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5 Activity Ideas for Teaching “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe - Building Book Love
5 Activity Ideas for Teaching “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe - Building Book Love
Entire Semester of American Literature Activities & Assessments: Student Binder
An entire year of American Literature activities in a binder format for students!! Tons of hands on, interactive activities that will keep students thinking critically!
55 Books to Teach in American Lit for Middle or High School ELA
American Literature is one of the most widely taught courses in the United States high school English classroom. A list of books to drive units and use for literature circles is a must-have for all English teachers. This course is one that needs to be refresh and thought about over and over again as the world changes and evolves. Here are 55+ titles to consider for a relevant, engaging, and critical thinking centered unit.
Teaching American Literature: My Units & Favorite Lessons - Write on With Miss G
Teaching American Literature | Clear outlines for doing several units of American Lit. Love Ms. G's teaching style and fun, interactive lessons. They get h.s. students moving, talking, and most of all learning!
Seventeen Themed Short Stories for Your Secondary ELA Curriculum
17 Short Stories for your ELA Classroom - Spark Creativity
Masque of the Red Death Anticipation Guide & Lesson Plan
This resource features an anticipation guide for Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tale of pestilence, "The Masque of the Red Death" along with a meticulously-explained lesson plan that is in my opinion, the absolute best way to approach a new short story. Using a non-intimidating method called "Numbered Heads", this activity will get your students thinking, writing, conversing, and reporting about themes you will be encountering during your study of "The Masque of the Red Death."Product Includes:- 2 P
4 Ways To Manage The High School ELA Grading Load / Moore English
There is no grading load quite like the grading load of a high school English teacher. Use these 4 strategies to manage all those papers! First, for small grading activities (worksheets, short writings, activities, etc.), I use the laundry approach to grading. It is a grading mindshift change that helped me so much last year. Second, I started applying backwards design to grading. If I want to return papers by x day, I work backwards to determine how many papers I need to grade per day.
At the Intersection of Historical Context and Literature #mooreenglish @moore-english.com
Analyzing historical and cultural context can be challenging for students. However, these are essential skills for students to master in Common Core ELA. As a secondary English teacher, you're likely not a social studies expert (I'm not). So these are steps and strategies anyone can use in the classroom to help students synthesize historical context and cultural context as it relates to literature.
5 Powerful Poems for Exploring the American Dream
Exploring the American Dream is now the first unit for my juniors. This made for a great first unit because most students have strong opinions about the American Dream, so they felt passionate about their writing and in classroom discussions. These 5 poems also made a good place for us to reaffirm expectations for reading and annotating texts, synthesizing across texts, and producing structured, academic writing.
Contemporary American Literature: Poems of Iraq War Veteran Brian Turner
Brian Turner is a contemporary American poet and a veteran of the Iraq War. This engaging lesson explores the experience of listening to a poet read and explain his own poetry.Often, students see poetry as something that exists on paperthey read it silently and analyze the words on the page.
American Literature: How I Threw Out the Chronology and Embraced the Themes
If you went to an American high school, I’ll bet your high school had an American literature course. Other courses seem to vary based on type of school, location, and other interests, but Ame…
Irony in "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
This document contains the text for "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin along with a chart for students to analyze the different types of ironies in the short story. Students will also identify elements of American Realism evident in the story. Teacher's key is included.