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While English Language Arts can be a daunting subject for any high school student, for my special education students who use the same textbooks as their regular education peers, accessing the textbook itself can be a challenge. The newly district-adopted textbooks come with all the bells and whistles--including online portals that allow students to interact with the literature through multimedia resources. The issue is that we do not have enough hardware in the classroom for everyone, let alone small groups to tap into those wonderful resources. And most of my students do not have the means to access them at home. This is where Chromebooks come in. They are just big enough to be shared by small groups of 3 to 4 students, small enough to fit onto tiny desks and fast enough for quick internet research or accessing online resources. With the Chromebooks available in the classroom, students can make sense of Edgar Allan Poe by watching images related to gothic literature, listening to Poe's works without straining to sound out each word, as well as by interacting with myriads of online resources provided by the textbook publisher to analyze the story. Poe's words and visions from the nineteenth century can come alive to haunt and intrigue my students in the way they never experienced them before. All these benefits without being penalized for not having resources at home. And this is only the first story of the textbook. Who knows, this might inspire them to create their own stories and enrich the rest of us by sharing their own Americana.

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While English Language Arts can be a daunting subject for any high school student, for my special education students who use the same textbooks as their regular education peers, accessing the textbook itself can be a challenge. The newly district-adopted textbooks come with all the bells and whistles--including online portals that allow students to interact with the literature through multimedia resources. The issue is that we do not have enough hardware in the classroom for everyone, let alone small groups to tap into those wonderful resources. And most of my students do not have the means to access them at home. This is where Chromebooks come in. They are just big enough to be shared by small groups of 3 to 4 students, small enough to fit onto tiny desks and fast enough for quick internet research or accessing online resources. With the Chromebooks available in the classroom, students can make sense of Edgar Allan Poe by watching images related to gothic literature, listening to Poe's works without straining to sound out each word, as well as by interacting with myriads of online resources provided by the textbook publisher to analyze the story. Poe's words and visions from the nineteenth century can come alive to haunt and intrigue my students in the way they never experienced them before. All these benefits without being penalized for not having resources at home. And this is only the first story of the textbook. Who knows, this might inspire them to create their own stories and enrich the rest of us by sharing their own Americana.

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