Kristen Kalenowicz, MAT

English Lit & Reading Teacher 📖 Certified Copyeditor 🪄 New Yorker in the Midwest 🍎

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Check out my piece for #NCTE 🖊 Give Students the Power to Start and Sustain Rich Discussion https://t.co/amdD9sqZI3 🗣 #classdiscussion #NCTEblog

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@SheaSerrano Gaspar Noe’s “Climax”? Definitely the most disturbing dance movie

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@Raffi_RC I have a Great Dane who barks a lot. 1 day, I discovered the way to soothe him is to softly sing Baby Beluga while rubbing his ears. He calms instantly! Your songs came back to me after decades ♥️ thnx for the music

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Harper Lee’s narrator, the young Scout Finch, shares outlandish rumors about “Boo” Radley. They say he wreaks havoc on the residents of Maycomb, that he dines on squirrels and cats. 
Even my 14yos know these are bogus claims to dehumanize & instill an irrational sense of fear.

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@levarburton @netflix Putting it on now!

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Miss Stacy!

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🍎 Who's your favorite fictional teacher?

For #TeacherAppreciationWeek, we compiled 12 of our favorites from children's and YA literature: https://t.co/hKR0kdMX5W

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Moving memoir to read with high school students and study everything from craft to empathy.

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“I was neither angry nor scared. It simply was. It was a fact about the world, like the distance from the sun to the Earth.” Revisit an excerpt from Paul Kalanithi’s posthumously published memoir, “When Breath Becomes Air.” https://t.co/Yfl8T2TPJH

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@SecondaryUk Hahah gotcha!

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“This is how to love a man, and if this doesn’t work there are other ways.” Fiction by Jamaica Kincaid, from 1978. #NewYorkerArchive https://t.co/MdGmaYs8P2

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@MerriamWebster Rambunctious

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Reporter: "(The crowd wasn't) very friendly to you."

Dawn Staley: "Actually they were. They were calling me boo."

@dawnstaley 😂

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Check out our website #JournalismInAction!

Here's a short video introducing you to the create your own social media post feature on the Journalism in Action website.

Teach your students how to use primary sources from
@LibraryCongress
#sschat #apush #teachertwitter

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Maggie Gyllenhaal!

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It's #NationalNarratorsDay, and we need to know: who is the best of the best?

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Love using these shorts to teach students how to compose discussion questions. 📢 Would also be great for considering character traits and themes 🖊️#readingafilm https://t.co/kWCJ5Is3RL

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via @NYTimes https://t.co/mOgAykr6Vg

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Seeking some support for my lovely students! 📚 https://t.co/k5Q05YdfW5

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via @NYTimes https://t.co/H1tnPLsCpA

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Read our full statement on AP Psychology and Florida: https://t.co/Y0NRrNCwBy

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Author Jesmyn Ward discusses and reads from her memoir MEN WE REAPED on episode 3 of the PBS series “Southern Storytellers."

Watch the clip here: https://t.co/fFNoawUjP5

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