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1. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   A Failure of the Imagination
   This article discusses the imaginative activities and assignments that teachers often assign that violate the text around which the lesson is focused and that mislead students about its meaning.
   
2. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Alice Walker in the Classroom: "Living by the Word"
   Carol Jago offers readers a handy guide for bringing this celebrated author's work into the classroom, including biographical information, ideas for literature circles using Walker's short stories, sample writing lessons using Walker's poems, suggestions for teaching The Color Purple, and a wealth of resources for further investigation of Alice Walker and her work.
3. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength"
   Offers high school teachers an activity-based approach to teaching the works of Amy Tan, especially The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate.
4. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
   An annotated bibliography of books that exemplify the plot elements, character, setting, and theme. Includes guidelines on how to do a book talk.
5. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom and School Libraries
   This article examines the rise in popularity of graphic novels, the sales of which have steadily increased as their influence expands into adolescent culture.
6. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Happily Ever After: Sharing Folk Literature With Elementary and Middle School Students
   This unique text provides background about folk literature and how to use this rich genre in your classroom.
7. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   "Help! What Is Wrong With These Literature Circles and How Can We Fix Them?"
   The authors of this article offer some suggestions for how to improve literature circle discussions.
8. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun
   Carol Jago offers ways to teach the works of Judith Ortiz Cofer in the high school English classroom.
9. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"
   Carmaletta M. Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes's poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography.
10. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Radical Change and Wikis: Teaching New Literacies
    Researchers in this study found that students had developed some visual literacy skills using Radical Change texts and wikis.

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