Great Short Stories (and lesson plans) for the End of the School Year

Although we all love National Poetry Month, we love when it ends because that means summer vacation approaches. But there’s still a month left. May is not the time for English Romantic poetry, Victorian novels, or James Joyce. May is the time for high interest short stories. May is the time for short stories easy […]

“The Ransom of Red Chief” Lesson Plans

It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama – Mr. Driscoll and myself-when this “Ransom of Red Chief” lesson plan involving reading the story and answering the questions idea struck us. It was, as Bill afterward expressed it, “during a moment of temporary mental apparition”; […]