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What Do Teenagers Believe?

How do we help junior and senior high students ask the deep questions about life, and–more importantly–answer those questions? One way is to use the This I Believe curriculum unit from National Public Radio....

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Virginia Woolf on How to Read

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to jump start a disciplined morning schedule that includes regular prayer, exercise and intellectual growth. For intellectual growth I’ve chosen to read from Britannica’s Gateway to the...

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Beowulf Teaching Resources

The new Beowulf movie may not have been the cinematic classic you’d been hoping for, but it may get your students interested in the original Old English poem, so here are some teaching resources...

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Translate that Christmas Carol

For a fun Christmas/vocabulary activity try having your students translate these verbose Christmas carol titles back into their original form: Example: Soundless Nocturnal Timespan (answer: Silent Night) Move Hitherward the Entire Assembly of Those...