 Writing a Short Story.
• ACLP - Grade 4 & 5 English Language Arts Story Structure; Descriptive Words and Passage.
• ACLP - Grade 4 English Language Arts Contributing to Conversations - Asking Discriminating Questions.
• Art in Poetry Teaching the Imagists - An AskERIC Lesson Plan
• ARTSEDGE Ireland Online Learn Lesson Magic Words, Magic Brush : The Art of William Butler and Jack Yeats.
• Basic Grammar Review - An AskERIC Lesson Plan - Using "Jabberwocky"
• Creative Writing Lesson Plans - Unit.
• EDSITEment - Lesson Plan - Unit on Beatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales
• EDSITEment - Lesson Plans - All Edsitement Literature & Language Arts Lesson Plans.
• Create Your Own Business!
• How Are You Doing With My Crusade - research the work of a famous woman from the past and then determine the current status of the issue she championed.
• Mapping the Mockingbird
• Playing Chaucer's Pilgrims
• Proverbial Picture Pages - learn about the wisdom of African proverbs, use African proverbs as inspiration for creative expression.
• Visual Poetry Lets Students 'See' The Words
• Persuasive Writing -- Commercial Style - write TV commercials to persuade consumers to buy products. dramatize the commercials for videotaping.
• Knighthood and Chivalry - read and analyze the Arthurian legends; use research skills to find information, write reports, and correctly document the sources used; define and use symbolism in creating their own coat of arms.
• Research, Writing, and the 'Isms' - learn and understand an art period and the characteristics of the style
• Story Maps and Boxes
• Language_Arts - AskEric main index for Language Arts Lesson Plans
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Programs For Teachers Lesson Plans - Rock and Poetry: A Thematic Project
• Telling Tales A Study of Perspective - An AskERIC Lesson Plan - students re-tell a fairy tale or nursery rhyme from a different character's point-of-view.
• UNHCR - TEACHING TOOLS - LANGUAGE & LITERATURE - United Nations index of Language and Literature Units and Lesson Plans
• Using Star Trek to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills - An AskERIC Lesson Plan - introduce students to the importance of using critical thinking skills when watching television shows.
• http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/research/home.html Thinking Critically about Research Sources

My Notes on Good Ideas

• Students should be reminded and encouraged to publish their work either in print or online.
• Encourage students to make mistakes. Maybe award bonus points for them?
• Make a motivation quiz/survey/freewrite to find out what motivates students, where/when they "zone in", what they were thinking before they started the activity.
• Read Write your own plays
• avoid oversaturation
• explain expectations for writing workshop time - library whispers show respect for classmates who need quiet time to think and write.
• Friday morning "Dear Mom," letters
• Attendance journals? Always have an attendance question ready.
• Explain method for passing papers to the front.
• Get students to show ideas, work out problems, diagrams on overhead
• Set up webpages, blogs, message boards, mailing lists, for parents too.
• Start off with inquiry surveys.
• Get lots of writing samples, have writing workshops with my textbook as a guide.
• Start research project, to go back to twice a month.
• Review previous lesson.
• Index cards intro
• Respect charter
• negociables
• wait time for questions
• think pair share
• thumbs evaluations
• jigsaw and other kinds of group work, using group roles (timekeeper, recorder, etc.)
• blogs and journals for ongoing dialogue, with parents too.
• online bonus assignments (weekly)
• class site
• suggestion/idea/question box - have all students write question marks for anonymity
• vary length of readings and assignments.
• calendar board, timeboard
• lunchbox $ to unicef?
• buy overhead pens
• read book by Harry Wong: The First Days of School
• peer proofreaders, editors
• class meetings (Glasser?)
• positive phone calls
• encouragement notes to all stakeholders
• "no homework" question in class
• Use students' names in feedback.
• Sandwich feedback: positive, negative, positive.
• Idea clusters for plan book
• Surface errors - make an editing activity like a submarine game.

