Seward Park Campus Library -- Professional Picks : English

English Online
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/
Hundreds of teaching units for all levels, professional reading and other useful teaching resources.

English Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
"The best of K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities."

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum : Programs for Teachers http://www.rockhall.com/programs/plans.asp
An incredible resource of lesson plans incorporating music into history and English teaching.

Teachit's English Teaching Resources
http://www.teachit.co.uk/
From the UK, this site includes a huge collection of classroom materials for English, media, and drama units.

Based on the Book
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/
Want to know if a movie was based on a book, play or short story? Want to know the title and author of the book that a movie was based on? Search this database by title or author of book, title of movie, or the year of its release to find out. Covers about 500 films made from 1980 through projected releases in 2003.

Children's Literature

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature
http://www.carolhurst.com
Reviews of children's books of all genres and ideas on integrating literature into the curriculum.

Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.ucalgary.ca/%7Edkbrown/index.html
Children's book awards, the year's best, lots of lists, resources for teachers, resources for writers and illustrators, and much more. Includes information on YA (young adult) books for teens.

Ad Dissection 101 :Exposing Media Manipulation
http://ideas.wisconsin.edu/ad101/
As explained in on the Teachers Page, "this unit is designed to teach students how to interpret the messages commercials send, so they can make informed choices based on well reasoned decisions. As a culminatingactivity, students create their own parody ads or public service announcements."

Assignment : Media Literacy
http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/programs/medialit/
"Comprehensive new curriculum resource designed to strengthen media literacy and communication skills and promote reading, writing and critical thinking skills for students in grades K-12. "

Center for Media Literacy
http://www.medialit.org/
Clearinghouse for the best tools and resources in media literacy education. Available on the site is the free CML MediaLit Kit™ ,"a blueprint for building an inquiry-based media literacy program."

Media Literacy Clearinghouse
http://medialit.med.sc.edu/
Hundreds of resources for teachers who want to incorporate media literacy into the classroom.

Media Rights
http://www.mediarights.org/
MediaRights, a nonprofit organization, helps media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues. Located in NYC.

Project Look Sharp
http://www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/
"Project Look Sharp is an initiative to promote and support the integration of media literacy and critical thinking into classroom curricula at all grade levels and instructional areas, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of media literacy education in the schools."

Student Filmmaking Curriculum (Youth Media Distribution)
http://www.ymdi.org/instructors/index.php
Curriculum focuses on media literacy principles and covers copyright and fair use, distribution, pre-production and production decisions.

Poetry Zone's Teacher Resources
http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/index2.htm
Classroom resources for teaching poetry, directory of children's poets, and recommended poetry books for children, teens and professionals.

Online Poetry Classroom
http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/
A resource for high school teachers, this site includes information on poems, poets, lesson plans and curricular units for teaching poetry and more.

Teaching Shakespeare

Folger Library Teaching Shakespeare
http://www.folger.edu/education/teaching.htm
Lesson plans and primary sources related to Shakespeare's era and plays, created by teachers during Folger Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institutes. Make sure to click on Archives to see the all the lesson plans and documents.

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