Baseball Terms & Rules for Understanding "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon": High School Lesson
“The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon” can be a surprising but effective choice to teach in your high school classroom. Begin the series by …
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High School English Lesson Plans - Grades 9-12
Showing guides and explainers filed under High School English Lesson Plans - Grades 9-12.
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"The Haunting of Hill House" Lesson with Comparisons to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Are the ghosts real, or is it all just in your head? This is the question students will be faced with after reading “The Haunting of Hill …
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"The Open Window" by Saki & "The Possibility of Evil" by Shirley Jackson
For the final lesson in the unit, students will explore two more classics, “The Open Window” by Saki and “The Possibility of …
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"An Incident in the Rose Garden": Lesson on Figurative Language & Gothic Horror
Get students interested in literature by doing a unit on Gothic Horror. The poem “An Incident in the Rose Garden” by Donald Justice is …
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"The Monkey's Paw": Fate or Coincidence? High School English Lesson
Are you looking for some new ideas to teach the “The Monkey’s Paw”? This creepy story is a favorite for English Teachers and …
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Using Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Teach About Chivalry: High School Lesson
Buffy can teach us much more than we think about Vampire lore, history and the knight’s code of chivalry. For your last lesson in the series, …
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Vampire Myths, Legends & Literature: High School English Lesson
In the second lesson plan in the series, students will explore vampires both in myth and in literature. From Bram Stoker’s Dracula, to poems of …
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Vampires in Poetry: A High School English Lesson an Analyzing Poetry
Get your students interested in poetry by studying poems about vampires! These three poems by Keats, Lord Byron and Yeats make a great addition to a …
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Writing a Comparison Essay on Vampire Novels: High School Lesson Plan
This is a fairly advanced lesson that has students reading excerpts from various Vampire novels and then writing a comparison paper on the different …
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The Historical Background to Dracula and Other Vampire Legends: Vlad the Impaler
Vampire mania has hit high schools across the country! Capitlize on your student’s interest by introducing history and literature on …
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