Letters to a New Teacher : A Month-by-Month Guide to the Year Ahead

Letters to a New Teacher : A Month-by-Month Guide to the Year Ahead

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About the Author
Jim Burke teaches English at Burlingame High School. He is the author of numerous books, including The English Teacher's Companion, Writing Reminders, Tools for Thought, Illuminating Texts: How to Teach Students to Read the World, Reading Reminders, and I Hear America Reading: Why We Read - What We Read, all of which are published by Heinemann. He is also the author of The Reader's Handbook (Great Source) and Academic Workouts (First Choice Publishing). His newest books are Letters to a New Teacher: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Year Ahead (2006), ACCESSing School: Teaching Struggling Readers to Achieve Academic and Personal Success (2005), and School Smarts: The Four Cs of Academic Success (2004), all of which are published by Heinemann. He has received numerous awards, including the NCTE Intellectual Freedom Award, the NCTE Conference on English Leadership Award, and the California Reading Association Hall of Fame Award. He served on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Committee on Adolescence and Young Adulthood English Language Arts Standards and recently worked with ACT on their high school English Language Arts standards. Visit his website (englishcompanion.com) for more information. Joy Krajicek received a degree in English and Social Science at Bethany College in Santa Cruz, California. She has also completed an MA in education and is working on a second masters degree. Currently she is a teacher at her alma mater, Homestead High School in Sunnyvale, California, enjoying the opportunity to work in the community where she lives.

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1. Lichens of California (California Natural History Guides, 54)
2. Literary Nonfiction : Learning by Example
3. Malory: Complete Works
4. Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire
5. Marriage (Oxford World's Classics)
6. Medieval Russian Epics, Chronicles, and Tales : Revised Edition
7. Miss or Mrs?, The Haunted Hotel, The Guilty River (Oxford World's Classics)
8. Ninety-Three
9. Nuns and Soldiers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
10. Political Writings

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