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| The Weekly Reader online text collection | |
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| This page is a collection of resources to help you write a weekly response
paper. A collection of "texts", including pictures, news stories, vocabulary
words with origins, and poetry are available below, as is a link to Jim
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| Online Texts to Read and Respond To | |
| | Teen Ink offers both a print magazine and an online edition and archive.
Poetry, essays, fiction,
artwork and photography, and op ed pieces... literally thousands of items
worth responding to.
Teen Ink
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| | This is a terrific online collection of short poems in many styles, oriented
toward high school students.
Poetry 180
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| | This page features a different photo with a caption every day. Some are
beautiful, some are exotic, and
some are very surprising!
National Geographic Picture of the Day
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| | Time Magazine posts a regular photo essay, focused on world or national news,
sports, or human
interest stories they have covered in the recent past. An archive of recent
stories can be found here;
between captions and images, each offers many possibilities for writing.
Time Magazine Photo Essays
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| | Merriam-Webster's word of the day is more than a vocabulary lesson--it's a
collection of odd, offbeat
tidbits about the origin of words and phrases from everyday speech. Some of
the stories will get you wondering...
Word of the Day
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| | This web page sponsored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors is a
weekly collection of some of the best high school newspaper stories and features.
High School Journalism National Edition
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| | Award-winning photographers compete every day to bring you the most
thought-provoking images on
the web.
Steve's Digicam's Picture of the Day Contest
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| | Rock stars and philosophers, presidents, artists, and writers... anybody who
said anything memorable
might be here. Every day features another 4--5 famous quotes to think and
write about. There's a
searchable archive, too.
Quotes of the Day
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| | NPR presents audio diaries from real teens. Unfortunately, due to bandwidth
issues, these should ONLY
be read as transcripts during the school day--the streaming audio slows down
our server. Many to choose from--real stories from real teens.
Radio Diaries: Teenage Diaries
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| | Short, personal essays about just about everything, from love to God, from
fighting racism to music,
work, and family. Also available as streaming audio files, but don't listen
from the classroom! In class,
read the essay as written.
This I Believe
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| | Published online through MSNBC and Newsweek, this is a magazine written by
college students. In a typical, glossy magazine format, current news,
reviews, and opinions are covered from a student perspective.
Current Magazine -MSNBC
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| | Regularly updated political cartoons; includes an archive of old cartoons and
a news headlines ticker on
the same page.
Daily Dose- Newsweek Political Cartoons
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| | _Christina's World_, painted by Andrew Wyeth in 1948 is a painting of his
longtime neighbor, Christina Olson. Christina was paralyzed below the waist
from an undiagnosed disease; the painting shows her dragging herself to pick
vegetables in her family's garden on their farm in Maine.
Christina's World
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