Alternative 2016 Presidential Candidates from Literature

September 28, 2016 By

I’m not going to tell you who to vote for. That’s not what I do here at ELACommonCoreLessonPlans.com. Nor will I tell you who I’m voting for—you don’t care. I do know this. We could do worse. Alternative 2016 Presidential Candidates from Literature Candidate: Diana Moon Glampers from “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Qualifications: Served […]

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“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Lesson Plans

September 21, 2016 By

THAT VERY SINGULAR teacher, old Mr. Heidegger, once invited four venerable teachers to meet him in his classroom. There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoman, whose name was the Widow Wycherly. They were all melancholy old teachers, who had been unfortunate in their career, and whose greatest […]

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The Best Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Stories with Summaries and Lesson Plans

August 3, 2016 By

A throng of bearded administrators, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with teachers, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty minutes after the establishment […]

Filed Under: Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Minister's Black Veil, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini's Daughter, Short Stories, The Birthmark, Young Goodman Brown