Teaching Night: 2 Ways to Incorporate Facing History and Ourselves with your Night Unit
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by Christina
6d ago
Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is a powerful and harrowing account of his experiences during the Holocaust. As a high school English teacher, I teach this book at the sophomore level, so my students are roughly the same age as Elie in his memoir. If you are teaching Night this year, keep reading to learn about two powerful activities to incorporate into your unit! Teaching Night in a high school English classroom provides an opportunity to explore themes of identity, dehumanization, morality, and the consequences of hatred. However, it is also crucial to provide students with historical context to ..read more
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Teaching Literary Analysis: Improve Your Student’s Literary Analysis with the OPTIC Strategy and Art
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by Christina
3w ago
Teaching literary analysis can be challenging, especially when students struggle to interpret themes, symbols, and deeper meanings in texts. One of the most challenging aspects of teaching students how to go beyond basic comprehension and recall. One powerful strategy that can bridge this gap is the OPTIC strategy, traditionally used for analyzing art and visual ..read more
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“Building Strong Writers: Strategies and Scaffolds for Teaching Writing in Secondary ELA” – Your New Number 1 Favorite ELA PD Book
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by Christina
7M ago
If you are a middle school ELA or high school English teacher looking to improve your writing instruction and provide meaningful and effective instructional strategies and writing activities to your students, this book, “Building Strong Writers: Strategies and Scaffolds for Teaching Writing in Secondary ELA” is for you! I wrote this ELA professional development and ..read more
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The Literary Analysis Creative Square Project: A Fun and Creative Literary Analysis Project for any Novel
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by Christina
1y ago
At the end of each novel I teach, I like to have my students participate in some sort of culminating literary analysis project that allows me to assess their understanding of the novel, its major literary themes, and other elements of literary significance. Sometimes the end-of-novel literary analysis assessment will be the literary analysis essay and sometimes it is more of a hands-on project. Whatever I choose, I like to provide my students wil creative literary analysis activities throughout the year. When it comes to a culminating literary analysis project, I like to vary the requirements ..read more
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AI and Academic Integrity: 5 Ways to Combat and Embrace Student AI Use
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by Christina
1y ago
If you are struggling with student artificial intelligent (AI) use in your classroom and you are looking for ways to approach AI and academic integrity in your classroom, you’ve come to the right place! In this blog post, I am going to share five ways teachers can combat and embrace student AI use … because whether we like it or not, AI is here, and it is here to stay. It is just as integrated into their Gen-Z lives as the mixtape was for older millennials. I vividly remember learning about the release of ChatGPT. I was in awe. I quickly created an account, played around with it, and then did ..read more
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How to Teach Essay Writing in Secondary ELA
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by The Daring English Teacher
1y ago
Teaching students how to write a multi-paragraph essay is a process, and it isn’t something that can be taught in one class period, nor is it a skill that we should expect our incoming students to know. Before I even assign my students a multi-paragraph essay, I first take several weeks to teach paragraph writing, and I typically do this with my short story unit. You can read more about this process in my blog post about how I break down writing instruction. However, once my students are ready to make the jump from paragraphs to an essay, I still continue to break down my writing instruction ..read more
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Four Reasons to Teach Short Stories at the Start of the School Year
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by The Daring English Teacher
1y ago
Starting off the school year with short stories is a great way to engage the learners in your classroom as soon as you are ready to start instruction -whether that be the very first day of school or one week into the school year after some ice-breaker and introductory activities. When I teach sophomores, I like to start the school year with a short story unit. In my classroom, I use my Introduction to Short Stories Unit and my Literary Analysis Sticky Note Unit for short stories, and they work really well together. Here are four reasons why it is a smart idea to start your middle school ELA o ..read more
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Back-to-School Stations for Secondary ELA: How I Use Stations in My High School English Classroom
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by The Daring English Teacher
1y ago
Of of the most engaging and interactive ways to start the new school year is by facilitating a back-to-school station activity in your classroom. Using back-to-school stations as a classroom activity during the first week of school a great way to get your students up and interacting with each other. Furthermore, back-to-school stations are also great for getting to know your students and handing out important class information. Here is a more in-depth look at the back-to-school station activity that I use in my classroom. You might also want to check out my other favorite back-to-school ideas ..read more
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15 Back-to-School Ideas for Middle and High School
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by The Daring English Teacher
1y ago
With the back-to-school season upon us, it is time to begin planning for the first-week-of-school activities you’ll complete this school year. Here are 15 engaging and fun first-day and first-week school activities for middle and high school students. 1. Student survey Having students complete a classroom survey during the first week of school is a great way to get to know your new students. I’ve used this free back-to-school survey for years, and it is a valuable tool. After my students complete this survey, I keep them behind my desk organized alphabetically by class period in a binder. Thi ..read more
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Engaging Reluctant Readers in the High School English Classroom
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by Sideline Assistant
1y ago
I sure wish my students inherently loved to read, and they all had wicked vocabulary skills, and I never had to convince them that a text was worthwhile of their time. But that’s hardly ever the case, and more often than not, I have varying degrees of reluctant readers in my classroom. So the question becomes, How do I engage my reluctant readers? By the time students are in high school, they usually have a long history of not enjoying the reading requirements in school. And honestly, every student will probably be a reluctant reader at some time because they all have their own interests, exp ..read more
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