7 Scarlet Letter Lesson Plan for High School That Will Get You Fired

The Scarlet Letter is better suited for college reading. That didn’t stop my 10th grade teacher from teaching it to me; nor did it stop her from affixing a giant scarlet ‘F’ on my paper. I foolishly tried teaching it one year without proper preparation. It was a miserable experience. Scarlet Letter Lesson Plans Sure […]

A Book Report Lesson Plan for Poetry

Remember the last time you assigned a book report and you got 273 book reports with the exact words: “I read ________. I liked some parts. I didn’t like some parts. Here is my book report” in the introduction followed by a paragraph of generalities copied and pasted from the Internet? Or how about the […]

Collaborative Learning Activity for Busy Teachers

I had the day planned out. Give my write a multiple choice quiz test review assignment and sit in the front of the room and grade papers. Then I heard the new administrator was prowling the halls looking for teachers to scare. I also heard he was a big fan of collaborative learning. This is […]