Dystopian Literature: The Giver Lesson Plans for Middle School (or High School)

April 9, 2020 By

It was almost December, and Mr. Jonas was beginning to be frightened. “No. Wrong word,” Mr Jonas thought. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified administrator had popped in to his classroom twice. If only he had really good Giver […]

Filed Under: 1984, Harrison Bergeron, Literary Analysis, Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction, The Giver

32 National Poetry Month Lesson Plans

March 26, 2019 By

I’m not sure when National Poetry Month became a thing, but it is. And I’m glad. If you feel April is a great time for teaching poetry and you need some poetry lesson plans or poetry teaching ideas, you are in the right place. If you feel any month is a great month to teach […]

Filed Under: Annabel Lee, British Romanticism, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Emily Dickinson, Fire and Ice, John Keats, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Poetry, Ray Bradbury, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Robert Frost, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Bells, The Mending Wall, The Raven, The Road Not Taken, Villanelle, Walt Whitman, William Blake

All Summer in a Day Lesson Plans: Setting and Sensory Details

August 8, 2018 By

It had been raining insults for seven years; thousand upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with insults, with the drum and gush of criticism, with the sweet crystal fall of back-handed compliments and the concussion of expletives so heavy they were tidal waves of sadness come over the […]

Filed Under: All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury, Short Stories