Teaching Literature Effectively: A Pride and Prejudice Case Study in Making Classics Accessible
You know what’s not the best way to make Pride and Prejudice appealing to teenagers? A 102-slide PowerPoint. Yep, you…
Unit Planning
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Figurative Language in Poetry: Moving Students from Identification to Analysis
There’s no shortage of similes and metaphors used to describe or convey love in English literature. Yet the most romantic…
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Why the 5 Paragraph Essay Still Works (When You Teach It Right)
The 5 paragraph essay: English class staple or formulaic cliché? We’ve heard plenty of criticism of the 5 paragraph essay…
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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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Using Images as Narrative Writing Prompts Leads to Inventive Stories
Confession time. We have very mixed feelings about teaching narrative writing, and when cuts needed to be made because we…
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How to Write a Reading Quiz That Actually Works: Lessons from Years of Mistakes
“Uggghhh . . . rivets.” Steph still remembers hearing about the notorious AP Lit reading quiz for Heart of Darkness—two…
