Any good ideas for books my high schoolers can read about culture or living in Africa?
Looking to get some ideas so I can see if our library can order some great books before we get into that unit.
Here are some great lessons and worksheets for those of you looking to include The Hunger Games into your classroom!
I wish I was teaching civics and I would require at least the first Hunger Games books as a reference to an oppressive totalitarian regime. Otherwise it is pretty hard to find a way to include it in the social studies!
Don’t start out writing novels. They take too long. Begin your writing life instead by cranking out “a hell of a lot of short stories,” as many as one per week. Take a year to do it; he claims that it simply isn’t possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. He waited until the age of 30 to write his first novel, Fahrenheit 451. “Worth waiting for, huh?”
Some really great advice to students that want to write and love to write!
The more you rely on coercion and extrinsic inducements, as a matter of fact, the less interest students are likely to have in whatever they were induced to do.
Very interesting article about how some teaching strategies can lead students away from being readers!
Check out the Revolutionize Education E-Store! I just added about 20 books throughout the store. (It goes through Amazon…so it is safe)
ePub Bud allows anybody to read free ebooks, create ebooks, convert documents to ebooks, and even sell an ebook. The books can be read on any of the ereaders that are out today and this could be a really great tool as ePub Bud is aimed specifically at children’s books.
The great thing about this is that students can publish their stories on the internet and allow it to be read by their entire class or even the entire world. This could be hugely motivating to students to do their best and to create something they are proud to publish.
