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5 Tips for Teaching AP Lit
If you’ve been teaching AP Lit for a few years you know how much fun you can have with this class. And if you are teaching AP Lit for the first time, you’re in for a treat! It can be very challenging...
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How to Bring An Author Into Your Classroom Using Google Hangouts
This year I was finally able to do something I have always wanted to do: bring a live author into my classroom. This is not something easy to pull off, especially in the secondary world. How do you...
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Macbeth: Comic Activities to Use While Reading the Play
I don’t think there’s a more fun Shakespeare play to teach than Macbeth. It moves quickly (it’s one of Shakespeare’s shorter plays) and has it all: bloodshed, valor, all wrapped up in a play about what...
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Othello: Comics and Activities to Use While Reading the Play
Othello is a great play to teach in high school. Iago is a great villain. Desdemona is a perfect innocent victim, someone who doesn’t deserve the treatment she received from a jealous significant...
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Hamlet: Comics and Activities to Use While Reading the Play
Is Hamlet Shakespeare’s greatest play? It’s certainly one of the most widely taught. It’s been a staple of high school English curriculum for years – I have my mother’s old annotated copy from when she...
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Word, or sentence? Teaching Theme
Theme. It’s one of the most difficult topics to teach students in language arts classes. And theme is never something they master. They have to work hard to get better at it every year. But is a theme...
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Get Students Interested in Shakespeare
If you’re a high school English teacher, you’re probably teaching Shakespeare. You also know that it can be difficult to get kids interested in reading him before they even start. This happens for a...
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