Poetry Countdown 2018 - My Top 5 Poems to Teach High Schoolers

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  • Refugee

    • ASIN: 0545880831
    • ISBN: 9780545880831
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

    A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America .... [Read More]

  • Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

    • ASIN: 0804189935
    • ISBN: 0804189935
    • Brand: THREE RIVERS
    • Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

    A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated. The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe's Shameless Trick for lowering an audience's expectations. And it's also replete... [Read More]

  • Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)

    • ASIN: 0761160914
    • ISBN: 0761160914
    • Brand: Workman Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

    It’s the revolutionary English language arts study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.     Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts . . .takes students from grammar to reading comprehension to writing with ease, including parts of speech, active and passive verbs, Greek and Latin roots and affixes;... [Read More]

  • The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing

    • ASIN: 0325098123
    • ISBN: 0325098123
    • Manufacturer: Heinemann

    Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces? A powerful tool to jumpstart writing In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher Linda Rief shares 100 compelling mentor texts and shows how to ... [Read More]

  • Wheelock's Latin 7th Edition (The Wheelock's Latin Series)

    • ASIN: 0061997226
    • ISBN: 0061997226
    • Brand: Collins Reference
    • Manufacturer: Collins Reference

    For nearly sixty years, Wheelock's Latin has remained the optimus liber of beginning Latin textbooks. When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its thoroughness, organization, and conciseness; one reviewer predicted that the book "might well become the standard text" for introducing students to elem... [Read More]

  • Hop on Pop (I Can Read It All By Myself)

    • UPC: 000394800293
    • ASIN: 039480029X
    • ISBN: 9780394800295
    • Brand: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
    • Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

  • A Poetry Handbook

    • ASIN: 0156724006
    • ISBN: 9780156724005
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The Complete Writer: Level 1 Workbook for Writing with Ease (The Complete Writer)

    • ASIN: 1933339268
    • ISBN: 1933339268
    • Brand: Brand: Peace Hill Press
    • Manufacturer: The Well-Trained Mind Press

    A workbook to accompany the acclaimed series on teaching writing, from the author of The Well-Trained Mind.In Writing with Ease, Susan Wise Bauer lays out an alternative plan for teaching writing, one that combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing instruction with innovative new educational methods. The Complete Writer workbooks (each sol... [Read More]

  • The Crossover (The Crossover Series)

    • ASIN: 0544107713
    • ISBN: 9780544107717
    • Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

    New York Times bestseller ∙ Newbery Medal Winner ∙Coretta Scott King Honor Award ∙2015 YALSA 2015 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults∙ 2015 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers ∙Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ School Library Journal Best Book∙ Kirkus Best Book "A beautifully measured novel of life and line."—The New Y... [Read More]

  • Counting Descent

    • ASIN: 1938912659
    • ISBN: 9781938912658
    • Brand: Write Bloody Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Write Bloody Publishing

    Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary AwardFinalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards'One Book One New Orleans' 2017 Book Selection---Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that... [Read More]

  • A Seed Is Sleepy (Nature Books)

    • ASIN: 1452131473
    • ISBN: 1452131473
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

    This gorgeous book from award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston offers children a beautiful and informative look at the intricate, complex, and often surprising world of seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it perfect reading material... [Read More]

  • Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition

    • ASIN: 0393330109
    • ISBN: 0393330109
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    Seamus Heaney's best-selling ?Beowulf? is now wedded to more than one hundred glorious images. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squarene... [Read More]

  • Booked (The Crossover Series)

    • ASIN: 0544570987
    • ISBN: 0544570987
    • Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

    New York Times Bestseller ∙ National Book Award Longlist ∙ ILA-CBC Children's Choice List ∙ ALA Notable Children’s Book ∙ Book Links’ Lasting Connections ∙ Kirkus Best Book ∙ San Francisco Chronicle Best Book∙ Washington Post Best Book∙ BookPage Best Book "A novel about a soccer-obsessed tween boy written entirely in ve... [Read More]

  • The Butter Battle Book: (New York Times Notable Book of the Year) (Classic Seuss)

    • ASIN: 0394865804
    • ISBN: 0394865804
    • Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

  • Beowulf: A New Telling

    • ASIN: 0440905605
    • ISBN: 0440905605
    • Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf

    He comes out of the darkness, moving in on his  victims in deadly silence. When he leaves, a trail  of blood is all that remains. He is a monster,  Grendel, and all who know of him live in fear.   Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, knows something  must be done to stop Grendel. But who will guard  the great hall he has built, where so man... [Read More]

  • Shakespeare Insult Generator: Mix and Match More than 150,000 Insults in the Bard's Own Words

    • ASIN: 1452127751
    • ISBN: 1452127751
    • Brand: Chronicle Books
    • Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

    Put dullards and miscreants in their place with more than 150,000 handy mix-and-match insults in the bard's own words. This entertaining insult generator and flip book collects hundreds of words from Shakespeare's most pointed barbs and allows readers to combine them in creative and hilariously stinging ways. From "apish bald-pated abomination" to ... [Read More]

  • Rules for a Knight

    • ASIN: B00UEKBRUI
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    From Ethan Hawke, four-time Academy Award nominee—twice for writing and twice for acting—an unforgettable fable about a father's journey and a timeless guide to life's many questions. A knight, fearing he may not return from battle, writes a letter to his children in an attempt to leave a record of all he knows. In a series of rumina... [Read More]

  • Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & Midsummer Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)

    • ASIN: 0743288505
    • ISBN: 0743288505
    • Brand: O'Brien, Peggy (EDT)/ Roberts, Jeanne Addison (EDT)/ Tolaydo, Michael (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    The Folger Shakespeare Library is one of the world’s leading centers for scholarship, learning, and culture. The Folger is dedicated to advancing knowledge and increasing understanding of Shakespeare and the early modern period; it is home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection and one of the leading collections of books and materials of... [Read More]

  • Falling for Rapunzel

    • ASIN: 0142403997
    • ISBN: 9780142403990
    • Brand: Putnam Juvenile
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

    "The course of true love never did run smooth." --William ShakespeareWhen the prince spies Rapunzel high in her tower, he's convinced she is the girl of his dreams. Of course he thinks he can save her the traditional way, but this is no traditional Rapunzel.She throws down everything but what the princ asks for--including a surprise that makes all ... [Read More]

  • Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

    • ASIN: B01HL1CED6
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • “In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading with Patrick.”—The AtlanticA memoir of the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi D... [Read More]

  • Poetry Countdown 2018 - My Top 5 Poems to Teach High Schoolers

    Poetry Countdown 2018 | My Top 5 Poems to teach to High School students

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