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The New York Times

Teaching Orwell and '1984’ with the New York Times

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Doublethink and alternate facts? Big Brother and Facebook? 1984 and 2019? Sales of 1984 have surged and so has the use of George Orwell's dystopian classic in classrooms. Whether new to teaching the novel or a seasoned veteran...
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Caro Clarke

Writing Advice: Don't Get It Right the First Time

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How much of your novel have you written? Do you keep starting it and never finishing it? Learn the answers to these questions in this novel-writing advice piece.
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Learning at the Primary Pond: 3 Effective Strategies for Teaching Revising

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A literacy specialist shares three effective strategies for teaching students revising techniques. These include providing students with specific criteria and peer revision. Examples of resources used in a classroom lesson are pictured.
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Jiskha: Persuasive Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Short definitions of techniques that persuade: bandwagon, glittering generality, and more.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:"closing Arguments: Strategy, Technique & Style" [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a five-page PDF article "Closing Arguments: Strategy, Technique & Style" by Gary Guichard. The article is about how to write a closing argument for a trial; however, these same techniques help students to write effective...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Writing Tips and Techniques for Your College Essay

For Students 9th - 10th
This article gives the reader writing tips and techniques for your college essay.
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Caro Clarke

Rewriting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the 17th article in a series that helps the new fiction author with the final step--revision.
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Microsoft

Microsoft Developer Network: Coding Techniques and Programming Practices

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides coding techniques and programming practices for improving the quality of source code.
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Other

Fiction teachers.com: How to Write a Mini Mystery

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use the ideas on this page to help your students create mini-mysteries.
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Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Pacing Anxiety, or How to Stop Padding and Plot!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the seventh installment of a series giving advice to the author who is new to writing novels. This article focuses on how to take your characters and use them and their conflicts to develop the plot of your story. W.9-10.3b...
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Caro Clarke

Explaining Too Much: Why More Is Less

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the eleventh article in a series that is designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how to eliminate needless information in your novel. The key is to not explain too much about the action.
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Caro Clarke

Not Stopping the Reader: How to Avoid Stumbling Blocks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the eighth article in a series that focuses on helping the new novel author. This article looks at how the author can avoid creating stumbling blocks that disrupt the flow of the novel.
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Use, Elegance, and National Identity in Johnson's Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th
An analytical discussion of Johnson's use of literary technique in his dictionary. It includes notes and bibliography.
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Elated Communications: Perl and Cgi Scripting

For Students 9th - 10th
This series of tutorials, teaches you how to write CGI scripts such as form mailers and guestbooks, using the popular Perl scripting language.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Teaching Tools: Teach Poetry in Less Than 10 Minutes Per Day

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This teaching tool focuses on teaching poetry in less than 10 minutes per day. Turn your students into poetry pros with a quick structured poetry analysis. Focus Poetry is a technique of shared reading that provides multiple...
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Arizona State University

Asu: Chicana and Chicano Space

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
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Other

Wizhat: How to Design a Great Web Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on Web designing. Includes learning HTML, write what you're good at, color and design are important, and using tables. Includes example pages of techniques.
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Other

Beginning Reporting: The Rest of the News Story

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Just because much attention is paid to the lead of a story, it doesn't mean the middle and the end aren't important too. Here you can get tips on how to make the whole story effective, from a professional reporter.
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Other

Shoreline Community College: Formal Properties of Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
As students become more aware of text complexity, an understanding of the formal properties of literature becomes more important. This is an excellent examination of the kinds of choices writers make that change the way readers receive...

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