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Comparing The Book Vs The Movie (Meeting CCS Film Standards)

Many of your students may have seen the current crop of docu-dramas, but how many of them have read the book from which the film is adapted…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jan 17, 2014

NEW RATINGS: Bechdel Test & Swedish Film Ratings + COOL CHART!

In Sweden their new film rating system will include the Bechdel test - named after the Graphic Novelist Alison Bechdel (if you have not rea…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Dec 10, 2013

AUDIO: Why Does This Black Guy Hang out with the Klan?

More "woza" audio from NPR's Snap Judgement from Chuck Berry's piano player. Amazing crescendo to this story... Daryl Davis is a boogie wo…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Dec 4, 2013

PODCAST: Edgar Allan Poe's Terror of the Soul

Lampham's Quaterly materials are always delightful and usually kooky in a way that secondary students will love ... #…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Dec 2, 2013

"Trip to Bountiful" Heads to TV

This year’s Tony Award-nominated revival "The Trip to Bountiful" will premiere as a TV adaptation on Lifetime in 2014. (date tba) The film…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Nov 6, 2013

VIDEOS: Thug Notes does Hamlet and other Canonical tales

I'm not sure if I'm into this resource but certainly see the utility/humor in it. Although a majority of the language is actually classroom…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Sep 2, 2013

BOOK: Moby Dick in Emoticons/ Emoji

OK, I read about this project in the NYTimes article Texting Your Feelings, Symbol by Symbol See also this New Yorker article about the pr…

Started by Ryan Goble

4 Aug 21, 2013
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NEW COLLECTION: The Graphic Canon (Vol 3.)

Did y'all know about this series?  Here is the ad pasted from 7 Stories Press: The Graphic Canon Vol. 3, the immense finale to the three-v…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Jul 30, 2013

RESOURCES: Rethinking the 4th of July!

Great set of writing / resources from the Zinn Education project - copied and pasted from their mass e-mail: Rethinking the 4th of July by…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Jul 3, 2013

VIDEO: The hip-hop of Shakespeare (and Edgar Allan Poe): MC Lars @ TEDx USC

I had did an interesting Google hangout where had a chance to chat with MC Lars as part of NAMLE's Spotlight series last month. Our session…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Jun 29, 2013

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