Teaching Short Stories: Coronavirus Panic Edition

Most of you are probably teaching from somewhere other than a classroom full of students. If you’re looking for short stories that get you through the chaos, you’ve found them. Short Stories in the Time of Coronavirus “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe. “The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No […]

Science Fiction Short Stories for Middle School and High School

Although I teach high school, I often teach short stories that work for middle school as well. If you need science fiction short stories for middle school or science fiction short stories for high school, here’s a good—but nowhere close to exhaustive— list. Science Fiction Short Stories for Middle School Could you use these science […]

“The Fun They Had” Lesson Plan: Theme and Author’s Purpose

Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed May 17, 2157, she wrote, “Today, Mr. Tommy found a real lesson plan book!” It was a very old lesson plan book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a first year teacher, his grandfather told him that there was […]