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 […]

Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Symbolism Lesson Plan

The light was so weak at noon that when Mr. Pelayo was coming back to the classroom after throwing away his old lesson plans, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it […]