The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Video Resources

I had never taught Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I had read it and was familiar with the myriad allusions to Jekyll and Hyde in popular culture, which is why I was stunned when 3/4 of my class claimed they’d never heard of the novel or the movie […]

Lesson of the Day: The Great Depression and Of Mice and Men Research

For an English teacher, there are few things more annoying and soul-breaking than assigning and working on and grading research papers written by 9th graders. I say this only because I was once rushed to the hospital with intense eye pain after reading 23 research papers one afternoon. The doctor claimed my eyes appeared as […]

Good Books Made into Good Movies for the Classroom

In honor of the awesomeness that is Catching Fire, I bring you this list of literary works turned movies suitable for the classroom. It is a difficult thing to turn a great book into a great movie. It is even more difficult to turn a great book into a great movie that’s appropriate for the […]