My Plans

• note-taking and study skills
• library research skills
• internet research skills
• referencing, styles, plagiarism
• teaching, learning strategies
• exam prep
• you are your own best teacher
• rubrics, self-evaluation
• educational theory, history
• anxiety: FRIENDS: Feeling worried? Relax and feel good. Inner thoughts. Explore plans of action. Nice work, reward yourself. Don't forget to practice. Stay cool.
• portfolios
• genres
• media literacy
• critical thinking
• arguments, fallacies
• questions, theses
• guerilla students
• guerilla news network http://www.gnn.tv
• time management
• research resources
• small group or independent portfolio project: 1 research 1 creative 1 analysis 1 reflection
• blogs
• creativity: brainstorming, clustering, concept maps, etc.
• reading strategies, e.g. textbooks, science writing
• electronic portfolios
• level of abstraction article

Evaluation

Self Evaluation

• http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/irish/share/storytelling/workshop/handouts/self.html Self Evaluation writing handout
• Set personal goals
• Solve problems that act as barriers to achieving these goals
• Make appropriate choices based on personal preferences and interests
• Participate in decisions that impact the quality of their lives
• Advocate for themselves
• Create action plans to achieve goals
• Self-regulate and self-manage day-to-day actions
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/ilp/index.asp http://teacher.scholastic.com/ilp/index.asp
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/bestpractices/comprehension.htm
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/profbooks/selfevaluatechecklist.pdf
"You don´t fatten your lambs by weighing them" (Vermont farmer) "To me, this quote is a reminder that measuring and assigning scores to student work often does not, in itself, add to student learning. Sometimes, in fact, this weighing process discourages students from learning because it does not adequately use their strengths or recognize what they have accomplished."
• http://www.heinemann.com/shared/products/E00094.asp
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/sped/tri/selfdeterminedmodel.htm http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/sped/tri/selfdeterminedmodel.htm
• http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/~hnr094/HNR_094_PeerEval.html
• www.k12connections.iptv.org/community/ SupportDocs/studentEvaluation.rtf
• http://www.leftfootrightfoot.com/earthday/html/selfevaluationrubric.html
• http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/stand/cycle/selfev.html
• www.rich227.org/essay-rubric.doc
• www.ncsec.org/team11/RubricPeer&SelfEvaluation.doc
• http://www.haverford.k12.pa.us/hms/Integrating/selfevaluation.html
• http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
• http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
software for making rubrics. good for class, generate face/mirp plus has super articles about making rubrics.
• http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4521.html
• http://www.saskschools.ca/~aboriginal_res/eval.htm



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Professional Development and Teaching Strategies

• http://www.adprima.com/
• http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/guidebk.htm - various teaching tips.
• http://www.teachers.net/ - teaching tips, lesson plans, and a message board for teachers.
• www.cte.iastate.edu/tips/philosophy.html - Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
• Highway One: A Publication of the Canadian Council of Teachers of English. Volumes 4:2,3; 5:1,2,3; 6:1,2,3; 7:1,2,3; 8:3; 9:1,2,3. My copy.
• English Quarterly: The Canadian Council of Teachers of English. Volumes 18:3; 19:1,3,4; 20:1,2,3; 21:2,3. My copy.
• English Journal: National Council of Teachers of English. Volumes 78:4,8; 79:1,4,6; 80:1,3. My copy.
• Best Practices for High School Classrooms. What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers Do. Randi Stone. ISBN 0-7619-7730-9. General tips, articles, and also big section on Succeeding in Reading and Writing Instruction with more articles.

Job Interview Tips and Sites

• Interview keywords: classroom management, curriculum reform, integration, computer skills
• human strategies
• practice storytelling
• http://www.educationcanada.com Job search

Inquiry Method

• http://www.englishink.net/page52.html
• http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/
• http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/month6/
• http://www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/resources/classroom/connect/ - Science & Math
• http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/scied/ci407/BrMcAp.html Comparative Study of Structured and Inquiry Learning
• http://www.biopoint.com/msla/links.html
• http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html Questioning toolkit
• http://www.fno.org/grazing1.html Grazing the net
• http://www.fno.org/sept96/questions.html
• http://www.fno.org/toolbox.html "What could we ask?"
• From Syd Korsunsky: Writing Survey, Reading Survey, Interest Survey.
• http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr324.shtml Jigsaw

Problem Solving

Class Management

• http://www.bmef.org/ - behaviour management in education foundation
• http://www.innovativeclassroom.com/Class_Management/
• http://www.disciplinehelp.org

 



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General Education Resources, see http://pages.infinit.net/miraaron/education.htm

• Jivin' Johnny's Classroom Teacher's Emergency Lesson Plans . . . for elementary and high schools. John Philips. Midland, Ontario: Jjohnny Press, 2000. ISBN 0-9686403-0-3. My copy. Also available in the curriculum lab: LB1027.25 J58 2000.

Helping At-Risk Youth

• http://www.ariselife-skills.org/store.asp?c=teen Helping At-Risk Youth.



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