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…
In the Classroom
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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, which means we’ve been…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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11 Glamour-Filled Independent Reading Books for Teens
A quick scroll through the weekend New York Times headlines tells us that Americans tend to be fairly obsessed with…
