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Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Staff from the Library of Congress will be in booth 151 at the annual convention of the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) in Houston on November 16-18, and we'd love to chat with you and give you a personalized tour of the Library's primary source collections, teaching materials, and professional development resources.
Posted in: News and Events, Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Have you ever considered using a literary map with your students? In the May/June 2018 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article features literary maps for the humanities classroom.
Posted in: Geography and Maps, Lesson Ideas, Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Poets compose verse to celebrate love, mourn losses, and inspire action. To mark National Poetry Month this year, we revisit past posts about poetry and strategies for teaching poetry:
Posted in: Poetry and Literature, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
General Tubman, suffragist, spy, nurse, Moses, and Aunt Harriet are just some of the titles that heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been given. Tubman, and her multiple roles and identities from her early life to her elderly years, was the focus of a recent Library of Congress/Young Readers Center program.
Posted in: African American History, Poetry and Literature, Teaching Strategies