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Mental Health Awareness: Writing as a Healthy Outlet
Mental health is just as important as our physical health, and many educators understand this. According to the National Institute of Mental Health,...
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Hispanic Heritage Month: A Quinceañera Para Todos
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Growing up with three brothers and not Catholic, quinceañeras weren’t really a thing we did. But when Yvette Guerrero turned 15 and Betty Espinosa...
Hispanic Heritage Month: Something Not to Miss
Driving into El Paso, Texas, at night on I-10W remains a glorious sight to behold.
Truth and Tears at the School Book Fair
Back when I was a whippersnapper wearing dungarees and walking to school and back in the snow uphill both ways, nothing beat the school book fair....
Real to Reel: Backwards Writing
It’s not very often that TV shows or movies come before the book version, but it does happen sometimes! The art of writing is alive in visual media...
Real to Reel: Dystopian Societies
Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ have taken over much of the television industry by taking popular and enticing books or comics and creating a TV series...
AP® Lang: A Lesson in Close Reading
This resource is designed to provide a guided lesson on close reading, specifically imagery, figurative language, word choice, tone, and tonal shift...
Real to Reel: Textual Evidence
Code-switching is changing something about yourself to fit a certain situation or audience. The way you might talk to your friends versus talking to...
Real to Reel: Point of View
In the majority of books, the narrator is human and alive, but in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the narrator is Death. Yes, Death with a capital D....
Real to Reel: Our Favorite Book-to-Screen Adaptations
For book lovers, it’s nothing new to read a good book and seek out the movie rendition, but for students, many seek out movies or TV shows and then...