• #161: How to Use Freud and Psychoanalysis to Teach Literature
    Feb 1 2025

    Let's talk about the moving parts of the psyche and how students can use Freud to make a better interpretation of a character's behavior.

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    51 mins
  • #160: A Spatial Approach to Literary Analysis
    Dec 14 2024

    Give your students six options to create graphic organizers and track the patterns, topics, and motifs of a poem, short story, novel, or play. Posters are a great way to get students out of their seats by collaborating, presenting, organizing their ideas and quotes.

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    20 mins
  • #159: How to Teach Shakespeare
    Nov 25 2024

    Learn five techniques that will help you teach The Bard.

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    39 mins
  • #158: Reading Blocks in Secondary ELA
    Oct 28 2024

    Reading blocks held during class time may help students read challenging novels.

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    33 mins
  • #157: Kids, Phones, and Class Participation
    Oct 5 2024

    Let's think about how to get kids off their phone and tuned into the conversation.

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    25 mins
  • #156: The Best Contemporary Novels to Teach in High School
    Oct 5 2024

    Here is my list of 9 contemporary novels to teach in high school.

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    15 mins
  • #155: 3 Types of Interviews and Conversations in ELA
    Jul 30 2024

    Students can present their thoughts in front of the entire class or they can record an interview by using their phone or computer. Here are three types of interviews and conversations that students can record.

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    13 mins
  • #154: Meaning-Making in ELA: 3 Ways to Get Students Invested
    Jul 30 2024

    If we want students to read and do the work, they need to constantly be in the process of meaning-making. Here are three ways I try to make things meaningful for my students.

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    22 mins