EDSITEment Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Things They Carried
Tim O'BrienEDSITEmentTim O’Brien successfully creates an authentic experience of the #VietnamWar through a variety of techniques in ‘The Things They Carried.’ Read more about his enduring novel here. 👉 https://t.co/SfaOH4HItL #sschat #edchat #nctevillage https://t.co/cyd5EJpoAP
Hardcover, 2009
$38.80$19.40 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free?
My Composition BooksEDSITEment“Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” -Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus” How’s that for a notable Jewish American contribution? https://t.co/N42ZmNGw5D #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth #edchat https://t.co/s65bOZIotc
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The Things They Carried
Tim O'BrienEDSITEmentTim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a personal and powerful account of the US war in Vietnam. This resource explores why it’s a classic: https://t.co/SfaOH4Igjj #sschat #militaryhistory https://t.co/rvtIPudujX
Paperback, 2009
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Animal Farm: (Annotated Edition)
George OrwellEDSITEmentAll lesson plans are equal, but some lesson plans are more equal than others—is that anything? Check out our lesson on George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm, published this week 1946: https://t.co/f0FiGKPHIG #ELAchat #edchat #NCTEvillage #BackToSchool2022 https://t.co/sfIjjKkqA1
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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni MorrisonEDSITEmentWe can think of no better way to close out #WomensHistoryMonth than by honoring Toni Morrison, whose breathtaking “Beloved” was awarded the Pulitzer OTD in 1988. Find teaching resources here: https://bit.ly/358nxul #ELAchat
Paperback, 2004
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
George OrwellEDSITEmentAll lesson plans are equal, but some lesson plans are more equal than others—is that anything? Check out our lesson on George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm, published this week 1946: https://t.co/f0FiGKPHIG #ELAchat #edchat #NCTEvillage #BackToSchool2022 https://t.co/sfIjjKkqA1
Paperback, Mass Market, 2004
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine HansberryEDSITEmentTeaching #LGBTQhistory can start with including bios of artists whose work you already teach. Use our lesson on A Raisin in the Sun https://bit.ly/3DAeWws And add scenes from this Lorraine Hansberry doc from @PBSAmerMasters: https://to.pbs.org/3Q5IYyR #pride2022 #edchat https://t.co/vnnwHyrSR3
Paperback, Mass Market, 2004
$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank BaumEDSITEmentThe iconic film version of the Wizard of Oz premiered this week in 1939. Check out this documentary feature on the life of the book’s author L. Frank Baum, “the true wizard behind the curtain.” https://t.co/AK87Aq9jLp #edchat @AmExperiencePBS #FilmHistory https://t.co/Bye17b6WB8
Paperback, 2008
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia AlvarezEDSITEmentJulia Alvarez’s complex coming-of-age novel _In the Time of Butterflies_ provides a context for students to explore the struggles of women to secure human, civil, & economic rights. https://t.co/WlrbPBlb1z #WomensHistoryMonth #ELAchat https://t.co/8vr7J1TGwh
Paperback, 2010
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick DouglassEDSITEmentIn one of the most famous speeches to question democracy's limits, abolitionist Frederick Douglass asks “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Find resources here to use the speech with your students. https://t.co/ALWOtbF3cl #BlackHistoryMonth #sschat #edchat
Paperback, 2021
$4.99$2.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book