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The Learning Network’s goal: connections between the classroom and the “real world.”Learning Network’s

One popular daily feature: our Student Opinion questionsStudent Opinion questions

Weekly skills lessons from teachers Sarah Gross and Jonathan Olsenskills lessons

Regular contests. (This one ends 12/3.)contestsThis one

We link literature and nonfiction in multiple ways:multiple ways

Put “Big Brother” into Times search, and you’ll find articles like this one:Times search

Weekly Poetry Pairings of a poem + a Times article that echoes it.Poetry Pairings

Our Classic Lit collection is ever-growing:Classic Lit collection

We love suggestions for new ones.new ones

Here’s What We Have So Far… Shakespeare 50 Years of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ J.D. Salinger and ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ “The Odyssey” “The Great Gatsby” “Frankenstein” “The Lord of the Flies” Mark Twain and “Huckleberry Finn” “The Grapes of Wrath” “The Crucible” “Death of a Salesman” ‘Harry Potter’ Charles Dickens “The Hunger Games” George Orwell and “1984″

This fall, we began a new series, Text to TextText to Text

Our latest… With additional links to 25 more Times articles you could use to teach this play, including, from 1896, “‘Romeo and Juliet’ Interrupted: An Insane Man Intrudes on the Balcony Scene in Chicago.”

We want to publish YOUR ideas for more.publish YOUR ideas for more

Does reading literature help you develop empathy? Read the articleRead the article, take the quiz and see what you think.take the quiz

Your Task: Look through the paper and find at least one article or photograph you could use with your students during some unit of study this year. Feel free to compare notes with those around you.

Links and handouts for this presentation can be found here.here

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