How to Teach Plot Elements with Pixar Shorts (and Actually Make It Stick)
One of the most frustrating things about teaching is the amount of re-teaching required. One of Steph’s biggest mistakes in…
Short Stories
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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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Looking for a Short Story with Conflict? It’s Already in Your Curriculum.
It doesn’t matter how conflict-averse we are in real life. We love conflict in our stories. Whether it’s the latest…
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Why Teaching About Plot in High School is Still Important
We don’t know about you, but we had some questions about teaching about plot as high school teachers. Should we…
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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…
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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.
