Starting Fresh: New Semester Tips for Tired (But Committed) English Teachers
January (or [shudder] February for those of you unlucky enough to have finals after Christmas break) is a strange time…
In the Classroom
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Making Parent and Teacher Communication Easier in the High School Classroom
When we reflected on our first year after leaving the classroom, Kate shared that she wished she’d treated parent and…
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Picture Books in High School? Try This Introductory Lesson Idea
Getting started might just be the hardest part of, well, pretty much anything. Sometimes we (or our students) need to…
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Tired of the Cell Phone in Class Battle? Try These Classroom-Tested Tips
One of our favorite colleagues once declared, “I DID NOT go to college to learn how to figure out if…
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8 Evocative Poems with Imagery for AP Literature
If there’s one literary device that just screams poetry, it’s imagery. Sure, figurative language matters. Sound devices are unique to…
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Writing the College Essay: The Unit Plan We Use in AP Lit
The Common Core lists about 42 content standards to cover for senior-year English. If you teach AP English Literature and…
