Now that Super Bowl LVII has come and gone, we enter the period of post-game analysis. The players and coaches are watching footage to see which kicks, throws, and tackles were the most or least successful. This is all well and good if you’re interested in getting better at football; however, the only kind of … Read more
Last fall, I took a class on American Lit from 1776-1865. While the majority of our time was spent on prose produced in a young and conflicted United States, toward the end we shifted our focus to poetry, and this led us to the subject of today’s post: Emily Dickinson. I had not read much … Read more
Like many ELA teachers, I like to use music as an inroad for teaching figures of speech. It’s not only accessible for struggling readers, but also delightful for me because I get to watch a room of too-cool-for-school teens rock out to my tunes. For today’s post, I’d like to share my favorite lesson plan … Read more
Every English teacher’s been there: It’s Friday, you’ve got too much to grade, and you could really use a day of quiet to plow through the papers. You think to yourself, “Wouldn’t it be great if I could just show a movie?” When I was teaching high school English full time, I had many, many … Read more
The joy of being an English teacher AND a speech teacher is that no matter what I’m teaching, I get to talk about rhetoric! I’m not kidding—I love the days when I get to introduce Aristotle’s “means of persuasion.” This is because ethos (ee-thos), pathos (pay-thos), and logos (low-gos) are all around us all the … Read more
No matter how many times students learn about nouns and the like, sometimes they just need a refresher on the parts of speech. Super ELA! has come to the rescue with the new parts of speech quick review videos! Each video covers the essentials to get students back on their grammar feet in no time. Enjoy quick … Read more