John Steinbeck based OF MICE AND MEN on experience and people he really met, even that “Lennie is a real person. He's in an insane asylum right now.” #LitBits #Literature #ELAchat #LitChat #APLit #APLit Chat #EngChat
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Roald Dahl's daughter, Lucy, says MATILDA grew out of her father's fear 'that books were going to go away and he wanted to write about it.'
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Catch-22 grew out of Joseph Heller’s 50+ bombing raids in the US Army Air Force in WWII. Post-war, he became an anxious nail-biter who found escape in writing. #LitBits #Literature #ELAchat #LitChat #APLit #APLit Chat #EngChat Perfection Learning Applied Practice Marco Learning

Today's the day! My full comics adaptation of LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME is out-- more relevant and essential than ever before. This one's for the late, great James Loewen!

Get one from your local shop, the usual online places, or directly from me-- links to all in my linktree!

A 1999 news report on the Taliban’s kite ban inspired Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. “Out of the bad comes so much good.” #LitBits #Literature #ELAchat #LitChat #APLit #APLit Chat #EngChat Perfection Learning Applied Practice Marco Learning shorturl.at/APTXY

Non-teachers can never understand this feeling.

James Joyce died at 58 but didn’t step foot in Ireland after he was 30, even missing his father’s 1931 funeral. #LitBits #Literature #ELAchat #LitChat #APLit #APLit Chat #EngChat
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Cormac McCarthy used the same typewriter for 50 years after buying it at a pawn shop for $50. He says he wrote 5mil words (or 16,500 pgs) on it. It “died” in 2009 & auctioned for 250+K. #LitBits #Literature #ELAchat #LitChat #APLit #APLit Chat #EngChat
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For anyone who may be “Writing Project Curious.” Even if not in Pennsylvania.

Glad to see teachers speaking out about Building Thinking Classrooms. This is a great article by a middle school math teacher! Common sense, indeed. educationnext.org/math-movement-…
One correction to the article: Liljedahl is a math education professor, not a math professor.

Isabel Allende translated Amer. romance novels into Sp. UNTIL fired for making unauthorized changes to make women sound intelligent & altering Cinderella endings to allow more independence. #LitBits #Literature #ELAchat #LitChat #APLit #APLit Chat #EngChat shorturl.at/mqwNX

NEW 'Writing for the AP Exam' student book. 60+ lessons. Thanks to our expert reviewers: former @NCTE President Dr. Beverly Ann Chin, Jim Jordan, Chris Judson, JacquelineStallworth, jerrywbrown.com, and Erica Griffin. Perfection Learning University of Montana AP TIP IN A+ Edu Partnership #aplang #aplang chat

New workbook targeting exam. 60+ lessons organized around essays & rubric w/ materials & samples included.
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EB White first wrote about his inspiration for Charlotte's Web (1952) in the essay 'Death of a Pig' in The Atlantic
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Please, please consider joining the #ERWC community for a fabulous and FREE literacy conference this June!

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This and the Writing Project are the two most meaningful parts of my professional life. If you’re looking for an immersive English Literature / Composition experience with a brilliant yet supportive community, look into #breadloaf school of English.
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Worth the read… both the article and the books. #aplit #aplit chat #literature #elachat The Atlantic TheAtlanticEducation

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Banning books is “a performative act by small and frightened people trying to control a world they can’t control.” -Percival Everett #disrupttexts #APLit Chat #APLit National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Doubleday

Does literature count as knowledge?
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