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1. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   A Failure of the Imagination
   This article discusses the imaginative activities and assignments that teachers often assign that violate the text around which the lesson is focused and that mislead students about its meaning.
   
2. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar Instruction
   Kenneth Lindblom and Patricia A. Dunn teach language awareness and use through published complaints about the teaching of grammar. Students are able to recognize issues of race and class that determine acceptable usage and learn the importance of audience in their own language use.
3. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the Classroom
   Methods such as the circle poem, the "poetic interview," the found poem, and the poetic field trip are just some used by the author to create an atmosphere of mutual support and enable students to initiate "imaginative possibilities."