Make it FUN!Use your noodle to twizzle these two into a lesson!The possibilities are endless. Stereotyping will work. So will ART - health, careers, graphics . . .
Do you believe in 'beauty'? Click on any image on this page and do the rollover . . . now there's an eye opener!
Comic Creator If the link won't work go to readthinkwrite.org and find the comic creator under Student Resources.

Teach English? Lit Crit:
Hook onto the free stuff. There are lots of good ones. The best you probably know of: Voice of the Shuttle. Its great. Take for instance this page of fully live, unrestricted links:
http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm

We just used the Archetypal Criticism method on a novel study.

From Brock University, a series of excellent, brief, very usable sites that provide theoretical frameworks for text analysis through questions
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/checklist.html
Perfect for 4U discussions, essays, concept maps
See also http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/index.html, The Contemporary Literature Mainpage from which more similar links are to be found. Consider using http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/ideology.html with The Handmaid’s Tale, for instance.

UTEL, the University of Toronto’s site is an awesome English site.
Here is a demonstration of how beautifully it meets our needs:
First – the homepage is http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/
So let say we were wishing to do something on a Browning poem; Select index of authors, then Browning will bring us to a selection of poems, each of which includes a commentary, usually by a contemporary of the writer (but sometimes from another time). This is great for 4U.

Concept Mapping - U_believable Mileage!

A hefty dose for the serious theorist (as a pitch for serious software) http://cmap.coginst.uwf.edu/info/">HIMC. In public schools, use Ministry (Ontario) licensed INSPIRATION instead.

& this Wisconsin educator's got the whole deal in the bag! Take a look: http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/conceptmap/50uses.html
More Graphic Organizers:
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm
and
http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html
Get your school to buy a few Beyond Monet by Barrie Bennet & Carol Rolhauser to learn more about Concept Mapping and all kinds of other instructional strategies. See http://beyondmonet.com

Lesson Fodder from My Fellow Bloggers
Ever the scavenger, I found the following lesson fodder on the sites of my fellow bloggers.

Here is a reality blog that has educational value because it increases political awareness.
http://www.civicworldwide.org/blogger.htm
And here is an innovative twist on 'found poetry'; (Spam-o-grams?) !
http://www.sperare.com/spam_poetry/blogger.html

Today's BlinkIDEAS for using technology to EDUCATE!
A page of links
http://www.ael.org/rtec/ideas.htm
170 Ideas and Resources for Teachers
Integrating Technology into Planning and Curriculum
compiled by Virginia Seale.
Links for teachers beginning to use technology, wanting to find interactive sites, looking for class pen pals, wondering about standards or boggled by the proliferation of resources . . . This site makes sense of it.

O Enthralling Technology! Beat the GAME game.
Its March Break! Even teachers get to play and learn.
These sites, linked to Kids Rule (http://artkidsrule.com/), meet a variety of curricular needs in integrated ways! And they're hugely amusing besides!
http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/play_a_piano.html
http://kosmoi.com/Science/Mathematics/Graphs/Encyclo/ (A whole high school mathematics course! a LOT more complex than it looks at first glance; and a LOT more fun than the chalk board!)

Every teacher's dream . . . to hit the target audience! Look at this:
http://www.rockhall.com/programs/institute.asp (hit the lessonplans)