Tips for Teaching The Odyssey in High School
Is the Odyssey worth teaching to your students? Of course! Read on for details and suggestions on teaching.
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Making Inference Lesson Plans for Reading and English
Students practice the skill of making inferences before beginning to apply this skill to their reading comprehension activities.
Continue ReadingEverybody's Blogging: It's the New Literary Style
Teachers learn how to integrate technology into the classroom by replacing classic literary journals (notebooks) with online blogs. Go through the …
Continue ReadingYour High School English Class: Let Teens Learn to Write Using the Topic of Conflict
Conflict is often a part of the lives of teenagers. Writing stories that contain conflict helps them learn about how to handle conflict and also to …
Continue ReadingCreate a Social Media Profile for a Literary Character
In a creative writing course, the process of creating great stories starts with creating great characters. Give your students a great creative writing …
Continue ReadingPoetry Lesson Plan: Understanding Changing Purposes of Poetry
Use this free poetry lesson plan to enhance the instruction in your high school English classroom. Using song lyrics and the text of a poem, students …
Continue ReadingPopular Short Stories by Women Writers
If you’re looking to teach famous women authors, begin with these popular short stories.
Continue ReadingTeaching Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe: Mini Lessons for "The Oval Portrait" and Others
High school students may groan at the idea of Shakespeare or Dickens, but shorter stories often hold their interest. Especially the drama-packed …
Continue ReadingCreate a Monster Frankenstein Lesson Plan: High School Lesson on Analylzing Frankenstein Characters
High school literature lesson plans don’t need to be a bore. This Frankenstein lesson plan allows students to create a monster and analyze the …
Continue ReadingTeaching Independent Clauses and Commas -- Coordinating Conjunctions
You know that there’s a rule about, independent clauses, commas, and coordinating conjunctions – but what are independent clauses? And where …
Continue ReadingCharles Dickens' Writing Style: Lesson Plans for Great Expectations
Imitating Charles Dickens’ writing style provides opportunities to imitate a master of words. Your students will benefit greatly and have fun in …
Continue ReadingContemplation Questions for "The Kite Runner" Chapters 19-25
If you are teaching the novel “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini the below questions can be used in many different ways. You can use …
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