Irony in Literature Made Easy: 8 Strategies + 5 Texts for ELA Teachers
Rain on your wedding day is a lot of things, but without context, it’s not ironic. Alanis Morrisette’s “Ironic” describes…
Literary Devices
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The 30 Must-Know AP Lit Terms (and How to Actually Teach Them)
No matter how many years we’ve been teaching or how confident we feel in our subject matter, the assignment to…
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How to Differentiate Theme Statement Lessons Without Doubling Your Workload
Differentiation is one of those educational buzzwords that can make teachers cringe. On the one hand, we know differentiation is…
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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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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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Recommendations for Teaching Symbolism in Poetry or Short Stories
“Communism! The red means communism!” As we guided our AP Lit students through our Norman Rockwell interpretation activity one year,…
