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Here are some useful links for finding suggestions about planning lessons as well as other advice for new and experienced teachers.

[|Edutopia]

This resource promotes professional development through articles and blogs by teachers. By reading through the myriad discussion pages, one may glean insights about classroom management and strategies for managing school-related stress. The lesson plans on this site are either very tricky to locate or non-existent; a general search for “high school English” or “American literature” yields no results. In comparison to other sites like this one, its layout seems to be one of the cleanest and most professional.

[|HotChalk]

This website is similar to [|www.edutopia.org] in its content, but as a resource for professional development it is inferior. However, as a resource for lesson plan ideas, it seems vastly more fruitful. One finds a specific page that holds English lesson plans broken down by category (reading, writing, poetry, literature, etc.) but not by grade level. Searching through the lesson plans is easy enough, as they appear in a list of brief descriptions of the lesson and appropriate grade level.