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Liz Keiper

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DUST Short Films: Your Newest Resource for Text Connections

By: Liz Jorgensen I’m so glad that I stumbled upon the DUST short films YouTube channel a few weeks ago. According to their About page, “DUST is a sci-fi brand that presents thought-provoking visions of the future.” An apt description. From post-apocalyptic to man vs. machine to questions of scientific Read more…

By Liz Keiper, 1 month ago November 4, 2019
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Owning Writing: Practices for Starting Writer’s Notebooks

BY: LIZ JORGENSEN There’s a big difference in the phrases “a notebook” and “my notebook.” Because I want my students to have ownership of their writing notebooks—to feel that their writing notebooks, and by extension, their writing itself, is an expression of themselves and driven by them—I want them to Read more…

By Liz Keiper, 3 months ago September 3, 2019
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Toxic Masculinity in Romeo and Juliet

BY: LIZ KEIPER Sampson: ‘Tis all one. I will show myself a tyrant. When I have fought with the men, I will be civil with the maids—I will cut off their heads. Gregory: The heads of the maids? Sampson: Ay, the heads of the maids or their maidenheads. Take it Read more…

By Liz Keiper, 7 months ago May 7, 2019
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Fighting the Fake News Epidemic in ELA Classrooms

By: Liz Keiper If you want to become discouraged real quick, ask a teenager to define the term “fake news.” Sadly, instead of legitimate qualifications that would rightly bequeath a news source with the qualifier of “fake,” you will likely hear a plethora of names of news sources shouted at Read more…

By Liz Keiper, 10 months ago March 4, 2019
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Reading Kwame Alexander in West Virginia

BY: LIZ KEIPER The West Virginian students I teach cannot get enough of Kwame Alexander. In a recent survey conducted in all grades at Spring Mills High School where I teach, we asked students the title of their favorite book that they read during the first semester. This applied to Read more…

By Liz Keiper, 10 months ago February 5, 2019

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