A Page For Teachers


 

As we all know too well, teaching is the most rewarding job available!  But, we work hard for the satisfaction.  The most we can possibly do is never enough, so lets help each other!  Here we can share ideas, letters, lesson plans, articles, anything that will then become easier for others to obtain.  Here is a bunch of stuff I have already collected, and I haven't even started teaching yet!  I can only imagine how much stuff you have!  If you would like to share, email the information to me and I will try to post it on this page.  My address is found on my home page, or here: jillscarborough @hotmail.com
 
 


 
 

My Recommended Reading Lists

Here are some books I recommend on teaching methods:

Annotated Bibliography for Students

Book List for Adults
 

Click on one of the following to find more suggested books and resources on the given topic

Asian Americans

Native Americans

Women

Civil Rights/Afrian Americans

World War Two/The Holocaust
 
 
 

Buy These Books Here: Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Web quests to use in your own classroom:

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silka
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne W. and James D. Houston
Monster, Walter Dean Myers
Shabanu, Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
The Kingdom by the Sea, Robert Westack
Hatchet, Gary Pulsen
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, Jacqueline Woodson
The Diary of Anne Frank

 


 

Check out more great web quests at http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html
 
 
 
 
 

Great Web sites


National Council of Teachers of English
Reader Response
Rethinking Schools
Cultural Studies and Young Adult Literature
Cultural Studies and Mass Media
Cultural Studies and Environment
National Middle School Association
Cultural Studies
English Professor Carey-Webb
Cultural Studies and American History
Cultural Studies and GLTB issues

Technology sites

Beyondbooks- Has assignments and activities that can be used in our room

Chapbooks- see what our class publication will be like and do one yourself

Filamentality- create your own web quests, treasure hunts and scrapbooks

Epals- here you can discussing with students all over the world!

Bigchalk- teacher and student lesson plans

Lesson Plans

Notes Plus

Outta Rays Head

Collaborative Lesson Archive

Papers of Interest that I've written

Assessment
Teaching Huckleberry Finn
Teaching Shakespeare
 
 

My Teaching Philosophy

Questions? Comments? Email me: [email protected]
 
 
 
 
Family Friends Home Students Parents Resume

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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