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With the start of a new school year, September is always a busy month for our Teenagers in The Times roundup. Every month, on the first Thursday, we publish this list of the news and feature stories about young people that have recently appeared across sections of NYTimes.com. For ideas about how to use Teenagers…

Here is the February edition of Teenagers in The Times, a roundup of the news and feature stories about young people that have recently appeared across sections of NYTimes.com. We publish a new edition on the first Thursday of each month.For ideas about how to use Teenagers in The Times with your students, please see…

Welcome to our first writing unit of the school year. Below you’ll find a detailed description of each element, as well as ways to put them together to make your own custom writing unit. To learn more about other writing units, visit our writing curriculum overview. Stories can thrill, wound, delight, uplift and teach. Telling…

Times are strange. The world hangs in limbo. Anxiety and boredom are prevalent. Sleep patterns have been disrupted for many. Has this pandemic led you to have unusual dreams? If so, describe what happens in them.Are memories of your dreams usually vivid, or do they fade soon after you wake up? Do you experience recurring…

This teaching idea comes from Megan Butler, a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington who teaches composition in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at U.W. She also teaches English to refugees and new immigrants in Seattle.All the images in this post are from the Times Magazine article that grounds her idea.Do you teach…

Here is the October edition of Teenagers in The Times, a roundup of the news and feature stories about young people that have recently appeared across sections of NYTimes.com. We publish a new edition on the first Thursday of each month.For ideas about how to use Teenagers in The Times with your students, please see…

Welcome to Week Four of our Tenth Annual Summer Reading Contest. To participate, just post a comment here by 9 a.m. Eastern on July 12 that answers the questions “What interested you most in The Times this week? Why?” What should you choose? Well, as you know from the rules we’ve posted, you can pick…

Here is the May edition of Teenagers in The Times, a roundup of the news and feature stories about young people that have recently appeared across sections of NYTimes.com. It is the final edition of this school year, but the feature will be back in the fall, and will publish on the first Thursday of…

These accounts are chock-full of interesting tidbits that make them ideal for playing with mixed media, color, texture and layering in a collage. A high school student, Annabeth Tao, experimented with these concepts to incorporate details like “Italian singer,” “jazz and pop,” “exciting performance,” “fashion dressing style,” and “aerobics promoter” from Lara Saint Paul’s obituary…

Often, teachers will write to us about one or two ways they’ve used The Times in their classrooms. But this idea, submitted by Susan Shatford, a library media specialist at Marblehead High School in Marblehead, Mass., is different. It’s not just one lesson or unit, but a comprehensive overview of how The New York Times…