The Best Contemporary Novels to Teach in High School
I have a love for most the literature I read in high school and college. I’m sure you’re familiar with the writers ...
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- Aug 12, 2022
- 2 min
5 Poems to Start the Year
I love to start the year with a month of poetry. The unit gives students the time to read the first novel independently and it functions ..
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- May 11, 2022
- 2 min
History and Literature
It is the objective of many novels to bring history back to life. The history in textbooks focus on the powerful, the decision makers.
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- Feb 9, 2022
- 4 min
4 Easy Ways to Talk About Race in School
Some of the most challenging questions I’ve faced in my career have to do with race and culture.
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- Dec 17, 2021
- 2 min
How to Make Fiction Relevant
To wrap up my unit on Things Fall Apart, I’m doing what I believe Chinua Achebe would have wanted....
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- May 7, 2021
- 3 min
Where to Find Real Stories on the Web
We’re finishing up a unit on Exit West by Mohsin Hamid this week so I’m asking my students to listen to a personal narrative of choice....
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- Apr 29, 2021
- 3 min
LGBTQ+ Literature: Opening Up Language
About five years ago, I read an article by a high school student about the way to create a LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum...
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- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
Bite-sized Prose, Buffet Conversations
Because distributing books has been a challenge this year, some of my students have been reading novels on their computer. From the...
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- Dec 7, 2020
- 2 min
Rethinking Research
I attended the virtual NCTE conference this past Friday and it got me thinking about the research paper, or really, rethinking it. Part...
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- Jul 30, 2020
- 7 min
Language and Power
As an English teacher, I’m always thinking about the power of language. But recently, I’ve been thinking about language and power. How...
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