Episode 32: How to Introduce a New Book Into Your Curriculum
Textbooks, novel selections, these things are s-l-o-w to change in the ELA world. It seems there’s never enough money to…
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Goal Setting for Teachers: Let’s Get Real
I’m wondering if you, like me, find podcast episodes (or articles or social media posts) about how to save time as a teacher and work only your contractual hours more frustrating than helpful.
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Short Stories for High School: Focus on Point of View
It’s time for the next installment in our series featuring our favorite short stories for high school students! Correctly identifying a text’s point of view is crucial to any prose analysis and yet it’s something students really struggle with.
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Teaching Poetry: Helping Your Students Prepare for Discussion
Teaching poetry is simultaneously one of the most rewarding and most challenging things we do as English teachers. Its compactness means it is rich with literary devices, creating powerful effects that speak to significant human truths and experiences. However, this can also make it seem indecipherable upon first (and sometimes second) glance, which often leads students to dismiss it as boring because they aren’t getting the instant gratification of immediate understanding.
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Short Stories for High School: Focus on Characterization
Characterization is one of the most important literary devices you can focus on when you read short stories with your students. Really, at its heart, characterization is the point of literature. Whether we’re reading to escape, to learn, to feel, or to experience, well-developed characters are essential.
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Episode 31: Novels We Love and Hate to Teach
This dilemma will be a familiar one for any teacher who has been teaching the same prep for a few…
