Some interesting stuff to help you evolve:
Here’s a bunch of cool stuff that has nothing to do with English class. Wait! Everything has everything to do with English class….
- 1 Breath Time (Take a breath. Make some art.)
- 10 cent Stories
- 25 Best American Plays Since Angels in America
- 36 Questions on the Way to Love ( See links & app)
- 50 Questions Every Student Should Be Able to Answer Before They Graduate HS
- 55 FICTION (World’s Shortest Stories)
- 100 Notable Books of 2018 (New York Times Book Review)
- 538 Blog – Let’s chat stats!
- 650 Prompts for Narrative & Personal Writing
- A 19-yr-old Gave a Speech & Now He’s an Iowa State Senator (video)
- Advice on Writing From Famous Writers
- Alan Alda’s Scientific American Frontiers
- All Songs Considered
- All Things Considered
- American Film Institute (AFI) Top 100 Films
- Backstory with the American History Guys
- Backyard: Play Online Games AND Chat With Friends
- Banned Books that Shaped America
- Brainpickings
- Car Talk
- Coral Restoration Project
- Cracking CIA Code
- Crash Course (w/ John Green)
- David Foster Wallace Essays
- Darwin Awards
- Edge.org – Asking questions at the edge of the world’s knowledge
- Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve
- Free Speech Threat On Campus Isn’t Coming From the Left
- “Genius Grants” from the MacArthur Foundation
- Great American Think-Off
- Great American Read (PBS)
- High School Plays – Most Popular Lists by Decade
- History of English in 10 Minutes (Video)
- Joseph Campbell’s Woman Problem: The Heroine with 1001 Faces (The Atlantic)
- Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting?
- Little Theater
- Michelle Obama Interviews Amanda Gorman – The Renaissance is Black (TIME)
- Most Popular High School Plays Over the Years
- Politics in the Classroom
- Quora (Ask great questions, get great answers)
- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- SantaLand Diaries (David Sedaris)
- StoryCorps: The Great Thanksgiving Listen
- StoryCorps.me – The APP & Directions
- STUDENT CAM: Documentary Competition
- TED Talks
- The Year We Obsessed Over Identity (2015)
- This American Life
- This is Water (David Foster Wallace)
- TOY Hall of Fame
- Violet Beauregarde Should’ve Won Wonka’s Chocolate Factory
- VIRTUAL HUMAN CADAVER- Susan Potter
- Vlog Brothers (the Greens again)
- World Cafe
- Writer’s Almanac