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21 Articles Categorized Under English Language Arts

English Language Arts General
May 4 2020

2019 NCTE and Penguin Random House Maya Angelou Teacher Award for Poetry Winner: Rick Coppola, South Loop Elementary (IL)

  “Speak Yo’ Peace” Rick’s passion and commitment to educational equity have taken root over the course of his 14-year career as a middle school ELA teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. He has developed his activist stance through doctoral work at the University of Illinois of Chicago, where he studies culturally sustaining pedagogy, disciplinary

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2019 NCTE and Penguin Random House Maya Angelou Teacher Award for Poetry Winner: Rick Coppola, South Loop Elementary (IL)

English Language Arts General
May 4 2020
English Language Arts Favorite Authors & Series High School Social Studies
April 30 2020

From Memoir to Movie: Michelle Obama’s Becoming Arrives May 6 on Netflix

Arriving May 6 on Netflix, Becoming is a documentary feature film following Michelle Obama during the worldwide book tour for her bestselling memoir of the same name. Produced in association with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and Big Mouth Productions, the documentary is directed by Nadia Hallgren and provides an up-close look at

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From Memoir to Movie: Michelle Obama’s Becoming Arrives May 6 on Netflix

English Language Arts Favorite Authors & Series High School Social Studies
April 30 2020
English Language Arts
April 27 2020

A Holocaust Survivor’s Perspective on Isolation

In 1942, 22 year-old Franci Rabinek arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto 40 miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey through four different camps. Her memoir, Franci’s War, offers her intense, candid account of those dark years before her liberation in 1945. Before that,

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A Holocaust Survivor’s Perspective on Isolation

English Language Arts
April 27 2020
English Language Arts Middle School
April 21 2020

Bringing Excitement, Joy and Kangas to Diana: Princess of the Amazons

By Tim Beedle The creators of Diana: Princess of the Amazons want kids to know that even Wonder Woman had trouble making friends. As one of the most popular superheroes in the world, that may seem hard to imagine, but let’s not forget that Diana grew up on an island where she was the only child. Loneliness

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Bringing Excitement, Joy and Kangas to Diana: Princess of the Amazons

English Language Arts Middle School
April 21 2020
English Language Arts High School Publisher's Spotlight
April 15 2020

Teaching Writing Skills Remotely

John Warner has more than two decades of experience teaching writing, from composition, fiction, and narrative nonfiction to technical and humor writing. But when he sat down to turn his course into his book The Writer’s Practice, he was met with the same challenge teachers find themselves faced with in the wake of the COVID-19

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Teaching Writing Skills Remotely

English Language Arts High School Publisher's Spotlight
April 15 2020
English Language Arts High School Publisher's Spotlight
April 15 2020

Now in Paperback: Sabrina & Corina, Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut story collection Sabrina & Corina is now available in paperback wherever books are sold. Spotlighting Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in and around the author’s native Denver, Colorado, these short stories take stock of both the challenges these women face—from misogyny to gentrification—and their joy, fiercely claimed

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Now in Paperback: Sabrina & Corina, Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction

English Language Arts High School Publisher's Spotlight
April 15 2020
English Language Arts High School Middle School
April 8 2020

Author’s Note: Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed

Dear Reader, This story is fiction. But it also tells the truth. All stories start with a seed and for me that seed was planted years ago when I first crossed paths with Lord Byron’s epic poem, The Giaour, along with his deeply ingrained Orientalism and sexism. In college, I took a class that centered around

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Author’s Note: Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed

English Language Arts High School Middle School
April 8 2020
English Language Arts High School
February 10 2020

The Penguin Classics and Signet Classics Scholarship Essay Contests

Each year, Penguin Random House Education hosts two scholarship essay contests for high school students: The Signet Classics Essay Contest and the Penguin Classics Essay Contest. The Signet Classics Scholarship Essay Contest, established in 1996, is open to qualifying high school juniors and seniors. In 2018-2019, students were asked to respond to questions about The

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The Penguin Classics and Signet Classics Scholarship Essay Contests

English Language Arts High School
February 10 2020
English Language Arts
January 16 2020

Read an Excerpt From Brandon Hobson’s Where the Dead Sit Talking

Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson explores the themes of loneliness and trauma as a young Native American boy named Sequoyah experiences life in the foster care system. This 2018 National Book Award Finalist is about a broken teenager’s search for his identity and the hardships of being displaced. Sequoyah lives his life with

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Read an Excerpt From Brandon Hobson’s Where the Dead Sit Talking

English Language Arts
January 16 2020
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