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=Welcome to the Tennessee Common Core English Wiki!=

Purpose
Common Core necessitates a new way of thinking, for both teachers and students. This is a place where high school English teachers can share their Common Core classroom activities!

Layout
Due to the wide variety of texts that are taught at each grade level around the state, and because CCSS combines 9-10 and 11-12, dividing the website by grade level seems unproductive. Instead, I have created pages simply labeled Fiction Novels, Fiction Short Stories, Non-Fiction Novels, Informational Texts, Poetry, and Art & Music. Notice that there is an additional section labeled Pacing Guides where you can provide an outline of what texts you teach and in which order.

How a Wiki works
If you are new to wikis, they are basically web pages with an "edit" button. You must click on the edit button to add information, links, etc. I have intentionally left this wiki open for Wikispaces members to edit. That also means that you can accidentally delete information that is posted on this site. __Please do not delete what others post on this Wiki!__ I encourage you to add to the information that is already there, but please be careful about deleting others' posts and information. Once you finish adding your information, click on "Save" and poof! your information will be there.

One other note of caution: This site is created using Wikispaces' free teacher account. As such, it also has limitations in terms of size of file uploads and amount of storage space. Please, whenever possible, save your documents to Dropbox, Box.com, Google Drive, Slideshare, etc. and post __links__ to the files instead of the files themselves.

Thank you for visiting this site and I hope it will be of value to you!
If you have any ideas on how I can improve this site, please feel free to e-mail me!