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- Literary Terms Quiz for Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 3
- Alliteration Example in Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 3
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- Personification in Romeo and Juliet: Friar Lawrence’s Soliloquy
- Simile Example in Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 3
- Literary Terms Quiz for the Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scene
- Allusion in Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scene
- Hyperbole Example in Romeo and Juliet Prologue
- Metaphor Example in Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2
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- Personification in Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scene
- Simile Example in Romeo and Juliet Prologue
- Literary Terms Quiz for the Romeo and Juliet Prologue
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- From ancient grudge break to new mutiny…
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- Sonnet Example in Romeo and Juliet
- Synecdoche in Romeo and Juliet Prologue
- Two households both alike in dignity
- Literary Terms Quiz for Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 3
- Lesson Plan: Creating the Perfect Title
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- Determining a Word’s Meaning from Context Using Different Types of Context Clues
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- Using Nonsense Words Activity for Teaching Context Clues
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- Famous Love Poems: “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
- Famous Love Poems: “Heart We Will Forget Him” by Emily Dickinson
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- Famous Love Poems: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee”
- Famous Love Poems: Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
- Fun Reading Lesson Plan
- How to Annotate and Analyze a Poem
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- John Donne’s “Nativity”
- Lesson Plan for Teaching Annotation
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- Literary Terms Quiz for Romeo and Juliet Act 3, Scene 2
- Literature Exemplars – Grades-9-10
- “The Monkey’s Paw” Lesson Plans, Summary, Analysis, and More
- “The Tell-Tale Heart” Lesson Plans, Summary, and Analysis
- An Overview of American Romanticism in Literature
- “Fall of the House of Usher” Summary, Lesson Plans, Analysis, and More
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- Discussion Questions Focusing on Themes in “Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe.
- Financial Symbolism in “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving
- High School Teaching Ideas: The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
- Rappaccini’s Daughter’s lesson plans, analysis, and more
- Teaching Masque of the Red Death Lesson Plan on Symbolism
- An Overview of British Romanticism and the English Romantic Poets
- An Overview of Modernism in Literature
- An Overview of Naturalism in Literature with Lesson Plan
- Book Review for Night by Elie Wiesel
- Book Review for Of Mice and Men; Does it Belong in High Schools
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- Christmas Short Stories
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- Holidays Around the World: Activities for Christmas Time
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- Poems for Teaching Imagery with Examples of Imagery
- Poems for Teaching Meter in Poetry
- Poems for Teaching Onomatopoeia
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- Poems Using Personification for High School
- Poetry for Teaching Sound Devices in Poetry
- Poetry Lesson Plans: Speed Poetry Analysis
- Robert Frost Teacher’s Guide: Robert Frost Poems, Lesson Plans, and Activities
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- Teaching Alliteration in Poems for High School Students
- Teaching Emily Dickinson’s Poems for High School Students
- Teaching Poems with Metaphors
- Teaching Sonnets Lesson Plan
- Valentine’s Day Love Poems Teacher’s Guide: Lesson Plans, and Activities
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- Scarlet Ibis Study Guide, Lesson Plans, Summary, Analysis and More
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- Examples of Foreshadowing in Literature
- Famous Short Stories by Women Authors
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- Short Stories for Teaching Irony with Lesson Ideas
- “The Story of an Hour” Lesson Plans, Summary, Analysis, and More
- Harrison Bergeron Lesson Plans, Activities, Summary, Analysis, and More
- Summary, Analysis, Quotes, and Lesson Plans for Mark Twain’s “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
- Teaching Mark Twain Short Stories
- The Gift of the Magi Activities and Lesson Plans
- Short Stories for Teaching Point of View in Literature
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- Teaching Conflict in Literature: A List of Short Stories for Teaching Conflict
- Teaching Great American Short Stories
- Study Guide and Study Questions for Fahrenheit 451 with a Fahrenheit 451 lesson plan
- Study Guide and Study Questions for Frankenstein
- Study Guide for Great Expectations
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- How to Write an Introduction to an Essay
- Lesson Plan: Effective Sentence Structure
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- Logical Fallacies Lesson Plan with Summary & Examples
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- Teaching Active and Passive Voice
- Teaching How to Revise a Rough Draft
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- Using Imagery Lesson Plan
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- A Quick and Easy Common Core Writing Assignment
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- Montresor’s Revenge in “The Cask of Amontillado”
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- Another Quick ELA Common Core Writing Assignment
- Lesson of the Day: Proofreading and Editing
- Lesson of the Day: Using Literary Quotations for Writing Assignments
- Lesson of the Day: Literary Terms Quizzes for Romeo and Juliet
- Five Things Teachers Can Do to Reduce Stress
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- Lesson of the Day: Add a Scene to “Walter Mitty”
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- What to Do Between Thanksgiving and Christmas
- Character Analysis for Romeo and Juliet: Friar Lawrence’s Many Plans
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Video Resources
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- The All Time Greatest Conflicts in Literature and Their Sports Equivalent
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- Things Teachers Do: The 5 Stupidest Lesson Ideas Ever!
