Resources

If you have a moment, visit the **English Companion Ning**. It has won national recogniton as the most successful educational social networking site.

The site is an example of how the web and professional social networking can support educators. [| http://englishcompanion.ning.com/]

For those of you interested in **Understanding by Design**, there is a discussion group on the English Companion and a wikispace that is just in its infancy, but there are some very good resources and a few really solid examples of UbD units. http://ubdeducators.wikispaces.com/

You can create a private publishing area here: [] [] Literacy device “bags” web site: [] ? One page on irony sites:       
 * **Writing About Irony ** ||
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 * @http://www.schoollink.org/csd/pages/engl/lesson3.html ||
 * || **It's No Laughing Matter ** ||
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 * @http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/political_cartoon/index.html ||
 * **Types of Irony **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: #980b1a; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">@http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/engramja/litdevic.html ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Isn't It Ironic? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: #980b1a; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">@http://ldt.stanford.edu/ldt1999/Students/cglazer/edstruc8.htm ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">History of Irony **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: #980b1a; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">@http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv2-70 ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How Ironic! **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: #980b1a; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">@http://www.learnnc.org/lessons/anngerber952004881 ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Steps in an Irony Process Paragraph **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: #980b1a; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">@http://college.hmco.com/devenglish/wong/paragraph_essentials/1e/students/exercises/ch5_2.html ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Irony Writing Exercise **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: #980b1a; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">@http://anitraweb.org/homelessness/streetwrites/Exercises/irony.html ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Irony Exercise **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="color: #980b1a; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">@http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/Virtualit/poetry/irony_ex.html ||