Have you heard of Poetry in Voice / Les voix de la poesie? It’s a recitation contest for Canadian high school students. They have a useful teachers’ page with lesson ideas and link to other resources. Speaking poetry aloud can completely change the way students can access poetry. I just saw that this year’s national […]
Teacher in Play: The Invitation of Performative Inquiry by Lynn Fels
Lynn Fels is Assistant Professor at SFU. Her research interests are performance and technology, performative inquiry, and teacher education. She and co-author George Belliveau recently published Exploring Curriculum: Performative Inquiry, Role Drama, and Learning. The story that follows was told to me by a colleague of a grade twelve English teacher who had taken his […]
Student Cover Art: Darkness by Joanne Panas
Joanne Panas is a coeditor of English Practice. She teaches English part-time at McRoberts Secondary in Richmond, and is pursuing writing, her other passion, on her so-called days off.” The cover art for this issue is a piece by one of my English 11 students, Rachel Yang. It was part of a unit we did this […]
Graphic Novels Professional Reference
This list was started by Susan Ma and Celia Brownrigg. It is meant to be open-ended and we hope it will enjoy many contributers.
List of Winners 2008-2009
These are the 2008-2009 winners!