Teachers, Don’t Let an AP Exam Score Define You
There are many things we’re passionate about here at Three Heads: coffee, the superiority of dark chocolate to milk chocolate,…
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Make Essay Writing for Students Easier with a Consistent Structure
We’ll admit it: our students wouldn’t be entirely off-base if they said we weren’t the most exciting teachers. This doesn’t…
18 Dystopian Young Adult Novels That Will Make Your Students Think
Our latest project here at Three Heads is a unit for Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games (coming soon!), which means…
The Independent Reading Approach That Worked for Us (and Some That Didn’t)
Ah, the days of elementary school—games of four square at recess, field trips to local museums, holiday-themed art projects, the…
How to Teach Poetry Analysis in AP Literature: A Student-Centered Approach
For thirteen years, our primary strategy to teach poetry analysis in AP Literature was heavily discussion-based and teacher-focused. We focused…
Everything You Need to Know to Teach Expository Writing
Confession: for most of our careers, we didn’t really know what “expository writing” meant, why it mattered as much as…