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20 Articles Categorized Under High School

Advanced Placement English Language Arts High School
January 6 2021

Introducing New Editions of The Great Gatsby from Penguin Random House

With the entrance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby into the public domain this month, Penguin Random House is thrilled to announce that we now publish a variety of new editions of the beloved American classic. Each features exclusive ancillary materials, including introductions by many of today’s foremost writers and thinkers that contextualize the

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Introducing New Editions of The Great Gatsby from Penguin Random House

Advanced Placement English Language Arts High School
January 6 2021
General High School
November 17 2020

Read Kevin Young’s Introduction to African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song

From the introduction:  The Difficult Miracle                                  This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America:  that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.                                                                                                 –June Jordan For over 250 years, African Americans have written and recited and published poetry about beauty and injustice, music and muses, Africa and America, freedoms

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Read Kevin Young’s Introduction to African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song

General High School
November 17 2020
English Language Arts General High School
November 11 2020

A Note to Teachers From Pity the Reader Author Suzanne McConnell

By: Suzanne McConnell As a teacher of fiction writing at Hunter College, I was always on the look-out for a book to use in classes that was instructive but not academic.  I wanted a non-textbook text that was compelling, entertaining, encouraging, and practical – one that delivered helpful news about writing in such a way

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A Note to Teachers From Pity the Reader Author Suzanne McConnell

English Language Arts General High School
November 11 2020
Advanced Placement High School Social Studies
October 16 2020

Our Next Big Ideas Night Centers on the Crucial, Timely Topic of Criminal Justice Reform

Join us on Wednesday, October 21 at 8:00 PM ET on Zoom for a crucial, timely Big Ideas Night on Criminal Justice Reform with a panel of expert authors: Brittany K. Barnett, attorney, entrepreneur, and author of A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom; Emily Bazelon, New York Times Magazine staff writer and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End

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Our Next Big Ideas Night Centers on the Crucial, Timely Topic of Criminal Justice Reform

Advanced Placement High School Social Studies
October 16 2020
Education & Professional Learning English Language Arts General High School History Social Studies
September 18 2020

Using They Called Us Enemy to Supplement Canon in American Literature Curriculum

By Joel Brigham   I have taught American Literature for 16 years, and for most of my career, that has meant doing what has always been done. I’ve taught Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, just like any other self-respecting American Lit teacher in this country, but it

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Using They Called Us Enemy to Supplement Canon in American Literature Curriculum

Education & Professional Learning English Language Arts General High School History Social Studies
September 18 2020
General High School History Middle School Social Studies
July 27 2020

John Lewis: 1940 – 2020

Rep. John Lewis, nonviolent political activist, key leader of the Civil Rights Movement, long-serving member of the House of Representatives, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Honor, and author of the best-selling March trilogy, died July 17th, 2020. In 2013, Lewis, along with Andrew Aydin, a longtime member of his congressional staff, and comics artist

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John Lewis: 1940 – 2020

General High School History Middle School Social Studies
July 27 2020
Education & Professional Learning English Language Arts General Health, Sports, Games, and Crafts High School History Middle School Social Studies
July 16 2020

FREE edWebinar: “Change Lives with Empathy and Resilience in the Classroom: UNBROKEN, A Victory for Hope”

Mark your calendars! You are invited to attend the FREE edWebinar “Change Lives with Empathy and Resilience in the Classroom: Unbroken, A Victory for Hope” (July 29th, 4:00-5:00pm) featuring Heather Fuller, high school educator and creator of the Unbroken Curriculum, and Darri Stephens, Resilient Educator Editor in Chief. Heather will discuss how you can transform

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FREE edWebinar: “Change Lives with Empathy and Resilience in the Classroom: UNBROKEN, A Victory for Hope”

Education & Professional Learning English Language Arts General Health, Sports, Games, and Crafts High School History Middle School Social Studies
July 16 2020
Advanced Placement English Language Arts High School
June 24 2020

Bryan Washington Wins the 2020 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize

Bryan Washington has been named the 2020 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize winner for his story collection LOT. In LOT, Washington explores his hometown of Houston—a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America—where the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He’s working at his family’s restaurant, weathering his brother’s blows,

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Bryan Washington Wins the 2020 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize

Advanced Placement English Language Arts High School
June 24 2020
Advanced Placement English Language Arts High School
May 8 2020

Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Nickel Boys. This is his second Pulitzer Prize (his novel The Underground Railroad won in 2017) and he is only the fourth writer—alongside Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike—to win two Pulitzer Prizes each in the Fiction category. Winner, ALA Alex Award In

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Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

Advanced Placement English Language Arts High School
May 8 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
High School
April 24 2020

Inclusive Texts for the High School Classroom

Now more than ever, students need literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people. From Erika L. Sanchez’s poignant YA novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter to Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s highly informative An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People, Penguin Random House has extensive offerings for

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Inclusive Texts for the High School Classroom

High School
April 24 2020
General High School
April 21 2020

Recommended Books for High School Students to Read at Home

Independent reading provides students the opportunity not only to supplement their existing literature and language assignments, but also to temporarily escape the anxieties of our current reality. From George Takei’s graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy to John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down, Penguin Random House has extensive offerings for your students. Click here

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Recommended Books for High School Students to Read at Home

General High School
April 21 2020
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