“So what’s the main idea of this article?” asks just about every middle school and high school English teacher 29,435 times every school year. 93.4% of the time, the question is followed by responses that have nothing to do with anything you’ve read in the past decade. Since my high standards require a success rate […]
Lesson of the Day: March Madness Meets Common Core Writing and Reading for Information Standards
March 18, 2019 By
It was my second year teaching. It was the third Thursday in March. I was watching basketball. My administrator, Ms. Killjoy, thought that the third Thursday in March was a good day to observe my class. She pulled a pink slip out of her purse and handed it to me. At the same time, I […]
Teaching Edgar Allan Poe Poems: A 4-Step Lesson Plan for Annabel Lee
February 1, 2019 By
For the most wild, yet most homely blog post which I am about to type, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not –and very surely do I not dream. My immediate purpose […]