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Comment by Ryan Goble on November 24, 2009 at 10:19am

Lit folks might enjoy these two posts about the poet, multimedia artist and “observationalist” Rives.

VIDEO: Poet Rives - A Story of Mixed Emoticons

STUDENTS WRITING POETS: Rives Blog - Jessee

They are both in the Poets & Writers Group - check it out or join the group if you teach poetry or writing!!!

Hope you're ready for a mellow thanksgiving!

Ryan:)

Comment by Ryan Goble on November 5, 2009 at 1:27pm

If you're not in the adolescent lit group and you do work with YA lit you may want to check out the incredible "Behind the YA Lit" article from the New Yorker I posted in that group today. Totally fascinating stuff!

Put On Your Traveling Pants!

Comment by Ryan Goble on October 19, 2009 at 5:24pm

Hey MIckey,

This is a great idea - would you mind copying and pasting your idea to this post on The Crucible? These wall comments get buried whereas things in the discussion forum (esp. here since I started archiving them) are easily found.

Keep the great ideas coming!

Comment by Mickey Young on October 16, 2009 at 7:26pm

When our class is done reading The Crucible, I ask students to brainstorm contemporary issues in American society. I then assign groups to write and present their own one act plays. In Miller fashion, I ask students to use metaphor in their diction and in their choice of setting. The more layers the better. The audience is asked to respond to each performance in writing, especially in determining the theme addressed in the performances. Students LOVE this project.

Comment by Ryan Goble on October 7, 2009 at 10:32am

Hey American lit folks, as you saw today I was unloading some Catcher resources. If you look above this wall post (scroll up!) you'll see that - for now - I'm trying to collect book resources above as they're posted. There might be some easier ways to do this in the future, but for the moment, I'm going to manually collect novel/author specific postings in the space above.

Next week I'll be doing the same thing in Making Shakespeare Pop as I need to do a huge Hamlet post.

Hope some folks find this helpful!

Good Vibes,

Ry:)

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 30, 2009 at 8:07pm

Just a note - Kelly asked a question below and I think it was really cool that Patsy moved it up into the discussion forum. The great thing about the forum is it is easier to find stuff there. I added to Patsy's awesome response with some more Crucible ideas. For the record, Patsy's ideas were more fun.

If you see a discussion your interested in following remember, you can click on "follow" (see image)

and you will be updated anytime someone makes an addition to your topic.

Thank you Kelly and Patty for MC Popping - we're going to pretend that is a verb!

Ryan:)

Comment by Kelly Taormina-Keller on September 29, 2009 at 4:05pm

Just started teaching American Lit this year. (Love Brit Lit and still teach it). Anyway, I would love a really cool project to incorporate into my Crucible unit. We've covered witch trials (I made a PowerPoint about some historical background of witchcraft) and already discussed McCarthyism and Puritanism. HELP!!!!

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 16, 2009 at 9:55am

Follow up on yesterday's Mr. Duey post - Mr. Duey is now in the MC POP mix! If you like his stuff or want to know more about this work send him a shout out via the Ning! Great to have you here Mr. D!

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 11, 2009 at 1:54pm

Great article on non-fiction graphic novels including one about Katrina titled, "Journalists, Artists Tell Stories with Nonfiction Graphic Novels" can be found in the Graphic Novels group here.

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 11, 2009 at 11:17am

I don't know if y'all are the the Making Shakespeare Pop group but you might want to check out the Wordle Allison Branch created for Julius Caesar (at the bottom of the discussion)! The strategy is certainly something you could crib for the characters in the novels/stories you are teaching.

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