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TABLE of CONTENTS (CLICK HERE FOR ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

1. Introduction
2. Journals and Active Literacy: Reading the Word is Reading the World
3. Fight Racism Everyday
4. A Safe and Respectful Place of Learning
5. Make Friends 
6. Yes, Inclusion Means Them Too
7. Unity that makes Sense, and Disunity that makes Sense
8. Study Deep
9. Read
10. Don’t Forget the Working Class, the Force of Modern History
11. Product Analysis
12. Fabulous Realities (from Ken Macrorie)
13. Interest and Integrity
14. It’s About Time!
15. I Search Papers (also from Ken Macrorie)
16. The History Wars
17. Class Council
18. Room Title
19. Dub the Room
20. Power Symbol to the Speaker
21. Undoing the Fear of Freedom
22. The Mute Flute
23. Political Cartoons 
24. Heroes Schmeroes Sez Me
25. Photo or Video Essays
26. The Art (Music, Dance, Film, etc.) Detective
27. Grow Stuff and Eat It
28. Mrs Sutfin’s Immortal Class
29. Antennas Up! The Author’s Chair
30. Enablers
31. The Real Map and Standpoint
32. Newspapers or Newscasts about an Area of Study
33. Beginning Wherever and Webbing
34. Quicky Theater
35. Dialectical Scientific Evidence
36. Play APBA, Make History
37. Taking it Personally
38. Mentoring the Mentors
39. Move from the Cover to the Book
40. The History of Me–and Grandma
41. Hunter Scott and the Sinking of the Indianapolis
42. Surveys
43. Nazi Hunters
44. Paper Dolls to Theaters
45. Visit the VA Hospital
46. Power and Geography in the Classroom
47. What Goes on Insider Your Brain? 
48. The Lewis and Carol Journal
49. After Dinner Conversations
50. Plunk Your Magic Twanger, Froggie!
51. Circle of Responders
52. How Come That’s Funny?
53. Every Trial is a Big Trial
54. Marionette Plays
55. Follow the Money
56. Hey, What’s That Noise?
57. History of Fairlyland
58. Story Ladders and Story Boards
59. Farmer Duck, the Story, the Book, the Plan, the Big Book
60. Critique Tyranny
61. Four-Squares
62. Micro-Macro-Cosm
63. The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
64. Rewriting Textbooks
65. Culture Jammin’
66. Informational Picketing
67. Sham Interviews
68. Reification is Forgetting
69. We Gotta Get Outa This Place
70. Storytelling
71. Mock Legislative Hearings
72. Duration Lines
73. Fly Me to the Moon
74. Surveying for Surveillance
75. "I ain't the worlds best writer nor the worlds best speller, But when I believe in something I'm the loudest yeller."   --Woody Guthrie (1950)
76. Mapping
77. Freedom of Information Act Requests
78. Spy versus Spy
79. Democracy as a Problem
80. Utopia Project
81. International Computer Comrades
82. Freedom Schools
83. Classroom Debates
84. Storyliving
85. Rethinking the Senses
86. My Teacher Has Cancer! Isn’t She Pretty?
87. How did Mao deal with Stalin?
88. What’ Up?
89. Newspapers in Education
90. Beware of Golden Handcuffs
91. Read Some Good Books, Bilge the Textbook
92. The Eye of the Beholder
93. You are Albania!
94. William’s Testament About His Fabulous Vietnam Unit
95. Crap Detection
96. Good Questions better than Good Answers
97. Classroom Management?
98. Just Tell Me What to do and I Will Do It
99. He Who Insists He is the Khan, is Not the Khan
100. The Professional Organizations
101. The Class is NOT Over
102. Imagine, Wonder, Guess
103. The Air on Both Sides of the Screen Door
104. Wisdom
105. You are the Text, You are the Method, You are the Question

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