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Audio
	Audio Books
	Where Can you Listen to Books?
Creative Discipline
	Hustle and Bustle
	Listening to Music While Working
Essays
	Thoughts on Essay Development
Grammar
	10 Hilarious Reasons Why The English Language Is The Worst
	13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using
	5 Oddities Of Everyday Language That Leave Experts Baffled
	Affect Versus Effect
	English is a Crazy Language
	Heteronyms
	Up!
Groupwork
	How to Be an Excellent Leader
	Teamwork skills: being an effective group member
Healthy Living
	Amid Rising Anxiety, Colleges Tell Students It’s OK To Fail
	Protect Yourself from Teen Locusts
	"Nobody Ever Died from Marijuana"
History
	The Most Ancient Civilizations...
Joke
	Double Negatives
Knights
	7-5-3 Code
Literacy
	5 Academic Skills Students Can Practice Viewing Art
	Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds
MetaCognition
	Classic IQ Test Range
	Critical Thinking Cheatsheet
	The Four Steps of Learning
	These Are The Top 37 Things You’ll Regret When You’re Old
Plays
	Why read scripts?
Poetry
	The Stories Behind 15 Poems We All Learned in School
Reading
	'Kids can't live on literary Twinkies alone': What kids should be reading in classrooms
	10 Questions You Should ask Yourself While Reading
	100 Words High School Graduates Should Know
	Article: In This House We Read Actual Books So Our Kids Don’t Become Screen Zombies
	As Summer Fast Approaches...
	Audio: Rare interview with Toni Morrison on the importance of reading and writing
	Bochord
	For the Love of Books
	How Long Reading is Important
	NPR's Amazing Sci-Fi and Fantasy List!
	Summer Classic Reading
	The Difference Between Symbol, Metaphor, and Motif
	The Most Important Dystopian Fiction Novel?
	Where Can you Listen to Books?
	Why read scripts?
Shakespeare
	38 Facts About Shakespeare’s 38 Plays
	A Uniquely Shakespearean Trial
	The Opening Lines of Romeo and Juliet Recited in the Original Accent of Shakespeare’s Time
Speaking
	The Components of Speaking Skill
Studying
	Common Myth Conceptions
	Some Great Videos On Studying!
	Study Techniques That Really Work and Others That Don't
Technology
	Addicted to Distraction
	Article: In This House We Read Actual Books So Our Kids Don’t Become Screen Zombies
	Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away
	Fears of Smartphone Addiction
	How Long Reading is Important
	Middle School Misfortunes Then and Now, One Teacher’s Take
	The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students
	The “Wait Until 8th” Pledge – Let Kids be Kids a little longer…
Vocabulary
	5 Oddities Of Everyday Language That Leave Experts Baffled
	Dictionary of Canadianisms is a fine birthday gift to Canada
	What is your birthword?
Word Play
	5 Oddities Of Everyday Language That Leave Experts Baffled
	English Doesn't Always have the Right Word!
	Malaprops, Puns, Spoonerisms, Eggcorns, and other hilarity-inducing word mix-ups
	The Different Types of Satire
	Words for the Extended Piece into the Water
World Building
	Most Accurate World Map
	The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons & Dragons
Writing
	23 Emotions People Feel, But Can't Explain
	All Art is Propaganda
	Audio: Rare interview with Toni Morrison on the importance of reading and writing
	Continual Improvement- a mode of travel, not a destination
	Essay Format: APA
	Essay Format: MLA
	Five Common Twists and a Model for Writing Short One Act Plays
	Heroes
	How to shout down your insecurities and keep on writing
	Nuts and Bolts: “Thought” Verbs
	Sometimes Those We See as Villains

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