I recently encountered an article in the Atlantic titled “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.”  It scared me a little ...

Students love to think about how a character develops because they too, because they’re teenagers, experience a lot of change. 

With every passing year, it seems harder and harder to get students interested in whole class discussions. But there are creative ways ...

The biggest challenge ELA teachers face year to year is how to get to students to not only read the novels we assign ...

Picking a novel to teach is never easy. Teachers must teach what’s board approved, what’s in the curriculum. There’s always the issue of h

Early in my career, I remember rolling through a novel chapter by chapter with PowerPoint slides and handouts. It always drove me crazy ...

Magical realism goes beyond the place that a metaphor takes us. It goes beyond the realm of comparison.

I’m trying to get as creative as possible when it comes to being flexible with students. After finishing a few units ...

We need to think about what we’re asking students when we ask them to do homework.

What’s the point of English class?

The good thing is, this year, our students will be thirsty to know more about the world they live in.

This is the hardest thing for any teacher. Take a very difficult and complicated topic and make it easy to understand.

If we want students to be lifelong learners and readers, we need to make reading as fun and painless as possible.

Faulkner heard stories from his family and then created a novel, a living map, from those stories.

Why do I think Virginia Woolf is the greatest writer of all time? There are so many reasons.

Every great piece of literature explores the inner workings of what the character doesn’t consciously know about their own desires and fears

ust as Austen imagined a world of romance determined by “age, character, and condition”, The Bachelor asks the same questions. It captures a

Every English teacher works tirelessly to instill a love of reading in their students. We convince them that literature matters.

We’re wrapping up Hamlet this week, and it never ceases to amaze me how it stays relevant year after year.

I often think about the importance of asking good, quality questions in class.

On the first day of class this year, I placed a rock on a desk in the middle of my classroom.