- Happy Teacher Appreciation Day
- A Handy Chart for Teaching Conflict in Literature
- Characterization Lesson Plan Chart
- 5 Yogi Berra Quotes for the ELA Classroom
- Why Wikipedia is not a Valid Research Paper Resource
- “A Sound of Thunder” Movie with “A Sound of Thunder” Lesson Plans
- Anti-Bullying Lesson Plan
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- Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” Movie with Lesson Plan
- 9th Grade Summer Reading List
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- The Tell-Tale Heart Movie with a Lesson Plan
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- “The Interlopers”: Movie and Lesson Plan
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- 7 Short Stories with a Twist for High School Students
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- Great Essay Topic: Which Literary Character Would Win a Hunger Games Fight to the Death?
- How to Win “The Lottery” in the Classroom with “The Lottery Movie”
- Edgar Allan Poe at His Absolute Horrific Best
- “The Pit and the Pendulum” Movie
- Back to School Tips for Teachers: The #1 Back to School Tip You Need
- Lesson Plans for The Odyssey: Alternative Book Report for Becoming the World’s Greatest Epic Hero or Heroine
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- First Week of School Activity or a Creative Book Report Any Time of Year
- Human Rights Lesson Plan for Night
- Teacher Tip #3,172: Don’t Crash a Drone into a Sporting Event
- Common Core Poetry: My Favorite Harlem Renaissance Poet
- Three Stupid Characters in American Literature
- Conflict in Literature: 7 Great Short Story Upsets
- Julius Caesar Summary Worksheets
- The Monkey’s Paw Strikes Again
- Another Nevada Day Tribute
- How to Make Romeo and Juliet Easy to Understand and Teach: Scene Summaries and Dialectical Journals
- Getting Comfortable with Timed Essays: Tips for Timed Writing
- Romeo and Juliet Activities: Queen Mab and her Entourage
- Mark Twain Quotes
- An Update on the Monkey’s Paw Re-emergence
- Fun High School Lesson Plans: A Modern Day Classroom Miracle
- Short Story Lesson Plans: 5 More Short Stories for Teaching Irony
- Captain Literal to the Rescue
- Captain Irony to the Rescue: Teaching Irony with a Short Video
- “Good” and “Well” are Different: Introductory Video
- How to Reduce Classroom Stress for the Next 7 Weeks with The Odyssey Teaching Unit
- How Many of These 7 Suspense Short Stories Do You Teach?
- Edgar Allan Poe Poems for Teaching Sound Devices: “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee” Audio Book and Quick Lesson Plan
- “Pit and the Pendulum” Lesson Plan with Photo Analysis Worksheet
- A Quick Lesson Plan for Teaching Point of View in Literature
- Universal Rubric for Literary Analysis
- “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Analysis, Lesson Plan, and More
- Collaborative Learning Activity for Busy Teachers
- Types of Essays for High School Students and Teachers
- Lesson Plans for The Odyssey: Day One
- Lesson Plans for The Odyssey: I Am Odysseus!
