Professional Development

In Search of the Novel Resources

In Search of the Novel Website
Please note that to access video and class materials you must register with Annenberg/CPB. It's easy and free!

Channel Talk - In Search of the Novel

Email - please indicate is the email is for the group or if it is private.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie - Was also produced as a movie in 2002. Is being shown this week at the The Movies on Exchange in Portland, ME on 10/24 at 3 and 7:15 and at the Newburyport Screening Room on 10/28 at 6:15, 8:45 and 10/29 at 3:45, 6:15, and 8:45 and 10/30 at 5:00 and 7:30
Amazon  DVD Reading Group Guide    Book Review  Internet Movie Database

Of Nightingales That Weep by Katherine Patterson
Amazon  Synopsis   Harper Collins Book Guide

Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman
Amazon  Curriculum resources to use with novel    Book Review
Wonderworks Video Series - Slake's Limbo is called The Runaway - note the other titles available including: Chronicles of Narnia, Bridge to Terabithia, Brother Future, The House of Dies Drear, Words by Heart, and The Fig Tree.

The Misfits by James Howe
Amazon Interview with James Howe Simon Schuster page with book excerpt and teaching guide
No Name Calling Week Story Mix It Up Reading List

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Amazon

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
Lesson plan Lesson Plan

While we don't have the program Louisiana Stories mentioned in Workshop Four, here at NHPTV, we do have a number of series intended for classroom use that look at authors, including: Signature: Contemporary American Authors , Famous Authors , Voices and Visions , and Children's Authors Documentary Series

Earthcam - directory of web cam sites on the web

Art of War by Sun Tzu (SunZi) - online copy

Art of War at Amazon

Art of War by Sun Tzu (SunZi) - another online copy

Banned Book Link:
National Council of Teachers of English

The Doucette Index to K-12 Teaching Ideas for Literature
Searchable index to books and Websites with teaching suggestions and ideas.

Book A Minute
A series of very short and very funny condensed books.