(If you are an educator reading this, and planning to loot the material here, good for you! All I ask in return, if you have time, is that you email me a tactic that you have developed so I can show it to my students, and, should you have time to remember, please cite this www page.)

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. Double Dog Dare Ya--Unasked Classroom Questions
62. Four-Squares
63. Micro-Macro-Cosm
64. The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
65. Rewriting Textbooks
66. Culture Jammin’
67. Informational Picketing
68. Sham Interviews
69. Reification is Forgetting
70. We Gotta Get Outa This Place
71. Storytelling
72. Mock Legislative Hearings
73. Duration Lines
74. Fly Me to the Moon
75. Surveying for Surveillance
76. "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)
77. Mapping
78. Freedom of Information Act Requests
79. Spy versus Spy
80. Democracy as a Problem
81. Utopia Project
82. International Computer Comrades
83. Freedom Schools
84. Classroom Debates
85. Storyliving
86. Rethinking the Senses
87. My Teacher Has Cancer! Isn’t She Pretty?
88. Why Love, Work, And Knowledge Are the Pathways to Overcome Despair and Domination And Why Love is the Key (which is not sappy bs) Especially in the Classroom
89. How did Mao deal with Stalin?
90. What’ Up?
91. Newspapers in Education
92. Beware of Golden Handcuffs
93. Read Some Good Books, Bilge the Textbook
94. The Eye of the Beholder
95. You are Albania!
96. William’s Testament About His Fabulous Vietnam Unit
97. Crap Detection
98. Good Questions better than Good Answers
99. Classroom Management?
100. Just Tell Me What to do and I Will Do It
101. He Who Insists He is the Khan, is Not the Khan
102. The Professional Organizations
103. The Class is NOT Over
104. Imagine, Wonder, Guess
105. The Air on Both Sides of the Screen Door
106. Wisdom
107. You are the Text, You are the Method, You are the Question

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