Naturalism in Literature: An Examination of Realism and Naturalism
Teaching Naturalism in literature exposes a new generation to some of the world’s greatest authors.
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Using Literature to Help Teens in Crisis
Reading is often quite helpful to high school students in crisis. Whatever trauma someone is experiencing there is probably already a book about it …
Continue ReadingTeaching Students How to Write a Reflective Essay
Knowing how to write a reflective essay means understanding narrative essay guidelines and applying them to a personal experience. You, as the …
Continue ReadingHow to Annotate a Poem for Class Discussion: Analysis Lesson Plan
I used to hate teaching poetry. Not anymore! Teaching how to annotate and analyze a poem is one of the funnest things I get to do. I’ll share …
Continue ReadingLessons for Writing and Improving Introductions for Essays
Tired of reading boring essays? Students can improve by learning how to engage the reader and by learning how to write a good thesis statement. Teach …
Continue ReadingTeaching Irony using Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour"
This article offers a lesson plan that teachers can use to teach students the concept of irony using Kate Chopin’s “Story of an …
Continue ReadingUse Art to Help Students Create Theme and Tone in Stories and Poems
Spark creativity in high school students with a slide show of varied art and photographs. Help students explore the many different tones of art and …
Continue ReadingAnalyzing Irony and Humor in Literature
Although you can’t teach someone to be funny, you can teach them to be humorous. Start with this analyzing humor in literature lesson plan.
Continue ReadingRectangular Coordinate System Lesson Plan for High School
Let’s share a lesson plan focused on teaching high school students (9th-10th grade) the rectangular coordinate system (e.g., the x,y plane), the …
Continue ReadingStudying the Imagery in Walden: High School Language Arts Lessons
Reading about nature is often very soothing to students who are experiencing a turbulent time in life. The study of imagery in “Walden” …
Continue ReadingVirtual Dissections: Review of froguts.com Dissection Software
Froguts.com is software for the science classroom. It offers virtual dissections of the common bullfrog, a cow eye, starfish, an owl pellet, a fetal …
Continue ReadingHow to Write an Interpretive Essay and Literary Analysis
Use this Interpretive Essay lesson plan to teach students how to write an interpretive essay or how to write a literary analysis.
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