English Language Arts Units for Grades 9-12

This book and its authors are guides in a new frontier - one where our students are our partners for learning and the landscape is ever-changing. Shamburg's principles are sound, the pedagogy is solid, and the project ideas are gems. Teachers seeking a fresh and manageable look at the possibilities offered by current technology will have much to be pleased about herein - handouts, links to resources - it's all in here.

Activate A2 Teacher's Book

Activate! A2, B1, B1+ and B2 is an exciting and intensive four-level exam preparation course tailored to meet the needs of your teenage students. Focusing on themes from teen culture brought to life with the inspiring video on the Active Book which is a digital interactive version of the Students' Book. Activate! offers an enjoyable and highly motivating exam preparation experience for a range of international exams. Activate! is also ideal preparation for KET for Schools, PET for Schools and the upcoming FCE for Schools.

Defying the Odds: Class and the Pursuit of Higher Literacy

According to key literacy research, working-class students are far less likely to pursue higher literacy than their middle-class counterparts, yet there are countless examples of those who have defied the odds. In this thoughtful look at why some determinedly pursue higher literacy against all expectations and predictions, Donna Dunbar-Odom explores the complex relationships people have with literacy, paying particular attention to the relationship between literacy and class. She shares the personal and often poignant literacy narratives of writers, academics, and her own students to reveal a great deal about what motivates desire for higher literacy, as well as what gets in the way.

Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia

Focusing largely on the controversial website Wikipedia, the author explores the challenges confronting teachers of college writing in the increasingly electronic and networked writing environments their students use every day. Rather than praising or condemning that site for its role as an encyclopedia, Cummings instead sees it as a site for online collaboration between writers and a way to garner audience for student writing.

Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom

The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of essays that challenges this common misconception, providing an engaging and helpful array of perspectives on the many pressing theoretical and practical issues that wikis raise. Written in an engaging and accessible manner that will appeal to specialists and novices alike, Wiki Writing draws on a wealth of practical classroom experiences with wikis to offer a series of richly detailed and concrete suggestions to help educators realize the potential of these new writing environments.