Check out all episodes of the Teaching ELA podcast by clicking this link. The Teaching ELA podcast episodes for April 1-8 include (Click here to listen to the Teaching ELA Podcast): National Poetry Month Poem of the Day: “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost APRIL 08, 2022 National Poetry Month Poem of the Day: “Tyger! […]

I just taught this last week and I forgot just how good it was. I’m talking about Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment by Nat Hawthorne. Takeaways DHE isn’t exactly what it appears to be. The participants believe it’s a scientific experiment, but it’s actually an experiment on human behavior. There’s a ton of symbolism in here that […]

Teaching “The Gift of The Magi” One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing […]