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High School English Lesson Plans - Grades 9-12

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Why buy a curriculum unit when you can get one free online? I created these questions to aide my students as they read “The Kite Runner.” …

Have fun teaching Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It’s possible.

Grab your students’ attention with a poetry gallery. Set up much like an art exhibit, an interactive poetry gallery allows students to add their …

A lesson plan for 7th or 8th grade readers over this story about a very unusual hunt.

Bruce Springsteen’s song lyrics use a lot of hyperbole, imagery, and vivid language. Reading his lyrics helps students understand that poetry and …

This lesson plan gives an easy “in” to reading “1984”. Get students thinking critically about the content right from the …

Sensory details are important when students are writing stories. They help set a scene and bring the reader into the story world. Sensory details …

This article contains study guide questions I created to help students as they read “The Kite Runner.”

Want your students to wake up and begin paying attention? This article is the first in a series presenting a curriculum unit for novel “The …

Teach students how to do an interview with these tips and techniques. Before you know it they’ll be interviewing like the pros!