The Greatest Poetry Lesson Plan Ever (Video)

Remember that time you decided to teach a poem and all you could think of doing was read it and discuss it? I do. It involved 20 seconds of reading, 4 minutes of students hurrying through a set of questions they put no thought into, and 47 minutes and 56 seconds of me distributing bathroom […]

Writing Lesson Plans: The Basics of Teaching Writing

Class is about to start and the school’s network just went down, which would be fine if you hadn’t saved your class presentation on the network instead of you computer hard drive. So you decide to assign a 52-minute timed writing. After 5 minutes 43% of the class turns in a couple sentences and takes […]

Short Story Lesson Plans Made Simple: How to Create a Short Story Unit (Video)

Remember that time you decided to teach a short story and all you could think of doing was read the story and have students answer the questions? I do. It involved 20 minutes of reading, 10 minutes of students hurrying through a set of questions they put no thought into, and 22 minutes of me […]