Literature Quote Bingo tied to Current Events

This game was produced by Terri Eichholz and is on the NY Times Learning Network.  Given in Bingo format, each square has a famous quote from literature.  The students job is to list a current event or historical real-life event or person that fits the quote.  To see the pdf click here.  Thanks to Richard Byrne for having this on his website.

401 Prompts for Argumentative Writing

The Learning Network on The New York Times has updated their 200 Prompts for Argumentative Writing to 401.  You may want to have your students go to their site and follow the links on each prompt to an article that might get your students ideas to write about.   You could bring your class to the library lab to do this.   Just click here.  Alternatively you can print out a pdf list of all 400 and just the title might of one of these 400 might be enough to get them going and you will not need access to the computer lab in the library.  Click here for the pdf.

NY Times - What's Going On in This Graph

Here is a bonus post for today.  Yesterday the New York Times announced that they would publish monthly, "What's Going On in This Graph".    According to their website, "Teachers tell us these data visualizations are rich texts for classrooms across the curriculum, not just in the math or statistics class. Whether in a literature class analyzing Jane Austen’s language, a science class considering climate data, or a civics class studying gerrymandering, teaching students how to read, interpret and question graphs, maps and charts is a key 21st-century skill."  To see the website click here.

Current Events Writing Prompts

The New York Times has been generating writing prompts for years.  Topics included are: Technology, Internet & Social Media, Technology in Schools, Sports and Athletics and much more.  To see the prompts click here and here.

Teaching With Infographics - The New York Times

You have to love the NY Times.  They have a ton of material for educators on the Learning Network.

Here are a bunch of articles that they have online on Infographics.  This was brought to my attention from The Big House Library .  Click on the topics below.

1) A Student Project Model

2) Places to Start

3) Social Studies, History and Economics

4) Language Arts, Fine Arts and Entertainment

5) From Article to Infographic: Translating information about "Sneakerheads"

6) Telling Stories With Data

7) All NY Times articles tagged with "Infographic"

You can have your students make their on infographs at piktochart.com

Web Poets' Society and the Learning Network

Online poetry via instagram and twitter have made at least one young author a celebrity poet.  The article from the New York Times can be found clicking here.  The material for you class that should be used before and after reading the article can be found by clicking here.