- Myth Lesson Plans: The Hero’s Journey and Perseus
- “The Raven” Lesson Plans: Symbolism in “The Raven”
- The Odyssey Lesson Plans: Trump Calls Cruz a Trojan Horse
- Resources for The Odyssey: Island of the Lotus Eaters
- “The Interlopers” Discussion Questions
- A Robert Frost Lesson Plan for National Poetry Month: Symbolism in the Poems of Robert Frost
- Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket Lesson Plans, Summary, Analysis
- Teaching English Romantic Poetry: How Many of These 19 Poems Have You Taught?
- “Leiningen vs. the Ants” Lesson Plans
- “Through the Tunnel” Lesson Plans to Get You Through the Day
- 10 Activities and Lesson Plans for Of Mice and Men
- Short Stories for Teaching Imagery Lesson Plans
- Short Story Audio/Video Resources for “Leiningen vs. The Ants”
- Short Story Lesson Plans: Underrated Short Stories for High School or Middle School
- Young Goodman Brown Study Guide and Lesson Plans
- First Year Teacher Tips: How to not Want to Drive Your Car into the Side of a Building
- The Best Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Stories with Summaries and Lesson Plans
- A Book Report Lesson Plan for Poetry
- 19 Popular Poems Taught in High School Lesson Plans
- “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” Analysis and Lesson Plan on Poetic Form
- How Many of These 5 Start of the School Year Lesson Plans Have You Tried?
- American Literature: Colonial Period, 1607-1783
- I Hear My Lesson Plan Book Singing: Walt Whitman Lesson Plans
- 11 Writing Prompts for High School That Will Actually Inspire Kids to Write
- High School Classroom Management: How to Take Care of Make Up Work
- “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Lesson Plans
- Alternative 2016 Presidential Candidates from Literature
- Use Edgar Allan Poe Quotes to Help Teach Poe’s Short Stories
- Quotes from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” for Teaching Literary Criticism
- “The Raven” Lesson Plans: Quotes for Writing a Literary Criticism of “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Cask of Amontillado” Themes: Quotes from the Cask of Amontillado
- What is Gothic Fiction? The Elements of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories
- “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Summary with Analysis
- 6 Lesson Plans for “The Fall of the House of Usher”
- “The Fall of the House of Usher” Movie with Lesson Plan
- Thanksgiving Short Stories for Middle School or High School
- Christmas Short Stories and Poems for High School
- Teaching ELL Students in an ELA Classroom: Edgar Allan Poe in Espanol
- Valentine’s Day Short Stories for High School with Valentine’s Day Lesson Plans
- Hope for Cleveland Browns Fans: A (Very) Creative Writing Assignment
- Realism in Mark Twain’s Short Stories: The Realism of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
- Teaching The Scarlet Letter: Puritan Video Resources
- 7 Scarlet Letter Lesson Plan for High School That Will Get You Fired
- Imagery Lesson Plan: Poets for Teaching Imagery
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- “Wild Nights – Wild Nights!” A Poem by Emily Dickinson Lesson Plan for National Poetry Month
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- Romeo and Juliet Prologue: Summary, Meaning, and Analysis
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- Examples of Imagery in Poetry with Analysis
- Walt Whitman’s “O’ Captain My Captain!” Analysis
- Emily Dickinson Quotes: 6 Quotes from the Poems of Emily Dickinson
- An Analysis of “The Tyger” by William Blake
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- Forms of Poetry with Examples
- “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Analysis
- An Analysis of Selected Emily Dickinson Poems
- Metaphor Poems: “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou
- Emily Dickinson’s Nature Poems: An Analysis of Selected Emily Dickinson Poems about Nature
- Poems with Metaphors: “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- An Analysis of “Birches” by Robert Frost
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- William Blake Poetry Analysis: “The Lamb”
- An Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
- The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe: “The Bells” Analysis
- Poems with Assonance and Poems with Consonance
- Emily Dickinson’s Death Poems: An Analysis of Emily Dickinson Poems about Death
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- An Analysis of Quotes from Robert Frost’s Poems
