Literary analysis can be a fun way students learn how to interpret quotes and identify patterns in writing.  However, most students prefer

Teachers already have a stressful job while in school.  They shouldn’t also bring that stress home and let it continue on their time off. 

If we are being honest, most students interact more with modern media than with literature. 

Freud had a lot of wild theories, but a simple understanding of the short essay “The Structure of the Unconscious” can help students easily

Graphic organizers help students that think logically like scientists and mathematicians.

I recently encountered an article in the Atlantic titled “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.”  It scared me a little ...

I have a love for most the literature I read in high school and college.  I’m sure you’re familiar with the writers ...

One of the most rewarding things about being a teacher is watching my students continue the conversation as they leave the classroom. 

A classroom can be two places at the same time: a place to work hard and learn valuable skills and a place to have fun and make meaning from

I’m always surprised when my students give their full attention to an hour-long podcast.  What keeps kids locked into Serial is not ...

Podcasts promote a very simple, yet important life skill:  listening.  They also help students understand tone, the emotion behind the ...

There’s nothing like close reading.  A bunch of colorful annotations on a poem is a beautiful thing.  Close reading is a valuable skill and

There will always be new tools to help teachers combat the use of AI.  A Chrome extension called Origin by GPTZero provides a writing ...

Schools and teachers usually organize ELA curriculum by novel, theme, or genre, or some combination of those three. 

Sometimes I find myself trying to think of ways to create connections between literature and the real world. 

Teaching students the value of using quotes in an essay is more important now than ever ...

I recently opened enrollment for a new online course, Meaningful Project-Based Learning for High School English.  Enrollment closes Friday

There’s no doubt that English teachers have to manage a ton of work.  Students have to practice writing frequently and gather as many quotes

Students love to think about how a character develops because they too, because they’re teenagers, experience a lot of change. 

With every passing year, it seems harder and harder to get students interested in whole class discussions. But there are creative ways ...

It’s easy for students to get caught in the trap of simply identifying literary techniques without considering their purpose ...

Because I teach seniors, I start the year with a short unit on the personal narrative and college essay. It helps me get to know ...

July has come to an end and it’s that time when the thought of school starts to plan its seed in every teacher’s mind. What will this year

There are many students that love literature for the world it creates, the brand-new world that exists only within the front and back cover

The end of the school year is the best time to get ideas for next year. All the successful and failed experiments are still fresh in my...

It’s fun to end the year with a project that students will remember. Instead of a traditional final, there are a lot of ways ...

It’s spring, which means it’s time to get creative. At this point in the year, students should be close to meeting our expectations ...

Teachers want their students to be readers, and not just readers of words. We want them to read the world around them: the streets ...

My students write most of their essays by hand in class. There are a lot of reasons for that, but at this point in the year ...

Some books, maybe most, don’t require much introduction. Novels, to some extent, exist in their own world.

Creating a short film used to be a long and difficult process, so I gave up on it. But then it became much easier to shoot and edit video.

It feels like it’s getting harder and harder to keep the attention of our students. Every teacher knows that if a student doesn’t use ...

It’s not easy to find literature that gets students to talk about the world they live in. It can be done with any novel ...

AI is all the buzz lately. No need to teach writing anymore, a computer can do it...

It’s difficult to find a book that every child will love. They like contemporary stories that seem similar to their own ...

Every teacher is familiar with the kind of student who struggles to pay attention for a long period of time...

For me, stress always hits at the end of a marking period. I suddenly realize how much I need to grade . . .

When I look back on my teaching career, some of my favorite moments actually happened outside the classroom. For some reason ...

I used to get moans when I asked students to write a poem. But in the last few years ...

Close reading may be the most important skill taught in an English class. It’s the heart and soul of what we do: uncover the world ...