Your Classroom Survival Guide to Shakespeare Movie Adaptations & Videos
Our high school years coincided with the classics of teen Shakespeare movie adaptations: William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996), 10…
Unit Planning
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8 Essential Chapters in How to Read Literature Like a Professor
What do Sir Gawain, ET, Luke Skywalker, Beloved, Harry Potter, Hansel and Gretel, and Alfred Hitchcock have in common? Sadly,…
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What Is Dystopia? How to Introduce Students to the Genre
“Miss, what is dystopia?” Isn’t this how every unit goes? You introduce a term, use it frequently, and yet ….
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The Julius Caesar Unit Plan That Works for Reluctant Readers
When you think of engaging a room full of reluctant readers, Julius Caesar is probably not the first text that…
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6 AP Lit Books That Won’t Bore Your Students to Tears
Be careful what you wish for. If you’ve ever had to teach an AP Lit book you didn’t like (or…
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Teaching AP Literature Novels: Our Go-To Unit Plan
We recently took a look back at the AP English Literature and Composition Course and Exam Description (CED), a 178-page…