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- The Simile Poem: “Simile” by N. Scott Momaday
- Quotes from Edgar Allan Poe’s Poetry and Short Stories
- Poems with Figurative Language
- Emily Dickinson’s Love Poems: An Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Poems about Love
- “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” Analysis
- Analysis of “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” by John Keats
- John Keats’ Poetry: “Ode to a Nightingale” Analysis and “Ode on Melancholy” Analysis
- Great Short Stories (and lesson plans) for the End of the School Year
- John Keats’ “Bright Star” Analysis and an Analysis of “To Solitude”
- Short Stories Made into Movies Lesson Plan
- Science Fiction Short Stories for Middle School and High School
- Lord of the Flies Lesson Plans
- Characters in Frankenstein with Analysis and Lesson Plan
- All Summer in a Day Lesson Plans: Setting and Sensory Details
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- The Super Bowl of Hunting and “The Most Dangerous Game” Lesson Plan
- Poems for Valentine’s Day
- Teaching Edgar Allan Poe Poems: A 4-Step Lesson Plan for Annabel Lee
- 9 High Interest Short Stories for High School Students
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- “Lather and Nothing Else” Lesson Plan with Summary and Analysis
- Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Symbolism Lesson Plan
- “Popular Mechanics” Short Story Lesson Plan
- “Charles” Short Story Lesson Plan
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- The Great Gatsby Literary Analysis Lesson Plan
- Teaching the Great Gatsby
- Halloween Short Stories not by Edgar Allan Poe
- Start of the Year Time Saving Tips for Teachers: Read This During Your Next Meeting
- Teaching Short Stories: Coronavirus Panic Edition
- Hopeful Short Stories in the Time of Corona
- Short Stories that Covid-19 Made Relevant Again
- Dystopian Literature: The Giver Lesson Plans for Middle School (or High School)
- The Giver Movie Lesson Plan
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- Theme Lesson Plan for “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty
- “Miss Awful” Short Story Lesson Plan
- Teaching Common Core Standards: The One Standard That Rules Them All
- Beowulf Lesson Plan: Summary Boxes
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- Video Resources for “The Moustache” by Robert Cormier
- “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros Lesson Plan
- “The Ravine” by Graham Salisbury Character Analysis Lesson Plan
- Short Stories of O’Henry Lesson Plans: “Cop and the Anthem,” “After Twenty Years,” and “Hearts and Hands”
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- Most Dangerous Game Short Story Lesson Plan: How to Introduce a Short Story
- The Giver Lesson Plans and Activities
- Point of View Lesson Plans and Five More Short Stories for Teaching Point of View in Literature
- “The Open Boat” Lesson Plans, Summary, and Analysis
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- 8 Easy Common Core Writing Lesson Plans
- Cite Textual Evidence to Support Analysis
- Lord of the Flies Summary with a Quick Lesson Plan
- What it Means to Master the Most Important ELA Standard
- Teaching “The Veldt” Podcast Episode
- Using Technology to Improve Writing Instruction
- Teaching Characterization Podcast Episode
- Activities for Teaching Vocabulary: Posters
- Teaching Imagery Podcast Episode
- Teaching Of Mice and Men without Offending Everyone
- Teaching “The Most Dangerous Game”
- Logical Fallacies Lesson Plan with a Logical Fallacies Quiz (Kind of)
- Teaching “The Fun They Had” by Isaac Asimov
- An Analysis of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
- Teaching “The Interlopers” by Saki
- Cornell Notes Rubric
- Teaching “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
- Teaching “To Build a Fire” by Jack London
- Teaching Conflict with Short Stories
- Teaching Irony with These Short Stories
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- Halloween Short Stories not by Edgar Allan Poe Podcast
- How to Teach Poetry Video Lesson
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- “Gift of the Magi” Lesson Plans and Activities
- Teaching Science Fiction Short Stories
- Teaching “The Gift of the Magi” by O’Henry
- Teaching “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
- National Poetry Month Poem of the Day Podcast: April 1-8
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