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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  |  Book
   Alice Walker in the Classroom: "Living by the Word"
   Carol Jago offers readers a handy guide for bringing this celebrated author's work into the classroom, including biographical information, ideas for literature circles using Walker's short stories, sample writing lessons using Walker's poems, suggestions for teaching The Color Purple, and a wealth of resources for further investigation of Alice Walker and her work.
3. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength"
   Offers high school teachers an activity-based approach to teaching the works of Amy Tan, especially The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate.
4. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun
   Carol Jago offers ways to teach the works of Judith Ortiz Cofer in the high school English classroom.
5. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"
   Carmaletta M. Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes's poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography.
6. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
   Dakin explores different methods for getting students engaged--and excited--about Shakespeare's plays as they learn to construct meaning from the texts' sixteenth-century language and connect it to their twenty-first-century lives.
7. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library
   Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom: "Do not forget to reach"
   The third volume in the NCTE High School Literature Series explores the joys of reading and teaching the stories and poems of noted Mexican American author Sandra Cisneros.
8. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Sherman Alexie in the Classroom: "This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives."
   Provides high school teachers with teaching strategies, classroom activities, and student samples for teaching the works of Sherman Alexie.
9. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives
   This book is designed to help teachers develop their own version of YA pedagogy and a vision for teaching YA lit in the middle and secondary classroom.
10. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
    Authors Susan L. Groenke and Lisa Scherff offer suggestions for incorporating YA lit into the high school curriculum.

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